I'm still not clear what event they are referring to. They just refer to it as the event on sept 30th, i expect people who bought or follow the game will understand but I had a friend mention a different game that got delisted from steam and it brought me to mirror 2. Anyone have a synopsis of what happened? Was it just the whole refund website thing they did and didn't process them through steam?
"KAGAMI Ⅱ WORKS "、" NIJICO", "Paradise Project" and "SakuraGame" are the same game company, you can call it "LV1 games".
"LV1 Games" is a Chinese game development company which focus on web game and mobile game. but just as I said in the last post, they only cheated users by stealing other games images and get a similar name.
With the crazy competition of web games and mobile games, they found that their products couldn't compete with others like Girls' Frontline, Arknights or Genshin Impact.
So they decided to sell their mobile game on STEAM, and that game is Mirror.
Because of Mirror's success, someone started digging up information about "LV1 games", and one article wrote the history of the company.
"LV1 games" removed this article from the web by paying and threatening, because it's illegal to make porn games in China and they don't want to go out of business.
This article was saved by being reprinted without permission on other websites.
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While selling Mirror, they found out that the players were almost Chinese. So they skipped STEAM and refunded the money through Alipay. By this way, the players get refunded and the game does not need to be recalled.
They think they can gain the trust of the players and do a lot of "benefits" such as donation and providing free games.
It worked, many people decided to pre-order Mirror2.
The development team took the money to develop a new game like Genshin Impact called Novastella Island, but no one has experience in large development project, so a lot of money was wasted.
As a result, the development of Mirror2 is very slow, and many players are dissatisfied.
They were also worried about complaints from other companies about making porn games, so they finally decided to give up their commitment to updating porn content.
They want to use Mirror's refund method to keep players, but this time they failed.
On the one hand, there are many players who can't get refunds through Alipay, and on the other hand, some Chinese players are very trolls.
Alipay refunds are made by private transfer, so they need the identity information of the refund applicants.
Some trolls have reported to STEAM that "LV1 games" is trying to steal their personal information.
In fact, "LV1 Games" can refuse any refund according to STEAM terms,the game has been sold for more than two weeks.
In the end, a large number of malicious refunds (someone buys a new game, then ask for refund via Alipay, when they get the money, they will ask for refund on STEAM again, one account can "earn" more than 20$) caused the company to "go bankrupt".
Now, the company is still in Chengdu, but under a new name. Many of the original developers have left.