Character Voting?

[Meister Zeigler]

Does anyone know when the vote will be or if it already happened, and if so what characters will be coming? I hear Baiken and Order Sol were popular on the mock vote they had.

Edited September 25, 2015 by Meister Zeigler

[Daidouji]

The voting already started, it'll last until Oct/13 and they'll reveal the winner on Oct/16. 

[Meister Zeigler]

So only one character will come out of it?

[Dosu]

Yes.

[Meister Zeigler]

Holy Order Sol is winning!

[Lelouch84]

Yes.

This was never stated was it?

[Dosu]

This was never stated was it?

No where does it state that this current voting poll is for character(s) or the top voted characters.

[Lelouch84]

I was under the impression this would determine what characters would return but not how many.

[Tokkan]

It's been stated since day-1 that the number 1 ranked character on the poll will be made playable. No indication of any others.

[Lelouch84]

That's just it, they never said they wouldn't include more than the top character. The way things are looking right now, I would imagine they'd include the top two since the margin is so small.

[Tokkan]

They don't need to say they won't include more than the top character because it's already implied when they said "the number 1 character will be made playable".

It's an incredible stretch that they would include the other top characters, the team also has to work on the console version so they can't divert too much work to adding fan-voted characters to the arcade version. Maybe one of them could end up in the console version, we'll see.

[Lelouch84]

If the top two end up being really close I think they'd be fools not to include both. It would be easy to make the second one DLC and make extra money.

[zaeris]

Dizzy is already dlc money making material and you don't need a poll to tell you that.

[StrawberryGL]

Did they even say that the top character would be made playable? I don't remember reading that, just that it was an interest check poll. Anyone have a link to a statement saying that the number one character will be included?

[Tokkan]

Did they even say that the top character would be made playable? I don't remember reading that, just that it was an interest check poll. Anyone have a link to a statement saying that the number one character will be included?

Yes, they did. Three times.

Not just once,

第一位になったキャラクターがプレイアブルキャラクターとして新たに参戦致します。

not just twice,

選挙にて第一位に輝きましたキャラクターを制作致します!

but thrice. 

選挙にて第一位に輝いたキャラクターが参戦します!

The wording varies, but it's all the same. "Number 1 winning character enters development/joins as a playable character".

Edited October 9, 2015 by Tokkan

[Poultrygeist]

Dizzy is already dlc money making material and you don't need a poll to tell you that.

At this point I think the only reason we haven't seen her in some form yet is because they still aren't sure what to do with her.  I mean Pachi pretty much already said that balancing her in the context of Xrd's RC system required some drastic changes if that Evernote from Fern is anything to go by.

[Tokkan]

At this point I think the only reason we haven't seen her in some form yet is because they still aren't sure what to do with her.  I mean Pachi pretty much already said that balancing her in the context of Xrd's RC system required some drastic changes if that Evernote from Fern is anything to go by.

Um...

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s296/sh/26144efa-a120-4380-938c-6c1948f387c5/251d86b7853f98d5a84e9ac2a8330c2a

DIZZY
First Appearance: GUILTY GEAR X
A character who has a variety of projectiles that are good are beginning pressure and who also has mobility. She has been a setplay character and she probably has good affinity with the roman cancel system, but rather than backing off, I want her playstyle to involve more aggression. Also, she's a mother now, and her move names are amazing (lol).

It doesn't sound like he's saying she requires changes, in fact it's more like Pachi is saying she fits fairly well with the RC system. It's more like, changing her is something that he WANTS to do. He wants to make to make her "more aggressive" in stead of "backing off". As for what Pachi means by that, the exact wording in Japanese would imply he wants her style to involve moving towards her opponent instead of away from them. Hence "more aggression", she's pushing forward.

Edited October 9, 2015 by Tokkan

[Poultrygeist]

I dunno, I interpeted "good affinity with the roman cancel system" as the RC system giving her a ton of crazy options she wouldn't have had before.  But you know moon better so I'm going to take your word for it because the exact phrasing/context probably points to what you're saying.

[Tokkan]

That's an okay assumption. What's a bad assumption is that he's going to change her because of that. Pachi just says he wants to change her, he doesn't say that changing her is in anyway necessary. In fact, he wants to change a lot of the characters. What he wants might not even be what happens, since all of the descriptions from Pachi are purely tentative. It's best not to extrapolate anything from them.

Edited October 9, 2015 by Tokkan

[Lelouch84]

TBH Dizzy can already play pretty aggressively. I don't see the need to change her whatsoever and if she comes back I hope they leave her alone for the most part (of course I'm aware nobody is saying definitively that she will change). I feel like she has good options for both zoning and using her projectiles to cover her approach. She also has lots of long-range normals that can easily start things for her.