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(30+) EN/中文 - Variety stuff (乙女/VN/game focused) but I'm consistent with bein' a fool ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |

[Puff 🐴 @PuffitLoudah]

@allisonisanime Me too 😭 I've been a daily player for like...an embarassing amt of time now so this has really put a damper on things lol

And anytime! I thought it was really well written and I verified some of the sections, they include all their sources at the bottom too which is nice!

[Puff 🐴 @PuffitLoudah]

@allisonisanime YEAH WHERE IS THE CAREEE WHAT IS THIS WILLYNILLY BEHAVIOR 😆😆😆 THEY SET THE WORLD ON FIRE AND JUST LEFT US BEHIND IN THE TRENCHES

[Puff 🐴 @PuffitLoudah]

@allisonisanime Yeah I'm curious as to how it will go as it's made state media in CN and global media here (seeing as IGN is posting about how all LADS fans are in an uproar lol)...i feel like it's just been a power move from them to be like "look at what lengths our fans will go to" idk ew LOL

[Puff 🐴 @PuffitLoudah]

@allisonisanime It's just a lil sus...like they're tryin to shift the focus on valko being like "OMG LOOK AT WHAT THE CRAZED CN FANS DID TO OUR MAN- but at the same time don't look at the major issues we got and keep giving us money teehee esp if we bring him back and say we did it for yall 😳"

[Puff 🐴 @PuffitLoudah]

@allisonisanime Look to them for the actual asks of like, 1) where is the money going (the link I sent talks a little more about it), 2) what about the main story for the other LI's, 3) why is infold giving uneven rewards out (better ones to CN and shittier ones to global), etc etc

[Sammi ❀ @otomeaddicted]

Illusion of Itehari’s sequel “utakata no uchronia trail” is getting a localization for Nintendo Switch in 2027! 🥳

[Otome Kitten~ @chlorokitty]

🚨Olympia Soiree Catharsis announced for localization!

[Otome Kitten~ @chlorokitty]

🚨Illusion of Itehari FD Utakata no Uchronia -Trail-announced for localization!

[Otome Kitten~ @chlorokitty]

🚨Even If Tempest is Coming to Steam!

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[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

We're experiencing this heatwave because the gates of hell have opened for Mitch McConnell.

[Puff 🐴 @PuffitLoudah]

@OOkappin Global doesn't understand and responds to the worst of CN. Some leave misogynistic/racist comments.

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." The worst players are now put on display, while the truth is left behind.

[Puff 🐴 @PuffitLoudah]

@OOkappin They actually talk about it here too:
https://t.co/OzoxxFkoQg

[Jay @JayShan0506]

Nobody said CN players did nothing wrong. Individual players were hostile, aggressive, and in some cases inexcusable. That's true.

But you're conflating three separate things: individual player behavior on social media, the legitimate grievances about 731 and content standards, and the institutional response that actually caused Valko's cancellation. These exist at the same time, yes. They are not the same thing.

Toxic Twitter comments didn't get Valko cancelled. A prosecutor's legal classification did. Rude CN players didn't force six state media systems to intervene. The company's own content did. The individuals who were shitty to you have no connection to the institutions that made the actual decisions.

You're right that 731 has nothing to do with Valko. We've said that repeatedly. They are two separate failures by the same company that exploded at the same time because the Valko crisis triggered a full audit of everything.

And yes, Infold is shitting in all of our faces. That's the one thing we actually agree on. So why are you spending your energy fighting us instead of the company that lied to both of us — gave us different apology letters, told you a different story than they told us, and is right now sitting in silence watching us tear each other apart while they post furniture updates?

You want to be angry at CN players for being rude to you? Fine. But being rude on Twitter and embedding war crime references in a romance game are not equivalent sins. One is bad manners. The other is why prosecutors got involved.

[Jay @JayShan0506]

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.

[Puff 🐴 @PuffitLoudah]

@Pelapilled So in the end, LADS and the otome community lose. Global doesn't understand the full picture and assumes the worst of CN, and the shitty CN players get even more spotlight. The media has a field day with both sides and profits off of it all.

[Puff 🐴 @PuffitLoudah]

@Pelapilled The majority of CN players were just as shocked upon hearing the news that Valko was removed.
Screenshots of homophobic/racist remarks from bad apples from CN are being taken and used to then hurl misogynistic/sinophobic remarks back. The world gets to see the community as this.