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Xenoblaze Palutena did successfully build her own fanbase, and a great one at that. My underlying point is that, fanbase or no fanbase, Sakurai more likely than not would have put her in anyway. Her having fans is an excuse for him to do what he was already going to do.
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the people complaining that people don't like the roster without Ridley and K. Rool...Are you honestly surprised? People followed this Smash game solely because of the possibility that one or both of those newcomers might get in, hence all the comments you used to see about how "Brawl + them and Mewtwo" would have been the perfect Smash game, and how they've been supporting that character since their childhood. They were the fanbase's largest first party newcomer requests, yet that got completely ignored. While I don't advocate the "slots" argument, effort was directed elsewhere, partially toward characters people actively did not request, as well as toward modes people inevitably will not care about after the first month or so. It's intensely frustrating, and people have every right to criticize this easily fixable flaw on the roster, as they would have had, say, Wario and Diddy not been in Brawl. You can BS "counterpoints" for them, too, you know.
I've been hoping for this thread to be locked for months, so if enough other mods are now in agreement with me in that regard, I say go right ahead.
