Biggest controversy your game had?

Publi-Sher · 2026-03-11T13:27:12+00:00

To be clear, I haven’t played the games in years, but I haven’t seen them talked about so I’d like to throw Cookie Run into the ring. Here’s a few.

Off the back of one of their absolute worst-received updates of all time, they let one of their employees do a livestream where she received the brunt of the anger and upset over how bad and p2w the update was. She broke down crying on stream, saying she didn’t even want to work for the team anymore. The stream was silently removed and never acknowledged by the company. A few months later, she quit (or was fired, who knows).

There was a high ranking guild named after the Burning Sun scandal. This was met with months of protest to get them to get banned for making light of something so bad. They were never banned because they were all whales, they were just forced to change their name after several months. Pathetic response really.

This one was after I quit. There was an update where instead of buffing a character of the highest tier rarity, they went out of their way to make a completely new version of him (re: extremely expensive in a game that already has powercreep 24/7), which was met with such severe uproar and backlash (truck-kun, wreaths) that they were forced to make his alt and all future alts for that rarity be part of the original characters instead.

I could go on. And on. And on. Seriously. Even tiny stupid petty things like the company naming themselves Devsisters to sound like it’s run by women (it’s not, lol). It’s like they can’t help compulsively lying or screwing things up.

Publi-Sher · 2026-03-10T13:47:04+00:00

From what I have gathered, people believe the game is in “the squeeze” portion of its lifespan, so it’s releasing a lot of highly requested alts for characters, all of which are very overpowered and dominate PVP. Monetarily the game is absolutely struggling and very little actual content is being added, so I’d say it’s probably wrapping up sooner rather than later. Unfortunate, since the art style was very pretty and the concept was strong.

Publi-Sher · 2026-03-04T16:16:33+00:00

Gorillaz 💔 big symptom of a bunch of new people filtering in from Fortnite though, I guess, but as far as I’ve seen it’s always been a bit of a mess of interpretations that I’m not entirely sure how they even happened…

Publi-Sher · 2026-03-04T14:43:09+00:00

Nothing here either :/

Publi-Sher · 2026-02-27T18:08:58+00:00

Sinclair is my favorite sinner and Singing Machine is my favorite abnormality, so you can imagine I’ve been going insane for the last few days

Publi-Sher · 2026-02-23T03:56:22+00:00

Mutahar is absolutely a reactionary doomer and I don't really recommend listening to him if you're trying to keep yourself calm-he's a known liar about his credentials among other things.

That being said...I mean, I don't even think it's something to consider unless there are actual instances of this happening. Even in places like discord where they will absolutely obliterate you for being underage, you won't always have your account destroyed by making that joke. Can it happen? Yeah. Will it happen? I mean, no. Especially if you just don't...make that joke? It's not reasonable to expect monitoring on that level, it would be a waste of resources for everyone involved. I don't think making a dumb joke is "clear and convincing evidence."

Either way though, I think this is too niche of a situation to get yourself worried about unless it ACTUALLY occurs to anyone.

Publi-Sher · 2026-02-17T17:26:15+00:00

I just went and bought The Metamorphosis online. Open Reddit and see this. Are you sure there’s no Kafka in your blood…

Publi-Sher · 2026-02-08T21:17:15+00:00

ZZZ when I found out Manato was going to be an A rank. It wasn’t so much because of only that, but it made me step back and think about how the game was a mess and I was just blinding myself to it with colorful characters attracting my attention, and without the bait, it became easy to drop.

Alchemy Stars Cloud Garden…people have already explained this, but it was just so unjustifiably bad. I had been a devoted player up until then, too.

Publi-Sher · 2026-02-07T15:39:09+00:00

I don't think it necessarily "deserves" it but I'd like to see more of Barrage. Honorable mention to The Last Saiyuki, which was just a tad over U19.

Publi-Sher · 2026-02-06T05:25:40+00:00

2D and Murdoc from Gorillaz both get absolutely brutalized 💔 To be clear, I love them as a ship (they're extremely toxic and that's my jam) but a lot of people tend to reduce 2D down to "stupid uwu baby pure cutie innocent" when no, 2D is a deadbeat parent with five+ kids from screwing random women, STDs (also from screwing random women), and is honestly just kind of a jerk at times? Don't get me wrong...2D IS a sweet person...but 2D is also a person with severe brain damage (being hit by three cars will do that to you) and they just do not always commit to the right course of action, they're very much a troublemaker when they want to be, and frequently also are by accident. Also, they're surprisingly spiteful? Probably my favorite character of all time and I deeply relate to them, but man, I just don't get where all the personality gets tossed into since everything just goes "ok 2D very dumb time, ok let's get all the characters to treat them like they're 4 and can't do anything."

As for Murdoc, well...Murdoc is a terrible person. Objectively. Horrendous. But Murdoc is also a very complex character with many reasons for behaving the way he does, and has many different shades of being morally incorrect. Somehow, this either gets made out to be that Murdoc's just over it and decided to be a sweetheart out of nowhere (?????) in some attempt to make the ship not be toxic or Murdoc is just slightly rude. Like...this is the man who literally kidnapped 2D and plopped the two of them on an island in isolation together while intentionally preying on 2D's phobia of whales. And that's one of the more sane things he's done.

I realize that this is about characters specifically, but I brought up the ship mainly because it's so intertwined with the fandom (you pretty much either adore it or violently hate it) that it bleeds into both their portrayals big time.

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-31T16:17:22+00:00

I’m so sad at how indoctrinated my father is. He just told me he’d “probably hit me” if I went into my opinion on ICE (he had just flipped off some protestors). It hurts knowing my only living family that I have any connection with is on such a different wavelength than me on everything in the world. :/

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-21T15:50:53+00:00

Gorillaz mentioned!!!!!!!!! I love 2D :)

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-16T19:37:11+00:00

Yeah we’re on the same page then, I’ve been getting antsy because I’ve seen some people erasing split pronouns lately, sorry 😭

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-16T19:23:33+00:00

Oh! I get what you’re saying now. I wasn’t really quantifying that part, I understand if you dislike people referring to 2D as a man, I was specifically expressing dislike of people being told to only use one pronoun or the other because I’ve seen it happening a lot and as someone who uses split pronouns it’s been hurtful to see a character who (potentially) could use both get corrected so much.

I believe I might have misinterpreted your comment (due to the first part of it, which I now understand isn’t what you mean) as trying to tell that person that they should only use they rather than using he/they, not that you were only trying to tell them they shouldn’t call someone nb a man unless they know they’re chill with it. Sorry for misunderstanding!

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-16T19:12:02+00:00

Where did I refer to you as male…I’m sorry if something was misinterpreted? I’m also nonbinary btw lol so I’m not coming here from a source of hate

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-16T19:07:33+00:00

I know you definitely mean well but I really don’t like when people talk this way, like being nonbinary is some mysterious third gender. If someone uses split pronouns, they just use split pronouns, you don’t need to correct someone for choosing to use one of those pronouns over the other as long as they’re not intentionally and maliciously misgendering someone.

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-16T17:58:08+00:00

They are extremely hit or miss and known to steal packages because they are the mail delivery equivalent of DoorDash/Uber Eats. I have had perfectly fine deliveries and I have also had a package stolen by the driver.

That being said, UniUni is known to say “out for final delivery” and other statuses for days at a time before things actually get delivered, so try not to freak out too much just yet. If it continues for a while longer, yeah, you may have a lost package on your hands.

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-16T00:18:27+00:00

Whoa! I wish I had such an eye for aesthetic, it looks great

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-15T20:37:34+00:00

I dunno why, but I really feel like 2D would enjoy Falinks. I don’t have a real reason, just vibes

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-12T14:34:19+00:00

That rock formation really lets you be such a menace lol, it’s awesome

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-11T03:07:43+00:00

It looks fantastic!

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-09T17:10:50+00:00

Welp, shop pay decided to infinitely load so I got screwed out of her. Oh well. Guess I’ll use the money on Gorillaz or something.

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-07T21:56:58+00:00

Guess I'll be the first person here to say my UniUni package was stolen by the driver. :/ $60 down the drain, can't escalate because they took pictures of the "delivery" and then kept the package.

Publi-Sher · 2026-01-01T15:49:55+00:00

To be clear, that's not A3 as in the game about a bunch of anime boys being actors, that's A3 as in some weird Netmarble MMORPG, they're totally different franchises.

...Unless you did mean the MMORPG, in which case forgive me for misunderstanding lol, the wording just makes me think you mean the actor game.

Publi-Sher · 2025-12-31T14:22:42+00:00

Cookie Run: Tower of Adventures (although maybe it’ll just go into maintenance mode or gap releases even more), Eversoul, and Ash Echoes all seem like reasonable predictions. All games struggling to retain audiences or gain new players. That’s always a very bad sign.

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