This was a very character driven "poll", and I don't think Euclid would have done it any other way - just as I think the way we did the poll for Esther and Emma was very much their style (that is, all will be done, but users influenced the order). It's unlikely that the next time we do something like this for something of similar site interest that it will be in this format!

The poll result order was actually very much what we thought it would be based on what we've seen from the users since each of these pets were created. The vast amount of user suggestion and participation on just thinking of what the blob experiment could be grew our hearts 2 whole sizes, and as it was such a close second place (and we knew that WE would enjoy it behind the scenes), we declared it a second winner.

I'm very interested to see all the comments on the squid post-poll. I think I would look into a future squid pet that isn't based on the experiment, as I'd like our next set of pets to not ALL be based on things we've seen already. 3 in a row is plenty, I believe!

As mentioned above, the peacock deer had the most unique votes as well as the highest number of sP donated :) So, either way, it would have won!

We're very happy on staff to be able to draw the blob in various colours - it's a real morale booster for us to discuss silly and fun ideas with our userbase and bring them to fruition, so from our point of view we are pleased with this result - one very clear winner and one fun winner.

The blob will not be assigned to just one artist, it's going to be a team effort based on which pet colours we are each best at drawing - so more fun there! Of course we know that not everyone will consider this "fun", so we hope you will enjoy the other things we have to offer on site, and we'd love to keep seeing you guys suggesting your ideas for the future.

- Not 'the last' FOREVER. Just the last for a while :) We want to draw new things too!

- Something like that! I don't like to say 'never' for something like this :)

Just fyi my comment about you having plenty of time to earn sP to donate was for those that wanted to donate sP to more than one pet but at the start didn't have the funds for that. I didn't mean those users had to raise up millions of sP to donate, I meant they had roughly 10 days to do some questing/sell some things to be able to donate the bare minimum to their favorite(s).

I also see a lot of people afraid here that we're going to be using this format in the future a lot for polls etc and that's not the case. It just happened to work for the Wedding and for the pet release. This is in no way the new norm for deciding things around the site. When and I came up with this, I specifically thought of FUNDING THE SCIENCES sort of thing as for why Euclid would need sP to make another pet (especially after just having the Croc happen). said it best with the character driven bit.

Also some people during the event requested that we make fields where you could enter how much sP you wanted to donate or at least make more buttons for more sP to donate. We didn't do that because it was never meant to be a big sP sink. Yeah, a nice chunk of sP was donated over time, but it was never the most important thing to and I!

(also no we are not going to let you guys donate sP to decide what comes back to the Token Shop. I ALREADY BRING BACK LIKE 5 OLD THINGS AT A TIME AS IT IS, YOU GUYS ARE TOKEN SPOILED. There's also a thread already for users to suggest old items to bring back that and I look at frequently!)