HellcatPaz

Console players don't have that option unfortunately.

Its not something that can happen due to console limitations. If you want to play with your friend your best bet is to find a server to play on, there's plenty of unofficial servers out there so you'll find something that suits your play style sooner or later, or you could set up your own if you really wanted to play with just your friend.

Prim + doesn't usually get events. If you run your own server you can activate the event through your host portal, but it won't include crafting - just dino colours, or at least that's how it is on my rag server.

Plenty of games, DLC, expansions etc are announced without having passed cert, that's what happens in the games industry. Most games are announced with an approx launch date well before they are sent for cert, usually before they even alpha. So yeah WC would announce it early because that's a pretty normal practice in the industry, especially if they're sending the update to multiple platforms with the update for one of them ready for launch. No need to be rude about it.

Because things for console have to go through certification by Sony/Microsoft, and once a product has been submitted for certification the time line for that is out of the developers hands. They'll have a rough date to expect that process to be complete, providing no changes need to be made to meet cert standards for either platform, but nothing more than that - thus the sometime in July date we were given.