I understand your criticism, in fact I appreciate it. Games should be looked at individually and based on their own merits, and not in terms of the greater scheme of things. I actually have looked into this game, and even considered getting it if the price/reviews were right.

Having said that, NoA will never listen to fans unless their level of complaining is unheard-of, both in volume and in tenacity. If I honestly thought this game (along with others like Wii Play Motion, Itadaki Street etc.) could be successful without NoA interpreting that success as Project Rainfall being "full of it" or "insignificant", my tone and attitude would certainly be different.

This is a series that is by no means "main-stream" and has also already seen multiple releases on Nintendo platforms in recent years, and I don't recall any of them setting the charts on fire. I am pro-diversity and also support giving different games as much of an equal opportunity to find an audience as is possible, within reason of course. Ideally, if the situation were the other way around i would also be advocating the support of "the new untapped genre of hidden object games" rather than releasing Xenoblade 17. Nothing excites me more than new original gameplay genres, except maybe good quality games that myself and others actually want to play.

You're right to a point, but it's hard for them to see the griefers as anything but lost customers, insignificant in number

I agree that it's partially a matter of how NoA interprets the reaction, but just being loud won't do much.

And where would IGN find such a person??

It's not that hard, there are more casual gamers than hardcore out there :)

and how many of them are willing to review these games?? Obviously not that much

Casuals gamers would love a job to play games like Farmville all day, the problem is that they problably don't know that there is such a job lol