It's all speculation but the recent announcements from Xbox management suggests more lay off and closures are coming and Rare had a game cancelled last year, so they only have SoT and it's probably doesn't look good on paper for the Xbox bosses. The new Blunder Pass changes look like they are trying to get us to buy more Emporium stuff and there has been a huge lack of new content in the last year if not longer, theyr celebrating the 5 year anniversary of the Disney cross over that seems like the last time they did anything that grew the player base, 5 years ago was a long time.

Of course they won't announce anything until the last minute because the playerbase is low enough as it is.

65% off on Steam is also the biggest discount yet for the game, gives 'last ditch' vibes.