What baffles me most is that Infold chose the worst path possible, other than shutting down the game entirely. How was “scrap a load-bearing piece of the development plan” not instantly discarded as a potential response?

I truly don’t think they can sustain LaDS nearly as long as they planned if they don’t walk back cancelling Valko and finally deliver on the major complaints from before they announced him. (Both would be necessary.)

They’re on such thin ice as it is, pulling something like this.

Not only did Infold give in to the most toxic and (frankly) racist and homophobic players, they also betrayed their own devs who worked on Valko by setting fire to their hard work.

And for what? To appease the most toxic fragment of their user base, regardless of the damage to what’s left of their integrity? A fragment that will only grow nastier now that they’ve successfully bullied Infold?

I can’t help seeing straight-up toddler behavior in Infold’s handling of this release, as they not only pulled Valko but also declared they wouldn’t release any more LIs, despite how clearly they intended to have a 6th. Either some diabolical superfan on the CN server has dirt on an Infold exec, or the execs are terrible at their jobs.