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/sabz601234]

tbh having male characters and treating female just as well is also important, like im personally someone who has few friends, and when i play a game i usually ask myself 'can i play with my friends' especially as a working adult, its really important i can do both. so if the game is just pure gooner fuel where i cant play with my girl or friends and it ruins my reputation, then i wont play it. You might say 'dont play it if you dont like it' BUT its more about losing out on the money, people with wallets usually work and actually have friends.... so by alienating those people you lose a significant portion of profit

[u/ferinsy → u/sabz601234]

I've literally played straight hentai gachas and I'm currently play XXL Woofia (furry bara gay gacha) without a drop of sexual interest and 2 otome gachas (straight FMC x boys). If I think the game is well done and well marketed, I'm gonna stick with it.

But yeah, don't come releasing a game with 10 female characters and 4 male ones, with 5 girls being datable and 0 guys... I'm not eating that, even if it's said it'll come later™. Actually, I'm not even using the dating system besides the absolute minimum (to complete a quest or to have a couple of screenshots that look nice), but the fact that things aren't equal between the characters just pisses me off.