My big thing for Black Friday would be wanting to see stat boosters in the cash shop.

@Amber 😭👍

@Muerte - I've read the book, I've seen the film, I am ALL OVER IT

it's not that i necessarily want new pets/colors to be CS exclusive, but that is by far the most exciting option to me. much as i love wearables, we have A LOT—and this is a pet site at its core, so it would be absolutely delightful to see resources put toward new content in that arena.

I would've preferred to vote for battle additions, yet I voted on my second-favourite option instead: pets. Paying for challengers and weapons just feels bad: battle items affect how much content (challengers) and what functionality (equipment) you get to make use of, whereas other paid stuff is, to my knowledge, purely cosmetic.

Regardless of the difference outlined above, delivering opponents and gear in this manner is unattractive:
— If they're difficult fights for endgame pets, people with only low-tier pets will be playing catchup for months before they can stand a chance of doing them. Having goals to look forward to is fine on an individual basis, but you're likely missing out on many potential buyers;
— If they're targeted at low-/mid-tier pets, people with higher-tier pets will need to have weaker pets and/or a big win streak against the opponent before the challenger gets interesting (if it ever does). Again, the interested crowd is very fractured compared to those for pet/avatar cosmetics and collectibles;
— Regardless of the previous two scenarios, any unique and/or good pieces of equipment gated behind these paid challengers (or buyable from the CSC shop outright) stand the chance of disturbing the balancing of regular progression (this goes doubly so for scrolls due to their lack of tier requirements). If they end up being truly great, those not able or willing to spend CSC on them will be at the mercy of those who sell copies for sP to remain cutting-edge.

The annoying part is that I don't have a good solution for this due to how simplistic the presentation of battles on Subeta is. My first choice, cosmetics for gear and combat effects, immediately goes out of the window.

Buying items that unlock the acquisition of new cosmetics in the Battle Shop bought with high-tier tokens could work for avid battlers: you'd use the CSC item you just purchased to permanently add a new entry to your Battle Shop's stock, then be able to buy (and sell) as many copies as your token reserves would allow. This would add further incentive to battling, create a new economy branch, and maybe spawn a new battle-locked, battle-themed pet colour. Warscarred? Veteran? Rugged? Ironclad? Something like that. This second possibility might be inelegant, and my comparative inexperience with battling may not be letting me see glaring design issues brought about by giving battle tokens new uses.

Everything else I can think up affects functionality and is thus a no-go:
— Stat-reset consumable (would likely obliterate the market value of leeches);
— Stat boosters (the most blatant pay2win imaginable);
— Autotraining (already exists, though it's lamentable that it loses value the more you level);— Unlocking multiple saved stat distributions per pet (lowered incentive to level more than one pet, and it impacts the book, booster, and leech economies).

That's it for my thoughts; thank you for reading.

Would be happy to see it all but the battle items are the least interesting to me because they are so expensive and I need multiples. It is always fun to see a new pet color but I have no ideas. Books books and more books will always make me happy even though I usually want multiples because they are much more affordable. Except for the one I want most the entire Research series for multiple pets. Aaaah why? Until I see a big discount on the research series I'm most likely to buy a revamped Trunk, new Trunk or some Vanity. Love the Vanity shoes.

If you do revamp Trunks Please do not change the size of the Centaur and Centaurette shoes I hate they revamp on the Horseshoes more than any other revamp on site. Beautiful art but the proportions with the tiny feet look so wrong to me and they were one of my favorite items so it was really upsetting to see them looking that way. I don't think I even commented when the revamp was announced because I couldn't think of a good way to say what I thought of them.

Overall the art and items that have been released over the last few years has been beautiful. Even stuff I didn't care for as much because its not a style I put on my HA has usually had an item or two that I wishlist. Wish there were more masculine items overall but especially for creating faces (eyes, lips, ect.) with various expressions. Thank you for asking our opinion and I hope the sales go well with whatever you create.

Torn between battle and pets.
You should have given us a ranked choice option :-(

also: if pet colour, ANCIENT PET COLOUR. Give us prehistoric, extinct forms of all the pets, there's so much that can be done.

Everytime someone doesn't vote for more battle a little bit of Sarkei's light dies :(.

@Amber
Definitely would love to see, although I guess it's less CS and more subscription-based, challengers like the Bewitched Bookcase but for different items like gourmet food, beanbags, plushies, and so on.

pets! cute ones pls

oh! glad the Vanity sets and costume trunks are right there as one of the most voted. avatar addicts unite, haha. ;D we can always have more wearables :) also YES! some themed revamps would be great! (for example, the box of pastries backdrop is one of the best tbh, and it was redone. kudos af to the artist <3)

Costume Trunks/ Vanity sets / recolor CW items/ pet species or colors :x
Those are my choices if we could pick more than one but sadly we need to chose one so... I chose recolors, ESPACIALLY wigs.
To be able to have a wig that you like and you can change it colors is great for me. :)
New Costume Trunks is also great.

@Amber
Oh, she has so many on her list for those ragdolls already it's not even funny. But I swear, @Rah if I don't get a prince dickhead from Red, White, and Royal Blue...

PETS PETS PETS

As someone who tries to do and collect everything on here, this was a tough choice! My first thought was wearable backgrounds because CS backgrounds are always amazing and I always buy them. But that's not one of the options. So then I thought battle, but we do already get quite a bit of battle content from the CS so I'm not sure we need more on top of the regular releases. So I ended up going with costume trunks - especially because it mentions revamps - because there are lots of items already onsite that would be amazing if they got spruced up but they're not really usable now. And if the theme appeals to me, I'd probably splurge on new trunks too.

Seriously though, more backgrounds. I will buy them.

Thank you @Amber so much for the clarification!
(and for that little tweak ; ) )

@MidnightFox I adjusted the text for the recolor bit to add your case :eyes:

It was hard to choose. Honestly I love pretty much all the choices, so I'll be happy no matter what.

@MidnightFox Themed sets are based on the tab in the cash shop for themed sets (or the chance machine where themed set items go to live after). Generally they the items are based off a minion in the set. Collection items are like plushies, beanbags, stickers, things like that! Coordinating sets are link vanity sets where it's a small amount of items (4? 5?) that match but also work with other clothing really easily. Trunks are based off what we have already like the feral trunk (animal parts) or morostide makeup (makeup!).

In your case, if you want backgrounds/foregrounds I'd go for more recolors. The overlays of those adopt-a-SPECIES kits aren't ... the same as the others but they all fit together? It's an interesting thing to think about!

@penelope I also voted battle but like u said the random bags of surprises I do love those

Backgrounds. Definitely more Backgrounds (and foregrounds?) But am wondering, would that fall under Themed Sets, collection items, coordinating sets, or Trunks? (I think I've seen them in all, but I'm not sure. ...and want to make sure my vote would count in a way that would *lean toward* backgrounds at least.) Thank you for any insight! ^^ < 3

I love the pets idea, but I went with more Vanity like sets. I LOVE the Vanity lines. Very versatile items.

@Amber
oohh i see. vanity sets sound good too. i always like to see more wearables and being versatile makes them even better. :D

hey subeta need new cash shop pets

I voted battle but the random bags are a close second, I miss the element of surprise!

Oo I love polls I wish I could have picked 2 that was a toss up

@Andrea ;)

I remember when those pet based challengers came out and then weren't pets. I learned a couple of weeks ago (seriously TY for adding the unlocks verbiage to items, btw, missing quite a lot of them) that apparently I stopped buying that run of challengers because of it |D!

Anyway obv voted pets and also those challengers... I mean... -gestures vaguely-

i voted for the vanity-esque sets because those are my favorite thing to splurge on, but tbh i'm kind of wishing i had voted for costume trunks now. i agree with everyone here; i would LOVE.. like really really LOVE to see the older trunks updated with newer art!! + a new trunk could be exciting too. i think i would love trunk revamps more than anything though. there are a LOT i have never purchased that i know i would if updated ; 0 ;

voted for pets, i'd love to see some new colors or species, and as much as i would love for them to be non cash shop, having another exclusive color/pet in there wouldnt be the worst, especially if its between having no new colors/pets for a while and getting new ones but through the cash shop

but i will chime in as well, i would also love to see more colors for existing pets, especially the newer pets, my bias is of course for bhakorus and uurubus hehe

also i will put this energy into the world, even if staff is tired of hearing it... i would still kill for a full pylot pet and/or full sweety dead color 🥺

@krae Oh, don't worry. We as a staff agree and have been discussing that as far as a general focus.

@METROID Oh, yeah. The ideas that have popped around for a potential new color aren't recolor based. :) As far as the weapon, yes. I think I said further down (or somewhere), we're not trying to make this a P2W type thing so no flooding the cash shop with lots of weapons and boosters etc.

@Laurey More challengers, really. I didn't want to leave battle out of the list when I was covering every area possible!

@feral Understandable. It never hurts to at least throw the ideas out there, though. Going very specific might lower the odds of what will get done, but something a bit broader or something with references will def help!

@Snowflake In this case, coordinating sets refer to Vanity with how they are smaller sets that work together well but are clear staples and can be used easily with other clothing items. This makes it a lot easier for our artists to do a few sets compared to Delish which has a lot of items all on one theme that are harder to match sometimes with general clothing (very high fashion a lot of that!!)

@Aline Honestly there are so many creative old trunks that getting the breath of fresh air in them would be fun.

@Karasu No. If you don't feel they are worth that price point then you can buy the item you need from user shops or wait until they (maybe) pop up in the Hustler.

@Muerte If you have some suggestions, hit up the forums my friend!!! I know Rah does pop culture dives every year for say the rag dolls for Morostide but sometimes even across the Americans on staff we're like WAIT IS THAT POPULAR IN THE PART OF THE INTERNET YOU ARE ON???

Got it down to 2 but choosing between: More coordinating sets like Vanity and Costume Trunks (revamps of old sets, brand new sets) is just too hard
and of course we've got New themed bags like Merana Themed Bag, Spacetime Blue Box, Movie Director Reel Case, etc. not far behind.

My inner furry wants more feral themed wearables (or at least updated art w/more color options) but I also understand everyone's desire for new pets/pet colors

I’d love to see new species and colors more than anything ; ;

If I only get one pick I gotta go for pet stuff. Love pets and new colors and species a lot. The second option I'd pick is themed sets. GREAT TC fodder. There's often so little for certain hobbies/themes and I'd love to see more stuff for some of my critters lacking TCs.

Costume trunks all day, every day. Multiple new items in every trunk. There are a ton of new movies, tv shows and books to pull ideas from since the last costume trunks and the idea of revamps of the older ones sound like a dream come true.

I want all the things though.
I did vote for the "More coordinating sets like Vanity" but want to note that I'd love to see something that's inspired by pop culture. I may be very off the mark, but pop culture tends to do well.

I know the SubQ Giselle set does music artist/song + Disney, and trunks/boxes/bags often do movie/show references. This muddies the waters a bit with those but I'm sure it'd still be fun.

I voted for more Vanity sets because I love seeing new wearables, but honestly I was REALLY torn between that, and themed sets/collections (some absolutely beautiful themes have come out in the last few years), and seeing more revamps of the trunks. The ones that have been revamped are so good! And the older ones are so outdated, they don't get to be enjoyed as much as items with newer art.

I'd love to see collection items go on sale for BF tbh. So many of them aren't worth the 250 CSC price point.

I voted for Costume Trunks because, to be quite honest, a lot of older sets are in a dire need of a revamp, and one that could bring a whole new life to said sets.

@Vars
Those were my top three choices too!

i would love to see more coordinating sets. it'll be cool to see more floral themed Delish lines. idk if that's possible but i like the new Delish Bloom lol. :)

@Amber
Unfortunately it's a double edged sword as a CW artist.
I can give my ideas and concepts away to staff for a minor chance to have them be made, possibly not even in a way I end up liking... or I just make it myself and then unfortunately it's probably got a higher price tag because it'll be a CW. *sad shrug*

i was torn between a new pet, costume trunks (revamps especially!!), and more vanity sets...and they are in the top 3! i am very lucky

Thanks for allowing us input! Always up for more battle stuff!

Even though I am a battler, I feel like we do already have a lot of CS battle content. There are so many challengers to unlock already, I dunno what else to really add to what already exists unless it's like boosters (which we already also have some of) or more weapons (which may not actually feel like they're worth it for some people).

I don't see weapons going in the cash shop either UNLESS it's something like how the Trident is handled with the bobblehead collection. It's gotta be something worthwhile for everyone to be able to use, no matter what tier their pet is.

ALL THE BATTLE

But I also love the pets too. But if it's gonna be a CS exclusive colour, I'd prefer a new redraw colour. Not anything against Blacklight, but if I'm paying real money for a pet colour, I want it to be on par with Angelic.

Re. Vamps.
I had to pick Costume Trunks because that was the only one that mentioned old stuff
there's so much good old IP on this site that could be loved again with a revamp and/or rerelease

♥️♥️♥️♥️

@feral If you haven't before, you should put your interests in the suggestions forums for wearables. Artists tend to scout different threads for holiday ideas for things. :eyes:

I voted for new battle themed items (specifically challengers) because this is the only thing on the list that has a near guarantee of getting me to spend money.
I probably wouldn't purchase weapons because I'm (assuming) that staff wouldn't put purchasable tier 12/13s (which is what I need atm) in the cash shop since that'd be... P2W. lol

Wearables are great, ...but I feel like none of staff really hit my interests with many of their releases (even though the art is beautiful) so it's a very low chance I'd be buying them.

(And I'm sick of collectable cash shop items when I have so many especially from the monthlies to still get.)

Ooh I'd love to see more Pet colors/species! (& thank you for the poll regardless!)

@Cream No, there is no plan for a forum. We want a general idea - everyone on staff is aware people have multiple interests and this would be tough!
@Sketch (do it)
@Vivi Exactly!

We want you to vote for what appeals to you most but it doesn't mean the winner of the poll is going to be the only thing we focus on! Look at past Black Fridays, we put things in most of these categories. We might just put a little less in one specific area than we have in the past based off the results is all.

you guys only have to choose one to *vote* on, that doesn't mean its the only one that will *happen*

I love battling but I still have 35 challengers to unlock, my wallet would hate me eternally if I chose that one.

@Amber
I like the idea of a poll but it makes it difficult to have to choose just one option, Would it be possible for a forum thread to be opened as well for additional feedback?

@Saturnine We haven't done new random bags in a long time. We've mostly been switching them over to choose or in some cases of Movie Director Reel Case, you get all the items inside. :)

I don't know if I would partake in buying any, but seeing as this year we got new Delish things for the first time in like 2-3 years? am I overestimating it, new Vanity would be nice.

Would themed bags still be random? honestly what is the big difference between those and collections except they stay around and are cheaper?

@jersey I went through the Cash Shop to try to hit every area for the poll. I also didn't want to do a generic "more wearables" because that doesn't give us a good idea of where to put our resources. And we're totally taking into consideration that things like pets have that one option while wearables pop up in multiple places. :) Like I noted, just because something trails behind doesn't mean it won't get attention!

@Cathii polls are not that sophisticated unfortunately!

@brokensafety u r rich

@FCoD It's hard to choose!

Four of the eight choices would be right for me, agree with Cathii in being able to rank them.

I can't choose, I like them all and would love to see redeemable wigs again. Sigh.

"You will get 2500 sP for voting in this poll." Say no more!

Aww I wish we could pick 3 and be able to rank them in importance! There’s just so many different categories that are interesting (and some that are related too)!

Voted for costume trunks, would love to see them make a comeback.

lol xD It's funny that it's not exactly totally fair ya' know.
Pet people, battlers and collectors (or people who focus on those more) have one choice.
Users that focus on dress up will be splitting the other votes.
New stuff is always good though. :)

oooh exciting! Thank you for taking the userbase's temperature on this and seeing what direction folks are interested in going!