lol. they keep saying “blame the company, not CN players,” but CN players were the ones who escalated this to the point where state media and government-linked bodies got involved. you cannot create that pressure, celebrate the result, mock the players who were hurt and then claim you had no responsibility for the outcome.
I'm a CN player. I'm a Caleb stan. And I'm done being polite about this.
You don't get to call an entire player base racist while knowing absolutely nothing about what actually happened. So sit down and read.
CN players didn't wake up one morning and decide to cancel a character because of his skin color. We spent 500+ days waiting for main story updates that never came. We watched the company fail to deliver content for five existing characters while announcing a sixth — breaking an explicit promise of "no new love interests." In 2025, Love and Deepspace ranked #1 on China's largest consumer complaint platform with 3,406 cases about unequal resource distribution. This rage was years in the making. Valko was the last straw, not the cause.
Then we found a drug experimentation record inside the game numbered 0731. If that means nothing to you, that's your ignorance, not our problem. Unit 731 was a Japanese military program that conducted live human experiments — vivisections, biological warfare, forced infections — on thousands of Chinese civilians and POWs during WWII. The in-game record included the name 严颂, a phonetic match to Japanese researchers from the unit, within a full narrative of injection protocols, endurance testing, and forced mental control. Players reported this through customer service when it first launched. It was ignored. The company later called it "a random placeholder number." Six state media systems, a national think tank, and a prosecutor's office publicly called that a lie.
Now let me tell you why you had no idea about any of this.
The company deliberately gutted every trace of Chinese identity from your version of the game. Chinese New Year's Eve was deleted from the script. The Lantern Festival greeting was removed across every language version — Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean — while the holiday imagery was kept, proving it was a deliberate directive, not a translation choice. Mid-Autumn Festival was renamed to a fictional name. Christmas and Halloween? Kept their real names. Chinese text was manually redrawn out of cutscene animations. Chinese food was erased from date scenes — four date menus, zero Chinese dishes, in a game made by a Chinese company. A calligraphy illustration had its Chinese characters scrubbed for international release. A government-backed collaboration promoting Chinese sports culture at the Asian Winter Games was posted three times domestically and zero times on any international channel.
You were handed a product that was systematically stripped of its origin. And now you have the audacity to tell us our concerns don't matter — while consuming a game built on Chinese players' money and Chinese creators' labor.
The apology letter you received was also different from ours. Your version said "we weren't ready to introduce Valko." Our version acknowledged broken promises, failed content delivery, and systemic trust collapse. Same company, same decision, two completely different explanations — designed so that you'd blame us instead of them. And it worked. Here you are, calling us racist, while the company that lied to both of us watches from the sidelines.
And let me be absolutely clear about where things stand right now. This is no longer a player dispute. This is no longer about your feelings or ours. The Chinese government has taken notice. As of today, state media outlets at every level — from central party organs to provincial papers, from the national women's federation to the legal system — have published critical coverage demanding accountability. A prosecutor's office has issued a formal legal characterization of the game's content as violating regulations on public morality and national sentiment. State media are calling for the company to undergo "fundamental reform." Whether this company can survive what comes next is an open question.
Your anger in our comment sections changes nothing. The character was not cancelled because of tweets or Reddit threads. It was cancelled because institutional power stepped in. And that same institutional power is still escalating, not retreating. You are screaming at the wrong people about a situation you fundamentally do not control and do not understand.
So no. We are not "xenophobic" for refusing to let a company monetize our historical trauma. We are not throwing "toddler tantrums" for demanding accountability after 500 days of broken promises. And we are certainly not going to apologize for defending a position that our own government, our own judiciary, and our own national media have now publicly endorsed.
You want to be angry? Be angry at the company that decided you didn't deserve the truth.
Or don't. But understand this: your ignorance was manufactured, your outrage was engineered, and the people you're defending don't even respect you enough to tell you the same story they told us.
One last thing. Before you reply, ask yourself whether you can dispute a single fact in this post — not with feelings, not with "well I don't care about 731," not with "China is racist" — but with a single verifiable fact that proves anything I said is wrong. If you can't, then you don't have a counterargument. You have a reaction. And reactions don't change reality.
Every claim above is backed by public data, official media coverage, in-game evidence, and documented company behavior. If you choose to ignore all of it because it's easier to blame Chinese players than to confront what this company did to all of us, that's your choice. But don't mistake your comfort for the truth.
@Nazilanmh After this some men online would threaten women who disagreed with them by saying "Be careful, and you might also go to the noodle pot to take a bath or swim." Thats why its so serious and shouldnt be taken lightly. And taking BATHS isnt the same as being BOILED ALIVE.
Valko wasnt the main problem and CN girls arent giving up because he was deleted. Infold is the problem. The fact that they havent apologized for "bathing in a pot", 0731 and other issues is unacceptable. On xhs many players dont accept the apology and still boycott.
эти тупые китаянки не знают что над Валко работали, вы обесценили всю работу людей. вы тупые мрази, проделана была куча работ ВЫ ДАЖЕ НЕ ЦЕНИТЕ ЛЮДЕЙ СВОЕЙ ЖЕ СТРАНЕ
#wewantvalko#bringbackvalko
@xianyu_l@yanxi_wxi It's just random numbers. Nothing says in game it's about 731 squad. Just_numbers. I also know the history and everything what they did in history, it's horrible. But I never thought about them when I played game.Stop creating something more than it is and just enjoy the_game
@yanxi_wxi Yeah right you guys did not call him gay too western bring him only to global diring his forst reveal teaser
U guys hate him so much that you dig issue and this become bigger that it reeally is congrats
@Love_Deepspace Your followers are depleting and your actions will ruin the game. You listened to a handful and burned down Linkon as a result just to keep the handful happy. Unacceptable behavior. #BRINGBACKVALKO#BRINGVALKOBACK#VALKO
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@Sin10384@Xuzayio@berryo_so То, что Сайлус видел в МС котенка, это я понимаю и знаю, но разве не странно, что именно такая карта с посылом, что какая-то группировка что-то тестит, МС становится котёнком, а потом 6 ЛИ оказывается волком и учёным?
@Sin10384@Xuzayio@berryo_so Я уверена, что рынок они изучали. И почву тоже. Там не дебилы сидят.
И да, инфолды потеряли доверие глобальных игроков из-за китайских.
@Sin10384@Xuzayio@berryo_so Так, а как она стала кошкой? Это было не просто так, взятое резко с потолка, отличаясь буквально от всех карточек Сайлуса.
Нет? Не похоже?
@Sin10384@Xuzayio@berryo_so А что им мешало выпустить долгожданного 6 и закончить? Всё. Миссия выполнена. Идём по сюжету, дальше доим аудиторию. Даже если Валко был рассчитан на глобал, глобал его тепло принял и занес бы компании денег без проблем, если они настолько жадные. Ах да, мы итак это делаем.
@Sin10384@Xuzayio@berryo_so Намёки были в игровых текстовых записках и историях...
То, что не оправдались ожидания – это явно не проблема бизнесмена.
Только вот из-за отмены какое количество работы было выкинуто в мусор? Они обесценили собственных сотрудников и актеров озвучки разных стран.
@Sin10384@Xuzayio@berryo_so И сейчас мы будем наблюдать как они на коленке делают новый сюжет, если вообще будут делать.
Опять же, никто гарантии не давал.
Обновление сюжета Калеба и Сайлуса только ОСЕНЬЮ.
И что мы будем делать весь патч 6.0? Давиться одной круткой в день?
@Sin10384@Xuzayio@berryo_so У тебя есть гарантии, что при отмене 6 геймплей и частота сюжета будет ЛУЧШЕ?
НЕТ.
Нет никаких гарантий. Даже за отмену Валко, который бы принес алмазы, тебе дают 30 круток НЕ СРАЗУ, а по одной, словно ты бродячий пёс, и ты не должен ронять онлайн.
Это нормально?
@Sin10384@Xuzayio@berryo_so Господи боже...
Скажи, пожалуйста, вы о 6 персонаже узнали когда? Позавчера? Сегодня?
Плашка "coming soon" сколько была в игре? Информация о 6 персонажах сколько была в игре?
Да, инфолды говна щас навернули, сделав себе кучу проблем, но как тут виноват 6, что его отменяют?
@Sin10384@Xuzayio@berryo_so Вы не думаете о том, что игру вовсе могут запретить или поставить жёсткую цензуру, потому что власти обратили на это внимание.
Выстрел в ногу самому себе – не очень хорошая тактика. И пострадают здесь уже не глобал, а ВСЕ.