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…
| 
Temptress Wives – “Older Women Are Better!”
“Is It Really Emi!?” – Amateur Selection Guide 07
Zero Time Dilemma Merrily Murderous
Maki Nishikino’s Birthday Widely Welcomed
Caligula Schools Viewers
Sailor Moon Exhibit Brimming With Nostalgia
Svelte Saber Alter Figure
Onizushi Web Anime & Smartphone Game Surfaces
Marshmallow Imouto Succubus Hits The Beach
Bishoujo Mangekyou Fan Translation Emerges
Samurai Rising – Square Enix: You Guessed it!
Mangaka Pay Tribute to Kyushu
Street Fighter V Enlists Guile
Chinese Death Simulator “Hopefully Won’t Explode”
Re:Zero “In The Nick Of Time!”
Muma Astacia Sultry Succubus Ero-Figure
Hundred Sloppy Kissing Anime
Greek Woman “Born Without A Vagina!”
Let It Die Trailer Unforgettably Fierce
Shinjuku Station Reveals “All Yu-Gi-Oh Cards Ever!”
Kashiwazaki Sena Ero-Cosplay An Immense Tease
Goddess of 2ch: “What A Cute Hole!”
Alice Margatroid Ero-Cosplay by Hiyo Nishizuku Full of Cheer
Sheryl Nome Bunny Girl Cosplay by Mike Super Scandalous
Marvelous Madoka Mizugi Cosplay by Mashiro Yuki
Marie Rose Cosplay by Mike Undeniably Sexy
Tasha Tracer Cosplay Truly Tantalizing
Witch Craft Works Cosplay by Kagune Intensely Seductive
Kaine Cosplay by Yuricha Flawless
Kasumigaoka Utaha Cosplay Pretty Pure
As they say, otakus who are true to the core will never abandon their merchandise, even if they happen to be "half-hearted trash" as they were.
Actually, from the very moment i took up this pic as my avatar, i pretty much suckered myself to buying the second game.
To all the haters, i can only say this. How ironic.
They'll buy it, rage about, then post a video breaking the game on NND
Those otaku probably ordered two copies, one to break on camera, and one to play in secret...
Play it or break it, they still have to buy it.
And the devs and planners at Namco-Bandai will be laughing all the way to the bank, regardless.
Fucking faggots.
To be fair, it's not only Japanese otaku who do this. For Modern Warfare 2, a lot of people where going to boycott to get dedicated servers or something, but a large majority of the people boycotting were playing the game.
yeah!! you showed them!!!
stick it to the man, otaku!!!!
*facepalm*
Those otaku sure showed them, what with buying the product and supporting the company! That showed 'em!... wait a minute...
Seriously, if the damn otakus really wanted to stick it to them, they'd walk into the store with a friggin magnet and just swipe it across all the games while on the shelves.
Oh? I didn't know Xbox titles came on floppies nowadays?
lol @anon 15:23
we use a thing called cd nowadays. They rely on lasers and not magenets :p
CD are almost outdated, DVD/Blu-ray are what we use nowadays. :P
@19:36
Blu-ray is outdated. Internet and flash drives is what we use these days.
The last time I put a disk in my PC is so I could burn a bootable ISO for an old computer that doesn't support booting and installing an OS from USB devices.
Well, they didn't mind that one of the past "girls" actually was a cross dressing dude, so why the hell would they care about this change?
Hell, they even embraced the cross dresser for that matter..
Still can't figure out?
Hint: CROSS-DRESSING
That little faggot shota LOOKED like a chick at first glance. That's why they didn't care.
Typical of them to fuss over lack of the same girls with different hairs & voice. It's not like they'll ever see what's under the pants in this game after all, for all I know they could pretend the boys are girls too. tomboyish girls or simply girls cross-dressing as said. Pretending after all, is something they do best.
This is a good example how a company can commit a change to shape its consumers to accept a 'good' change that would bring fans of both genders together(even though there were female players as well, this should further promote the growth in number of female players), reducing misunderstanding amongst males & females. Unlike most other games of this type that's usually only targeted at one gender. Not only this action is beneficial to customers, it'd help them too in the long run by not being too tied with only one type of consumer.
LOL at overanalyzing the cover. The mark of truly paranoid otakus.
That said, the new cover looks amazing to me.
I'm tired of game covers where the hero/heroines just strikes a pose and looks straight at the player. Kinda unsettling with some art. That kind of portrait for the new art doesn't have that issue at all.
I can't help but notice that the guys appear on the cover.
Oh wait they don't.
Bandai is hiding the sausage
What a weak willed bunch...if you are going to protest, do it right.
Still, preorder rankings on Amazon are no sales figures. We will see how succesful they are when the actual sales begin.
Oh and I doubt there are any female otaku involved here, it's just the usual Idolmaster fans succumbing to the desire to see their waifus again.
Let's not forget some of the more infamous weak-spined 'protests'.
Left 4 Dead 2 became one of the biggest damn games of its genre ever even after all the 'official' protests since the first game came out only months before.
And how can we forget Call of Duty Black Ops setting sales records even after the whole mess with Kotick and firing of Infinity Ward executives and the apparent evil of Activision.
And as you say, succumb is right. Those honchos of game companies generally know what they are doing. Jupiter actually might get that fangirl otaku buyer and just maybe, Bandai will laugh its way to the bank in the end.
Perhaps the preorder would have been 10000 higher had the petition not existed.
Or perhaps the number of new fujyoshi blood has drowned out the moans of butthurt otaku.
Brazilian colors!
Banzai!
Oh wait.
Nuuuuuu dammit >>
Nani you edited yours post and now mine don't make sense.
I'm sorry :(
Here's hoping it's the female otaku buying, and not the male otaku selling out...
I believe both of them are buying, I believe the companies are realizing the importane of selling to a girls.
Nintendo Wii proved the power of the gamers girls .
Neither of them are buying, topping amazon means exactly fuck all, it's regularly topped by games that go on to sell <30k
I'm pretty sure that topping amazon means people are buying it, even if it isn't a reliable indicator of future sales.
I think companies are also starting to call the bluffs of most gamers. This was a great opportunity to send a message, and , female gamers aside, they dropped the ball.
Of course this Happened.
SHouta Hentai Exists for a reason.
We also want to Have sex wit cute boys ;D Obviously!
they weren't shota though, they were douchebag looking at least 16 year olds, you know the kind, the ones that know damn well that they look good and can get any woman, that the kind of self absorbed douchers they look like, not like an almost trap shota
than again, if it were me makeing this game, i would have keept the guys in the game completely sercret, and i would have made it an alturnate reality version of the game, where they are all traps that stuff their bras, god would it have been funny as hell.
It still feels incomplete though...
They didn't even give us the reasons why said girls were removed...
Is there even a story of how they got removed..?
Maybe a canonical event or something to further explain how they got replaced by the Twink Trio..?
@alidan
Seconded...
All I see are a bunch of twinks, not shota...
If they all looked like Hideyoshi though, kekeke~
If you bothered to do any research at all you would know they revealed the reason alongside the news of their removal. One idol became a producer, the other three are under her management as a rival unit to yours.
You were probably too busy regaling people with stories about your dickgirl fetish for the hundredth time.
"You were probably too busy regaling people with stories about your dickgirl fetish for the hundredth time."
Nah...I actually haven't done that in about 23 articles now...
I'm actually too busy in my college finals right now that I barely have time for hentai...
And yes, thanks for the info...
Now I can Take It Easy~
"You were probably too busy regaling people with stories about your dickgirl fetish for the hundredth time."
Nah...I actually haven't done any preaching about that in about 23 articles now...
I'm actually too busy in my college finals right now that I barely have time for hentai...
And yes, thanks for the info...
Now I can Take It Easy~
(P.S. - Cardiology is hard...)
Anonymous
12:47
really? thats it? what it sounds like to me is they got a diminished presence in the game.
many voice actors work on a per word basis, and i believe that they wanted WAY to much per word to make it reasonable, but taking them out completely, would piss WAY to many people off. so lower their presence, pay them less, they are still in the game somewhat, but what i dont understand is why make the guys playable? it would make more sense to have them as the rivals, and only make sense as to their reasons if what i wrote above is true.
like the guys were planned from the beginning, 4 of the female ones wanted more scratch, so they switched the male and females to save any production costs that already went into making the males of that game
Disgusting.
Agreed. I still want my fucking Riichan and tsundere loli.
The removal of tsundere lolis, ANY removal of tsundere lolis anywhere... is a crime.
Jupiter :D :D :D
Fucking idiot otaku~ all your predictions of Bandai completely losing on this front were wrong.
The Jupiter idols are still faggots either way.
@minakichan
"Fucking idiot otaku~" says the person obsessing over pixelated boys.
I'm not great with video game economics...but how is Last Story doing? What I've seen looks great...and I really hope it gets translated.
The company needs the success.
Alright,now aside from the idolmaster costume for cheria pascal and sophie,here's hoping for jupiter costume for tales of graces!
i.need.hubert.asbel.and.richard.in.jupiter.outfit! O_O
(with malik as the producer,that'd be awesome XD)
other than this....jupiter... *kyun*
*go watch niconico*
People like you need to go jump in a ditch.
people like you need to die,lonely fag.
It's "People like you need to die, lonely fag." Work on your grammar and punctuation before you try insulting someone.
Oh well, shit happens....trololol
Shit happens alot.