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)

[u/ferinsy]

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

[u/Bake-Danuki7]

This was known a while back, but I also remember posts even in the NTE sub where people just assumed they would add more and men by the time launch came around. So while this game clearly was never gonna be for husbando enjoyers, I think many are simply seeing this as final confirmation. I'm sure within the coming months they will have a post saying they will be prioritizing releasing women and will only release men if the narrative calls for it or some such, then we will see people freak out again.

[u/Kim_Se_Ri → u/Bake-Danuki7]

A quick look at ToF cast would've given these people all the confirmation they needed to be able to instantly move on...

[u/KMinato00 → u/Kim_Se_Ri]

Tbh, I can get behind why people might have put some hope that they might add more males since just because the previous game have a certain gender ratio doesn't necessarily mean the next game from the same studio would be the same. HI3 was purely female gacha, but then Genshin and HSR released with probably some of the better male to female character ratio, and then ZZZ release and they have barely added any male chara post launch.

[u/Kim_Se_Ri → u/KMinato00]

It doesn't necessarily mean they will repeat things, correct, but it can mean just that. That very real chance is what should at least be in the minds of people, so if it does happen, it's like "well, shit, I guess that was expected at least".
It's very hard for the higher chains of command in a company to change, so usually the vision a company has, how it does things, tends to stay the same, simply the people that make the final decisions tend to stay the same. It's just far from unrealistic to expect a company to have habits, that's all.