they’re promoting the series so hard because they want there to be as many players for 3 as there were for 1 but they’re never gonna get there. the only thing the post-credits “IEYTD will return” from 3 tells us is that the team wants to do another one, not that they have or will be greenlit to do so. and at the rate things are going i don’t think they’re ever going to be. every time someone mentions it in the discord or one of their socials the response is “we haven’t confirmed anything / we’re focusing on increasing players for IEYTD 3”. The game isn’t in development, it does not exist. “But they rehired Handler’s VA to do the voice lines for the trilogy bundle trailer, they wouldn’t rehire a VA to JUST do a trailer—” Jared Mason already works at Schell, all they probably had to do was drag him away from his desk for an hour
I want it to be real so badly, i got into this fandom after 3 came out and would love to be there for a new instalment in a series ive come to love so dearly, but it is never going to happen. atp i have lost all hope.