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Before Cloud came, Sora didn't have a important support. Can we assume that voting Sora was equivalent to voting for a small candidate? Would you agree to gather other sources to confront in order to get the most likely conclusion? <small>—unsigned comment added by [[User:90.49.237.143|90.49.237.143]] ([[User talk:90.49.237.143|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/90.49.237.143|contribs]]) 19:24, October 5, 2021 (EDT)</small> | Before Cloud came, Sora didn't have a important support. Can we assume that voting Sora was equivalent to voting for a small candidate? Would you agree to gather other sources to confront in order to get the most likely conclusion? <small>—unsigned comment added by [[User:90.49.237.143|90.49.237.143]] ([[User talk:90.49.237.143|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/90.49.237.143|contribs]]) 19:24, October 5, 2021 (EDT)</small> | ||
:I'm only going to touch on the ones related to Japan since those are the ones that would likely lead to the discrepancy; we already know the West's views more or less. First of all, neither are polls. They are the editor scouring online and compiling who they saw people talking about. Second, the first is 430 "votes" and the second is 1000 "votes"; that's significantly fewer "votes" than reddit (13,000) and the Smashboards thread has 33,000 views (which comparatively isn't great but still a lot). We don't know how many votes the Fighter Ballot received, but it is likely much greater than any of these fan polls combined for Japan alone. Third, "The reason I did this is because this method is highly ineffective for actually counting how much a character is requested. This is because with this method, '''I’m bound to pick up on the loudest fanbases. The loudest fanbase is not necessarily the biggest'''" -PushDustIn (third link). I don't think it is unreasonable to think that Japan could easily push a character to the top (see Dragon Quest requesting to go against standard release dates to avoid having no one come in to work). Western polls and websites aren't going to shed any light on how the rest of the world wanted Sora. I also want to quickly mention that Link, Shulk, Cloud, Sephiroth, and Hero are all "anime swordfighters" that are unique and tons of people like them (the latter being from Dragon Quest which, as mentioned earlier, is big in Japan), they're just overshadowed by the ones the community are actually tired of (Fire Emblem). --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 20:07, October 5, 2021 (EDT) | |||