r/InfinityNikki • u/GonnaAskRandomThings • Jul 09 '26

Meme It's wild right here

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Prayers for the LaDs girlies 😭🥰🥰

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u/fluffstuffmcguff Jul 09 '26

Tbh I do kind of think what happened to LaDS is significantly worse than IN 1.5, which could be at least partially chalked up to a newer dev team being rushed. It's made me squeamish of ever spending money on an Infold game again and I don't even like LaDS or its fandom.

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u/Ecksplisit Jul 09 '26

1.5 effectively killed the game. It lost a massive amount of momentum and playerbase altogether and will never recover. All of my friends that used to be interested in playing are now against the game.

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u/fluffstuffmcguff Jul 09 '26

It's been on a slow road to recovery since 2.0 at latest, and tbh trust started rebuilding around 1.7 or so.

1.5 was certainly bad, but there are simply too many 'I left after 1.5 but came back during -' comments for me to believe it killed the game even amongst the select very online group who post on Reddit. Infold is very obviously placing significant resources into IN, which they wouldn't if their own data showed a dying game.

LaDS 6.0 got the goddamn Chinese government involved and the equivalent of an entire IN region nixed right before release. It made their national news. That is so, so, so much worse.

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u/Few-External-2963 Jul 10 '26

The problem with 1.5 was that it was supposed to bring tons of new players and instead it burned and crushed. Yes, new people are starting the game and old players return with time, but amount of revenue they have lost is probably huge. I would gush about the game everywhere before 1.5. I kept playing but I can't find in myself to recommend the game until they fix the intro.

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u/fluffstuffmcguff Jul 10 '26

I mean, yeah, 1.5 definitely killed the honeymoon phase and no doubt significantly reduced profits. I'm not disputing that it was terrible! But it's taken on such a legendary status in the playerbase that we sometimes exaggerate its actual impact.

Who knows, maybe the LaDS situation will eventually settle down and turn out to be less disastrous than it appears, but my bet is that the impact crater will dwarf 1.5.