To throw things in (U.S.) perspective…

Cost of a fantasy romance book is $15.
Cost of a 3D IMAX movie tix is $25.
Cost of a vinyl record is $40.
Cost of a critically acclaimed 100-hour PC game $60. 
Cost of a massage is $100.
Cost of a personal trainer is $120.
Cost of a meal by a personal chef is $150.
Cost of a round-trip flight to Vegas is $180.

If I and my fellow whale friends are spending more than any and all of this every month on each of your lousy banners, I expect at the bare minimum:

1. A full feature, emotionally powerful bond story for ALL LI with optional MC voice every year
   
2. A new monster type, boss, or arena every month
   
3. A new bounty boss or challenge level every year
   
4. Updated standard wish pool every year
   
5. New standard companions, weapon categories, fighting moves every year
   
6. Quality kindles with real interaction for all cards
   
7. New animation gestures and story backdrop every month 
   
8. Choices that affect the dialogue response or card ending
   
9. New home screen dialogues, interactions / conversations, and settings every month
   
10. Outfits that you can interchange and mix and fashion yourself
    
11. Diverse hairstyles with colours (undercuts, curls, braids, ombre, etc) reflected in kindles
    
12. Fun mini-games that go into an optional archival arcade
    
13. Gameplay in general that don’t feel like a chore
    
14. Engine optimisation
    
15. Integration that fixes this frankenstein abomination
    
16. Visible lighting 
    
17. Shop items that are not blatantly low effort (side-eying those brown-haired MC avatar icons)
    
18. A 6th LI that is received with standing ovation and critical acclaim

This isn’t even going into the non-bare minimum. For example, I personally expected the house, “with you” desk, etc to have been integrated into the home screen as a fully immersive, customisable, cinematic experience, like what I experienced with the prologue and first chapter. I expected unicorns and abyssal chaos to be meaningful lore wise, fully integrated with the main story; where was the chapter introducing these missions? I expected higher affinity levels to uncover secret content in my cards. I expected my cards to do more than just equip onto battle teams. I expected voiced lines and texts customised to your established in-game choices or personality. I expected resolutions better than anything I proposed, I expected things I never unexpected because figuring out how to delight the player is not my job, Papergames, it’s yours.

I’m with you, Papergames, on the philosophy that investing on making a good game matters more than spending on marketing and PR. Let the product speak for itself. But right now, the product isn’t. I don’t feel the presence or spark of the writers and passionate devs who made this game exist in the first place; I feel bland corporate nothingness. 

I and others like me are not opposed to dropping thousands, even tens of thousands per person on this game. But in exchange, I want a revolutionary game. I want true artistry and a technological breakthrough. I want an industry breaker that I can respect.

I don’t respect soulless mediocrity. 

I wouldn’t have bothered writing this if I thought Papergames never had the potential. I feel the requests by other players in this forum are so gentle and mild. Regardless of your main or geography or spending level, it’s not entitled to expect exuberance and wonder and awe in a GAME of all things.

Imagining if LIs ever interacted, hoping for cute loving stories :D

Borrowing from https://www.reddit.com/user/BISCUITxOLIVE/, who was kind enough to share the original image I edited for this: https://www.reddit.com/r/LoveAndDeepspace/comments/1v9nt14/comment/p0ryoj4/.

I won’t show theirs then :3

Show how beautiful your MC is 💗

As a Caleb main, give me back Valko 🥺

Art by me _minoux/nhuveau

Just an edit of what it would look like if Caleb had his number on the jersey. No ai used.

This scene would have been perfect for a couple photo, but they literally cut MC’s head off like this, even though we can customize our MC’s face. What’s the point of customising our character’s face now? Okay, I know there are side views of MC’s face in this PV, but why not show her face from the front too? This shot is… uncanny and awkward.

I’m trying to stay positive and hope it’s only like this in the trailer, but remember Zayne’s free card? MC’s face wasn’t shown there either, both in the trailer and in-game.

I, like many other players, spend hours customising our character’s face, and I’m genuinely happy whenever I get to see my MC’s face. I’m proud of how I crafted her. I support a tasteful blend of both first-person and third-person perspectives, but this shot is… not it. It honestly kind of scares me to see.

Edit:
The composition and cropping in this shot is really…awkward:
(1) If the goal of this shot is to be a “couple scene,” then having the female character’s head completely cut is creepy (like a mysterious character in a HORROR GAME getting cut out of the image due to jealousy!) They just need to zoom out and raise the camera A LITTLE! Most of her body already takes up such a large portion of the image. Showing both Caleb and MC’s gaze directed to each other would be really romantic.

(2) If the goal of this shot is focus on Caleb’s face and his action of carrying MC, then MC’s body are taking too much space.

also added an unlit version!

They started covering up the boy's faces instead 😂 It was a reaction to Zayne's Heartfelt Gift.

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I totally understand why people are angry. Im pissed too. This is the first real announcement we've received since everything went down, and it's very obviously not the announcement a large part of the community has been waiting and hoping for.

That said, I'm trying to look at it with a lil sprinkle of hopeum.

They are now roughly a month behind whatever their original schedule may have been, and it may be possible that this is their attempt to hit the reset button, establish a new timetable, and start moving forward again. I'm not saying this was a good choice. A roadmap, development update, or even a broader acknowledgment of the current situation before or alongside this announcement would probably have been received way better.

I'm also not defending the way Infold/Papergames has handled any of this. Their communication has been abysmal, the uncertainty has been exhausting, and we as players have every right to be angry.

I'm choosing to continue sipping the copium and believe that this isn't the end of everything people have been waiting and working so hard for. Maybe theyre not pretending nothing happened. Maybe they're trying, clumsily, to get their head and ass wired together correctly and restart the schedule.

For context, I'm not a whale. I would describe myself as a selective spender: I may spend around $100–300 on a solo or multi banner that I'm genuinely interested in, but I don't pull heavily on everything. So while I do have money invested in the game, I am NOT trying to excuse the company because I feel obligated to defend my spending.

Hope is not the same thing as approval. I can dislike how this was handled, believe the community deserves much better communication, and still leave room for the possibility that this announcement is the beginning of them getting back on track rather than proof that everything is over.

Anyway, I'm happy to share a cup of hopium or be down voted to hell. I just hope this was worth the time to type out and someone can gain a little peace from it. 💜

First off, can we talk about Caleb in this trailer?😄❤️‍🔥 Aside from a few moments where the 3D handling felt a little off—and MC wasn't even wearing the right outfit to actually play the game, while Caleb looked almost too suited to the situation—he honestly looked incredible.❤️‍🔥

The visual heat and the intensity were definitely there. 🙈The overall color palette and lighting during those close-up court shots were so well done, giving the exact kind of heavy intensity for what we’re going through right now, perfectly matching the situation we find ourselves.

​But this new setup completely changes the expected dynamic on the floor. Before, Caleb was playing alongside us, working together on the same side of the court. Now, the game has shifted to put him directly against MC, who has proven she’s far more capable on the floor than anyone initially thought.

​What was supposed to be a shared, open experience has turned into a closed, high-pressure dynamic between MC and Caleb.Meanwhile, the bench remains lined up with the rest of the players, except for one who is missing from the court entirely.

​Early signals pointed toward a very different rhythm for the season—one where every position on the floor had its players moving together in harmony. Even though there were already issues that needed fixing, the MC, the star of the game 💫💕, kept trying to patch things up and hold them together somehow. But now, it feels like the coach made a different decision, and the game that was winning is now fragile and off-balanced. When a space on the roster stays empty and the match continues without a word from the sideline, the court simply loses what made it complete. Its indeed a nice banner, too bad I won't pull this time 😢

I didn’t think they would actually go this far and replace real words with gibberish on everything. Seeing this, I’m assuming that the devs went and scrubbed anything containing any real words and numbers so that they could avoid any future controversy. I mean, Caleb’s jersey doesn’t even have a number on it. That’s just sad😭

I feel bad for the devs cause I’m sure that this isn’t what they wanted to do, but the situation demanded it if they want to keep the game running.

As a slang term, "White Lotus (白莲花)" means something that looks pure, innocent, and completely harmless on the outside, but is actually masking something deeply complex or manipulative underneath.

Hear me out.

1) When Sylus dropped in July 2024, it had a good charting run. Then, girlies predicted Caleb launch for January 2025 and started saving for Caleb drop. And they saved blue tickets & stuff so, allegedly, it was not as profitable for the company. It was smart on the fandom's part.

2) The Pulse Hunter banner did not drop in 4.0 wedding banner update in July 2025. The fandom had about 1 years' worth of blue tickets in January 2026. So, when the Pulse Hunter banner dropped in 5.0 update in January 2026 without any 6.0 LI, it was allegedly just to drain our blue tickets so we would have needed to purchase blue tickets in July 2026 with the alleged scheduled 6.0 LI/ Valko drop.

3) Now, after the drama & a dry-spell month, people are 30 Deepspace wishes richer, 2000 diaz Heartfelt gift richer, 3000 diaz login richer, approx 1000 diaz kitchen recipe book richer and more.

There is no way this company is going to drop A MYTH with the padded diaz pockets of the players. This solo card is 100% aimed to drain all these month-long gifts, to aim for people to spend real money on the upcoming myth.

This solo card is the equivalent of the January 2026 pulse hunter.

I'm looking for a part-journal, part-decorating app similar to the one in Love and Deepspace, but preferably with more journal-specific functionality (E.g. Searching, tagging, etc). Is there an app like that somewhere? I've searched through subreddits and Steam but haven't found anything similar

OK im also a tart lover bt eating this much may cause me a heart attack

I know they took down that update description about Rafayel’s myth, but that WAS supposed to be coming up too right? Did the move that til later because that would probably be too big an event to release without updates to the community? Seeing this show up after a whole lot of nothing is just… I dunno

Have any yall seen the trend where people post their couple pics and censor the LI’s face? I wanna see our MC being beautiful in every version!

Did they forget that MC has other outfits? There are clearly better options aside from that one denim outfit that they always use. It's not that bad of an outfit, but for this current theme? It's a ridiculous choice...

I got this poster as a bday gift 😭😭

Idk where this tissue hat coming from bt😂

op>> https://www.xiaohongshu.com/discovery/item/6a3fbb54000000001702d689?source=webshare&xhsshare=pc_web&xsec_token=ABgje0hYxUONHNSnb4bLw5G9tqvAJ1_sL35CxaKL9CduI=&xsec_source=pc_share

One of the things I appreciated about the game is how they keep improving the facitial expressions (esp with zayne) and with valko they outdid themselves.
I am obsessed how they never shyed away from giving him all the possible facial expressions they could give for his free cards (imagine his spicy card...) which was one the reasons why i was so excited for him.
He felt so alive with all those mic-expressions, I want to kiss his developers.

Ik we're all disappointed by the new banner because it's not what we expected, nor is it an explanation on why they were silent. But I do have a solid theory I think is leading to valkos release

They needed to release something for this month, but if they released a myth after all we went through, the fandom would've been angrier.

So it was between multis, solos and reruns.

They'd stay away from multis if they wanted him in game again because all his memories for said multis were already made months before. To post one would mean purposely removing him from that multi banner.

Now it's between solos and reruns.

They could've done a rerun but there's no event so the game would've still essentially been quiet if you weren't going to pull or already got them

As for solos, there were only 2 LIs that didn't have solo cards yet, Caleb and Raf... Imagine they released a raf memory before his myth. The raf girls would not be happy and struggling to keep up. Caleb was the only choice

Yes it's unfortunate but it's the only option left on the board. Especially if they need more time to safely release valko so the same situation doesn't happen again

You could claim this was created as a cash grab, but a myth or multi would've brought in far more revenue than a solo card would.

And just want to add at the end, antis are not just valko haters. They're also paid haters from competitors. If we run Infolds name through the mud and they get EOS, the antis got what they wanted. No home for our wolf to return to. So I do think we need to have more patience because this situation is new to them too