BringValkoBack

I know for a fact this isn’t my usual content here but clearly I’m I have a particular taste. And that taste is for a 6 foot 2 inch werewolf that I am trying to get back so I can romance the shit out of him!

If you don’t know and I pop up on your feed, the community of Love and Deepspace is fight for our lives and our game after the company revealed, promoted, and then canceled our beloved Valko all within a week. We want him back for his sake, we want him back for the stories sake. Really we just want him back.

That’s where you guys come in. There is a discord server that is very *very* ***very*** well organized for the boycott we are running. If you either know what’s going on and want to join, or have a sense of justice and want to help, please consider joining us in our efforts.

If you don’t want to go full frontlines boycott, then I as that you please at the very least sign the petition to give us our Werewolf CEO fated mate with the heart of a fucking marshmallow.

I was WAITING for this ask. Thank you for sending this.

I hear where you’re coming from, and I’m not dismissing the reality of what happened. The misogyny in the broader gaming sphere is a massive issue, and dealing with trolls who reduce players to "lonely ugly women" while hypocritically calling it a "gooner game" is entirely unfair and disgusting, yes.

But you are conflating the social comfort of our fandom space with the actual mechanics of corporate leverage.

If we want Papergames/Infold to take the our complaints seriously, the outrage cannot stay contained inside our own echo chamber. When a controversy is strictly localized to the existing player base, gaming companies routinely sweep it under the rug. They view it as standard fandom infighting, run the numbers, and decide they can simply wait it out until the core audience gets distracted by the next banner.

To force a developer’s hand, you have to threaten their broader market reputation. That requires massive numbers, and it requires the algorithm pushing the controversy outside of our designated containment zone.

No one is asking Mujin, or the broader "gamer guy" demographic, to be our designated spokespeople. They don't need to understand the nuances of lads and they certainly don't need to respect us, for their coverage to be tactically useful. This is about utilizing a megaphone. A figure with a large reach making a video turns a niche community complaint into a loud, highly visible PR liability and forces the issue onto the radar of people who monitor the company's public standing.

Yes, external visibility invites these people. The people mocking the game and its players are the same individuals who despise women occupying any space in the gaming industry.

But they will hate us ANYWAY, it doesn't have anything to do with lads as a game, it's something you have to accept you will live with for your entire life as a woman. If we let the fear of their mockery dictate how we protest, we are effectively doing the developers' PR work for them. Shielding the game's issues from outside eyes to protect ourselves from greasy men just gives the company a free pass to ignore legitimate consumer grievances.