So breaking this down: I talked to my father about this and he told me two things: 1- some companies outside of CN may underestimate their profits publicly, but for Chinese companies it’s strictly prohibited, even if they are private. 2- we both agreed they need to make 200 million between now and December and that’s not possible unless they take out loans. 3- He said they should revise their strategy to make sure they get people back. Now what I think: 1- even when valko gets back, it’s going to be hard for them to maintain high numbers due to broken trust. Even when he is brought back in, we aren’t guaranteed they won’t continue to be stingy, I think it’ll take them half a year to see a slow crawl. 2- the hostile fandom keeps people away and severely damages the chances of prediction no 1. If PPG won’t make warnings to curve fan behavior (see Wuthering waves’ response to gacha grail for example) more people both domestic and international won’t want to deal with lads. 3- the fandom might be more manageable if PPG are making plans right now to fix all this. But I’m not very confident even learning that some Nikki players said that after the girlcott it’s very meh on improvements