✨Lila

@inkolyte @Scyrptor I stopped playing in 3.0 but up till then, every story chapter was a date with a different girl.

@Noa_IX @Scyrptor Not really, they are some of the most tame designs in Gacha. Also there is no romance in the game aside from a few like Shorekeeper or Iuno

Love and Deepspace players trying to find a new game they want to invest on so they choose Mingchao"Wuthering Waves" as their new game! Just looking at their comments, there are some valid takes. This post deleted from reddit some time ago, so wanted to share it here. #Gacha #WutheringWaves

@anddriuuu Más bien dijeron que apela a los homosexuales y al público de occidente en vez de al público Chino. Si supieran que los gays prefieren a personajes como Rafayel lol.

🚨🗣️RESPECTO A LA CANCELACIÓN DE LOVE AND DEEPSPACE Las jugadoras chinas cancelaron a Valko por "verse HOMOSEXUAL" y no quieren atraer a ese público, mandan flores funerarias a los DEVS, hacen rituales. ¿La solución? Hablad con vuestra cartera, no les hará gracia perder un 30%💵

@JayShan0506 Nah. I don’t believe your lies anymore. You can try to justify it however you want. You are just xenophobic and superficial.

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.

@Aikonicalt They have been lying since the start. I don’t believe anything Chinese players say anymore.

Why are the lads fandom deadass just lying about the CCP atp guys it's not that serious the CCP doesn't give a fuck about otome games..

@Thekawacookiie @Xaivhi It’s not low. Otherwise they wouldn’t care to have a global server. I read global revenue is around 50%

@Xaivhi financially seen the revenue we bring in is low, but the global fans sway the international gaming market Investors, huge appearances globally, global corporations that's where the money is. If the public opinion is bad they lose that money 🤷‍♀️ #BringValkoBack #BRINGBACKVALKO

Our protests are working ‼️ CN players are saying we might be able to change things. They think Infold is afraid to have a bad reputation in Global market ‼️

@Xaivhi well, isn’t that what all the xenophobic CN players want? That their Chinese game stays in china. Making half they money they make now.

@Fea_Artt @tabsphere They didn’t forget. They just chose to ignore it because they like the old LIs while they just don’t like Valko because they think it’s catered to western fans. It’s just them being superficial and xenophobic.

@tabsphere My main issue with that "Valko breaking into your house" argument is that - 1. they don't know that. We don't know the context of the balcony scene. 2. Xavier does this very often!! Has everyone forgotten Xavier entering mc's house through the balcony?

perfect response imo 😭😭😭😭

@zaynekosleftnip Also keep in mind there are social media for different languages while they only have one. These girls really have a black hole instead of a brain inside their heads.

@zaynekosleftnip Bro, if global doesn’t make money they wouldn’t keep the servers. How stupid are they? Do they think the servers and localisation is free?! It costs them money to do all that. And if global server exists is because it brings them 50% of their fucking revenue.

This is what its like on xhs, maybe we are not being loud enough.🫩🫩🫩 #BringValkoBack

@Hiyoko_chan_art Don’t let them fool you. He is the problem for them. It was always that they didn’t like him and started making up stuff to “justify” it. When all comes down to their aesthetic preferences and xenophobia.

I've seen many CN players say the issue wasn't against Valko... SO WHY DID THEY ASK FOR HIS ELIMINATION IF IT WASN'T AGAINST HIM? Why did they call him ugly? Why did they insult those who liked him? WHY? #BringValkoback #loveanddeepspace

@Zayne_Snowemily I don’t believe anything that comes from Chinese players. They have been spreading a lot of rumours to the global side since we don’t know what’s going on there. There are good people, but there are also many bad actors. So I just chose to not trust anyone.

Chinese Media turning things up , because that drug case is a part of xavier's story it have no connection with Valko. Ita almost like media is turning the words towards public and government. Vid cr: insta(lielixlz)

@yano_gamedev I never used any items that I couldn’t buy in the pokemarts 😂. Just don’t make consumable items limited, let us get as many as we want whenever we need them.

as a kid I literally never used a single one of my Max Elixiers, and RARELY used Max Revives, treating them as extremely valuable before I knew it, the game was over, and I had a full stock of these. As a game dev, what are some approaches to prevent this?

@wriolly love how everyone is glazing yae. In a couple versions we will get a better character than her 🤣

B I T C O I N

Hello, here is an update from a CN player that was sent to me. #BRINGVALKOBACK The message is as follows: Hello，I can't translate my words. This some notification below.你好，我是一名中国玩家，我发现有个用户发了一条推文，说中国玩家给她留言，说公司割裂中国和海外粉丝的那篇贴文，其实不是事实，一个公司真的会轻易放弃自己两年打造出来的心血吗？是因为敖尹是用心打造出来的作品，所以才能在几天之内被这么多玩家喜爱，从中是可以看到公司对他的用心的。不过因为一些极端的无理取闹的中国玩家恶意给公司造谣，引发的舆情不可控，让我们国家上层知道了，你贴文里那个中国玩家是故意这么说，转移你们的注意力，想让你们放弃维权，失去信心。 现在，海外玩家要做两件事：1.积极在请愿链接签名，让公司看到海外玩家多么重视敖尹。（中国喜欢敖尹的玩家也会从7月2日起全力支持，共同发声）2.全力抵制公司。直接攻击公司领导，或者可以告到中国大使馆，把你们的诉求上升到外交关系、国际贸易层面。要么公司死，要么敖尹回归。 另外，中国有很多正常玩家的声音被这些极端分子掩盖了，现在这些极端分子达到目的后，会给你们海外玩家留言，故意转移你们维权的注意力，让你们失去希望。拜托海外玩家们，千万千万不要放弃。 喜欢敖尹的中国玩家也在努力，大家一起加油吧！ Translated: Hello, I am a Chinese player. I discovered that a user posted a tweet saying that Chinese players left her messages saying that the post claiming the company is dividing Chinese and overseas fans is actually not true. Would a company really so easily give up something it spent two years creating? It is because Ao Yin is a work that was created with care that he was able to become loved by so many players within just a few days. From this, you can see the company's dedication to him. However, because some extreme, unreasonable Chinese players maliciously spread rumors about the company, the resulting public opinion became uncontrollable, and the higher authorities in our country became aware of it. The Chinese player mentioned in that post is deliberately saying those things to divert your attention, hoping you will give up defending your rights and lose confidence. Now, overseas players need to do two things: 1–Actively sign the petition so the company can see how much overseas players value Ao Yin. (Chinese players who like Ao Yin will also fully support it starting on July 2, and we will speak out together.) 2–Fully boycott the company. Directly target the company's leadership, or report it to the Chinese embassy, raising your demands to the level of diplomatic relations and international trade. Either the company dies, or Ao Yin returns. In addition, the voices of many normal Chinese players have been drowned out by these extremists. Now that these extremists have achieved their goal, they will leave messages for you overseas players, deliberately trying to divert your attention away from defending your rights and make you lose hope. Please, overseas players, do not give up, no matter what. Chinese players who like Ao Yin are also working hard. Let's all do our best together!

@lotusangel19 who is hating the other 5? people spreading misinformation.

"I hope they quit too, they're annoying" Ah, don't worry dear. We're fucking leaving right after Infold shuts the game. So you can't play either (*ゝω･*) #恋与深空 #敖尹 #LoveAndDeepspace #LADS #BringValkoBack #SaveValko #BringBackValko #LADSValkoReturn

@arisu_juuken They dont care about any of that, and if a chinese person on twitter uses this to tell you "why" they dont want him in the game, call them out, we already know the truth.

The haters have intentionally used 731 to instigate this mess. They have intentionally planted discord to distort the truth. To the wolf who will post in CN SNS (XHS, weibo, etc) the CN jiejies ask for you to tag this as "distorting the truth". #BringValkoBack #BringBackValko

@Anbymaxxer girl, I have over 10

There are real people out there who have 5 gachas installed.

@lightersdick no

THIS IS A WOMAN???

A CN player openly admitted on Xiaohongshu that the backlash against Valko was a calculated pressure tactic — not genuine feedback. Their words: "Us latching onto this was the easiest way to force them to bow down. Stirring up outside public opinion was also a tactic. Don't broadcast it." Papergames caved to a manufactured campaign. 🐺 #BringBackValko #GiveBackValko @Love_Deepspace