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In the official Fire Emblem series popularity poll, the latest title “Engage” camp posted a score far ahead of the “Three Houses” camp in the first round of tallying — and it became a hot topic on 5ch’s Hardware & Industry board (Geha). Because the poll’s scoring multiplier shifts to give the trailing side a correction boost, opinions in the thread split over which numbers actually reflect “popularity.” Posters shared first-round totals showing the Engage side at roughly 8.24 million points combined versus the Three Houses side at roughly 3.42 million, and the debate spread between fans of both games.
What people said
Only Nintendo can beat Nintendo!
No popularity is proof enough that it's a crap game.
Three Houses fans are the ones buying into the Engage side ('Myriad Hues,' 5ch's nickname for the Engage camp), so pitting them against each other isn't really fair.
Still, I'd love for Koei to make another Three Houses someday.
That excuse is lame as hell.
But Three Houses characters swept every popularity poll right out of the gate too.
so the only part that reflects actual popularity is the opening tally.
Isn't this a first-ever win for 'Egachan' (comedian Egashira 2:50, internet shorthand for someone famously unlucky)?
Reda >> Yuris
Theodora >> Edelgard
Dietrich >> Dimitri
Claude = Kai
So if you want to see real popularity, it's the opening score, not the final result.
That's what Re: #16 is.
> Claude = Kai
Even a new-release bonus can't flip this one, huh.
Same, lol lol
If anything, a game that's only been out two weeks closing the gap this much — how popular is that?
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1790946625/
Well, I don't care about info-illiterate people who'd believe guys like this anyway.
Realistically Zelda's about the only thing left this year.
I mean, wouldn't gathering each title's most popular characters sell better after all? → Proceeds to the Engage Route
2,733,069 Reda
2,599,429 Theodora
2,214,917 Dietrich
1,336,070 Edelgard
*956,856 Dimitri
*699,365 Claude
*697,559 Kai
*430,629 Yuris
Engage ('Myriad Hues') total 8,244,974
Three Houses total 3,422,920
Kai's the only one who deserves sympathy.
Maybe it's because Kai's too much of a good kid that there's nothing to even say about him.
No need to get so worked up about it.
That just proves he's popular.
No need to get so worked up about it.
And this is the same guy who happily bought the limited edition and even made an unboxing video.
Do you 🐷 (piggies) brand this guy an anti too?
By the way, a lot of people giving ⭐5 on Amazon write nothing but complaints in the review text itself.
At this rate the bar just keeps dropping — pretty soon even a 50-point game gets ⭐5 'high praise.'
Normally a positive review means you've got maybe one or two gripes that don't really bother you.
A real crap game is one you literally can't play — but good luck telling that to the 🐷 (piggies) who just make up their own standards.
Lol, you can tell they're panicking about the Amazon rating almost flipping on them.
Not sure if FE fans even realize it, but
Three Houses is popular on a whole different level.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
What this thread is reacting to is an official Fire Emblem popularity-poll event built with a mechanism where the scoring multiplier shifts to give a correction boost to whichever side is trailing. As pointed out in replies 16 and 18, looking only at the final results makes it seem like the “Three Houses” camp staged a comeback, but many posters argued that a fair comparison can only be made using the opening scores, before the multiplier correction kicks in. According to the opening tally posted in reply 29, the Engage (“Myriad Hues”) camp totaled roughly 8.24 million points combined, versus roughly 3.42 million for the Three Houses camp — and this is what’s behind the “total defeat” framing. On the other hand, some pushed back, arguing that Three Houses, having been out for years, has already built up an entrenched fanbase, making a straight comparison with the freshly released Engage camp inherently unfair — so the thread split over which number should count as the real measure of “popularity.” As of this article, no final results or official announcement for the poll event itself have been released.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware & Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Sad News] FE’s Engage (‘Myriad Hues’) suffers total defeat in the official poll.”
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