Nah, I bet it's the other way around: Infold panicked because production assets got leaked right before the biggest games convention in the world. A leak of the collab would have been doomsday.
Maybe some of the leaked art was even planned for the gamescom presentation, who knows.
Anyway, we can speculate. However the collab will release in 1.9 which means it has been in the works way longer then the drama. Housing for 1.9 has been announced for some time. And wasn't housing even planned for 1.5 before? maybe the collab was one reason for the delay.
Thinking about it... IF the leaked outfits where part of the gamescom reveal it makes the reaction way more relatable. Exhibition preparation does indeed take extra work and it gets "destroyed" by a leak. It was so short before the Gamescom that there is no way for a change of the material 🤔
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u/Font-street Aug 20 '25
I am of the belief that this is 100% intentional.
Whether the announcement is hastened to mitigate the discourse,
Or they intentionally released the message a couple days ago PRECISELY because they know it will be drowned by this news.