Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium dropped a new gacha banner, and the NGA peanut gallery immediately rushed to check the revenue charts. The result? After just 4 hours, the banner had barely crawled onto the bestseller list. For a game that once topped the charts on its launch day, this is... not great.
Players quickly compiled what can only be described as a revenue freefall timeline. During the launch period, the copium was: "There's no way we'll top charts — most whales already spent during beta, but hitting 100M in the first month is a given." Then came the Daiyan banner, where the goalpost shifted to "With all this drama, can we even hit half of launch revenue?" By the maid banner, the mantra was "Spring Festival is coming, but this is a lighter update so it's normal to underperform Daiyan." And now? The bar has dropped to "Just making the bestseller chart is a success." That's a journey from 'I'm gonna be King of the Pirates' to 'I just want to survive.'
One commenter dug up historical data noting the maid banner hit rank 81 on its debut. Another pointed out that at least the maid banner broke into the top 100 on day one. For this new banner, the community consensus is it's performing even worse. One player delivered the devastating one-liner: "Still too high — the devs can afford to keep stalling." Translation: as long as there's any revenue at all, the devs won't feel pressured to change course.
The community's feelings about the "Purple Sweet Potato Pack" (紫薯礼包) — a controversial value bundle — are complicated. One resigned commenter admitted: "I surrender, the purple pack actually made them decent money." Another player's energy was more 'I want to quit but I can't stop watching the trainwreck': "When there's a fight, I'm the first to run. When people are running, I'm already gone."
One commenter analyzed the devs' alleged strategy with brutal clarity: sell packs that create a power gap, then wait until players who didn't buy get crushed by those who did, forcing them to open their wallets too. Another replied with heavy sarcasm: "Yuzhong's (the game director) galaxy-brain wisdom — THIS time it'll definitely take off!" — 'Yuzhong's wisdom' has become a running meme in the community, deployed every time the devs make a baffling decision.
To be fair, one player noted the new banner only went live at 8 PM, meaning the 4-hour window might not tell the full story. But another countered with the platform's ranking mechanics: revenue data updates at 1 AM while rankings refresh at noon — so the ranking itself is already telling. The sly comment about "someone about to run a poll to inflate the PC coefficient" is peak NGA shade, implying the devs might try to manipulate how platform revenue is calculated to make numbers look better.
Bottom line: Girls' Frontline 2's revenue trajectory looks like a cliff dive — from chart-topper to 'making the list is a win.' Community trust in the dev team has hit rock bottom, and 'Yuzhong's wisdom' has transcended meme status to become the go-to catchphrase for mocking every bewildering decision. Whether this banner can deliver a face-saving performance in the end? Only the data knows.
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