Insider Claims Game Company's Community Staff Outnumber Artists; Aggressive Review Deletion Sparks Heated Discussion

Whether the operations team is too aggressive or the company's cover is too thin — one insider (dubbed "Squad Leader") dropped a bombshell claiming a certain game company employs more community management staff than actual artists. The gaming gossip community erupted instantly.

According to the original poster, the company had been on a "community management" (社管, shorthand for aggressive reputation control) blitz over the past two days. Not only were negative reviews being actively deleted on TapTap, but the company had also deployed a wave of shill accounts (洗地小号, fake accounts used to whitewash controversies) on NGA's gossip section to control the narrative. The OP included a screenshot as evidence:

The post quickly blew up in the comments. A sharp-eyed user noticed that the original exposé was being constantly mass-reported, and quipped: "The fact that this post keeps getting reported just proves how well the ops team does their job" — arguably the most devastating irony of the year.

Another commenter drew a parallel from personal experience: "The Squad Leader's credibility keeps going up. This reminds me of my old company — right before it went into bankruptcy restructuring, there were more managers than actual workers." This comment also included a screenshot, and the user noted that the original exposé had already been taken down: "They came down hard. Looks like this really hit a nerve." They went further: "Is the CEO furious? Trying to find the mole but can't, while their dirty laundry keeps getting aired."

Players showed zero mercy when roasting the ops team's tireless censorship efforts. Someone asked sarcastically, "I wonder what kind of year-end bonus these hardworking ops people get," and was immediately met with: "Must be a million-RMB bonus, working that hard" — dripping with irony.

As for why the art department is so small, players had their own theory: "I heard they've started using AI to create skin artwork, so of course they don't need many artists." Another user confirmed: "You remember correctly — the M4 squad skin from their main game is suspected to be AI-generated." This detail added further credibility to the Squad Leader's claims.

Other commenters pointed out bluntly that "it's all people hired through connections who leech off the company without doing real work." Some questioned the reliability of the source — "I thought they were an actual employee, but they're just repeating what someone else said?" — though most seemed willing to believe the claims. After all, the sheer scale of the censorship campaign itself served as the best evidence.

When the reported post resurfaced after being taken down, one user laughed: "It's been resurrected yet again — these people really never give up." It looks like this tug-of-war between deletion and re-posting is far from over.