To help every Genshin player understand the scope of the LADS boycott: Imagine if, nine days before the release of Snezhnaya, HoYoverse suddenly released a letter announcing that Snezhnaya was cancelled. Imagine they pledged never to release a new region again because Chinese "antis" deemed Snezhnaya "not Chinese enough," heaped hate on the nation in the domestic market and spat in the faces of global players - telling them they were too poor to fund even a single blade of grass in the game's development.
THAT is exactly the scale of the battle the LADS community is fighting right now!
This isn't comparable to just deleting a single character in Genshin.
LADS only has five characters so far. People waited years for Valko. Our entire game revolves around our handful of men. They hold the same weight for LADS that an entire nation does for Genshin.
I’m in a position to judge this - I’m a long-time, high-level player of both @Love_Deepspace and @GenshinImpact, I own absolutely every 5-star character and have poured a lot of money into both games.
I think the Genshin community would have risen up and lost their minds, too!
You would have fought tooth and nail just like us - don't you think? 😉
#BringValkoBack #原神 #GenshinTwt #Snezhnaya
this is the thing about that og5 subreddit glazing ppg for “listening to their cn playerbase” and caring more about them that really baffles me. why are YOU as a global player happy that a company is willing to take your money and time and emotional investment in their product—
There’s not liking Valko,, then there’s being a CDG 😒
You CAN not like Valko. That’s totally fine. He’s not everyone’s cup of tea. That’s why 6 LIs exist, thankfully most people understand that.
But og5/cdg’s have caused actual harm, siding with them is not it
#BringValkoBack
Me, an introvert that has never really published anything in any social media (let alone TWITTER), and I'm now close to 10k tweets about bringing back a werewolf :) Infold please end my suffering
#BringValkoBack#ValkoIsLoved#ValkoIsValuable
They want me to believe all the cn fans hate valko but every time I go on the official lads weibo it’s just full of valko love? And it literally geotags every post so it’s not all foreign fans
this math does not math🤓
#BringBackValko#ValkoIsLoved#LADSIS6
why am i hearing valko antis taking credit for the revenue drop? valko is cancelled, there's literally nothing for yall antis to heavily boycott bcs you already got what you wanted.
best myth GoA & most anticipated multibanner WiW supposed to be a successful rerun if there's no boycott going on. antis should be able to see the stat, LSG & KoD rerun was so successful & GoA didn't even made half their revenue.
math isn't mathing there.
"debunking lies and misinformation" LMAO this is probably the most misinformed statement i've seen. "dont u guys find the whole thing weird" oh man, like its not that hard to think. if CN players are the majority that don't want Valko, they could have play and spend normally after he's cancelled (on GoA & WiW) but we're seeing 80% drop of revenue from CN alone instead. please use some critical thinking and think why is it happening & why this whole thing isn't "weird" at all??
This kinda goes in line with a comment I made in a thread yesterday.
“[PPG] will be sued if they commit to [Valko’s] cancellation and they'll be sued if they reinstate him. So then it becomes a game of losses. How much are they willing to lose, what are they willing to risk, and what are they willing to settle for?
Considering the numerous government-affiliated statements coming out specifically highlighting the importance of investing in & maintaining positive relationships with global players in order for China to have a future expanding into the international gaming market, I'd make the argument that PPG would be going against the government's own long-term cultural agenda by committing to Valko's cancellation.
To me, that is a much greater risk than whatever financial losses would be incurred from a settlement with players who sue bc they added Valko back into the game.
One is a domestic problem, one is an international & domestic problem. China doesn't want any international problems, period. The decision, to me, seems quite clear.”
With the additional information below stating that nearly all growth during 2025 was in global markets, this contextualizes the recent government-affiliated articles warning about the long-term impacts PPG’s actions will have on China’s ability to export cultural soft power & increase financial market capture in the global gaming economy.
PPG has already shown interest in growing their global market. That’s why they created Valko to appeal to Western players specifically. The more of the Western market they capture, the more money they can invest into their other projects. They’ve already captured as many domestic players as they can with LADS, so the only growth opportunity available to them now is in the global marketplace (which is proven through this report).
With PPG’s ambitions to tap into the AAA gaming market, any revenue loss from LADS bc they turned their back on global players will harm their plans to expand the scope of their studio. That’s on top of the irreparable damage they’ve already done to the company’s reputation & the lack of trust global players now have in CN game developers as a whole bc of fears of gov involvement/censorship due to domestic backlash.
His reinstatement would support the long-term financial growth of the game & the development studio, and align with the key cultural export projects & financial investments the Chinese government is currently supporting. As I said before, to cancel him is to go against the current publicly stated interests of the government. Though PPG is arrogant, I don’t believe they’re arrogant enough to do that.
It’s also why I don’t believe any claims that LADS is going to go EOS or shut down global servers bc of this. It’s too culturally valuable of an IP, too profitable for the studio to shut it down, and it would go against their focus on increasing international market capture.
That’s why despite any compelling evidence arguing against Valko’s reinstatement, as more of these official articles and reports come out, I believe more and more that they will bring Valko back. I’m leaving room for doubt out of rigid practicality, but all of the macroscopic information we have access to really only aligns with one decision.
#BringValkoBack #ValkoIsLoved
‼️Understanding the Importance of Global's Revenue‼️ THREAD 🧵🧵 (With a friendly TLDR towards the end for everyone. You're welcome lol)
I've been cooking this for a while, let's consider this my Magnum Opus of posts during this boycott lol.
The tea: Infold's Consolidated Statement of Profit For the FY 2025 just officially dropped, so let's take a look.
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Infold Pte. Ltd.: the audited Singapore company that, per its own privacy policy and the app stores, sells both Love and Deepspace (Launched: Jan 2024) and Infinity Nikki (Launched: Dec 2024) to players outside mainland China... booked US$151M in 2024 and US$354M in 2025, +134%, and ended 2025 holding ~US$198M in cash and investments.
Sensor Tower estimates put overseas players at ~40% of LADS's tracked app-store revenue in 2024, approaching parity by mid-2025, with over US$500M cumulative overseas by May 2026.