Girls' Frontline 2 Secretly Alters Character 9M4's Mind Archive Text — But With Daily Revenue in the Tens of Thousands, Players Ask: 'Just Pull the Plug Already'

The game is practically on life support, and NOW they decide to rework a character's lore? Players on NGA discovered that Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (少女前线2:追放) has quietly altered the mind archive text of character 9M4 — colloquially known as 'Nine' (九妹). The original post includes a side-by-side screenshot: the top showing the revised text, and the bottom showing the old version.

The comment section erupted into a roast session. The top-voted reply nailed it: 'I've seen this drama — top is the new version, bottom is the old. Classic case of trying to cure the disease when you're already on your deathbed. My verdict? Just die already.' Another player quipped: 'Lmao, they're putting a breathing tube on a corpse.'

In a darkly comedic twist, players pinned the blame on 'Del' (德尔), an in-game NPC antagonist, joking: 'It was me — I cursed them all!' and 'It must be Del messing with parameters again.' This has become a running gag in the GFL2 community: whenever something goes wrong, it's always Del's fault. Someone even mock-imitated the official PR tone: 'Regarding the changes to 9's mind archive text — an explanation will be provided in the next Del storyline.'

The deeper controversy is: who exactly is this change supposed to please? One player put it bluntly: 'Who are they trying to appease? Does the dev (derogatorily nicknamed 'locusts' by ex-fans) really think they still have any master-love (ML) players left? This will just make the CP/yuri fans who are still clinging on rage even harder.' The 'ML' crowd (players who want romantic interactions between characters and themselves) and the yuri/CP shippers are fundamentally opposing factions — any move that favors one side will inevitably alienate the other. Whales who spent money pulling for her constellations are also reportedly furious about the unilateral text change.

Beyond the stealth-edit controversy, many players questioned the devs' priorities. One commenter asked: 'So all the production capacity goes into some inconsequential change nobody would even notice? When's the lightweight story content getting finished? Has 95 been reworked yet? Is the next event also going to be another half-baked effort?' These questions cut to the bone of GFL2's chronic content drought.

Some players also dug into deeper design grievances: 'The UMP45 (Leiya) in this game literally looks like a tomboy with a crew cut — you could tell the devs had an agenda from the start.' The implication is that the character design team has been pushing certain ideological undertones from day one, and this stealth edit is just the tip of the iceberg.

A game with daily revenue in the tens of thousands of RMB, in a community that's already holding a funeral — and they choose this moment to make a timid, behind-the-scenes edit to character text. As one legendary reply summarized: 'You didn't swerve until the car hit the wall. You didn't buy until the stock went up. You didn't repent until the judge passed sentence. You didn't shake off the snot until it was already in your mouth.' This isn't damage control — it's a deathbed confession.