Cross Line Launch Disaster: Male MC Selection Triggers Female-Only CG Cutscene — Players Cry 'Scam Gacha'

Cross Line, a gacha game that marketed itself with heavy Master Love vibes (characters romantically devoted to the player), gave every player who picked the male protagonist a special "surprise" on launch day — the opening CG straight-up replaced your male captain with the default female MC. The gender selection? Basically a cosmetic joke.

Here's what happened: after launch, players discovered the game lets you choose your character's gender at the start. The male MC even has a unique 3D model and can participate in combat — seemed like solid effort. But once you finish the combat tutorial and the game "officially" begins, the opening cinematic drops the act entirely: it only has a female protagonist version.

The original poster questioned: the ads were all ML-coded, yet the game offers gender selection, but then forces the female version in CGs? Was the dev team secretly making a yuri (girl-love) game all along? Apparently the protagonist barely exists in the main story either — total NPC energy.

Players dug up screen recordings as evidence: choosing the male MC does give you a male model in combat, but the moment the CG kicks in, it switches to female. One commenter nailed it — "The OP clearly only had a female version made. They just assumed all players would pick the girl."

Even more ironic: one female player said she picked the female MC and thought the devs had been thoughtful enough to make two CG versions — only to learn the truth is there's literally just one version for everyone. Another player roasted the art quality: "These character illustrations aren't even in the same league — the male MC looks like a generic mob enemy." The implication? Male character art was clearly an afterthought.

But wait, it gets worse. Cross Line's launch was an absolute disaster on a technical level too. Massive server crashes meant most players couldn't even log in. Those who managed to squeeze in got stuck at the first stage — the game wouldn't register completion and booted them out. The devs took servers down for maintenance until the next day, and the promised compensation? Nowhere to be seen. Announcements were only posted on Bilibili, with zero in-game updates.

After this chain of disasters, the community slapped two devastating labels on Cross Line: "Myanmar scam gacha" (缅北二游) — meaning it lured players with ML marketing only to turn them into silent bystanders, and "yuri bait game" (河豚神游) — implying the dev team has yuri/futanari leanings. Some players even dug up claims that "the lead artist is into drawing futanari content" — unverified, sure, but the lazy CG situation makes it ring suspiciously true.

Commenters also pointed out the hilarious irony that Cross Line is the perfect counterpart to another gacha game that marketed exclusively with a male protagonist but kept showing the male MC in tutorials even if you picked the female one — a true yin-yang of gacha industry incompetence. Others took a zen approach: "Being able to field the protagonist is probably the biggest presence they'll ever have," and "What chapter was this in? I barely made it through Chapter 1 before getting booted" — turns out they didn't see the issue not because it didn't exist, but because they literally couldn't get into the game.

As it stands, Cross Line's launch scorecard reads: ML marketing ✅, gender selection ✅, CG quality ❌, server stability ❌, compensation ❌. Whether this was a deliberate yuri game disguised as ML or just sheer laziness in only making one CG version — well, only the devs know the truth.