Scarce stocks of the Love Plus+ Ita-DS iLL bundle have resulted in chaos at Akihabara, with police having to be called to disperse enraged otaku.
Online the situation is no better – instantly sold out stocks provoked further fury when it became apparent a large proportion of stocks had found their way into the hands of online auctioneers who proceeded to impose a markup of several hundred percent.
The situation in Akihabara began when staff at Sofmap told queuers to come on the first train rather than wait all night, as it was a nuisance.
However, Sofmap actually gave reservation vouchers to the all night queuers who came anyway, and then announced by Twitter that reservations had closed.
Those who had heeded their request to stay away were naturally upset to find that when they arrived in the morning they were turned away. However, despite being told no further orders would be taken, some kept on queuing.
Sofmap then began counting those who were queuing, enraging those who had stayed away or left on the understanding they could not order.
Finally, Sofmap told the people who came on the early train as asked, who had by this time been left waiting for 6 hours, that they could not order without a ticket. Unsurprisingly, bedlam ensued as otaku rage spilled over.
Otaku confronted Sofmap staff – fisticuffs appear only to narrowly have been averted:
Police had to be summoned to control the situation.
It should be clarified that otaku were not even queuing for the actual product, only the right to pre-order the packs, shown below in all their glory:
As if this tale were not sordid enough, online retailers selling the bundle sold out instantly, and at the same time the packs began appearing on online auction sites.
It appears legions of scalpers descended upon online stores to snap up the packs so they could sell them on to desperate otaku for 2-3 times the price – the lowest price Amazon sellers are now offering is a mere $650.
A denizen of 2ch provided this image to soothe the hearts of any despondent at their failure in life being compounded by failure at securing an imaginary life:
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Hehe, that is a very cute kitty!
That was a really bad move on the store's part. I actually can't blame the otaku for being upset after they followed the store's request and STILL couldn't get a ticket. :\
The kitty in a box is cute, though. :3
I really thought I was going to post here admonishing the otaku for being so entitled and childish, but... WTF, Sofmap? Anyone would be mad after being fucked around like that.
Okay Otaku acting like raging lunatics. Nothing new here but holy shit! What was the store doing?
You'll never see awesomeness like this anywhere else...
Western videogame developers could learn from this~
Wow, FREE pet Cat in a Box
Guiness World Records should mark this down as the single largest gathering of virgins the world has ever known.
Fuck... so I was the only virgin during grade school?
Disgusting otaku is disgusting.
The auctioneers who watch the new shit coming out of Japan did this also when the Playstation 2 first came out.
One guy paid $300 for each of his Playstation consoles and basically crowed that he'd 'sell those bitches on eBay for $600-$1.2K a piece'.
I wouldn't put it past human greed on this issue.
Geez!
I hope no one actually bought those overpriced bundle preorders on the internet.
Of course, knowing Love Plus Otaku (LPOs?) I think we can be certain that they did.
I want that kitten! IT IS SOOOO CUTE!
:3
Love plus+ the game for people with no real love in their lives,
fucking otaku disguist me
then why do you visit this site Noob
this is a site for otaku !!
stupid otaku really will buy any old shit
Please, some Japanese girls need to take one for the team and sleep with these poor morons. Otherwise they'll just keep this up ><
Oh Love Plus+ is out already, need to get my copy (without dsi...). ^^
OTAKU RAGE, XD, one of thesse days an otaku will kill a seller
Just wait until the new the 3DS Love Plus 3D Bundle comes out XD
Wow that's some ri-AWWWWWWWWW KITTEN IN A BOX
I think Sofmap is at fault here. I know I would be just as pissed off if I went through the same treatment.
On the bright side, not being a Love Plus otaku I find only a passing interest int what these otaku do or stop doing.
Boss police: SHOOOOTTTTTT the retardssssss, OPEN FIREEEE!!!!!!
Officer: noooooooo!!!! there are so muchhh fire fireee!!!
EMOTAKUS: AHHH AHHHHHH LOOOOVVEEEE PLUUUUSSSS AHHHH BRAINSSSS BRAINSS LOVE PLUSSSS NEEEENEEE AUUUHHHHH
You don't see Otakus rioting over the fucking Ipad. DSi LIVES!
I laugh at you fucking losers who are shit heads for a game! Inanna the Goddess of Venus has this to say: Fuck this! Virgin Mary coming to punish all the nasty sluts.....no marriage = no sex point and simple. Losing virginity before marriage = to death sentence....these will be new rules..refuse them and die.....don't care if 90% of you will there will be less of you on earth and more to repopulate with better people...idiots!
Sofmap: incompetent and/or assholes.
Anyone buying from scalpers: idiots.
Anyone putting money down for "pre-orders" or "reserved copies": idiots.
In the west region of the earth this would have been called "The wait for the iPad [enrages Apple fanboys]" (or any other product from Apple)
"A denizen of 2ch provided this image to soothe the hearts of any despondent at their failure in life being compounded by failure at securing an imaginary life"
I have to admit, I loled a little inside, only for it to be replaced with pitty for those lonely Otaku.
Scalpers must die. They're the reason I don't go to concerts any more. Tool played here a few years back and despite my efforts to get a ticket online the SECOND they went on sale, I got nothing. Minutes later the scalpers began posting prices, and we're talking $500 a ticket. No kidding.
A friend of mine is in the music business and he got a comp to see the show. He said the stands were nearly half empty. Not that it matters to the scalpers--buy 10 tickets at $40, sell one at $500, and you made the bucks, even if that means nine tickets end up in the trash and nine seats are left empty.
Screw 'em.
if i was there i would do what others had done on PS3 Day 1: buy one then destroy it in front of them LOL
Scalpers suck. But the situation does make me want to believe that retailers do that kind of stuff on purpose. It'd get boring otherwise.
I think it's pretty telling how fucked up women's standards and society in general is when you have that many guys camping out and lining up for a release date to buy something like this. It doesn't sound like any actual rioting took place, though. Just a bunch of dudes with "video game blueballs" standing around all pissed off.
"fucked up women's standards"
Now, you can't expect woman to date a looser that do nothing but play simulation date games can you?
I would understand if it was a regular guy that can maintain a conversation, doesn't have any deformities and have a resemblance of a life (as in a family and a job), but most (if not all) of those "people" that stood out for 6hs+ at the cold night to pre-order a game... well, that's a bit too much ¬¬
Are you aware of all the "people" who stand out for hours in line to get the latest Twilight book or picked up the Harry Potter books at midnight on release night? Or how about the Halo games? Or lined up for days/weeks to see the (terrible) Star Wars prequels? The fact that people line up for a while to buy something for a hobby is nothing new. Even people who quilt for a hobby have their own ridiculous time wasting expeditions.
The stories posted on this site about female expectations of their partner are far more terrifying in my opinion. Not to say that the men don't have their own issues, but holy shit, I can see why some of them just gave up.
The game should be renamed 'my tiny Virgina' and add a few bottles of lotion for the flesh lights which would be made to be sold with it that have her picture on it.
good news for konami i guess. heopefully u will use all this money in funding zone of the enders 3 we definitely need it ^^
if some of those funds go to kojima productions then probably it will but chances are LP staff is quite far off from kojima productions
I'd happily buy that pussy.
Jap capitalism at its best (worst)...
Same thing happened pretty much all over the world when the PS3 was released.
And the Wii. Only the Wii was MUCH shorter in supply and quite a bit lower in price. Low cost+low supply= soccer moms fighting in line (If only I had a camera phone at the time)
fail america is the worst ^^
for these things they shouldn't make them limited edition
but if they dont, theyre not gonna have the crowds of otaku all coming in at once, trying to buy them, right?
So, all in all, "just as planned"
SHHHH! *You've leaking out their classic strategy*
either way hoards of people will buy them or they can say its limited edition and understate the inventory only later they sell more than they said they will that way people get the rush and excitement and they also get what they want
everybody is happy
until purchasers find out it wasn't really limited edition
*scroll* *scroll* *scroll* D'aaaaaaawwwwww.
Kittens....placating otaku rage since....y'know....long time ago.
Kittens are a well known rage soothing agent.
Yep, when you can't buy your waifu a cat is fine too~
Hell, those girls are cute enough to fight over!
KITTIE IS NOM NOM BOX.
DAT CAT isn't so bad either.
a cat is fine too....
I'll want the cat. I can actually cuddle it in real life, unlike some people >.<
The otakus wanted the game, but maybe a cat is fine, too...
A free cat is always fine too.
game and the cat together! Rage!