A bombshell post leaked from Maimai (脉脉) — China's LinkedIn-equivalent for workplace gossip — claims the planner/designer turnover rate at Sunborn (散爆网络), the studio behind Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (追放), is absurdly high. NGA users are eating it up, saying this might finally explain why the game is such a mess.
One commenter painted a vivid picture of a company in its "end times" (末法时代): management in chaos, the flagship project dead on arrival, and all the smart employees quietly slacking off while job-hunting on the side. Another added that "xxn" (小仙女, slang for radical feminists) running rampant, toxic management PUA (psychological manipulation), and revenue tanking are just different flavors of the same corporate apocalypse.
The leak claims staff were grinding overtime during holidays, but players immediately called BS: before China's National Day holiday, the Exilium client was pushed live, then the studio went completely silent until after the break. "Working overtime ≠ actually producing anything ≠ solving problems," one user quipped. "Sometimes it's just performative brownie points for the boss."
Others offered theories: maybe the team scrambled back due to the PR disaster but still thought nothing was wrong, so they just... didn't respond. Or the grunts were working while management was on vacation — and even if leadership showed up, they could just pretend nothing happened.
The real tea? One user dropped a bomb: during the third beta test, the entire planner team quit in one go. And when someone asked why, the answer was immediate — "Friendly reminder: all of Sunborn's leadership are Yuzhong's (羽中) relatives." Full-blown nepotism, allegedly confirmed.
Someone compared Sunborn to Duoyi (多益), another notorious game company, but players were quick to shut it down: "At least Duoyi's CEO isn't an idiot — he wouldn't collude with radical feminists and actually had the guts to nuke and rebuild his company. Yuzhong? He IS part of the problem. Comparing him to Duoyi's boss is an insult to Duoyi."
There's also dark humor about former employees allegedly getting arrested for "leaking company secrets" — with users joking it was probably just someone calling Sunborn's leaders idiots on their way out. Unverified, but the sentiment is crystal clear.
On the financial side, users cited insider "White Dragon" (白龙) claiming Exilium took 5+ years and 200-300 million RMB (roughly $30-40M USD) to develop. The verdict? "This is not the output of a functioning company."
Players also pointed out that recent game maintenance was done at 3 AM and 8 PM — asking what kind of person, apart from the writing team, could still stomach working at Sunborn.
Speaking of the writing team — when someone snarked that "the writer turnover rate must be suspiciously low," the implication was devastating. Others asked for writer-related leaks, hinting that the controversial writing team's antics are basically an open secret at this point.
The thread wraps up with players roasting the remaining loyal spenders (结晶粉): "Keep whaling harder, or the next event will end with another groveling apology post." The Sunborn apocalypse show, it seems, is far from over.
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