Ardbert's Party vs the Scions Analysis

[Rulakir]

I find it amusing that Hythlodaeus ranked #2 with 13.1% of the vote, so he and Emet combined are more than all the Scions. Not to mention we knew 'real' Hyth for about 3 hours and he instantly shot up to second favorite character. Even ignoring whatever the Scions' popularity is, I'd say that shows player interest in new characters especially if they're well written.

I also have to disagree about Krile. They've basically made her Mini-filia, which is going to be her death knell (figuratively since any Scion who lived past HW can never die :P). Minfilia was an actually unpopular character that not even the devs dispute.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I find it amusing that Hythlodaeus ranked #2 with 13.1% of the vote, so he and Emet combined are more than all the Scions. Not to mention we knew 'real' Hyth for about 3 hours and he instantly shot up to second favorite character. Even ignoring whatever the Scions' popularity is, I'd say that shows player interest in new characters especially if they're well written.

I also have to disagree about Krile. They've basically made her Mini-filia, which is going to be her death knell (figuratively since any Scion who lived past HW can never die :P). Minfilia was an actually unpopular character that not even the devs dispute.

Wow, new entertaining characters rank highly in popularity poll. More at 11.


No one is surprised.

[CrownySuccubus]

Wow, new entertaining characters rank highly in popularity poll. More at 11.


No one is surprised.

Just to steelman, their argument is that since these characters ranked so high, that must prove that A) said popularity would work for identical characters outside of their isolated roles and work just as well "in the wild" as it were, as main characters and B) said popularity proves that the Scions are substandard.

But, as stated before, the rankings prove neither of those things.