It got caught in a censorship scandal over its use of anime-inspired oversexualised little girls as a playable race. With bunny ears.
I'm not suggesting there's an 'appropriate' level for pre-teen girls in media to be sexualised, but the developers could at least exercise some subtlety. In the original Korean version they ran around in bikinis and fishnet stockings. In the American and European versions they're legally obligated to wear shorts. They still wear skimpy dresses and stiletto heels though, as well as having idle animations that more resemble lapdancing.
The silliest thing is that they were originally just the female members of a fluffy raccoon-people race. Then someone on the development team remembered they were selling this game to slightly asocial young Korean men, and the dryad-like "perpetually youthful guardians of nature" image got thrown out in favour of nekomimi and maid costumes. Apparently the idea of little girls getting down-'n'-dirty with jovial rodents didn't fly with their alpha players, because now we've got two purportedly seperate races with the exact same stats and abilities, living in the same area of the map.
Oh yeah, and they're only little girls from the waist up; they've got the curvaceous thighs of a grown woman. Pretty creepy.
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