Hey all! 

Thought it might be interesting to share some data from that poll I posted asking you what you want us to release next. We have 195 responses so far, so we felt that was a good chunk of data to interpret and adjust our planning to. If you haven't filled it out, we're still taking responses, though with the way the data is growing, we would be very surprised if any of the trends we've identified change. 

First, we asked what you'd like us to release next. A staggering 67.7% voted for a wave of Side Story content, with 28.7% choosing another Main Story episode and only 3.6% asking for a full DLC character. 

We were VERY surprised about this. This pretty clear feedback, so we're putting DLC a bit lower in our priority list, and Side Story a bit higher. 

The next question was, in the event of the eventual Side Story content wave, which characters would you want to see included? One of the interesting points was that Eshtel's Poly route with Chiara was the second highest voted option, while her Mono route was the absolute lowest. As for who placed first, I don't know why I was so surprised about this. I really shouldn't have been.

Wither absolutely destroyed everyone else with a massive 84.6% pick rate. If this was a MOBA, devs would be looking at nerfs. That's a 25% difference between her and the second place pick. I honestly wasn't surprised about Ember, Gillie, Kanako, and Serafina. They're human characters in a monster girl game (Jade and Aoibheann being the clear standouts here). Still, we're dedicating the same special care when crafting their stories as we do with the popular characters. Needless to say Wither is jumping to the top of our list. But we also don't want to neglect the less popular characters, because every character could be someone's favorite. Our approach to this is to let our T5 supporters pick a couple of characters to include, then to take a couple of the more popular characters and at least one of the less popular characters and compose our Side Content wave with that. We're also looking at delivering scenes in batches of around 5 so that way there's a good chunk of content to sink your teeth into.

Okay lastly, we asked which DLC characters people were most looking forward to. Here's where the big surprise is. 

Good lord. Seems everyone really liked the preview of our night security officer. For the longest time, Saffryn and Inphyy were neck and neck for the top spot. And I mean that quite literally. Every time a response was submitted, I'd check and they'd each have equal points. But it looks like Saffryn finally pulled ahead ever so slightly followed by Nichiri and co.  And that wasn't the only surprise. Venrae and Maika at the very bottom? I thought y'all liked catgirls! Apparently, I was very, very wrong lol. 

While DLC is on the back burner at the moment, there is still some planning and writing going on here and there. We have Senia up to 20 planned scenes, and her writing has been started. We also have notes for a lot of other characters and we'll be doing story planning here and there when we gas out on the Main Story and Core character stories. 

Anyways, thanks for reading! We've adjusted to your feedback, and in the unlikely event that the trends change, we'll adjust again! Thank you for helping shape World's Crossing Academy!

- Vic