Fans Praise Infinity Nikki but Question Infold Games’ Use of AI

Infold Games is a company that has made multiple dress-up gacha games about their mascot Nikki. All of their games are dedicated towards women, which is unusual, since most gacha games are dedicated towards men. 

Last year a game named „Infinity Nikki“ was released, which is an open world dress-up, the only of its kind. Though this game has seen many issues in only a year, it is still fairly popular. Such issues like extreme bugs that made it so some people couldn’t play, Banners with more pieces than we have known (Usually only max 10 pieces, one had 11 pieces) and saying that “Leaks are poison to art,” while gifting an item with a very aggressive description, wanting people to snitch on each other. Which is why many see it as ironic that a company that dislikes leaks so much, would then use generative ai.

In their last survey, questions were geared towards the new addition of home building. One specific question asked which style of decorations they prefer of two different images. Those two images were clearly generated by AI, making many fans mad. Many have stated that their translations of voice lines aside from English and Chinese are also generated by AI.

It is ironic to say leaks are poison to art, while actively using generated AI, since it uses stolen art, especially since the company could have paid someone to translate or make two drawings of different styled homes. They could have also used user-generated images in a competition or fan art.

People are worried that eventually, AI will also generate the dresses people pay for, simply because it‘s cheaper, taking away everything that made the game so popular.

My experience playing Infinity Nikki has been positive. It’s a good game. You have a lot of choices for dressing her up. The open world is pretty and big, so there's a lot to enjoy. You also don't have to invest that much time into the game to have fun. Updates come every month. Originally, the company was very generous with rewards, but after some time, they seemed more and more money-hungry. Still worth the play.