Knowing that Mewtwo is on the way, my OCD doesn't allow me to accept an incomplete roster.
Hell, even if Pichu, Young Link, or Roy were on the way, I would still want to get it just to have a complete roster.
If there were no DLC characters, I would still live with the current roster since it is considered complete.
Same with why I got all DLC packs for Mario Kart 8 and Hyrule Warriors.
Gotcha......I'm kind of the same way. There could be DLC for frigging ponies, and I'd still download them for the sake of completion.
A. Yes, it was confirmed Mewtwo will be made paid DLC. But they're sure trying to hide that fact by leaving vague notes in small print saying either "Oh, yeah, he'll be available for purchase later", or even "Oh, yeah, he MAY be available for purchase later." They're doing everything they can not to clearly state that Mewtwo will be available at a later point.
That's how promotion works. The CDs and Mewtwo's free download (as stated as such in the 50 Facts Extravaganza) are advertised as bonus gifts to those who have both games (as in Nintendo's not saying "If you don't have both games you better go buy them now or else you'll never get Mewtwo!"). They are promoting the free gifts, not the content itself.
Why would they give emphasis to Mewtwo being purchasable
after the promotion within said promotion? A brief aside to state Mewtwo would still be available to those who miss out on the promotion later is all that's needed.
B. That's largely what the surveys are for. The surveys specifically bring up the Mewtwo promotional for a reason. They want to know who bought both versions for Mewtwo. In many cases, people weren't sure if they wanted both versions, but Mewtwo may have been the tipping point.
That is a fair point, I will not deny. At the same time, I'm willing to bet that the ones that bought both solely for Mewtwo (and/or the CDs) are in the minority.
C. By the time the Mewtwo paid DLC comes out it'll be too late. Most people who want it will already have it anyway. They are NOT going to make this decision based solely on actual individual sales Mewtwo makes, because that is only an after thought. If they were going to handle it that way, they wouldn't have bothered with the promotional in the first place. Besides, they're trying to hide the fact that Mewtwo will be available later anyway without denying it.
Judging by how they're handling Mewtwo, it would bring credence to points I have brought up in the past about how Mewtwo
isn't being used to judge success of DLC like how people interpret what Sakurai has said, but rather what Sakurai was saying is that Mewtwo is merely to test how content distribution would work. He sees Mewtwo as part of the complete package as opposed to something completely extraneous like future DLC would be.
Mewtwo being paid DLC later is only so the effort gone into making him isn't wasted, and people who missed the promotional can still get him. If Mewtwo's paid non-promotional DLC selling well is the only way to get more DLC, its horrible judgment on Nintendo's part and DLC beyond Mewtwo won't happen.
Except nowhere was it ever stated that future DLC rests on how Mewtwo does. That concept has been solely fan speculation based on how people interpreted Sakurai's statement.
What will
really determine whether or not future paid DLC can be pretty much summed up by what Sakurai has said:
I understand that DLC could add a lot to the appeal of Smash Bros., and I appreciate that a major part of the excitement for these games come from which characters will appear in the roster, so I think fans could really enjoy DLC that could keep this excitement going.
However, I think there might be criticism that we are cutting up content to sell characters one by one, or that we are adding things later that should have been there from the start.
Creating a single fighter involves a huge investment, and we've already been giving it our all and investing a lot of work in the characters currently available in the game and, I think it's an incredible package in terms of the sheer amount of content in the game. But it might be that people may not understand and may think that I am not offering enough by just looking at DLC itself.
In light of this, we always need to weigh up both sides of this topic and carefully consider whether it really is best to have DLC or not.
However, what I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We've put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people. I can’t yet give you an answer about whether the price would justify the costs and criticisms mentioned above.
Basically, whether or not extraneous content that requires time and effort to make is worth the negative stigma of milking the fanbase that the concept of DLC has (which you can thank Capcom for).
Sure, you may argue that there are plenty that just think "more, more, MOAR!" and don't look at it past that, but there are plenty others who, for example, feel that Mewtwo shouldn't have even been DLC in the first place and instead part of the initial release. That having to buy him later if they couldn't get him through the promotional period (or even your example of people buying both games specifically to get the free download codes) is a rip-off.
If Sakurai and the development team decide it's worth it in the end, there will be more. If they don't, there won't be. We won't find out the ultimate decision until quite some time after Mewtwo's release, when the team has had an opportunity to take a break and think it over.
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