The Love and Deepspace community has been all over the place lately. The announcement of a new love interest, Valko, was met with a mixed response. That's because some players, particularly those on the CN server, hated his design and characterisation. Others were disappointed to see a new love interest get added while the rest are lacking content.
However, no one was expecting Infold's reaction to this backlash to be scrapping Valko altogether. Despite having a full character design, cinematics, and voice acting in multiple regions all ready to go, Infold revealed yesterday that Valko will no longer be coming to Love and Deepspace, and there will be no other love interests in the future.
Now, furious fans are fighting back. Some are contacting Infold directly, calling on them to resume development of Valko. We're also seeing petitions pop up across various websites, with the most successful amassing more than 160,000 signatures and counting.
"Bring back Valko as a love interest as it was intended" on iPetition is the most successful online petition by far. At the time of writing, it has 161,795 signatures and is aiming for 250,000. There's another on Change.org, sitting at 72,131 verified signatures.
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