The OP used to be that person in gacha gaming circles who would constantly dunk on anime-style mobile games, calling them a hotbed of petty drama and insisting that 'normie' MMOs were so much better. Then they tried Justice Online (逆水寒), a mainstream MMO — and immediately got slapped in the face by equally unhinged chaos. The irony was so delicious that the OP couldn't resist writing a heartfelt essay on NGA's gossip board, which quickly became a full-blown industry roast session.
The post is essentially an equal-opportunity takedown of the entire mobile gaming landscape. Players are treated like cattle, writers act like untouchable artistic geniuses who are 'undefined' (a sarcastic reference to self-important creators who push personal agendas), game planners refuse to back down even when groveling, and monetization greed knows no bounds. Even Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), China's biggest mobile game, is pumping out premium skins at an accelerating pace. The OP's verdict: 'Every notable game is the same garbage.'
The comments section turned into a mass therapy session. One highly-upvoted reply nailed it: 'I used to naively think that when a game had problems, it was just that specific team. This year I finally realized they're ALL this terrible.' The commenter pointed out that gacha games have female writers pushing their 'undefined' agendas, while otome (girl-targeting) games have male planners inserting male-gazey content — absurd operations from every direction.
Others piled on with shorter but equally brutal takes: 'It's been rotten for ages.' The mobile gaming industry was called a 'giant clown show' and a 'shit-tier amateur operation.' Someone observed that the entire gacha sphere is a 'drama factory' — even watching gamers argue about which game is dying feels refreshing compared to the endless scandals.
One comment tried to diagnose the root cause: writers at mobile game studios are largely left unsupervised by management, giving them free rein to inject personal beliefs and content into the game. The commenter cited a specific example from the game Trainale (雷索纳斯) — its producer 'Fat Tiger' claimed he only handles R&D and doesn't touch operations, yet the operations team was reportedly unbanning banned players without his knowledge. This kind of departmental silo chaos apparently runs rampant across the industry.
The thread's latter half zeroed in on Justice Online's (逆水寒) specific drama: allegations that executives were essentially 'spending company money to chase their personal obsessions' (公款追星) by forcing entertainment-industry TV drama aesthetics into the game's wuxia (martial arts) world. One commenter was genuinely heartbroken, noting that Justice Online's appeal was supposed to be the player-created 'jianghu' (world) — players nurturing NPC AIs, designing public spaces, and creating memorable moments in the public chat. All of that got undermined by what they called a 'trash executive with a trash agenda.'
The OP wrapped up with a resignation that hit hard: after five-plus years of mobile gaming since college, their desire to spend on gacha has completely died. Rather than feeding money to these 'weight-loss companies' (减重公司 — a sarcastic stand-in for 'shit companies'), they'd rather read novels, watch movies, or just go outside and touch grass. Their parting advice? Find real happiness in the real world, and don't let a bunch of fictional data and incompetent game developers hold you hostage. A simple but painfully honest conclusion to what might be 2024's most relatable mobile gaming burnout story.
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