Im so disappointed.

No Sin and Punishment characters, even though the demand was there for brawl.

Ganon STILL looks to be Cap Fal clone.

Not including 3rd party character, only 3 new franchises are represented. Everybody else is returning or just another representative in a already heavily represented IP. FE and Pokemon ... Did we need all of them?, but F Zero and metroid still have 1 rep

This is the least excited I have ever been for a smash roster.

ROB confirmed:

The roster is complete. gema_yue got the message saying that he has all the fighters.

Welp, roster has been finalized. Everyone that was on the leak is the final roster.

GG guys, it was fun. All that's left now is the release day of the game itself.

No new characters, the leak back in august was it... After unlocking rob you unlock all star mode, with a message saying all characters have been unlocked, now the real fight begins...
Saw it on a stream.. Let the hype die.. Sakurai sucks.

Hey now. Just because Mewtwo and Ridley wasn't in, doesn't mean you have to act grumpy

But if Ice-Climbers is not in Wii U because of 3DS limitations then you can freak out a little.

That's one hell of a roster!

Voted that I don't believe the leak, by the way.

Meeeh.. The roster is kinda bland... Not a fan of the newcomers.. I wanted baby kong, ghirahim, geno, llouyd from tales.. Aaaand... More characters who arent in the roster.. Its so lackluster.. Dr mario and dark pit, lucina are pure lazy clones... Sakurai is lazy as F! With license to use all the nintendo owned franchises, he should have done something better... With that much creative freedom, he bombed with the final result.. 

So since 49 characters is not enough, how many characters would have satisfied you?

49 is enough, its the inclusions that bother me... No one asked for purin, rob, dr mario, dark pit, wii fit trainer, ganondorf clone, toon link, clone, that marth girl clone... Terrible and lazy choises..

and the way this game has been teased for so long, with pic of the day is unnaceptable... Id much prefer the zelda way, short trailer, not giving away too much, and then release it.. He has been trolling the advertising sector, trolling the fans, and delivering a clone of a game...

i find the advertising he has used for this game totally unacceptable and exploitative... He deserved the roster leak for treating a product in such a way.     And zero suit and sheik didnt have their own slots back in dem days, so 47 if compared to brawl.

My thoughts written from another about the pathetic way smash bros has been advertised.

Two-thirds of adults in the US and UK say they receive too many digital marketing promotions and are exposed to too many ads,according to a survey released in February 2012 by Upstream, conducted by YouGov. Marketers beware: consumers will not be shy to act. Two-thirds say they would unsubscribe from a brand’s promotions if they thought the messages they were receiving were too frequent, while 27% in the UK and 20% in the US say they would stop using the brand’s product or service. 37% of UK respondents (and 28% of US adults) would respond negatively to future messages from that brand, and about 1 in 10 would protest on social media sites.