User blog comment:DerpyDoodle/Roy and Ryu Confirmed/@comment-24357950-20150615233444/@comment-24357950-20150621223620

Well, there is room for leak when it comes to the Fighter Ballot character that's coming. They don't usually reveal a character without an additional trailer, and those trailers traditionally contain a sneak peek at the character's moveset. ...Well, except for Mewtwo of course, since he was known to be a DLC character ever since the game came out. In other words though, if they stick to their system of revealing characters, they will start developing the Fighter Ballot character to a point a preview can be shown, and during the timespan between counting the ballot results and revealing the trailer, there is room for leaks. It could be that they reveal the character without a trailer, though, and therefore enlighten us on who won before starting the development.

With regard to feeling bad for Sakurai, we have to think rationally here. This is not a personal matter, this is business. We are in a principal <-> agent relationship with Sakurai. Both sides want to profit from the situation as much as possible, unmindful of the other side. Sakurai does that too. I mean I personally consider the whole DLC thing a big scam, because they are really overpriced and taking out content to add it back later as charged DLC is a rather disgusting method. I don't really think he cares about this though, not as long as people keep buying what he delivers. So as a principal, I don't feel sorry for Sakurai either. The leaks give me an opportunity to take my time to consider my purchase without emotional influences. I think rationally and appreciate the given advantage, just like Sakurai does. He wants to make the biggest profit, so if the leaks "spoil" the surprise, lower the hype and allow people to consider the purchase without being influenced, of course he doesn't like that. Honestly, if Lucas was revealed on the same day as Ryu and Roy and there were no leaks, I would have bought him. But because I had more than enough time to consider my purchase, I remembered that I don't even like Lucas and made a decision I didn't end up regretting.