Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice vs. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Registered Vote Result: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 4871 (60.67%) Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch - 3161 (39.37%)
Anonymous Vote Result: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 3605 (53.60%) Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch - 3120 (46.39%)
The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series vs. Bastion Registered Vote Result: The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series - 3981 (49.58%) Bastion - 4050 (50.44%)
Anonymous Vote Result: The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series - 2918 (43.38%) Bastion - 3807 (56.60%)
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age vs. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC Registered Vote Result: Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age - 6584 (82.00%) The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - 1447 (18.02%)
Anonymous Vote Result: Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age - 5214 (77.52%) The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - 1511 (22.47%)
With more than a 7% difference between registered and anonymous users in the Monster Hunter and Sekiro matches, we are officially in territory that only appeared twice during the entire 2018 contest (one of them being a rallied match). Aloy/D.Va and Monika/Wario were the only 2 matches in 2018 to have more than a 7% difference between registered and anonymous users.
The Walking Dead/Bastion had about a 6% difference, while Dragon Quest XI/Trails SC was about a 4.5% difference.
The overall trend from yesterday's matches was huge splits between registered and anonymous users, even greater than the usual splits we saw in the 2018 contest. If the effect of forced voting in all 4 matches wasn't already apparent, we may be seeing that effect even worse with the last set of matches.
Registered users only made up about 54.43% of yesterday's votes, a drop off from Day 1's 55.09%. But still well above the percentage of registered users for the 2018 contest. It was expected that the percentage of registered users would drop after Day 1 as more casuals on this site find out there's a contest running.
Monster Hunter-Bravely Default I at least thought could go either way. Ironically I probably would've gone with Monster Hunter if it actually *was* a WRPG, but Capcom was such trash in 2018 that I figured the pseudo-Final Fantasy game would take it. Seeing that it was the registered voters that really carried MH is a bit disturbing...but not as disturbing as seeing that they were a lot higher on Sekiro than the anonymous voters. I never even considered the possibility of Sekiro winning that match, because Ni No Kuni is a JRPG and Sekiro is an action-adventure game. If I'd done the extra research and learned that despite the very Japanese name, it was in fact developed by Activision, a western company, I might've honestly considered taking Ni No Kuni to double it, and not out of any illusion that Ni No Kuni was anything but fodder itself.