PHG was announced and gameplay shown in May 2019 and ‘87 Jungle Hunter pre-order was announced in 4th Quarter 2019 by Sony.
There was a year’s worth of media, social media, gaming conventions, youtube videos, interviews and other advertising/marketing for PHG.
Granted not everyone can be aware of everything all the time, but it wasn’t hard to discover.
I’m an XBox player, I haven’t owned a PlayStation since the first generation about 1996 — and I learned about the game, pre-ordered it plus bought a PS4 Pro literally just for this game. So, I don’t have any sympathy for players that did not pre-order.
I’m not against ‘87 Jungle Hunter from being a paid DLC; however, it can’t be anytime soon because it undermines the benefits of pre-ordering games.
I’m also fine if they never release it, if a player didn’t pre-order then they aren’t entitled to it either.
If, Illfonic decided to release him, it should be after the 1yr anniversary of the game’s launch providing a year benefit to the pre-order players and their early adoption of the product before release.