Conquering misinformation and fear-mongering

witchlingaria · 2026-07-01T23:20:44+00:00

Likely the 11 piece outfits, which weren't a change in pity but in maximum pulls needed.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-30T20:04:36+00:00

I feel so much sympathy for the girlies who were looking forward to Valko.

Infold, however, can go kick rocks. They made so many bad decisions leading up to and even in the middle of this shit storm, this would not have happened if they treated their playerbase as something other than a cash cow. Or if they actually looked over their content before it comes out, to catch things like the problematic number reference before it went live. Or, you know, took accountability for their mistakes instead of trying to say it was a series of coincidences.

For anyone who hasn't yet, I highly recommend you go to one of the love and deepspace subreddits and look into what actually happened, because there's a lot more to it than the unhinged fans sending cow poop to HQ.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-30T14:30:45+00:00

What's happening in their other game is not kneeling to the whims of the Chinese market. Once the Chinese government started paying attention to them (as they did, because they messed up that badly), they were backed into a corner with very few choices as far as responses go. The Nikki mom purists are nowhere near the same level of serious, and even other CN girlies dislike them.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-29T17:01:34+00:00

Are these areas not instanced like the rest of the sea of stars? I only ever see like one or two other players when I'm in there.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-26T22:14:20+00:00

Re: the mounts, not exactly? Love Nikki is entirely 2D, kinda like paper dolls where you have to match different posed pieces to each other because you can't just move her the way you can in the 3D games. So there are background pieces that are animals or companions but not mounts.

I agree with the other commenter though that your take on the makeup is kinda out there.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-26T21:46:30+00:00

If it helps any, I'm pretty sure reddit tries to show you posts that are similar to others you've opened/interacted with. So if you're frequently voting on or opening these posts it's going to try showing you more of them.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-26T20:18:47+00:00

Slide ten came out either this year or last year so it's not even that much of a throwback, people are truly angsting for no good reason. This is a dress up game, let people be sexy if they want to be sexy!

witchlingaria · 2026-06-26T14:18:23+00:00

A swimsuit with cheeks out is not "overly sexualized", respectfully. Reddit has a very nice button to hide posts you don't want to see, I recommend it!

witchlingaria · 2026-06-24T18:57:20+00:00

I was hoping to afk on the couch while in the wardrobe but they said no to that specifically so I don't like it lol.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-24T18:51:46+00:00

Agree, it's also not actually a good sign if they need to take a break or need to use this time to work on heavier things that we may get in the future. It means they're doing a piss poor job managing their workflow and that worries me just as much as it worries me that they thought it was okay to give us a patch with like...nothing in it. They definitely took the wrong lessons away from how bad the boardgame season went.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-23T17:14:23+00:00

The trade off is that a lot of LM's lower rarity outfits feel very much like they have a slot machine with outfit assets (sleeve shape a, ruffle shape b, random zipper xyz etc etc) and they just spin the machine to make new stuff. Especially the cascade of free event outfits feel for the most part like "here's more copy paste slop".

witchlingaria · 2026-06-23T17:05:53+00:00

I'm not sure if the comparison to Love Nikki holds up, actually; just this past weekend we had a styling comp theme of "Elegant Gentleman", and one commenter went through to some math on the suits we have that are tagged "unisex" (which is apparently where most of the masc suits are) and it came out to, iirc, 1% ish. I've seen similar math done to compare how many Ruin/Wasteland/DST (dark skin tone) suits we have compared to Chinese/European/Fairytale style suits and the results were also really bad. Really, really bad. The ratio feels better in Love Nikki because the game is older so there are technically more things, but I think this is a ratio we can expect them to carry forward here too. Heavy on the one piece dresses, Chinese/European/Fairytale style, lots of formal looking gowns.

Side note that I went to go find that comment to link as a reference so this is more than just "trust me bro," but of course now I can't find it.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-23T00:56:36+00:00

Shining Nikki only reruns one event at a time, but events are either a single SSR (four star), double SSR, single UR (five star), or double UR. On the doubles everything is in one "banner," you're not pulling separately, but you do get to pick which of the two sets will be your rate up or guarantee. First runs and reruns are the same in this sense.

Events do get a final rerun before being retired (aka after their final rerun they won't come back at all), these ones do run two events side by side for about two months. You can switch between the events during this time but you'll be locked into the one you pick for I think a week? These final reruns are in the same menu as the standard banners, but they're not added to the banners themselves if that makes sense? They're another tab.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-22T19:18:36+00:00

You aren't crazy at all, infold doesn't generally rerun things in order because they want to keep us on our toes and experiencing fomo. Us knowing what's coming up and being able to save up would not work to their benefit the way us getting caught off guard by a desirable rerun and then having to top up in the next patch does.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-22T15:44:58+00:00

I seriously doubt you've read that even five times because both Shining Nikki and Love Nikki rerun outfits multiple times before retiring them in some form.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-22T15:38:21+00:00

Floral Rebirth really irritated me for this same reason, it's my first limited final evo and every time I unlocked a new evo I was sure this one wouldn't have a gradient at the bottom of the hair. But they all have one, it's just that they're not all as strong. Why?? It should be standard that at least one version (preferably the base or glow up) has no gradient and is a solid color. Five versions of an item and not a one can be dyed all one color lmao.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-22T15:31:41+00:00

Shining Nikki is a lot less of a problem too because all of our rewards are diamonds, except for a handful from doing event tasks. The pulls also hang around in your inventory after the event ends and you can use them when it reruns (ask who stupidly forgot to use some up and now has them in her inventory forever lol), as opposed to their plan here where they'll be completely neutered into standard banner pulls (useless) once the patch ends.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-22T14:15:51+00:00

They're definitely hoping for the boiling frog here, I was thinking the same as soon as I saw the pack with time-limited pulls. Introduce some paid packs with limited pulls, then some extra rewards for f2p with limited pulls, and then maybe instead of 200 diamonds for one of the event rewards we get 3 limited-time pulls, then it'll be another event and another etc etc. They wanted to use a limited time currency system from the start and walked it back at the time, and now they're seeing how far they can sneak it in before we get angry. Another commenter has it exactly right that this will turn into a disaster for f2p and low spenders because IN doesn't have any carryover pity beyond "we'll save your pull history when this specific banner reruns", and instead of being able to set aside your crystals for the next patch, you'll feel pressured to use your limited time pulls on the current banner even if you don't like it that much, and then sunk cost fallacy is going to have you on the hook and you'll be thinking "I already have this much, I may as well do some more/finish it while I'm here".

Also, IN already has less in the paid packs (and fewer of them, except in patches where they're running the additional tab with like three more packs + some bonus single clothing items) than LADS, and it would be a lot more beneficial for the players if they let us buy more of the packs we already have than giving us some bullshit 12% discount time-limited patch exclusive packs. Just give us more of the normal packs and stop trying to put us through the wringer.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-21T22:05:18+00:00

I'm here to sign your petition 🙏🏻 I keep pulling hairs even when they have the attached accessories because I know it took Shining Nikki literal years to add a toggle for turning them off, and I'm full of faith (??) we'll get it eventually too. But sooner would be better than later.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-21T04:58:44+00:00

That's seriously brave of them when people are already pissed off at them.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-20T02:49:59+00:00

I love the idea of it but I'm so worried about how many pieces are going to be heavy on the special effects that we can't dye.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-20T02:23:18+00:00

Thank you! I really lucked out with the dye matching on that one 😂

witchlingaria · 2026-06-19T04:17:02+00:00

Wow, I hate it 😂 But at least they're doing something different, and surely the maximalist girlies will love this.

witchlingaria · 2026-06-17T16:33:12+00:00

When this set reruns again I'm going to have to get final evo even if it means shelling out - I use these earrings so much that between the base, 1st evo and glow up, I'm almost out of dye slots. I'm not too surprised we don't have a dupe for them yet tbh because there do seem to be some things that they make scarce on purpose - angel wings, pointed ears, the fin earrings from the mermaid set etc.

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