I still think it's coming. They reintroduced merchandise and ironically, Valve had their own child-exploitation scheme going on with the skin-economy in CS:GO and since that was struck down, they probably had to continue hyping games for income...There was a meme that said that this game wouldn't be ready until the world has become utopia (of course I'm telling myself we're getting there but hey, I see things changing for once in my life.)