Former Mobile Legends Employee Reveals the Truth About the Company, Sad!
Who doesn’t know the popular game this year? the game that is discussed by many netizens or gamers, because the game is very similar to DOTA2 or Arena of Valor, especially if it’s not Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. online multiplayer battle arena game developed by the Moonton company reaped success after its release right on July 14, 2021, after the game was released, there was a lot of controversy about this, there were many pros and cons between player fans of mobile legends and other similar games such as DOTA 2 and Arena Of Valor, so do you think Mobile Legends is one of the plagiarism games from the previous games? if you want to know this, you have to read the very sad story of a former employee of the Mobile Legends game publishing company, what kind of expression he unpacked about the Moonton publishing company behind the public.
The expression of the former employee of the company is very sad, the article is not what you think about the company, then what kind of things did the Moonton company do behind the public, the employee exposed it all in his status on one of the social media on the Internet.
Employee Expressions: Former Mobile Legends Employee Reveals the Truth About the Company, Sad!
The expression of the former employee of the company Moonton (Indonesia).
I worked at Shanghai Moonton, the developers of Mobile Legends Bang Bang for more than 3 months. My main role is to localize game files for western audiences who manage social media and do various stunts. The hours are more difficult than my country of origin “Australia” but that’s okay because I want to discover something new.
Discrimination
Moonton’s hiring policies are heavily influenced by race and ethnicity. Pungutan wants to hire a Malaysian and Chinese translator. Most of the applicants are, of course, Chinese Malaysians, of course some of them have diverse backgrounds – each one feels uncomfortable. Turns out the COO thought that Chinese Malaysia, can’t really understand Malaysia as a country. They wanted ‘full-blooded Malays’ to fill this position.
Also heard that Moonton’s company CEO. Elex Tech, gave direct orders not to hire black people because they are criminals according to the CEO of Elex Tech. This means that all English speaking staff get nothing, but in contrast to white people who get some respect for encouraging the company’s image.
Microtransactions
The game is completely funded by microtransactions. Some of the income is earned by selling skins and heroes, of course because some skins in the game are priced up to 200$ USD, they give some extras but the hero stats don’t increase, and the company’s strategy every 2 weeks passes there will be a new hero appear and become the most successful. strongest so that players want to buy it.
They really ripped from the Chinese version of Arena Of Valor Wang Zhe Rong Yaol, you are given the opportunity to buy the latest hero, with the battle point system they provide. but if you want to follow the meta, you have to spend money. One of the most disgusting things is pressing the Lucky Spin and Wheel to buy a spin wheel to get an item or hero for real money.
Balancing
Since the game is not available in China, so the development team uses a VPN to try and test their own game. This means the idea of balancing is done from the point of view of 100+ players. This makes playing Mobile Legends Bang Bang a big attraction for teams and offices in Beijing where most people prefer to play the Chinese version of Arena Of Valor. It got to the point that our company COO had spent thousands of USD and bought every skin in the Arena Of Valor game. Mobile Legends fans wonder why every update will always be on time, because they can hardly be left behind by their competitors.
Work Abuse
The rude nature of the Executive staff makes it difficult for employees to make an argument against the company’s discrimination. The HR department revealed that they were afraid to go against the policies made by the company because the executives would make it a problem. Every day the COO would berate and yell at the employees, call them by name, and continue to scold one of our employees who is shorter who is 168cm tall, even though he himself is 170cm tall. Even worse, he once said that the employee had a very small penis in front of everyone as a joke.
Female employees are also of course hired because of their intimate relationship with the COO and they are then released from some heavy work and put the work on a lower employee and have to do a double workload. Letting the employee go wasn’t a big deal, but rather the abuse and mental abuse they experienced from the bosses and many employees asked “why couldn’t they be better”.
Plagiarism
Employees are constantly on the lookout for other games like Vainglory and of course Arena Of Valor for inspiration. So the bottom line is, many Mobile Legend game heroes are plagiarism from other games and only make small changes in that. Even our marketing team took ideas from other game marketing teams.
Note; Moonton is a terrible place for workers, they don’t hire you like other places, they hire you if you are white. they are also just to exploit children through their newest skins and heroes to spend money and make the beginners addicted to the game.
So, in your opinion, after hearing the comments from former employees of the Mobile Legend Bang – Bang game publishing company, how do you feel? Is this reasonable for large companies to do by inferior people? where the human mind exists, humans are not animals but creatures created by God who are one time, hopefully we can get wisdom from it.
The expression of the former employee of the company Moonton (English).
I worked at Shanghai Moonton, the developers of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, for a bit more than three months. My main role was to localize the game files for a western audience, manage social media and do some voice stuff. The hours were far tougher comparatively to my home country of Australia, but I did not mind since I wanted something new.
Discrimination
Moonton’s hiring policy is strongly influenced by race and ethics. Moonton wanted to hire a Malaysian and Chinese translator. Most of the applicants of course were Chinese dieting, some of them had impeccable backgrounds and experience. We rejected everyone of them. It turns out the COO thought that all Malaysian Chinese, could not truly understand Malaysia as a country. They wanted a ‘full blooded Malay’ to fill in to this position.
I also heard that the CEO of our parent company, Elex Tech, gave direct orders to not hire any ‘Blacks’ as they were all ‘criminals’ according to him. This meant that all English speaking staff could not be of dark complexion, but White people were given extra marks, as it ‘boosted’ the image of the company.
Microtransactions
The game is totally funded by microtransactions. Most of the revenue comes from the sale of skins and heroes. Some of the in-game skins can cost up to $200 USD. These skins are mostly low quality revamps done through Unity, they do provide some extra but barely noticeable stat increases but other than that are mainly cosmetic.
What was mostly appalling was that the newest hero (they released one every 2 weeks) had to be the strongest by far, so overpowered that if you don’t buy it, you will fall behind. Despite the in-game slogan of ‘Fair 5v5 MOBA’ (which they totally ripped off from Arena of Valor’s Chinese version, Wang Zhe Rong Yao), you are heavily incentivized to buy the newest hero. Of course you can purchase heroes using their battle point system, the IP of the Mobile Legends world, but the cap is so small on purpose, you pretty much have to spend money if you want to keep up with the meta.
One of the most disgusting things was the huge emphasis placed on the ‘Lucky Spin’ and ‘Wheel’ elements of purchasing. You spin a wheel to get items and heroes, and usually this meant purchasing the tickets with real money. This game is played by many young kids and was totally exploitative.
This is a company with over 10 million daily average players. I saw grosses of around 600 thousand to 1.1 million USD a day just from in-game items.
Balancing
As the game is not available in China, so the development team themselves all use VPNs to try and test out their own game. This means all the balancing ideas are done from point of a view of 100+ ping players. This makes playing Mobile Legends: Bang Bang a huge drag for the team and in the Beijing office, where I worked, most people preferred playing the Chinese version of Arena of Valor. It got to the point that the COO of our company had spent thousands of USD and bought out every single skin in our competitor game.
Yes, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang fans, if you are wondering why the game’s balancing is so bad, it’s because we can barely play it without lagging out.
Work Abuse
The abusive nature of the executive staff made it hard for employees to make any counterarguments against the discriminatory policies of the company. The HR department said that they were scared to speak out against the policies, as the executives would typically go into tantrums.
I totally believe them, as everyday the COO would mean and yell at employees, calling them by names. He constantly berates one of our shorter employees for his 5’6 (168cm) height, despite he himself being only 5’7 (170cm), even once saying he must have a small penis in front of everyone ‘as a joke’.
Certain female employees were also hired due to the intimate relations they had with our COO and they were pretty much exempt from doing any proper work, putting the burden on lesser paid employees, who were soon let go as they had to do double the workload. Letting those employees go wasn’t the big problem, but more the abuse and mental abuse they went through from the bosses, asking them why they can’t do better.
Plagiarism
Employees were constantly told to look at other similar games such as Vainglory and Arena of Valor for ‘inspiration. This meant that many of our heroes were direct copies with small changes. Even our marketing team was taking ideas from their marketing team.
TLDR; Moonton is a horrible place to work at and wouldn’t hire you based on skin colour, they are also only out there to exploit kids through methods of gambling.
I could keep going but honestly it’d take me forever….there’s a huge issue with sexism as well.
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