Sunborn Quietly Adds Back the Dot on Character's 'Fu' Design After Removing It — Defenders Left Holding the Bag: 'How Am I Supposed to Defend This?'

Remember when Sunborn removed that dot from the character's 'Fu' (福, meaning fortune) design? Back then, legions of 'crystal soldiers' (结晶, slang for diehard fanboys who defend the devs no matter what) went to bat for the change: 'It's just a normal art adjustment,' 'Don't overthink it,' 'You're reading too much into it.' Well, guess what — the dot is back. The faces of those faithful defenders right now? Probably as colorful as the before-and-after screenshots themselves.

The original poster went straight for the jugular: 'Where are all those people who insisted it had some special hidden meaning now?' With Sunborn quietly adding the dot back, the comparison screenshots speak for themselves — that original removal was probably just an oopsie all along.

The top comment from Floor 1 captured the collective anguish of the crystal soldiers perfectly: 'How are we supposed to spin this for you now?!' This might just be the most spectacular PR defense collapse of 2024. You think you're holding the fort for the devs, and the devs blow up the fort behind your back.

But wait, there's more. Digging through earlier records, players found that Sunborn also botched the timing of their own Lunar New Year greeting — a holiday message that wasn't fixed until the 8th day of the lunar calendar, well after the celebration was over.

Between sending Spring Festival wishes a week late and flip-flopping on character designs, Sunborn's operational competence is truly something to behold.

The comment section turned into a full-on crystal soldier roasting session. Someone dug up a classic quote: 'If you people hadn't made such a fuss, would they have even changed it?' — implying the defenders' passionate arguments ironically helped push the devs to reverse course. Floor 11 was even spicier: 'Crystals getting backstabbed and face-slapped this many times yet still defending the cause — I'm literally moved to tears.'

Floor 13 nailed the metaphor: Sunborn and their crystal soldiers are playing a turn-based game. The crystals spend one turn desperately justifying the devs' decisions, and the devs spend the next turn quietly reverting those same changes — backstabbing their own loyalists. This isn't the first time either; the devs' official letter being spun as a 'betrayal' by crystals is still fresh in everyone's memory.

One player delivered a precision strike of a comment: the game's actual storyline bugs go unfixed, typos remain, copy-pasted text stays as-is, and the Raymond tune in the rest area still hasn't been changed — but THIS is the hill they chose to die on? Adding and then re-adding a single dot? Others pointed out that Sunborn can apparently edit their social media posts retroactively — a capability most players didn't even know existed. Kinda sus, if you ask me.

Floor 15 probably said what Sunborn is actually feeling: 'Sunborn must feel so wronged... but hey, who told your company to destroy player trust with your own hands? Tee-hee.' That little 'tee-hee' at the end perfectly captures the energy of someone eating popcorn while watching a dumpster fire.

Looking at the full picture, that dot on 'Fu' was probably always just a regular design element — the 'special meaning' was almost certainly the community reading way too much into it. But the real disaster here is Sunborn's handling: remove it and you upset one group, add it back and you undercut another, flip-flop and you burn through what little credibility you had left. As for the crystal soldiers — this is the price of unconditional devotion to a company that clearly doesn't know what it's doing. Every time you think things have stabilized, the devs find a brand new way to surprise you.