limbus company: critical analyses
warning: long post
lcb (limbus company bus) is such a good fcking game that i feel like crap over how bad the limbus company controversy was. in addition, there are players who have stopped playing due to the incident in july 2023. the july 2023 controversy was so bad that people boycotted the game/decided not to ever come back to it
this means that anybody who is playing currently is unaware of the july 2023 project moon incident.
i am playing it against my will. against my will because the story is so good. but i do not want to support this game. there are so many things that frustrate me about it.
this also leads me to about outis, because WHY?
the thing about boycotts in gacha games is that it has never come into fruition. it hasn't even come into fruition with mmos (maplestory in particular), i laugh if people boycott a gacha game.i have no idea how effective the pm boycott was, considering the director (forgot his name) gave an announcement regaridng about the labor issues, but still. doesn't chcange the fact that this is just. something that occurred and was handled so poorly.
history of the incident
on july 21, 2023, they released a trailer for new ids. it showed sinclair wearing a swimsuit and ishmael wearing a wetsuit.
it caused an outrage for korean netizens due to how ishmael wasn't wearing something revealing compared to sinclair
it then led to them investigating female staff members due to the feminism controversy in korea. they found out that the cg illustrator is a female/feminist.
jul 23, 2023
on july 23, 2023, the director kim jihoon (i shorten it to kjh) posted this announcement on twitter (i'm just going to say twitter for my sanity):
— Limbus Company (@LimbusCompany_B) September 16, 2023
it caused a huge backlash. people started boycotting limbus immediately after that. ratings went down to a 1 because of this announcement. so many female staff members (like the artist for leviathan and wonderlab) also left because of this too
sep 18, 2023
later on, kjh made another accountment on twitter addressing clarity regarding about the situation, that the cg illustrator left on her own
[7.25 공지와 이후의 미흡한 초기 대처에 관하여 팬분들께 사과드립니다. - 1]
— Limbus Company (@LimbusCompany_B) September 18, 2023
[7月25日の告知とその後の不十分な初期対処に関してファンの方々にお詫び申し上げます。-1]
[Apology to Our Fans for the Inadequate Early Response After the July 25th Notice. - 1]https://t.co/1nKsYKOJCH#LCB… pic.twitter.com/5d0I3UKkyr
i am pretty sure that she left on her own due to the contract ending but also because of the korean netizens attacking her
if anybody would like to support the cg illustrator who left on her own accord, here is her pateron link
in general, i think it had left a bad taste in my mouth. i am so very reluctant to toss money to limbus because of this controversy. i thought that it was so poorly mishandled and there was so much miscommunication with the community. it did not have to escalate as much as it did on july 23
so, while i think that the game is good, i do not like the director. i will only befriend limbus players who are critical of what happened during july 2023. thank you for reading this.
