[Important] Changes and Improvements: Season 2 Content (S&S/bWW!)

Howdy beWildernauts, one and all, it’s time we took a good look at everything beWilder and strengthen the foundations of this sexy empire in the making. We’ve got some serious discussion to get through this month as we take on improvements and reshape ourselves for the better, and this is the first stop on the talking tour. We want to hear from you all along the way too, so be sure to leave us some comments, have a say in the poll below, and/or come on by our Discord’s specially made channel to do some in-depth discussing if you have it in you. Alright, so our preamble intro covered, let’s get to it.

This first post in a series of change topics is covering our Season 2 content, specifically Silence & Stilettoes and our beWilder’s Wildest 2019 contest. We’re going to start by ripping the band-aid right off…

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Silence & Stilettoes – It’s Cancelled. Yeah… To put it another way, it’s going on indefinite hiatus at least. Our noir mystery drama was fun, it gave us some space to play with many of the characters of the world, gave us opportunity to put to practice different writing and art styles, and had some sexy to add to our lives too. That being said, it’s not exactly popular even among you fans. In its current phase it’s pulling in around about 10% of the potential votes and even less at times. Compared to the Season 1 wallpapers, it’s down about 2/3rd in participation than we had at the same time last year. People just aren’t reading it and that’s ok. However, as much as we like to have our special extras, and as much as we hate leaving things unfinished, we can’t justify spending the better part of two days writing and art time each month for something ~90% of fans just aren’t into, we owe it to the whole fan base to use our time wisely. Instead we’re reinvesting that time and effort into our main games and our Last Raider comic in an attempt to make their updates even that much bigger and better, which’s a theme you’ll be hearing a lot of this month actually. 

So what comes next? We’re releasing Chapter 11 today as we’ve already promised to keep the series going this month while people adjust. We’ll also be releasing Chapter 12 later this month, as well as the updated Crime Board and both wallpapers. That’ll bring the series to what was planned to be its natural midpoint. We’re going to leave it there, like any good noir drama on a cliff hanger, and starting next month it will be in indefinite hiatus. As we hate to leave things unfinished, we will bring it back should there be a serious rising call for it (unlikely) and we may continue to produce chapters on our own time as we find the will and the time, until we can come the proper end, though we make no promises on any set timeline. From September on we will renew focus on the Last Raider comic to see it start making proper progress again. For those who have spotted the hole this creates in our reward tiers for Bold, Brave and Daring, we’ll have a post specifically on that in the next few days too.

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beWilder’s Wildest! 2019 – Under Review. Tentatively. For those who don’t already know of it, the bWW! contest was our search for our fan favourite girl. It was a multi-month-long contest with weekly matchups and open to all backers, with prizes for the most beloved girls and plenty of feedback on who and what our fans like. You can find all the details here from last year here. We had a lot of fun with it and we were looking forward to making it a tradition that helps make the end of each year shine. As you can probably also tell from our posts referencing it all year, and even now in our words here, we were really hyped to see it happen. 

However, here’s the rub. It’s also been a serious point of contention between us on the team, mostly around the details of how to run it rather than why, what kind of rewards to offer and how much art to employ. We are split on whether to take what we did last year and build on it, create a tradition from it, improve the things that could be better and keep the points that did well, or to remake it in its entirety, a whole new contest style unlike what we did last year, less focused on individual girls instead on other elements, and start a new tradition from it all. The real stumbling point is if we will accept 1-vs-1 character matches or not. We’ve been back on forth on it for many months and now that we are on the eve of the starting time (September-October) we’re no closer to a decision. Rather than push one through and risk (even remotely) our simple disagreements turning to resentment at all, we’ve decided to take it to the fans now. As it stands, we’re cancelling the contest for the same reasons as S&S above. Instead of using the time (which last year required a lot) to run an event that we want, we plan to put that time back into the games for the end of the year… But we also want to hear from you fans too. If it turns out the contest is still a popular an idea as last year, we’re willing to reopen the discussion and have the fans involved in deciding the best path forward with it too. If it isn’t particularly wanted then we needn’t continue prep for it anyway, we can stick with the plan as it is now and simply leave it behind while putting the resources for it back into the games.

So what happens now? There is a poll below for our fans to chip in, a simple up/down vote on whether you as a backer want to see a beWilder’s Wildest! 19 contest in any form, or if you’d prefer to see it dropped. We’ll leave the poll open a long as we can, but since we’re getting close to the back end of the year, we need to be making a choice before the end of the month. We’ll also be reminding folks about the vote in other posts as long as it’s up. If we get a substantial decision in favour, we’ll then begin prep on the contest, including more decisions on what way y’all would like to see it go between the set-ups we have already developed to this point. Decisions made then will be stuck to by us. If the vote is low turnout, inconclusive or simply a decision against, we’ll announce the official cancelation publicly and plan for the additional shot of time for art and effort into our game version plans for October-December. In that case, Lara’s title will be allowed to expire come the turn of the new year.

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Alright fans and fanettes, that’s our first batch in this special series of changes, updates and improvements. We’re aiming to refocus ourselves on the games and the primary content we are all here for in the first place, to maximize the output we can do on that which we all enjoy and do what’s best for the beWilderverse at large, even if that means taking a step back in places so we can have a better run up to the best parts we have. Be sure to have your say in it all, via voting in the poll and reaching out to us in whatever way works best for you. We want to hear it and we’re listening. That’s all we have to say today, we’ll see you again later this week as we tackle the tiers. Until then…

Be turned to face the c-c-changes and beWilder!

Post Summary

We’re starting off a series of page and content change related posts here today, starting with Season 2, which is the Silence & Stilettoes (S&S) series and the beWilder’s Wildest! (bWW!) Contest. We are aiming to refocus our time and efforts on our main games and our major comic rather than splinter our time across multiple creative outlets. S&S is becoming too unpopular/undesired by the fanbase that it is no longer worth the time invested for a small portion of people, so we are putting it on indefinite hiatus until something changes, if ever, and putting that time to better use on the Last Raider comic. Our bWW! contest is also being tentatively cancelled barring substantial fan demand, also so we can reinvest the time into our main games from October-December. You can have your say in whether you want to see the contest return in the below poll. We encourage you to leave us feedback, comments and to come discuss these changes with us via our Discord. Next up in our changes posts we’ll be looking at the tiers and their rewards, coming later this week.