>>1048126
So to explain the cultural background of the controversy:
>MICA sees that Mihomo is making mad dosh off of Genshit Impact, and part of it is because Mihomo heavily panders to fujos and yumejos with male bishie characters like Vente at launch
>they want some of that action
>they see that Mihomo had a game that was primarily male-targeted, Honkai Impact 3rd, and yet managed to pivot to have Genshit Impact become a general audiences game
>they start testing male units in a gaiden game Project: Neural Cloud
>"we can do that too"
>unfortunately they're not the only people who've noticed
>CN gamers have noticed with increasing frequency how many male-targeted developers have tried chasing the fujo yuan, and essentially they figured out what took #GG several years to realize within months, that once an IP starts pandering to women and queers the leftists inevitably demand and pressure the devs to start covering up the women while the men become male strippers; eventually the IP gets desexed altogether
>this is deemed the "mixed toilet" genre (as in, if a girl were to scream rape in a hypothetical mixed sex bathroom, a guy would always be at a disadvantage), aka what the Western canon is at the moment
>unlike the Westerner cucks the CN gamers actually take preemptive action and organize with various responses; one of them is termed the ariofuto boycott movement, or "I won't play if there are male characters" https://archive.is/RViB0
>Begun, the gender wars have
>Daiyan incident happens in closed beta test; did not help that the game took place after a time skip where the GFL1 player character and Daiyan/Type-95 are separated, and Daiyan/Type-95 was one of the most popular GFL characters, being modeled after the PLA QBZ-95 bullpup assault rifle
>alarm is sounded as the players interpret it as a coded attempt by MICA to pander to female players and expand the game's audience into a "mixed toilet" one
>MICA traditionally has had a reputation of telling players to fuck off when they make a poorly received decision; toothbrush is sent as an in-game gift not long after the controversy starts being spread on social media
>gets interpreted as an intent to double down and that's when the complete destruction of GFL2's reputation in CN is declared with a heavy review bombing campaign
>Snowbreak: Containment Zone >>1037401 sees this controversy, having tried to go the GA/mixed toilet route themselves and nearly facing EOS from it, and steals GFL2's thunder by pandering to its jilted fanbase and nabbing them up, changing the course of the CN gacha industry forever
>MICA tries to hang on for a while sticking to its guns, but near-nil revenue month after month is having them bleed red
>finally start trying to win CN audience back by rewriting the Daiyan event, uncensoring characters, putting out lewd skins, etc, but it's too late as their stubbornness made them persona non grata and a radioactive laughingstock in the CN market
>Break the "Global launch" glass
>We are here in this thread
So all the sexo advertising you're seeing of GFL2? MICA covering its tracks trying to be revisionist with whitewashing.
This shit is still going on to this day, as women smouldering from their defeat in the gender conflict have started attacking
Snowbreak: Containment Zone and it's spilled over to other games like
Azur Lane: Promilia and
Wuthering Waves. The CN gamers were especially prescient as
Genshit Impact was struck by a number of controversies by the demographics Mihomo courted like the infamous "whitewashing" one a while back.