SUNBORN Network is fighting itself — and losing on both fronts. A player browsing the mobile game revenue charts stumbled upon a hilariously awkward sight: Neural Cloud, the company's older title, was actually charting higher than Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium, its supposed flagship sequel. The comment section instantly erupted — 'What are you doing here.jpg' became the meme of the day.
The plot thickens when you realize both games dropped maid character banners at almost the exact same time. GFL2 was running a maid rate-up, and Neural Cloud countered with its own maid variant — essentially a head-to-head showdown between two products from the same company. One commenter nailed it: 'They're literally fighting each other for players' wallets. Peak gacha comedy.'
But the real bombshell was the layoff tea that surfaced alongside this drama. Multiple players reported that Neural Cloud's dev team got slashed by roughly half recently, and this claim was corroborated by multiple sources on Maimai (脉脉), China's LinkedIn-equivalent workplace platform. Meanwhile, the GFL2 (Exilium) team reportedly remained largely untouched.
A highly upvoted comment captured the irony perfectly: 'The team that got axed made the game that's actually performing. The team that stayed made the game that fell off the charts. Make it make sense.' The contrast is brutal — the 'abandoned' project is outperforming the 'priority' one.
As for why the layoffs happened, the comment section offered some spicy (and entirely unverified) speculation. Some players theorized that Neural Cloud's devs got the axe precisely because their recent content leaned too hard into 'malaxiang' (麻辣香) — a community term for aggressively fan-service-oriented, waifu-pandering content. The theory goes that this didn't align with the creative vision of Chong (翀, the community's mocking nickname for SUNBORN CEO Yuzhong). One user quipped: 'Yuzhong: How dare you make content players actually want to spend money on? Purge the heretics!' Again, pure speculation — zero official confirmation.
On the flip side, many players admitted that Neural Cloud's recent skins and story content were genuinely good — some even compared the skin quality to that of Cross Dimensional Warship (交错战线), a game known for pushing boundaries. A detailed breakdown praised the shift: 'Neural Cloud finally figured out the Navy formula — lean into the waifu angle, make the skins spicy, and have the story treat the player character like the actual protagonist. The results speak for themselves.'
But the copium ran out quickly. A more level-headed analysis from reply #17 pointed out that Neural Cloud's #198 revenue chart position — while technically beating the chart-banished GFL2 — is probably the ceiling for this event, not a new normal. The commenter's final verdict was absolutely savage: 'Girls' Frontline 1 is Neural Cloud's future, and Neural Cloud is GFL2's future.' In other words: they're all on the same downward spiral, just at different stages.
The thread's mic-drop moment came from reply #19, which delivered a poetic eulogy for the entire Girls' Frontline IP: 'Someone's side mines are like a fistful of sand — pass it from left hand to right, and you lose more each time. In the end, you sift out a few tiny crystals, barely worth anything. Congratulations.' Whether SUNBORN can turn this ship around is anyone's guess — but the players clearly aren't holding their breath.
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