Girls' Frontline 2 Revenue Crashes to $4 After Just 20 Days — Technically 'Still Double' Cross Core's Day-One, But Nobody's Celebrating

A game that's 'winning big' just 20 days after launch — if 'winning' means your daily revenue is $4 and technically 'still double' another game's day-one $2. Welcome to the most absurd headline flex of early 2024 gacha gaming.

It all started when a poster on NGA shared Qimai (a Chinese app analytics platform) screenshots: Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium's estimated iOS daily revenue had apparently nosedived off a cliff on day 20, likely falling off the charts entirely. Meanwhile, Cross Core — launching that very same day — managed a whopping $2 in first-day revenue. Side by side, the 'still double!' framing was comedy gold. The original poster needed only one word to sum it up: Winning!

But commenters were quick to point out that the '$4' figure was almost certainly a Qimai data artifact after the game dropped off the rankings. One player reasoned: 'If there's a delay, it should jump from zero — there's no way it just trickled in a few cents at a time,' suggesting the dramatic plunge was a tracking failure, not actual revenue. Another added: 'The lowest revenue on yesterday's chart was the Xunlei app at 2,955 yuan — GFL2 would only be below that,' meaning the real number might be so low it can't even be properly tracked anymore.

Cross Core's '$2' wasn't a great sign either. Players explained that the servers had crashed on launch day — 'most people couldn't even log in, payments were broken, and those who got in couldn't spend money.' The pathetic day-one figure was more of a technical disaster than a lack of player interest. Still, both games being this rough made the whole comparison peak dark comedy.

The real highlight was the comment section's savage wit. 'Crystallized fans, start whaling! Mrs. Raymond, get to work and save the numbers!' — a direct jab at the 'Mrs. Raymond' (雷蒙夫人) controversy where GFL2's questionable storyline involving a male NPC getting too close to a beloved character triggered a massive exodus of core players. Someone joked that '$4 might just be loose change in an old man's pocket from the Green Zone,' using in-game lore to mock how pathetically low the revenue was. Another commenter nailed it: 'Less than a month and they've speedrun the entire lifecycle — the writing team must be blacklisted by the entire industry now.'

A final commenter closed the curtain on this circus with: 'Well, the dead deserve respect.' Whether or not Qimai's data was accurate, the fact that Girls' Frontline 2 crashed to chart-drop territory in just 20 days and became the punchline of a 'who's worse' meme with another struggling game is one of the most dramatic moments in early 2024 gacha gaming. As for whether 'double the revenue' counts as a win or a loss — only those $4 know for sure.