Shift Up under fire for making new Nikke quality-of-life features exclusive to China

Developer Shift Up is below hearth from the worldwide group of its profitable gacha shooter, Goddess of Victory: Nikke, as a result of variations between the title’s international model and the Chinese language model, which was launched on Might 22, 2025.

The Chinese language model of the sport accommodates a number of unique character outfits in addition to new quality-of-life options — and gamers have been particularly important of the latter, deeming it unacceptable to region-lock such enhancements and withhold them from a part of the playerbase with out good purpose.

Shift Up responded to the criticism in a current dev weblog and what Nikke director Yoo Hyung-seok needed to say in regards to the matter didn’t precisely calm the waves.

“We perceive that some individuals might query why sure new costumes and comfort options are solely launching in China, and we fully perceive these emotions,” he wrote. “However we imagine that the 2 variations, China and World, will develop in their very own instructions below totally different circumstances and circumstances and that sooner or later their variations will enrich each other. For now, we hope you perceive that we’re in the course of this enchancment course of.”

“Since we’re in several environments, variations in these updates are inevitable, nonetheless, we’ll share suggestions and course as we go in order that our paths can finally result in a greater future for every model. Beginning with loading enhancements, we’re engaged on numerous international releases and enhancements that we’ll be asserting in future developer’s notes. We stay dedicated to supporting the worldwide model with our full effort and can proceed working to strengthen each variations collectively,” he added.

Gamers basically interpreted this response to imply ‘take care of it’ and stay fairly upset by the whole affair.

Shift Up lately revealed that it’s engaged on a Stellar Blade sequel in a completely constructive monetary report and is seeking to deliver Stellar Blade to PC quickly — together with a crossover with Nikke in each video games, making this present controversy particularly badly timed.