When a game's developer needs random Bilibili users to dig up 'evidence' to clear their name, you know things have spiraled way beyond damage control. The latest drama around Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (少前2：追放) is a textbook case of copium overdose.
Recently, a Bilibili user surfaced a batch of so-called 'evidence' trying to prove that certain content in GF2 wasn't distributed through the 'Lightning' (闪电) channel. Instead of calming the waters, this move triggered an absolute roasting session on NGA.
NGA veterans saw through it instantly. A top-voted comment nailed it: 'Everyone knows he's just making excuses and lying through his teeth. But can he afford NOT to make excuses? Can he afford NOT to lie?' The implication — the dev is stuck in a sunk cost fallacy, forced to keep the charade going even when nobody's buying it.
Another user quipped: 'This just makes things worse, lmao. I stayed up all night just for THIS spectacle.' The schadenfreude was palpable. One particularly savage take: 'He's just giving the bootlickers (龟龟们 — a derogatory term for blindly loyal fans) a reason to deceive themselves.' Translation: this 'clarification' is just a face-saving gesture for die-hard defenders — the rest of the community has long seen through the BS.
Why has community trust in the developer cratered so hard? You have to go back to the infamous 'Raymond Incident' (雷蒙事件) — a scandal involving alleged inappropriate character dynamics that rocked the GF2 community. As one user put it poetically: 'Raymond may have left the jianghu, but Type 95's body is covered in his legend.' Players questioned why, if character models have separate body and clothing meshes, the dev hasn't fully scrubbed Raymond's traces from Type 95's design. Is it incompetence, or are they deliberately testing the community's tolerance?
Worth noting: some comments pointed out that 'Lightning wasn't in the third beta test, and the main story was already changed' — suggesting the dev had already made major story revisions during testing, which only deepened suspicions that they knew something was wrong all along.
Others busted out the classic community meme 'wait for post-holiday growth' (节后涨) to mock the developer's perpetual stalling tactics. One user sarcastically wrote: 'Sure, just wait for the stock to moon after the holidays, right? Oh wait, I get it — they saw it WON'T recover post-holiday, so they're scrambling to do something NOW so they can blame the intervention later.'
The entire thread can be summed up in one classic saying: 'One lie requires a hundred more to cover it up.' From the Raymond scandal to the Lightning controversy, GF2's PR strategy seems to be an infinite loop of 'cover up → get exposed → cover up again → get exposed again.' As one user philosophically noted: 'If you make a mistake and your first instinct is to lie instead of apologize, you'll end up needing even more lies to patch the original lie.'
This circus is far from over. For Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium, the cracks in community trust only grow wider — because when your best defense strategy is having random Bilibili users do your PR for you, it's pretty clear you've completely lost the plot.
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