Because it gets worse every passing hour, PSA ⚠️ Please softblock/mute/block me if you ultimately decide you want your space with 0 LIs other than 🍎. Do yourself a favor.
I don't even care so I'm gonna say it. If you know you're a Caleb main and hated on valko, block me. YOU OUT OF EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE CONSTANTLY HARASSED, COMPARED TO OTHER LIS ETC. Some of you were saying the exact things antis were saying word for word and--
@Likeluciferbest What part of my statement did I say that? Aside from the obvious answer to my own question, do you think the removal of the supposed new LI will address the aforementioned issue above?
You guys realize that Infold's response sets a very negative precedent, no? If there will be enough amount of insane self-centered users who decide to rally against your favorite LI, it CAN also end the way it ended for Valko. What is not clicking?
I even fight for my characters and scripts from time to time. I stand on business when I can, but this one had no fighting chance, no? The character will linger in the heads of the creators as a has-been, so I am genuinely curious what are the laws in China with regards to IP and creative ownership. Or if any of the creators have a claim over it.
Sigh sigh sigh. It saddens me in a way that, as a creative, even when my mentors tell me, "put that script in the bin, those characters suck", I literally falter into some form of gloom and spite altogether.
So I can't imagine it for the team of devs and writers of Valko, especially the latter — do you know what it takes to build a character? You live through their lenses. You cry their cries, you sit with them in your mind to better know them. So if someone suddenly told you as a creator, "hey, it stops today altogether — no more Valko", would you even understand what it could be like?
I am UNINSTALLING the game and will await MS updates from the sideline. I don't have the capacity to exhaust myself because of a spineless company and some deranged high rollers who think the world revolves around them. Don't wanna be here.
But if you are bound to create Valko content whether fic or art, please let me know. I can at least follow you and see how those who main him can at least let that character continue through headcanons....(🥺)
@shardychu They'll say next that you are overestimating the entire situation, even when the shock is actually coming from underestimating how genuinely crazy it can get!
I'm not fearmongering, I'd like to clarify that, haha. All I'm saying is that for an international business brand, decisions are defining points of the brand in itself. Of what they'll tolerate, of what their future decisions will be, of basically anything that is yet to come.
Which is why in much, much larger organizations, if you're a company with shareholders, you launch a meeting almost all of the time before you release any major development. Do I hope the worst happens with this undeniable precedent? Of course not. Am I hopeless about it? I sure as hell am.
You guys realize that Infold's response sets a very negative precedent, no? If there will be enough amount of insane self-centered users who decide to rally against your favorite LI, it CAN also end the way it ended for Valko. What is not clicking?
They might have private investors, I haven't gone in-depth with that. But that fact does not change anything, really. The heads have gone pretty much berserk, and we're yet to see real solutions and proper corporate governance when it comes to balancing their interests and those of their players.
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I hope so, you know? But combine a ticking time bomb of a player base and a spineless company, the doors are now open. I'm not fearmongering, respectfully. It's just a thought. Fearmongering is much more prevalent in all the unverified XHS stuff that I saw.
i hear what you all are trying to say but it would take a large and concentrated movement from cn and also too much money and time lost from ppg to remove caleb. this IS fear mongering cuz the thing is caleb had a place in the story. he was teased FROM THE BEGINNING