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/kidanokun]

going all female cast wouldn't attract normies into at least trying their game

[u/Vane_999 → u/kidanokun]

how many husbando fans will even play this game now that they have made it clear that the the developers won't care about them and the dating thing is just with female characters ? I mean it's kind of insulting to both the players who like to play as male characters and those who don't have any problems with mixed rosters lol

[u/Choowkee → u/Vane_999]

So its confirmed there won't be more male characters after launch? Not touch the game if thats the case.

[u/Vane_999 → u/Choowkee]

My bad, that's mongil (which will have only 4 men), I mixed them up. But still, the fact that they said only the girls will have the dating stuff with the mcs is a clear sign. I mean, even ZZZ (considered a waifu game) has platonic hangouts with the guys too. I wouldn't have high hoper for more male characters in the game tbh

[u/Choowkee → u/Vane_999]

Either way I am not touching the game out of principle now. I am not even a husbando enjoyer, I like a balanced cast and this basically confirms the game is gonna have a horrible ratio.

Its about time gacha devs get punished for this blatant character baiting.

[u/Away_Imagination1415 → u/Choowkee]

I am not touching the game out of principle now

So what gachas do you play?