Sunborn Allegedly Axes Girls' Frontline 2 as All Three Games Crash and Burn — Community Asks: What Now?

A leaked Tieba post sent shockwaves through NGA — Sunborn Network (散爆) is allegedly pulling the plug on Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (追放). The original post included screenshots and a link to the Tieba source, and while the full content wasn't fully visible due to platform restrictions, the comment section's reaction tells you everything you need to know about the size of this bombshell.

One player nailed Sunborn's "glorious track record" with brutal efficiency: GFL1 is dead, Neural Cloud (云图) speedran its death, and GFL2 died even faster. The post mentions "personnel hasn't really changed" — which ironically became the biggest joke. As one commenter put it: "Great, another chance to hit new lows!" The implication? Same devs, same results, zero hope.

The comment section's roasts got progressively more savage. One player went straight for the throat: "You can cook a hundred times with the same chef and it'll still taste like garbage — or maybe the head chef actually wants to make garbage." The "head chef" being a not-so-subtle jab at Sunborn's top leadership.

Some players were skeptical about whether GFL2 would actually get axed: "Cutting Exilium seems unlikely — even though operating costs are high, when your other games are doing even worse, you gotta save what you can." But even this optimist couldn't help adding that Sunborn's hand is basically empty — Bread House won't print money, the Wandering Earth game is reportedly dead on arrival, and "you can't just lose everything to Tencent, right?"

The financial math got even more brutal: "GFL1 and Neural Cloud combined only pull in second-tier revenue. If you ditch Exilium too, how does a 200-person team survive? Tencent's investment money must be long gone by now." That single line captures the collective anxiety perfectly.

The most lethal take? "If it's fake I hope it's real, and if it's real I hope it's tripled." Another player dropped the nuclear option: "If this is true, it basically proves they were planning to pocket Tencent's investment money from day one." Someone even crowned Sunborn's founder "the first man to successfully fleece Tencent and walk away — making gacha history."

Amidst all the roasting, there were voices tinged with genuine helplessness. One suggested "abandon the GFL brand and start over with browser mini-games." Another sighed: "Sunborn is permanently tied to GFL — anything new they make will still stink." When someone asked about the next project, the reply was "Wandering Earth (Rate of the Three Kingdoms reskin?)" — a jab suggesting all of Sunborn's announced projects are vaporware.

As of this writing, Sunborn has not officially responded to the leak. But judging by the NGA comment section's mood, player trust has hit absolute rock bottom. Whether this specific leak is true or not, the GFL IP's reputation collapse is undeniable — three games crashing consecutively, zero blood transfusion at the management level, no promising projects on the horizon. Sunborn's future? Let's just say even the doomers are dooming.