A quick update on the Infinity Nikki situation and what the «girlcott» achieved after a year and a half.
Remember the red dress from the original Infinity Nikki intro? It was key to the plot: it was the exact outfit Nikki, the main character, wore when she first arrived in Miraland. Until Update 1.5 rewrote the beginning of the story. The dress vanished, becoming one of the main grievances during the «girlcott» - a massive boycott that began in the spring of 2025.
The boycott was triggered by sudden changes to monetization and the gacha system, as well as the rewritten storyline. In Patch 1.5, the number of pieces in 5-star outfits increased from 9 to 11, which raised the hard pity to 220 pulls and forced players to spend more money. The clothes-dyeing system also changed: instead of crafting, it was locked behind a paywall requiring duplicate items. On top of that, the original beloved intro was completely rewritten, replacing a lighthearted fairytale journey through a wardrobe with a story about an amnesiac space traveler designed to promote banners. All of this happened alongside a wave of bugs in the game.
🔹️What has happened now:
��� In Version 2.11 (late October 2026, a year and a half after the girlcott), Threads of Reunion, that very red dress from the original intro, was added to the game;
• The dress is given for free as a reward for the main quest «Reunion with Yesterday», rather than through the gacha;
• Evolution is time-gated: the required material can only be obtained once a week.
🔹️Now let’s look at the journey players went through to get the dress:
On April 28–29, 2025 (depending on the time zone), update 1.5 launched and was immediately met with a wave of backlash due to unexpected major changes and numerous bugs.
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At the very start of the boycott, on April 29 2025, Infold published an official apology in response to player outrage, admitting that the update «did not meet expectations». The company promised to fix the bugs, released several hotfixes, and offered players compensation: 10 Revelation Crystals, 10 Resonite Crystals, and 1200 Diamonds. They also promised that outfits would not exceed 11 pieces. However, many felt this wasn’t enough. Players demanded the return of the old pity threshold and a monetization overhaul, so the boycott continued.
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After that Infold remained silent and tried to suppress the backlash, including banning the word «boycott» on their platforms. This only fueled the frustration further. Thus, the «girlcott» was born an effort to bypass censorship and united players worldwide. People stopped spending money, review-bombed the game on stores, and demanded healthy communication.
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In May 2025, less than a month after the boycott began, Infold released another statement promising that the original intro storyline would not be permanently deleted and that the outfit, that very red dress, «remained in development plans». This slightly cooled down the outrage, even though requests to rethink monetization and lower the pity threshold went unanswered, and Infold never addressed the topic again. The 220-pull pity remained unchanged and unacknowledged.
In October 2026, over a year and a half after the girlcott, the company fulfilled part of the promises made in 2025: the red dress, Threads of Reunion, was brought back.
The company hasn’t directly linked the dress’s return to the boycott and made no statements about it; nevertheless, it is a direct fulfillment of some of the promises made in April and May 2025. Only some, because Infold’s plans for the original intro remain unknown at the moment, so we can’t say the promises were 100% fulfilled.
Slowly and partially, the company kept its word and delighted Infinity Nikki players. It doesn’t resolve all the painful issues that sparked the girlcott, yet it is a solid step toward rebuilding trust between the company and its players.
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