Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium Confirmed for Taiwan/HK/Macau — Cross-Strait Players Unite: 'The Whole World Gets to Share Lady Lemoine Now'

'Found ourselves a sucker' — that one line perfectly captures how NGA users reacted to the news that Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium is officially coming to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau via local publisher Peiyou Digital Entertainment. Already reeling from the infamous 'Lady Lemoine' scandal, the community erupted once more.

Peiyou Digital Entertainment officially announced it has secured the Taiwan/HK/Macau publishing rights for GFL2: Exilium, the 3D tactical RPG gacha developed by Sunborn Network. The game will be showcased at the 2024 Taipei Game Show at Nangang Exhibition Hall in January. But on NGA, players read this as Sunborn trying to 'squeeze every last drop of value' out of a game whose reputation has already cratered in mainland China.

For context, 'Lady Lemoine' (雷蒙夫人) is the defining controversy that torpedoed GFL2's launch. A gacha waifu character — one that players spend real money to pull — was written with romantic or intimate interactions with a male NPC named Lemoine instead of the player character (the 'Commander'). Players felt like third wheels in their own game. The nickname 'Lady Lemoine' became shorthand for the game's disastrous reception and remains a meme to this day.

The OP wrote with cutting sarcasm: 'Found a sucker, squeeze the last bit of game value dry, and the whole world gets to share Lady Lemoine now.' That line became the thread's instant classic.

The comments section saw something rare — cross-strait unity. Mainland players joked that GFL2 is pulling a 'Cyber Chiang Kai-shek' — a tongue-in-cheek reference to the historical retreat to Taiwan after losing the mainland, implying the game is doing the same. Meanwhile, Taiwan players went absolutely ballistic, with one Taiwanese user cursing Sunborn CEO Yuzhong in raw Hokkien dialect.

Mainland players found a strange comfort in seeing Taiwan gamers equally furious. 'Seeing the folks across the strait just as angry as us — now I can rest easy,' one wrote. 'I thought you guys were more exposed to the outside world and might actually be okay with that kind of bitch-type character.' Another thanked the 'brothers on the other side' for the roasting.

The core debate in the thread boils down to one question: will the Taiwan/HK/Macau version and future global servers keep the Lemoine storyline intact? Many players think this is the real spectacle worth watching. 'That would be absolutely wild,' one commenter giddily remarked. Another quipped: 'The Lemoine storyline? More like a political manifesto! Yuzhong's about to show you what it means to unleash his true power in another world.'

Some dug up old receipts, pointing out the timeline of another Sunborn game, Neural Cloud (云图计划), where a character named Dai Yan (黛煙) was released in the Taiwan version — hinting that Taiwan players might face similar controversial storylines down the line.

Players also flagged upcoming Japanese events in Akihabara, questioning whether Sunborn would dare ship the controversial version to the Japanese server. From mainland to Taiwan/HK/Macau, from online flame wars to IRL convention booths, the 'Lady Lemoine' saga is clearly far from over.