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/EtadanikM → u/[deleted]]

Nobody is answering you seriously so I will.

Every "AAA" gacha game has a % of players who are female. Take WuWa, as an example. WuWa's estimated gender ratio is something like 85% male / 15% female. Multiplied by the number of players, it's not an insignificant population, and consequently developers "try" to keep them around through inserting some female-targeting characters & story lines, once in a while.

Hence Luuk, for example, was a female-targeting character release in WuWa. You know this because camera angles in Luuk's trailers & story are designed with the female gaze in mind, and not the male gaze - with shots lingering on his lips, eyes, crouch, etc. Which is definitely not something you'd do for a straight male gaze.

Why the 15% audience remains despite 90% of the character releases being female and made for the male gaze, who knows? But they exist, and so companies choose not to ignore them.

Of course, 15% of the audience can never match 85% of the audience in spending so female audience-targeting banners are always among the lowest in revenue. That's why they rarely get made. But since they do still make money and do still want to retain the 15% or so female population that they have, they keep at it.

NTE and End Field are doing the same thing.

[u/Beelzebuuuuub3 → u/EtadanikM]

not being able the date the men is kinda just ignoring that 15%, 15% of let's say 30 million players is a lot of women