Serebii has far more to lose than the NeoGaffers, esp. if they are being "confirmed" by the mods. Do you seriously think they are going to get perma-banned if the mods are on their side? They are just causing a huge stir up if anything--it's highly suspect.
Wrong. The mods said that they asked what their sources were, and that their sources are reliable but cannot be revealed yet.
At any rate, YES they will be banned. The rules apply to everyone. How chaotic would it be over there if the rules suddenly didnt' apply to them?
"BUT THE MODS ARE IN CAHOOTS...I MEAN, THEY WONT BAN THEM! THEY'LL JUST ALIENATE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AT THE EXPENSE OF TWO PEOPLE!"
Are you serious? The rules don't suddenly NOT APPLY because you're skeptical, especially when it's a leak that people are going to be greatly peeved by. Of course they'll get banned if their information is wrong. But I'd like to remind everyone that I'm pretty certain they didn't give an actual roster number.
That video is fake. We know this. Hence there goes some credibility.
How? It's not even related to them. You have not the slightest idea what you're talking about.
The roster was not created by them but by ChronoBound. They revealed nothing on their own. Another bit of credibility.
Wrong again. Chronobound drafted a roster based on their findings, but the NeoGAFers have never once said "35 characters." That's what Nysaenae and Portraitof Ruin are saying. The problem is, of course, that all their same leaks link up. THAT is why the 35 roster is likely. It has nothing to do with Chronobound. It could've been a lucky guess on his part.
NOBODY actually knows or speaks to this guys and they are incredibly smug about everything, even keeping their own screennames to post. That's a bit suspect, imo. Credibility lost there.
...Uh, we all keep our screen names to post. What the hell are you talking about? There's no credibility lost here, you eccentially just boiled it down to "zomg, they're posting on teh INTARWEBZ."
The 35 character roster works in quite a few ways because it incorporates the more believeable leaks and we still got all the wanted characters in the starting roster, but it leaves hardly anything to be unlocked. You basically are unlocking the Melee cast + 3 faces--not very exciting. That being said, Melee would've only had 3 new faces and 2 old ones had there not been clones. So it's not unfamiliar to the series.
Except Sakurai said that he'd keep unlockables to a minimum because most people would be spoiled by online play ANYWAY. I say that time and time again, and you and many others simply ignore it. We got the all-star roster we were promised before anything is even locked. If the 35 character roster is true, we're given an insane amount of characters starting off and only a few extra goodies, because most people want their cake NOW.
BUT, on the inverse of that, if this game is promised to be huge and "for the fans," "as if it were the last," etc. etc., I would expect to see a few more fan suggested characters. Pit, Wario, Dedede, and all the rest are fine and dandy, but there's something to be said for Ridley, Geno, Krystal, Takamaru, and others. It's a bit silly to ignore nearly 7 years worth of fan input making "the final game in the series" and only going half as far. I just find that to be a bit of a slap in the face because of all the time and energy people put into requesting these characters.
Who gives a crap? There's plenty of fan wants in there. This is not YOUR GAME. You didn't make it. You didn't even need to have any input whatsoever. The truth is, you got plenty based on the needs of the many crying out to Sakurai for what they wanted. This starting roster is great. The 35 character roster is fine, and truthfully is only missing a few characters that would've been perfect.
No matter what they add, some chucklehead would still demand more. Just get over it.
We DID get a lot of characters we wanted. Hell, every last newcomer is a character that was very popular with the fans. But why stop there?
Disc space? An abundance of modes to compensate? BECAUSE HE FEELS LIKE IT?
Why suddenly backtrack and say, "okay, that's done. Now to fill the rest of the game with veterans and two highly suspect additions." Not to say ROB and Wolf aren't bad choices (I can deal with those two, and I kind of had expected ROB anyways), but they certainly weren't the best options by a long shot.
These are the longest two days of my life...
Sorry, it's getting more and more likely. This isn't your dream game. It isn't going to have a perfect roster, no matter what's true or isn't.
Which was my point exactly!
But isn't quite the same thing, since Serebii's saying nothing and isn't betting a ban on it.
This is years of credibility down the drain for both. It just isn't likely.