Ethical Journalists And Modern Feminists Are Having A Meltdown Over A Game
Oh how the turns tables...
Haven’t seen much discussion about Gacha games in this community so wanted to fill you guys in on an incredibly funny situation currently occurring.
There is an Otome(For women) game called LoveAndDeepspace(LADS) that has been doing very well for a while now, haning around the big ones such as Genshin. The game is deidicated purely to female players and this has NOT been a problem, that the developers know their audience and cater to them. You will see even in other communities of female gamers, that they have been lavishing praise on this game, all while complaining about male gamers being gooners. It’s basically like musical lyics and books for women being utterly crass and frankly disturbing even at times, but dare a male musician or author write something even hinted at that the ideology doesn’t like, the world is ending.
Well guess what, the world is ending for the western fans of this game. Why? Well let’s take a step back and highlight that the Gacha game industry is mostly made up of Chinese companies. The developers of LADS, Infold games, is a Chinese company and part of the know your audience and cater to your audience sound logic of good business, is that they have a very tight relationship with the Chinese female audience in particular, naturally. A while back they announced a new love interest for the game, a character named Valko. People were mostly meh about him in particular as they were more frustrated by other issues around the game, such as developers not making changes to resources that had been requested and other quality of life things.
This has all now blown up though because the Chinese female gamers began to say that this character was designed for the western audience, he looked gay, etc. This simmered for a while and the devs just kept their heads down, promoting the character. Chinese fans did not like this and felt they were being ignored for the western audience, which makes up a much smaller portion on income for the game. So you know what they did? They began going to the media and anyone who would listen, they dug through the game, THE GAME THEY’D BEEN PLAYING FOR YEARS MIND YOU, and began pointing out that “Such and such scene is dangerous, harmful” and my favourite, “Being fictional does mean laws should be broken” bwahahaha. They also found a string of numbers “731” and then began reporting it to the freaking GOVERNMENT as well. For those not in the know, unit 731 was a brutal Japanese group in WW2 that used Chinese to experiment on and torture. The CCP naturally said “WTF?” and along with the accusations of harm, laws being broken(in a game) and now this, pressure on infold mounted.
Now we get to the present. Infold has CANCELLED THE CHRACTER ENTIRELY and issued a giant ass apology to the audience(You can read the full thing here):
https://x.com/Love_Deepspace/status/2071927369653485756
Groveling and apologizing for everything. But it’s still not over yet as the post has on X alone reached 24 million views and on bilibili and other prominent Chinese social media, even greater views. The Chinese fans are for the most part happy, but they have other demands now as well, including:
-No more western looking characters ever again
-Repudiation of the western fans who like to fictionalize the men as being in male-male relationships
-Repudiation of COSPLAYERS who are not straight
-A formal apology for the string of numbers, 731 being in the game(lmaooooo)
-The game shall be for WOMEN and WOMEN only
-And much more
As you can imagine, the western fans are upset by this and are now calling the Chinese player base “Not allies”, “fascist”, “homophobes”, etc. You know, the usual.
I however am laughing my ass off because this whole situation, from digging up every little thing and blowing it up, going to the media, writing essays, making claims of how harmful and dangerous it is, to even going to the freaking government is EXACTLY how outlets such as feminist frequency and “ethical game journalists” and tons of “women gamers” went on about the games and media over here. I STILL remember the song “Baby it’s cold outside” being lambasted as some rapist song, booth babes being removed from E3 and some sporting events such as F1. This is just putting aside all the massive damage and negative changes done to general entertainment in the western world.
Now they are getting a taste of their own medicine and that unfortunately for them, the world doesn’t revolve around them. The comments in western gaming subs for women has been pure comedy. It’s literally the things we’ve been arguing for years, “If they don’t like the character, they can just not use him”, “They’re taking little things and blowing them up”, “What kind of crazy people go to the media or government because they don’t like something in a fictional work?”, “these people are unwell”, “What does this have to do with women’s safety? IT’S A GAME!” etc.
Anyhow, just wanted to share this with you guys if you haven’t heard about it. This is a game that is near Genshin levels of money making on a monthly basis and they basically told the western female gamers to fuck off.
