Barely a month and a half since launch, and 16 limited gacha cards are already lined up waiting to drain your wallet — this isn't hyperbole, this is the reality Love and Deepspace players are living right now.
According to the original NGA post, overseas sources leaked the game's upcoming announcement (the original image was machine-translated), revealing that Love and Deepspace is about to drop a new triple-character mixed banner. Counting all previous banners, the game has hit a staggering 16 limited gacha cards in just 53 days since launch. This release cadence is absolutely insane — not just for otome games, but even by the standards of the entire gacha industry.
What's really sending players into orbit is the pity mechanics of this new mixed banner. As community members have broken down: the mixed pool and single-UP pools share pity inheritance for "new cards" (similar to Genshin Impact's system). However, the mixed banner's hard pity only guarantees you'll get ONE of the three featured cards — not necessarily the specific one you want. So if your hard pity triggers and you pull one of the other two featured cards instead of your target, your pity resets completely. You'd need to build up another full pity cycle from scratch. In other words, the mixed banner's very design "swallows" the hard pity progress you've painstakingly accumulated.
The moment this news broke, players who had been saving their built-up pity from previous banners — planning to cash it in when their favorite character got a rate-up — absolutely lost it. All that hard pity progress, gone just like that because of a scummy mechanic.
One top-voted comment cut straight to the point: "The rumors about Papergames' cash flow problems just got a lot more credible. I've never seen a brand-new game burn through its own lifespan this aggressively." Another commenter added fuel to the gossip fire: "Papergames must really be under financial pressure — remember they reportedly went to miHoYo for a loan. Now that they finally have a hit, of course they're going to milk it hard."
This isn't an isolated case, either. One commenter pointed out that another women-oriented gacha game, Beyond the World (世界之外), pulled the exact same move — and the 2024 otome market has basically entered full cash-grab mode across the board.
The most entertaining part of the thread? The deep dive into how Love and Deepspace's playerbase has essentially adopted K-pop stan culture. When one of the male leads had his birthday recently, players went absolutely feral on Taobao — mass-buying merch to inflate sales numbers, creating "big character posters" (大字报) for PR campaigns, and dragging rival characters. The most unhinged example: one player reportedly spent roughly ¥40,000 (~$5,500 USD) on merch and left a note saying "I only bought this to boost sales numbers, don't ship it — it'll just take up space."
Commenters even gave a glossary of otome community slang: xnb (洗脑包, "brainwashing packets" — propaganda/misinformation campaigns), wq (维权, "rights defense" — coordinated mass commenting on official accounts demanding changes), and 拉表 ("pulling tables" — creating spreadsheets comparing different characters' merch sales). One observer noted that Love and Deepspace players have already become "seasoned veterans" at this kind of organized stan behavior.
NGA's reaction was pretty unanimous. "Well, karma. Respect, blessings, lock it in" resonated with the crowd, while others were more blunt: "Isn't this fine? One party willing to hit, one willing to get hit." One commenter distilled the entire situation into a single sentence: "Peak insanity. Otome players' money is just too easy to farm."
And here's the kicker — commenters also flagged that the game reportedly plans to add new male leads in August (with even more down the road), which means the gacha flood is only going to get worse. 16 limited cards in 53 days? That might just be the appetizer.
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