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/bbyangel_111]

Why do they add make characters than focusing on a target audience.  This is annoying for both sides. 

[u/Cole_James_CHALMERS → u/bbyangel_111]

They are focusing on their primary audience. The token dudes are for the those self conscious about playing a ML gacha, so they can have some plausible denial.

Whatever husbando enjoyers they rope in are just icing on the cake, they aren't the primary audience

[u/draconic_tongue → u/[deleted]]

worked for wuthering waves, they still have ton of prolific female artists drawing fanart for them

[u/reddi_4ch2 → u/draconic_tongue]

ton of prolific female artists drawing fanart for them

wait really?