If you thought the Girls' Frontline 2 drama had finally died down, think again — director Yu Zhong (翀, also known as 羽中) dropped a bombshell during the pre-launch livestream: the very first limited-rate-up banner will be for Daiyan (黛烟, Type 95), and the first event will be a Daiyan event. Yes, THE Daiyan — the character at the epicenter of the infamous 'Raymond's Wife' (雷蒙夫人) story scandal that sent the entire CN gaming community into a frenzy.
The original poster nailed it: 'Yu Zhong, you really know how to pour gasoline on the fire. If nobody had datamined this, were you actually planning to nuke us in the very first event? Really going for the 1991 Christmas route, huh?' — the '1991 Christmas' reference is a metaphor for the collapse of the Soviet Union, implying Yu Zhong is personally speedrunning the death of GFL2.
Players dug deeper into the gacha mechanics and it gets worse: the limited banner uses Special Tickets (专票, a premium currency), while all the launch freebies are Standard Tickets only. Meanwhile, the standard pool characters are reportedly all gimped with crippling 'negative constellation' mechanics (负命座), while the limited Daiyan's power level is from a completely different era. 'I can hear the cash register ringing all the way from a submarine base,' one player quipped — summarizing the community's sentiment that Yu Zhong's public apology was just theater while he planned to milk players dry from day one.
Some players pointed out the Daiyan event was 'obviously meant for Chinese New Year' and got awkwardly shoved into the first launch slot instead. The livestream itself was roasted for spending roughly half its runtime hawking merchandise. When someone defended it saying Japanese gacha streams (like Azur Lane's recent ones) do the same, another player fired back: 'That's completely different — those are established games doing routine update streams. You just went through a massive scandal and held a special pre-launch livestream, and instead of showing players something good, you dare merch-pimp? Are you trying to burn whatever goodwill you have left, or trying to destroy whatever confidence your remaining loyal fans still have?'
What really broke the camel's back was the livestream's content ratio: character animations, dormitory previews, and the ending CG all featured Daiyan exclusively, and she was front and center in the official promo art. Players invented the term '95 New' (95新) — a pun combining Daiyan's nickname '95' with the Chinese second-hand trading term '九五新' (meaning 'like-new condition') — sarcastically implying that Yu Zhong treats Daiyan like his precious new toy while everything else is bargain-bin trash.
Some commenters worried about the implications: 'Daiyan is limited?! So future players can never pull Raymond's Wife?' Others questioned whether the limited banner model follows Genshin Impact's 'every character is limited' format, or if it's just Daiyan. The community was caught between excitement for the game's actual gameplay and fury over the monetization and story choices.
Bottom line: this pre-launch livestream did absolutely nothing to quell the controversy — it rubbed salt into every wound at once. Yu Zhong's moves have pushed GFL2's already fragile community goodwill to the breaking point, and players' patience is burning out faster than the game's remaining hype.
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