It's ironic that people call us the "Loud Minority" when in all truth, we have been a relatively quiet majority since pre-Brawl days.
The Ballot will explain enough, though. I have the upmost confidence he will be a Ballot character.
Edit: if this person is calling we Isaac fans in the Smash fanbase a loud minority, he needs to review his facts.
Well, in all honesty
I am loud, but it's not the case of everyone in our fanbase like you said. Though I believe we should be loud, whether we're a minority or not. After all if we're quiet and a minority, we'll get nothing.
I'd really like to have your thoughts on my theory about the "silent majority" and its weight on the Ballot:
The games sales for Smash 4 are estimated at 11M units (in March). But there's not 11M players: Some people bought both versions.
On what's left (the number is impossible to estimate as far as I know), there's basically two categories of players:
The "casuals" and the hardcore players. We can logically assume the hardcore audience is well aware of who we consider are the most logical choices in the Ballot. This category (us) is most probably the one answering the polls where Isaac does good next to K. Rool.
To give a scale, if we were really 10M players, a poll of 10.000 answers would represent 1/1000 of the community.
Then, there's the "casual" audience, which is a big mass of unknown, and makes a big part of the "silent majority".
Here's my assumptions on them: I suppose the casual audience is less informed, so a good part of their votes are going to be spread among a large number of characters, including ones who didn't have a chance at all (whether they do it seriously or as a joke). Let's put Goku as an example.
We can even argue that a rather large part of the casual players don't know or don't care about the Ballot.
A part of them, though, will without a doubt try to vote for "realistic" characters. The influence of our campaign could have an influence on this part of the players. Maybe not a
huge one, but still.
What comes next is the assumption that Sakurai and his team already have a list of characters they're willing to make. The Ballot's utility is to show them which ones from this list are the most requested ones, and also to gather data for the inevitable next game(s) as well, for which they must keep some characters too.
All the "votes" (we should call them suggestions) for characters out of this list would then be pretty much useless.
The question, then, is: Are the polls near of the truth? We'll most probably never have an actual answer to that question, but what are your feelings about that?
And to think there's still three months before the end of the Ballot... I'm not sure how I'll handle the wait.
On a positive note, at least we're now pretty sure they're going to produce more than one character from the Ballot...
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