Sunborn's Wandering Earth Team Reportedly Gutted, Girls' Frontline 2 QA Lead Accused of Harassing Female Staff — 'War Criminal Seven' Exposed in Massive Leak

Another bombshell just dropped on Maimai (脉脉) — China's LinkedIn-meets-workplace-gossip-platform — and this time it's Sunborn Network (散爆网络), the studio behind the Girls' Frontline franchise, in the crosshairs. An anonymous poster claims the company's Wandering Earth adaptation team has been completely wiped out in layoffs, while the QA lead for Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (追放) is described as 'infamous' in Beijing's gaming circles — allegedly cunning and manipulative but utterly incompetent at the actual job, with a history of harassing female subordinates at a previous company.

According to the screenshots making the rounds, this QA lead — let's call them 'Duan' — wasn't a Sunborn original but was allegedly poached from a Beijing game studio where they had already burned through their reputation. The leaker claims Duan turned their previous team into chaos, harassed female staff, and was eventually fired. Yet Sunborn reportedly hired this person anyway and even put them in charge of QA — a department where nearly half the staff are women, making the harassment allegations all the more alarming.

But the rabbit hole goes deeper. The Wandering Earth project lead was also dragged into the spotlight, with the original poster hinting they're no angel either. Community sleuths then compiled what they call the 'War Criminal Seven' (战犯七人组) — seven allegedly problematic managers at Sunborn — plus an eighth person nicknamed 'Wang Xiongmao' (王熊猫, literally 'Wang Panda').

The NGA comments section held nothing back. One top reply went straight for the throat: 'One cockroach breeds a whole nest — look at Yu Zhong (羽中, Sunborn's founder and the creator of Girls' Frontline), and you'll know what kind of people surround him.' Another commenter drew a direct parallel between Duan and Yu Zhong himself, calling the QA lead a 'mini Yu Zhong' — cunning, politically savvy, but clueless about the actual product.

Others traced the problem back to the top: 'Maybe this Duan is terrible at their job, but just like [a previously fired employee nicknamed] Xing, they were all hired by Yu Zhong. At the end of the day, it's Yu Zhong who can't pick people.' A reply added a classical Chinese proverb for emphasis: 'Birds of a feather flock together — those above set the tone, and those below amplify it.'

Beyond the HR drama, players pointed to the game's quality as circumstantial evidence. One wrote: 'This tracks with Potato 2 (a derisive nickname for Exilium) — bugs everywhere, text errors galore, doesn't feel like it's been tested at all.' Others suggested Sunborn should just turn their internal chaos into a game — 'definitely more entertaining than Exilium's actual story.' The community even dubbed the seven managers 'Seven Collapsed Sages' (七崩贤), a pun on the in-game 'Paradox Sages' (悖论圣贤) faction. Peak gaming community humor.

For now, everything comes from anonymous Maimai posts and community analysis — Sunborn has issued no official response. Whether this is a genuine exposé of workplace dysfunction or a disgruntled ex-employee's smear campaign remains to be seen. But one thing's clear: Exilium's reputation is in freefall, and the 'Cyber Demon-Locking Pagoda' (赛博锁妖塔) nickname Sunborn earned for attracting problematic talent is sounding more prophetic by the day.