Shift Up establishes quality management department to prevent future issues regarding in-game assets

On Oct. 25, 2025, Shift Up released a third-anniversary developer commentary for Goddess of Victory: Nikke, stating that it will not tolerate “anyone intentionally inserting hate speech into the game” and has formed a quality management department to prevent it.

This most likely refers to some of the art assets that were posted by the developers back then, where some of them were pretty suspicious and even offensive to some people, depending on the context.

One instance of this was an artwork that the developers posted celebrating the game’s 1000-day anniversary on Aug. 2, 2025, where one of the characters seemingly shows a hand gesture called the “crab hand” that was associated with specific radical feminist groups in South Korea.

Gender wars are a big thing in South Korea, which even prompted big companies such as Apple to change their promotional materials in an effort not to rile up the public regarding the issue.

The aforementioned anniversary illustration was quickly taken down, and the hands were changed so as not to be a reference to the aforementioned groups. The studio also issued an apology, mentioning that the developers were not able to take a closer look at the illustrations before releasing them.