Rebellious IdolMaster fans who launched a boycott of the title over its removal of several girls and addition of several hot male idols have proven to be all talk – they are apparently buying the game up in droves.
The “rebellion” saw a petition with some 10,000 signatures demanding changes and moves for a fan boycott, and even harassing seiyuu.
However, when pre-orders for the game opened the title rapidly found itself top of Amazon.co.jp’s pre-order charts, beating Ore no Imouto, Tales of Graces and Last Story handily:
Only days ago, IdolMaster fans were smugly pointing out that the newly unveiled cover “shows the girls looking away from the viewer, whereas all the previous titles had them looking directly at the viewer” as if that illustrated some philosophical change on the part of Bandai (long since notorious for taking no notice of mere consumers).
Little wonder they politely ignored the fracas – the only way fans will ever see their precious idols again is through the title, and Bandai evidently knows it.
The other alternative is of course that Bandai has struck gold and it is female otaku lured in by the prospect of Jupiter who are ordering it in droves…
It just goes to show how the loud and obnoxious are only a minority in the fandom. The biggest moaners hardly buy anything and are impossible to please.
Well, chicks do like hot guys.
Of course. They’ll buy the girls back as DLC too. Namco knwos what they’re doing – mind you, it’s kind of like shooting fish in a barrel… If they remember to call it Idolm@ster, people will buy it.
Ladies, gentlemen, what’s happening is that otaku are tsundere for Jupiter and just pretending to rage. Truth is they’re secretly dying to play them too.
Well nothing to see here until a PSP version gets released…damn fagbox region block.