One planner gets quietly reassigned, a vague apology is posted only on the dev's own community platform, and a bunch of mysteriously vanishing features are chalked up to 'bugs' — that's the entirety of Calabiyau's response to the raging 'Buddy' text controversy. Players waited this long for sincerity, and all they got was a wishy-washy statement that somehow made things worse.
The saga started with a piece of in-game text that players labeled the 'Buddy' incident — implying the devs were pandering to a certain audience by using casual male-coded language in a game built on female character appeal. Soon after, physics effects on multiple female characters and the Star Painting lap pillow interaction inexplicably disappeared. Player frustration had been simmering over a chain of issues, from the text controversy to stripped features, and many suspected the devs were deliberately side-lining their core audience. The apology claims all these vanishing features were unintentional technical bugs, and announces a planner has been 'reassigned' — but doesn't name who, why, or where they went.
What really set the community off was the choice of platform. Instead of posting on Bilibili, Weibo, or TapTap — you know, where actual players are — the apology went up on Fanbook, a community app built and operated by iDreamSky (创梦天地) themselves. One commenter cut straight through it: 'The Bilibili account is run by Tencent's team, but Fanbook is iDreamSky's own product — they're just farming traffic.' The implication? The apology came with a business motive baked in, which doesn't exactly scream sincerity.
The NGA comment section delivered absolutely unhinged heat. One of the top-voted takes read: 'Male players have been protesting for ages and all they got was this vague PR statement — meanwhile one angry post from certain girls made the devs bend over immediately.' The irony was not lost on anyone. Another commenter went straight for the jugular: 'So it's only a 'bug' because you got caught — if nobody noticed, would it have stayed deleted?' This cuts to the core of player distrust: the line between 'unintentional bug' and 'intentional nerf disguised as a bug' is paper-thin.
Players also dissected the 'planner reassignment' with surgical skepticism. One analysis questioned: 'Which planner got moved — the one who wrote the 'buddy' text, or the one who decided to apologize? If it's the latter, that's even worse — it means you punished someone for listening to players.' Another cold take: 'Once trust collapses, rebuilding it is nearly impossible, especially when you follow up with another round of 'bugs.' Who knows if the planner was really moved? Even if they were, they could be quietly moved back and nobody would know.'
The comment section also exposed a deeper layer of the problem — old players feeling betrayed on the monetization front. Reports surfaced of 'purifying the playerbase' by pushing loyal spenders away, combined with male character power-level controversies and resource hoarding getting flagged. One player's stance was telling: 'I haven't touched Calabiyau since two days ago. Maybe I'll log in on Feb 1 to grab the free character, then decide whether to come back later.' That 'maybe' says it all.
One commenter nailed the exhaustion perfectly: 'Classic move — game's daily active players tank and community heat dies down, THEN you put on a show of apologizing. We've seen this cycle play out enough times. Please, just stop.' The apology fixes nothing, the 'reassignment' lacks transparency, in-game problems remain unresolved, and the whole thing reeks of a traffic funnel to their own platform. Instead of putting out the fire, Calabiyau's response poured gasoline on it. This drama is far from over.
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