{"id":87003,"date":"2026-08-03T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87003"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:37:57","slug":"love-and-deepspaces-biggest-controversy-is-now-hitting-its-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87003","title":{"rendered":"Love And Deepspace\u2019s Biggest Controversy Is Now Hitting Its Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Love and Deepspace<\/a> just had its worst financial month to date, as the dating gacha\u00a0sim’s revenue has cratered. While it was pulling in around $30 – $60 million in revenue every month (per Sensor Data<\/a>), July saw the game make a noticeably smaller amount of cash, to the tune of $10.3 million. That’s a massive 73% drop when compared to June 2026 ($38 million), and the fall can all be traced back to the announcement<\/a>–and subsequent cancellation<\/a>–of\u00a0Valko, who would have been the game’s sixth love interest.<\/p>\n

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In comparison, top gacha games like Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, and Zenless Zone Zero–all produced by HoyoVerse–continue to dominate the revenue charts, with ZZZ in particular rocketing up from 15th place to third place in July.<\/p>\n

You’d think that revealing an occasionally furry love interest wouldn’t result in a fandom being ripped apart, but you’d be wrong. Valko proved to be a polarizing figure, as the ruggedly handsome tech CEO and werewolf clan leader has half the Love and Deepspace community baying for his blood, while the other half is actively boycotting and petitioning for developer Papergames to officially<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love and Deepspace just had its worst financial month to date, as the dating gacha\u00a0sim’s revenue has cratered. While it was pulling in around $30 – $60 million in revenue every month (per Sensor Data), July saw the game make a noticeably smaller amount of cash, to the tune of $10.3 million. That’s a massive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":87005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87006,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87003\/revisions\/87006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}