Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium Hands Out Premium Currency to Quell Backlash — Players Roast: 'You Gut 2,000 Monthly Gems Then Throw Us 600 Like We Won't Notice?'

On the first day of the new year, the Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (追放) team suddenly handed out 'Credit Coins' (信用币) to all players, with a post titled: 'Come back and play — the village is giving out money!' Sounds generous? NGA veterans tore this 'windfall' apart in about three minutes flat.

The so-called 'Credit Coins' are essentially the game's premium hard currency — the equivalent of Genshin Impact's Genesis Crystals, Arknights' Originium, or Girls' Frontline 1's Rain Drops. One player cut straight through the BS: 'This is just paid gacha currency with a different skin slapped on it.'

The math nerds wasted no time crunching numbers: pure exchange value comes out to roughly 4 gacha pulls, or about ¥30 worth of first-top-up double bonus. And here's the kicker — these Credit Coins can only be spent on bundles, which players say are all 'absolute garbage.'

But it wasn't the 4 pulls that set the community on fire — it was the context. Players dug up that the devs had previously nerfed monthly renewable rewards and arena (Peak Duel) earnings. The amount of premium currency lost per month far exceeds what this 'gift' provides.

'They gutted monthly rewards, then when backlash hit they tried to stuff a sock in it with holiday scraps. Where are the monthly gems we lost? Still gone, right?' — This comment perfectly captures the community mood.

The spiciest take: 'Give us 600, surely everyone will forget about losing 2,000 monthly, right?' — Classic 'robbing Peter to pay Paul': they clawed back rewards from normal repeat content, then 'gifted' a fraction back. Left hand to right hand.

The comments section is a one-sided roasting. Someone pointed out 'the less you whale, the more you get' — heavy spenders got screwed the hardest. Another joked 'Yuzhong (the producer) is so generous today, I won't curse his mom' — then immediately reversed course upon learning rewards were nerfed: 'Wait, the rewards were slashed? Scratch that, cursing his mom is back on the menu.' One user summed it up with a single word: 'cringe kneel' — kneeling pretty, but zero sincerity.

The most surgical take came from a commenter who wrote: 'These Credit Points are worthless except for skins, and skins cost 980. This is just a cheap promo stunt... and after gutting monthly renewable rewards, expecting us to grovel for 4 pulls? Peak simp behavior.' Translation: you got slapped, handed a candy, and they expect you to say thank you.

Bottom line: Exilium's play is textbook 'cover systemic reward nerfs with a shiny band-aid.' The community didn't buy it — they dug deeper and got angrier. Trying to quell a riot with 4 pulls? Nice try, devs. Nice try.