Survey II: 2 Survey, 2 Furious (Patreon)

by Sashka

Thanks once again all who spent time time filling out the survey, we've tallied up the 727 responses and will be using them to help inform our plans going forward.

On to the individual questions (non open-ended):

How long have you been playing the game?
As expected the survey tilted towards the more experienced, with only 4% being new from 0.8.0 and the remainder tilting somewhat towards having played for a long time+. This question was mainly for us to put other results in context/we can fairly safely say that other results reflect "enfranchised" players filling out the survey.

How far have you gotten?
As expected from the first question with 40% of respondents somewhere in stage 4 and another 58% being in stage 3... though shout out to the 2 people that filled out the survey after only doing the prologue. Again, this tells us the survey should reflect people with extensive experience with the game.

What's your favourite game stage?
An interesting split here with the stages breaking down with 3% for stage 1, 39% for stage 2, 37% for stage 3, and 15% for stage 4... with a wildcard 6.5% preferring side content. this somewhat matches up to which stages have more content + a slight tilt towards stage 2 likely coming from those who enjoy either the major fem advancement that happens there (female clothing, name, etc.), or the reduced focus on sex compared to stage 3+.

Which of the four progression styles do you prefer?
This one overall tracked with the results from the previous survey, voluntary and obedient are the top two by a lot (voluntary at 39% last time, 38% this. obedient at 24.1%/33.7%), with forced rising a bit, but still in third (13.7% before, 20.8% now) and money in a distant last (5.6% before 7.6% now).

If there was going to be another progression style added, what would you prefer?
This one was VERY interesting, with 46% wanting a "hard forced" style (more extreme version of bad girl) and 42% wanting an "enthusiast" (more voluntary version of voluntary) with 12% saying no additional style is necessary. The balance of the results here (there were periods where the two options were in a literal dead heat) means that if we add one we probably need to add both. We've started outlining how such might be done, but it's substantial work/keep an eye out for polls if you want this to be added.

How important would you put having chastity be optional?
This was one that we were very curious to see the results and they are certainly... interesting. 18% want no chastity and another 27% want chastity to go away post "bottom" surgery. 32% either don't care or are fine with how things already are... and 24% want even harsher chastity. Removing chastity from the game is... a complicated proposal but we've begun some brainstorming to that effect and we'll be pitching it on in a future poll once we have a more complete plan.

Fetish flags:
60% of people are fine with how things already are; 21% want to disable feet, 15% want to disable male sexual content, 8.5% want to disable latex, 3.4% want to disable cum and 2.2% want to disable female sexual content. In terms of "work" required disabling latex or feet is moderate effort, cum is somewhat more expansive, disabling male or female is very substantial as it would probably necessitate gender-flipping certain major characters... which has art, as well as text consequences. Some of these will likely show up in future "small addition" polls.

How interested are you in discovering/"solving" what's going on at the company?
49% considered the main "plot" of moderate to major importance, with the a similar 4% to earlier just not liking work content. Glad to see that the story is "hooking" people to some degree or another.

What sort of scenes do you most prefer?
Very diverse results here, 32% liking large, branching scenes, 27% preferring medium complexity scenes and 21% preferring recurring scenes. No major takeaways/shifts in how we're planning the rest of the game from here as it lines up fairly well with the existing plan.

When a scene requires me to change/wear clothes
69% of you (nice) wanted to be able to press a link the 2nd time, with another 22% wanting to press a link every time... So this change will be coming, combined with either an option or a fetish flag for those that want to be "forced" to do things manually. Expect to see this going in for 0.8.2.

The part of the game that I most wish had more content... - VERY diverse opinions here:

• 19%: prostitution/camgirl - congrats! That's the focus on 0.8.1... and probably why it won the poll
• 18%: non-work activities with your manager/Mistress - this one was interesting and one that we've already started brainstorming a few more scene in this regard... so watch for that coming in 0.8.2
• 11%: Activities with the Tech wizard - not a surprise as (based on the prior poll) she's narrowly the 2nd most popular character after Antlers. There's lots of content already waiting for her in future releases.
• 9%: Activities with your therapist - 3rd most popular character... 3rd most popular here. She's one of the "primary" characters in the game, so there's still more content coming here.     
• 7%: Activities with your pets - We just had the pet release so this isn't likely to be a focus for awhile... Also I burned through most of my "ideas" already so we need to recharge/may solicit suggestions going forward.     
• 7%: Work sexual activities - These will be common through the rest of stage 4/5
• 6%: Candy activities - The most popular "secondary" character, she's already planned to be the focus of a release at some point in the future.     
• 5%: Maid activities - We'll keep an eye out, and there's a bit more written for the future, but this is bumping up against "lack of ideas" so if this is you, make specific suggestions on discord and see if it inspires us!
• 3%: Bob activities - Bob will be getting another "focused" release at some point... But it didn't come as a major surprise that he trailed here.
• 3%: Activities with Twig - Unfortunately there isn't a way to split this between people who like Twig, the character, and people who just like the "medical fetish" bent of his content... but there will be more of both in the future.
• 2%: Landlord activities - Kurt will be getting another "focused" release at some point... But it didn't come as a major surprise that he trailed here.
• 2%: Gym activities - Not surprising this didn't do better, though there will be a future release to "finish" the gym (allowing raising stats to 20 + associated capstone events).
• 1%: Online activities - Camgirling and Streaming games online are planned for a future release, though timing will come down to future polls.
• 1%: Pawn activities - There is a plan for a "Pawn" focused optional ending, but it looks like it may be awhile before it gets selected to go in. As passionate as Pawn's fan's are, they're definitely a minority.

The remaining questions were open-ended, here is a summary of themes/callouts for anything that particularly stood out to me:

Open ended comments on chastity:
Echoing the result from the fixed poll there's are definitely strong sub-groups that find the chastity a negative game experience, or want more harsh effects of such, some other common threads among the open-ended feedback:

• More events where character's chaste state is exposed for humiliation/embarrassment     More emphasis on no/ruined orgasms
• More "consequences" to chastity/showing the MC shift from penis-focused pleasure to penetration focus - this gets a bit tricky complication wise due to the open-ended nature of the game but we'll try to keep it in mind/if anyone wants to
• Ability to cheat your way out of chastity (with consequences) - this is possible, it will show up in a future "small content" poll
• Chastity device colour variants - this shouldn't be too hard, will add it to the art queue     Other characters as key-holders

Open ended additional feedback:
Most of the feedback here was re-iterating things from above: people want more of ~everything, optional chastity and the "hard-forced" option Open ended other suggestions:

• domme options - more domme options for the MC are coming, but a "full domme" playthrough (as a handful of people requested) is a bit too big of a rework
• accessibility options for dyslexia/colour blindness - this is something we're working, hopefully will go live for 0.8.2
• hotkeys to play ~keyboard only - this comes up from time to time... we'll look into it

Open ended - suggest a scene:
A number of items suggested that are already written or planned, and a few more that we may adapt as the opportunity presents, so keep an eye out in future versions!