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fandomsecrets2011-09-24 03:43 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-09-24 03:43 pm
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Depends entirely which fandom, I found. I've been reasonably active in the Japanese fandoms for Biohazard, DMC, and SMT for years, and aside from the occasional random racist, who was certainly not indicative of the entire group, as you say, everything was just peachy. I had exactly the same view of J-fandom that you did. Welcoming and actually pretty awesome, but with the same number of random crazies you'd find here.
Then I moved on to you-ge fandoms and it like night and day. It is no longer a happy love in welcoming funtimes; idiots flame us constantly. Even some of my old friends from the RE/SMT fandoms have been up in arms about me liking shooters (though that's only to be expected, whitey likes them guns).
And yes, when I ask why more Japanese people don't play Western games - even games all about character development and even dating, like ME - one of the most common answers is that it's not cute enough (or there aren't enough cute girls, etc.). It's just the truth.
They argued based on what I said - technicality.
Nah, it wasn't. There was a lot of that to be sure, but it brought out a shitton of people crying about the takeover of the evil foreign 360, and that they shouldn't be supporting foreign console developers by giving Japanese gamers the choice to play games on it. If they bought a 360, they only get to play "shitty" you-ge.
Still don't agree with me about the anti-Western bias amongst Japanese gamers? Well, the CEO of Square-Enix (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/96584-Squeenix-CEO-Calls-Out-Japanese-Gamers-on-Western-Bias) does (note that one of the reasons is the poor sales of MW2, which pretty much destroys any point you had posting it as "proof" that Japanese gamers aren't).
I'm prettttty sure he knows his shit better than you. And what he's say is certainly in line with my experience, too. So yeah, we'll have to agree to disagree about personal experience, but facts and authoritative sources are on my side on this one. You haven't provided anything but anecdotes, with an obvious (and highly emotional) pro-Japanese bias.