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NeoElfboy posted...

Strongly disagree with this, I remember how much they pushed Radiant Ike in that "vote for your free unit" deal early this year.

I generally assume IntSys is motivated by $$$, and if we've gotten fewer Ikes than we expected it's probably because they haven't drawn as heavilly as they expected. Which might not be surprising if Ike's fanbase is more "casual" (due to Smash maybe? Marth is clearly an even more extreme case here). Not like they'll ever release that data for us to know for sure though.

My wife floated the theory recently that Ike's fanbase might prefer his more serious-business looks (rather than say, Chrom's or Xander's fanbases who like them in goofy outfits) and that makes some sense to me intuively but not sure how IntSys would gather data on that, unless they've done some polling I'm not aware of.

I guess we will never know, but I know a fair amount of people who didn't try to summon for Legendary Ike exactly because of that poll and how "obvious" his win would be, so if the banner didn't draw as many people as they hoped that might be the reason.

That said, all of Ike's alts were "forced", one was chosen by CYL and the other... you can't really make legendary heroes without acknowledging Ike, especially since his RD version wasn't in the game.

I don't summon on seasonals for the most part so your wife might be onto something, but I think they can spare a single seasonal Ike if Xander can afford to have three seasonal alts, I doubt he's going to sell much less.