r/gachagaming • u/ferinsy 🍎 夜幕之下 🐺 • Apr 18 '26

General Small drama afternoon: people are just now discovering that NTE's dating system only allows you to date women (making it probably the first Chinese yuri gacha)

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It's been known in China for a while, since the last beta (in February), but just today a video by iYatoOfficial is getting viral on Twitter and lots of posts gathering over 100k likes in total have brought it to the general public's attention that in NTE you can't date men, but you can date women as female MC.

It's actually a bit of a flirty friendship, but very clearly intended to be seen as dating since the interactions are a bit too intimate. You can set up to 5 girls to date.

While it flew over my head in February (even thought I often browse xhs and bilibili) due to its neutral reception, the negative reception today is really hard to ignore bc it's everywhere if you follow any gacha fanpage, with several reposts and retweets bashing it (and a couple praising it as well).

This is making some people a bit bitter, specially because the info comes to the public attention a week after Mongil's announcement that they won't release more male characters after releasing the game with a small amount of them (https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/s/Fkub1W2Yyh).

Well, at least they aren't baiting their players into playing a game that only caters to male players (and bi/lesbian women, even if by accident and it ends up being patched in the future).

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Source: https://x.com/i/status/2045495647311433984

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u/kidanokun Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

Mainstream baiting, it worked on WuWa so...

going on typical male MC + all female cast wont attract much mainstream attention and will get immediately shot down as a "gooner weeb game" and get avoided by normies like NIKKE for example, unless it's Uma Musume which is still kind of one (has a lot of ML enabling and the fanbase pushes the Umawife Umapyoi agenda)

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u/Rayuzx Apr 18 '26

I think Uma Musume gets away with it because it's not overtly sexual about it ala Nikke, Snowbreak, Horizon Walker, etc.

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u/fbiguy22 Apr 19 '26

Nikke has a larger proportion of female players than people might expect. I’ve seen surveys with results as high as 25%, but those were in Asian countries. Globally it’s probably lower. Still higher than the numbers I’ve seen for Uma, though.

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u/drafan5 Apr 30 '26

That and explict fan art of the characters are strictly forbidden, part of which is because some of the horses these girls are based on are owned by Yakuza.