Girls' Frontline 2 Reruns 'Limited' Banner After Just 4 Months — Controversial Storyline Unchanged, New Character Already Up for Sale, Community Erupts

A gacha game barely 4 months old, already rerunning 'limited' characters for a second cash grab — welcome to Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium, courtesy of Sunborn Network.

The game recently dropped multiple concurrent banners: a rerun of the controversial character Type 95 (黛烟/Daiyan) with her skin bundle, plus a brand-new character Type 97 (玉玲珑/Yulinglong) for sale. The problem? Type 95's storyline is the one at the center of the infamous 'Raymond Incident' — where the devs controversially neutered a male NPC named Raymond, rebranding him as 'Ester' to appease outraged players. And now they're rerunning her banner without fixing a single word of that disputed story. Players are essentially being asked to pay again for content the devs themselves acknowledged was broken.

The NGA thread erupted instantly. The top reply — 'Ah yes, this is what 'limited' means at Sunborn' — drips with sarcasm. One player asked point-blank: 'Has Yuzhong (Sunborn's boss) really run out of ideas? We're not even done with the 3rd or 4th banner cycle and they're already rerunning? With skins bundled in? This is a joke.' Another diagnosed the situation bluntly: 'Looks like they've burned through their content reserves — time to milk reruns before shutting down the servers.' A now-viral quip captures the community mood perfectly: 'Three years of content, but the skin backlog can't even last 3 months.' And the cherry on top: '3-month rerun — truly limited in name only' (限限又定定, a pun mocking how meaningless 'limited' has become).

On the storyline controversy, one commenter laid out Sunborn's two options in brutally honest terms: 'Either they say screw the rewrite and go straight to reruns, or they're so delusionally confident in their reworked plot that they'll drop it unannounced — just like they did with the Raymond-to-Ester bait-and-switch. Pick your poison.' Another veteran player shut down any remaining copium: 'Nah, Type 97 is probably just another low-effort release. Type 95 is purely a rerun cash grab to squeeze the loyal whales. The game's been out for only 4 months, right?' — A limited character rerun at 4 months is genuinely unprecedented in the gacha sphere.

But the real bombshell wasn't the banners — it was the insider tea. Players dug up evidence that Sunborn's workforce is in full-blown flight mode: 'The entire company is restless, everyone's polishing their resumes and looking for the exit. Who's going to bother optimizing the game?' An even juicier detail followed: 'They're the only company where employees are mass-browsing Maimai (脉脉, China's LinkedIn equivalent) at 1 AM.' Picture that — a game studio where the devs are collectively job-hunting in the dead of night while the product is burning.

Four months post-launch, rerunning limited characters, unresolved storyline drama, and a mass exodus in progress — is Sunborn throwing in the towel or making one last cash grab? As one player put it with grim finality: 'I can't even cope anymore — this game is toast.' That about sums it up.