There's an ongoing drama around the Nikke game.
Apparently, the CEO has his tongue deep in the butt of China. The Chinese players have several QoL content that the global players have been asking for years. Not even the Koreans have this special treatment.
-The loading time on Chinese servers is instantaneous, whereas on global and even Korean servers you have to wait 2 to 5 minutes
-They have daily rewards and tickets.
-Moulds have a 100% chance of success
-They have an auto mode for the tower.
-They don't have to wait 4 hours to repack a character in the synchro machine, so they don't even have to spend 500 gems each time to open a new slot
-Resetting a character is free
-Character stats are improved.
-Stores are more generous.
etc
On the other hand, the game is heavily censored.
-The female characters have their chest, legs, and Buttocks covered
-They've removed large portions of the character base entirely -Matis doesn't exist in the game.
-They've drastically censored plot points of the story regarding "anti government" messaging.
-They've completely changed certain characters to fit CCP messagin.
-They've removed large chunks of story due to themes.
-They've removed characters with darker skins. I'm talking about Gyaru types of characters.
It's just like what Disney did with the chinese versions of Star Wars and Black Panther except the characters in nikke are not even black.
When hearing about the complains, the CEO took refuge on Weibo (the Chinese twitter) and retweeted a Chinese guy making fun of global players and then deleted the message because even the Chinese started clowning him.
From yesterday’s dev note:
We’re aiming to fix the long black screen that appears when launching the game by (in?) June. Based on testing, we expect to shorten load times by at least 27 seconds on both mobile and PC, and up to 141 seconds or more.
But the whole thing won’t really get going until mid-July, with the big delay that happens at 5/7 load not really being fixed until November. So fingers crossed they get this optimized and trimmed down.
Just implementing the feature that tries (its best) to force 60 FPS so machine gun firing rate doesn’t get cut in half on a less than brand new mobile device was huge in my book.
As for all the rest of the CN version changes, all I can say is let them have them, and if we happen to get some of them too, like the Doro buff, then great. A reasonable portion of the people mocking the CN censorship are probably actually understandably afraid and insecure that they might start altering things globally so that there’s less work and more “matching” between the two games moving forward.