Smashmania: DLC made by fans... is that a good idea?

In case you missed it, the last Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Direct announced Piranha Plant as a surprise fighter and has been liked or disliked by many people. Although this character is already confirmed that doesn't enter that Fighter Pass, it has raised some debate in networks about whether we should be the ones who chose the characters that will arrive over the next year.

Although Nintendo confirmed that they already knew what the characters would be, a group of people believe that a global survey should be done with at least one of them so that their audience would decide the future of the saga, as it happened with the Bayonetta's election in last.

However, listening to fans is usually a double-edged sword, as some believe they would use such an opportunity to place characters like Waluigi, Spring-Man or Isaac, whohave already been confirmed as an assist trophy or don't meet the requirements to enter the campus.

Pros: A happy fan, one more sale

Nowadays, the word DLC is something that doesn't like much, because many times this means that it's cut content from the original game and then sold separately. Therefore, I think the best way to show that this is not the case is by listening to the fans, and that is what Sakurai and Nintendo should do now with the future Super Smash Bros. Season Pass.

To many, certain characters have disappointed us because we expected others, but Sakurai is not to blame, since he said that the first thing that is done to create a new installment of the famous fighting game is to think and decide their characters. Surely Nintendo knows what have been the comments of the people regarding the presentation of certain characters, and thanks to these comments could come incredible characters that couldn't occur to them in their day and that would please everyone. It would be a way of saying, this isn't cut content, if not content that has occurred to us after presenting all the characters thanks to your comments.

Above, a happy fan means a possible sale more. Both Nintendo and the user would win. Recall that characters like Ridley or King K. Rool wouldn't be in Smash if it wasn't for the insistence of the fans, and Sakurai has finally shown that they're incredible and above all original characters, and surely have satisfied many fans.

Therefore, I think the best way to approach this DLC is to listen to the fans, listen to them, see what characters are missing from them, because among some crazy, stupid things we see, there are people asking for coherent things that would make sense, not all fans are dumb. They ask for valuable, interesting characters. With this we would win all, Nintendo because surely would get to sell a considerable amount and fans who would see their dreams fulfilled.

Cons: We ask just for asking

I already wrote an article dedicated to this game to show my dissatisfaction with Nintendo and Sakurai by the time they decided to listen to the fans. Luckily, I was more wrong than I thought and in this last Direct they managed to change my opinion.

I've always been reluctant for developers to heed our proposals, since we usually have no idea about the process of creating a video game and often our requests are often conservative or very impulsive, see Bayonetta in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U.

In this installment I was worried about the arrival of Ridley and King K. Rool because I saw that Nintendo was paying attention to us. I won't deny it, I like their arrival, but I saw a "this is our game, we decide" virus thingy. Until Piranha Plant arrived as a surprise fighter.

This new incorporation excites me for its set of movements and how different it is to the rest. When we all thought the Direct was leaked days before, Nintendo manages to surprise us, and that has a lot of merit knowing the amount and information, a priori, filtered that circulated on the Internet.

If we chose the DLC characters that are coming... Where would the surprise effect and the illusion to see and discover a new fighter will be? Probably it will vanish along with multiple leaks. Even so, Nintendo knows our requests, that's why it presented characters like Isaac, Shadow or Spring-man as assist trophies, warning us that they always choose the fighters and thatwe can't do anything to remedy it.

Fortunately, and hoping that Nintendo doesn't back down in this election, the 5 new contenders that we will receive next year will be chosen by them and only those who understand will buy them. A company should be able to give us what we like without us knowing. And Sakurai has proven it for many years.

But what do you think? Let me know in the comments.