Poll Report
So I made a poll on Reddit, asking people if they wanted the next PvZ shooter to have variants like GW1/GW2, new characters like BfN does instead, or if they don't have a preference between the 2, they just want a variety of characters to play.
The poll has a ways to go yet but currently, variants are winning at 90 votes, more brand new characters instead of variants is at 21, and either is at 64.
I voted either as while I do like variants, and especially for stuff like the different imp mechs more than adding fire damage or ice effects, the idea of new characters has a lot of appeal of as well. Of course, trying to keep up with how many variants we're used too from the GW games by making brand new characters with new models, animations, 3 new abilities, and so on, is a lot of work, and BfN only gave us the wizard (I don't count the swarm characters as they're filler and I don't want to see them back).
I knew a lot of people were unhappy with the lack of variants, and I was leery of it as well. Had they been able to give us more characters in the time the game was being updated, I think things could have gone better for the idea. Making brand new characters is a ton of work, so it's unrealistic to expect something like 1 per month or something like that, but 1 in a year is far too slow, and likely is part of why that option is doing so poorly.
