Sunborn Internal Quotes Leaked: Producer Calls Characters 'Tools and Products,' Girls' Frontline Community Unleashes Epic Point-by-Point Rebuttal

A set of internal quotes attributed to Sunborn Network's leadership has leaked onto NGA, revealing how the studio allegedly views the characters in their games. The bombshell take? Characters are nothing more than 'products controlled by the creators' — 'tools designed to fulfill different purposes' and 'ranked accordingly.' In a vacuum, this might pass as a reasonable business philosophy. But placed against the backdrop of Girls' Frontline 2's ongoing controversies, it was like throwing gasoline on a dumpster fire.

The comment section erupted — but here's the spicy twist: most players didn't actually disagree with the 'characters are products' premise. Several even admitted the logic checks out on paper. What truly set the community off was the gaping chasm between this philosophy and Sunborn's actual behavior. A top-voted reply nailed it: 'Sure, the theory is sound. But if you truly treated characters as products, you'd listen to your consumers' pain points. You wouldn't deliberately do things that go against what your customers are asking for.'

Player rage zeroed in on Girls' Frontline 2's recent controversies, especially the butchering of beloved character T95's storyline. One commenter fired back: 'You say this after what you did to T95? Seriously?' Another was more colorful: 'The logic makes sense, but even a basic concept like products shouldn't be self-indulgent — get it through your skull, Yuzhong (羽中)? Did you actually follow through? The 'Yuzhong' referenced here is Huang Chong, Sunborn's lead producer. Someone else delivered the ultimate sarcasm: 'So did your product succeed? Oh wait — in a way, it kinda did.'

But the most legendary response came from comment #14, a masterclass in logical deduction: if characters are 'puppets controlled by the creator,' then giving a ring to an in-game character equals giving a ring to the developer's self-insert. Buying a skin? Same thing. Combined with the widely-discussed NTR (netorare/cuckolding) elements in GFL2 — where characters were allegedly 'tagged' by an NPC called Star-sis (星姐) — the user concluded: 'So this is a mechanical waifu NTR doujin with zero emotional attachment, huh.' It's tongue-in-cheek, but underneath lies genuine heartbreak over emotional investment being trampled.

Comments #11 and #15 represented a more measured but equally devastating perspective: 'Nobody cares whether you love the characters. What matters is whether you have malice toward your players. Whatever you give players, that's what they'll give back — how is this hard to understand?' and 'The producer's feelings about characters are irrelevant to players. But weaponizing indifference — using "we don't care about characters" as justification to disgust players and force them to abandon their attachments — that's crossing a line.' In other words: being cold is fine; turning coldness into hostility is not.

One commenter also roasted Sunborn's PR strategy: 'Any normal company would pull an all-nighter to address the backlash. Sunborn? Radio silence, then quietly sneaking in changes hoping nobody notices.' That sums up the studio's reputation in the community — the masters of 'playing dead.' The full context of the leaked quotes remains unknown, but what's already out there is more than enough to set the Girls' Frontline community ablaze once again.