MKvs.DCU sold a couple million, MK9 sold several million, SFIV sold several million, Marvel 3 sold a couple million and this isn't including used games. If these games are generating an audience of a couple million that may, or may not, stick with the game long term then how can you say it's not possible to generate a fanbase through them? If even 1 percent of people that bought/played the game get interested in a character they didn't know before then it's still tens of thousands of people. If even .1 percent gain interest then it's still thousands of people. This, IMO, is a very good avenue on which to showcase some of the lesser known characters because there's practically a zero percent chance we get a movie/cartoon based around any of them this decade.
Who they were when they were first announced/played with them? No, but these same people can easily get interested in these characters and want to know more about them. People may wanna learn about Spencer and where he comes from because they think he's "cool", same with a Rocket Raccoon or the like. People see the character, think they're awesome/funny/bad ass and want to know more, this has happened for people like Taskmaster.
See, I'm taking this as you believe I want "most people that need more attention". I'm not saying that, the game NEEDS to be sold and it's done with big names. But the big names are THERE, they're in the game, they've sold the game for a lot of people. If 85 percent of the cast are big names/well known characters that have already sold the game then why can't the last 15 be people that can use more exposure instead of "tier 3/4 of well known people"? You say I spent the entire time saying who would be the best picks and I don't believe I did this at all. What I did was "why would Joker AND Quinn be needed instead of taking Quinn out for someone more diverse" and "would should Bane make it in as a 6th Batman character when the first 5 sell the game enough and that spot can go to Grodd or someone?". I never said "this would be the best picks" or anything of the like, I questioned the need for so much Batman when 4 Batman people would sell the game and the other 2 weren't gonna bring in a lot more interest that the first 4 didn't.
Marvel isn't dumb enough? THEY DID EXACTLY THAT FOR MARVEL 3. I'm in no way saying that "yeah, being in the game guarantees that people are just gonna flock to these characters now". I'm saying "use this medium to possibly generate interest in characters that casual fans don't even know about".
My point is that Batgirl is NOT gonna generate a significant amount more sales: People have bought the season pass or they're gonna buy all DLC regardless, including a Black Canary, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, etc instead of Batgirl is not gonna cause a big drop off in sales comparatively speaking and getting even a mere 100 more people interested in buying a monthly 3-4 buck comic is 3,000-4,000+ more a year on top of the amount they gained from the DLC purchases. At least that's what I believe, I think you should try to build a fanbase for your library by including them in things that people are gonna watch/read/play regardless as they already have many big names included in the product.
coz they make the right choices everytime they decide something!
