Stellar Blade Sequel Credit Card Regulation Call Was a Troll
A fabricated call for financial regulation briefly trended on social media, but the actual forum community rejected the troll post, showing how easily a single bad-faith action can distort online discourse around a game.
Reporting from 1 sources: Game Spark.
Claims that overseas forum users urged credit card companies to regulate the upcoming Stellar Blade sequel have been debunked. The post, made on ResetEra, was a trolling attempt that resulted in the user being banned. The forum is not organizing any such call for regulation.
Shift Up's upcoming Stellar Blade: BLOOD RAIN became the target of a false narrative this week. A ResetEra user with an unusually low post count claimed to have reported the game to Visa and Mastercard, hoping to block its sale at major retailers. The post was flagged as trolling and the user was banned. Despite that, the claim spread on X and briefly trended, prompting coverage that the forum was organizing a regulation campaign. In reality, other ResetEra users reacted critically to the post, and no such campaign exists. The controversy traces back to an IGN interview in which Shift Up CEO Hyung-tae Kim said the new protagonist Evie is younger and smaller than the previous game's Eve, and discussed costume designs that sparked debate about sexiness. A Korean outlet, Inven, reported the character was intentionally made to look 'short and slightly younger.' No release date or platforms have been announced for Stellar Blade: BLOOD RAIN.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.