But is 3.0 actually 2.6 or we are 5 updates away from a job update?
The first number of the update is the chapter, the second number is the release number, so 2.5 means it's chapter 2 and it's the 5th update of that chapter.
Then it'll be 3.1, because it'll be the first update of the 3rd chapter hehe
As far as we know at the moment 2.5 is the anime convention which will end chapter 2. The update after that will skip 2.6 and up and will be 3.0 since it starts chapter 3.
I'm very interested to see what the new job is in chapter 3 since I enjoyed the card game mechanic in CH1 since it was more interactive but I like the camera system in CH2 since we got more pictures, especially since we've been told that those pictures weren't just filler and everything they showed is canon to the story.
I'm hoping for a more interactive job with a good amount of pictures for CH3. Maybe something that gives the 3 girls modeling jobs since Avar is supposed to be their agent for that sort of thing and so far we've mostly seen any work coming from outside sources like Lucas.
I'd like a more interactive job for the chapter 3 too tbh, but it's kinda hard to find the right balance between “gameplay” and “story”. I wouldn't have had this problem if it was the very first chapter of a new game, because then I'd have made a game based on deeper gameplay (like what E-Thots was originally supposed to be, unfortunately I was too inexperienced to do something like that a year ago).
However, people are used to (and want) more story than gameplay, in my opinion, and that's only to be expected given the game's promise based on a year's worth of releases, and I'd hate to be that dev who promises you something and then changes it completely according to his mood.
But 2.5 will let us take the temperature a bit on the reactions of the players to a more interactive game, since the vast majority of it will be a "job phase" and not so much dialogue on Despot (though it'll be filled with NTR, don't worry about that hehe). We'll see if people hates it or likes it too !