Thank you for all your informative posts in the situation. It's been very helpful.
I have a question related to the Infinity Nikki situation, not sure if you would be able to answer. I saw someone on Tiktok saying when Infold retconned the story of IN, she knew it would be a matter of time before Infold screwed up LADS in a similar fashion. I know the girls had a boycott that lasted 4 months and the game is still ongoing. But I'm wondering, were there any results from that boycott? I couldn't find anything. Im wondering if it could turn into a similar result with LADS.
Hi Anon! It's my pelasure!
Actually, I do have some information on this! Here's a post with the information I'm about to share.
The fourth month boycott was actually for Love Nikki. Infinity Nikki had a four WEEK boycott.
Here's the timeline: —End of April: 1.5 launch —End of April to Mid-May: Girlcott phase —May 16-18: Infold issues public statement & apology (three weeks later) —Up to June - Extended in-game purchase strike until 1.6 update/fix Girlcott code: —Review bombing on all platforms —Social media - Reddit, Twitter, Rednote, Discord —Forced refunds and no purchases caused a 50% revenue drop
Here's another post with more information (pasted below):
List of problems that we had with the state of the game: 1. Bugs, crashes, unable to log in, lag, ongoing performance issues. 2. Implementation of excessive flashing lights but no warning for those with epilepsy. 3. Poor rewards for free-to-play players. 4. Our boycott was being blacklisted by Infold (allegedly), thus, that's where the term "girlcott" came from. 5. "Ballgown-gate" - complaints of similarity between paid banner outfits. 6. Arguably the worst one, and still a bone of contention to this day, the retcon of 1.0s story, due to the implementation of the co-op feature in 1.5. 7. Communication with the community. 8. Quality and/or quantity of in-game events. 9. They're likely some micro ones, that I personally cannot remember, but these were the most important ones at the time. The "girlcott" - players stop logging in, mainly because, let's be honest, they couldn't. Players stop spending, complaints were sent (politely) into Infold both by email and social media. The girlcott was a CN & global one. The girlcott also lasted about 3-4 weeks. I think whilst everyone is bringing up the IN 1.5 issues that we had with the game, it's very important to remember what Infold have since done to rectify those problems, as I do not see a lot of people talking about this within the conversation. 1. All of these problems were fixed, the current patch was extended by a short amount of time to deal with the immediate issues, and ongoing fixes to the performance of the game have been completed in the year since 1.5. Players were compensated & given regular updates. 2. An epilepsy warning, whilst brief, has been added to the beginning of the game upon load up. 3. In my personal opinion, the rewards for free-to-play payers have improved to a reasonable level. This opinion is obviously going to vary player to player. We also received plenty of free outfits, but depending on the size of the patch, between 2-8+. 4. We were eventually listened to, apologized to, and given promises for the game to be fixed. It has been. And promised that this wouldn't happen again. It hasn't. 5. Now that the game is a year and a half old, there is a much higher variety of 5* paid banners. 6. Whilst we have not currently seen a resolution to this, and many players are still unhappy that the beginning of 1.0s story no longer exists within the game, the story team has done an excellent job over the past year of developing the story into something that we all enjoy & love, even if the original story is not there. The main crux of the problem seems to be with the release of the "threads of reunion outfit" shown at the start of the game - we have been promised that this will come at some point in the games development. 7. We now receive regular communication about updates, the state of the game, progress, what's coming next, and live streams for big patches a few days in advance. We're not happy that we're still getting previews for new banners 2-4 days before launch, but we highly doubt this will ever change as they do this across all their games. 8. Events have improved, it's still spotty within some patches, but for the most part we're happy with the events that we are getting.
Given that we're operating in a similar way with our protest, I would like to think that we are likely to see similar results. Gotta keep the revenue down!
