I'm seeing people saying Infold might not say anything until after Bilibili World.
Here's my thing (as someone who works in the finance department).
I think they'll say something or do something because of Anime Expo. Anime Expo had people go there and make a Valko shrine outside, yes harmless. You also had people go there dressed as Valko or had signs with Valko walking around, of which I thought they "banned" that (as in people could walk around as Valko,etc but not in the section where LADS was).
Infold is stuck between a rock and a hard place:
1. Say something beforehand, you'll get people who will go there to protest against it with the possibility of violence because (and I quote) they sent cow shit to the office building. Delulu people.
2. Not say something, you'll get people there "protesting" again and harmless because we're the sane ones. And not say something a few days into a new patch, and now you have investors (the people with bigger bucks than whales) asking what these poor number counts are, which works in favor of Valko returning lol because new character equals money.
Rock and a hard place, but if I was Infold, say something because you do not want to piss off players with a very bad update (without Valko and main story update), but also don't want to piss off the investors with poor numbers. You'll get your ass chewed out for that (very very very long meeting with the CEO and board members/investors).




















