Sunborn Network (the studio behind Girls' Frontline) just dropped what might be the wildest strategic pivot of 2024 — and the gacha community is absolutely losing it.
The drama started with earlier rumors that Sunborn's leadership (nicknamed 'Yezhongsang' by players) was planning to go all-in on overseas servers. That was just hearsay until recently, when someone claiming to be an insider stepped forward to corroborate the story. The original source reportedly surfaced in the comment section of content creator 'Quartz Captain' (石英队长), and a savvy forum user reposted it to NGA, where it quickly blew up. According to the leak, Sunborn has allegedly axed the entire Wandering Earth mobile game team to reallocate resources toward pushing Girls' Frontline 2 (GFL2) into global markets.
What makes this especially painful is that the Wandering Earth game wasn't some early-concept prototype. Multiple players confirmed it had been in active development for a full three years and had already gone through three rounds of beta testing. One commenter pointed out: 'It already had three betas — why are people talking about it like it never even started testing?' Another was less sympathetic: 'Three years and it still looked like that? Getting cut was deserved.'
The game was reportedly an SLG (strategy game) similar to Rise of Kingdoms-style titles. One player quipped: 'Pouring three years into that kind of game — truly a match made in hell.' But the most savage take came from someone who noted: 'At a normal studio, this would've been mercy-killed ages ago. But with Yu Zhong (Sunborn's founder) at the helm, nobody knows if they shipped one playable build in three years or thirty broken ones.'
However, doubling down on GFL2's overseas launch has the community equally bewildered. 'Can this thing actually compete on global servers?' asked one user. Another delivered a razor-sharp sarcastic reply: 'Western gamers are totally rational, magnified, and generous — they definitely won't care about the controversial story and will just whale away. If they don't, well, that's just the spicy fans' fault' — a pointed jab at GFL2's infamous story-related controversies, implying those issues won't magically disappear overseas.
Others piled on: 'GFL2 will flop overseas too — it's a tactical strategy game that somehow manages to be boring enough to cure insomnia.' And the evergreen question: 'Isn't going all-in on overseas servers a bit... late?'
The crown jewel of the thread came from a commenter who dropped: 'My advice — Natural Selection... Full Speed Ahead!' This is a famous quote from Liu Cixin's original Wandering Earth novel, and using it here is absolutely devastating — it simultaneously references the axed project's name while roasting Sunborn's apparent 'charge blindly into the unknown' corporate strategy.
As of now, Sunborn has made zero official statements about any of this. But regardless of whether the Wandering Earth team cut is real, the community's pessimism about GFL2's overseas prospects is already overflowing. One user summed up the vibe perfectly: 'Real or not, I love this kind of drama — keep it coming.' It's classic bystander energy, but underneath it lies deep collective disappointment in Sunborn's string of baffling decisions.
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