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[Ronyn]

Well, I mostly made that small plan with the goal of learning what the people looking at EM-8ER right now (looking at EM-8ER on social media and testing the backer builds) want. That seems like a important query.
But wait there because I just read something interesting.

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Lets make a hypothetical. Even if you saw that 75%~ of your current playerbase liked X, there wouldn't be a higher chance that any future players would also like X?

I'm unable to gather the time to put together a ted talk on this issue at the moment.

At any rate I appreciate your enthusiasm for the game. Cheers.

 

[Ronyn]

I think this is what people would generally do:
1. Finish the current model (I'll call them photorealistic models for now because I saw them being referred to that way in twitter)
2. Make different model, a anime styled one.
3. Post both on twitter and discord
4. Open a poll on twitter, since it has that feature
5. Open a poll only for patrons (I think it'd have to be on Discord), see if it ranks differently.

Then it'd usually be up for someone in the company to gauge the data.
That being said, I think someone who worked at a proper department (PR team? Marketing Department?) would be able to formulate something better than my current plan, and I don't claim to be a expert on this in any way.

Sadly my freind..... none of that will give very relevent date due to multiple factors.
Speaking as someone with many years of PR and marketing Experience, there isn't a viable way to gain any real functional knowledge on the question of "would anime style or non anime style lead to better sales of the game".

And on that note, there's still a chance I might be wrong and censorship IS going to rise. Maybe Grummz has some insider info. So I'd like to see what he or any of the devs have to say on that topic.

I feel you. No one has a crystal ball after all eh... I guess all we can do is wait and see.
In the meantime we do our best to guage what we should do with the projects we make..
then hope and pray we made the right decision.

 

[Ronyn]

Well, yeah. If Grummz thinks that modeling their characters in a certain way will get them in trouble with censors, then there's no reason for him to bother people by asking them for input...
But that seems unrealistic to me. If EM-8ER is going to be targeted anyways, then I don't see why one wouldn't bother asking.

I made no comment on that issue. To be clear though, do you believe there is a viable way to gain valuable data on this subject? If so what method would you suggest?

And to break with the maybes and hypotheticals: Yes, I think a vote like this would lead to anime models winning.
Why? I'm a newtype. It seems popular with the crowd. You see people tweeting anime at Grummz every day. Also, most of those navels are by japanese artists, so... You know.

Maybe, maybe not. At this time there is no way to be certain either way. So it remains just an opinion.
For what it's worth: there is absolutely nothing wrong with holding that opinion.

 

[Ronyn]

You checked? By that surely you mean there was a poll somewhere in the EM-8ER discord/twitter asking what style people would prefer....

The opposite actually.
By that he means there is no comprehensive poll on what the majority of people would prefer.
Without that, it's just one person or another's personal opinion on what art style would go over better.

 

[Ronyn]

Greetings Reapers,
Just yesterday we dropped updated versions of the Gatestrider novel chapters 1 through 7.
They are available for EVERYONE! You can download them right now!

Be sure you're logged into your account and go to: https://my.em8er.com/downloads
It will be under its own section "Gatestriders Novel Preview" at the bottom of your Downloads page.
There will be three 3 links are for ePub, Kindle, and PDF respectively. So choose your preferred way to read it!

Have you read them yet? If you haven't what are you waiting for? If you have well what do you think?
Are you fascinated by the characters and world?
Are you mesmerized by the action and adventure?
Are you curious about the ins and outs of the technology?


SPOILER WARNING: The discussion below will be about seven chapters of the novel.
There will most definitely be some spoilers below so I would advise not going on to the next post until after you've read the chapters and experienced the first time for yourself!