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/SilverCoin_ Apr 18 '26

They still put male ikemen-type chars in a game and you won't know you will be second class citizen until installing and playing for some time (or reading gachagaming sub). In fact, many would wait for some new content thinking that "yeat it's less than waifus, but this is true for every gacha so I just have to wait a bit and hoard my pulls, just like in Genshin/hsr/arknights/whateve". 8 months waiting for nothing, but already deep in with FOMO and yeah, that's how they get those poor souls.

The right/honest thing would be going 100% waifu or make guys with male-gaze at least. Baican or Exe guy are clear female players bait (very poorly made tho, but untentions are clear) 

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u/greatleacher2 Apr 19 '26

That would be the right and honest thing to do, but i mean let’s be real gacha companies are far from “right and honest”, everywhere outside of the gacha bubble they are viewed as scum of the earth. I don’t think they care about morals. If the token generic tall handsome male is able to line their pockets even a bit it’s a win for them.

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u/SilverCoin_ Apr 19 '26

Yes, but people here talking about how Hotta is being clear and honest from the start without baiting. And I say they still bait because them being "obvious" is not... obvious thing based on info you have to acess beforehand from unofficial sources.