Trivia / Phigros

• Digital Piracy Is Okay: A "neutral" example. The developers don't really have any sort of rule, whether on their official Discord server and social media accounts, stating that you can't discuss unofficial distributions of the game, and as such people on said server routinely link apk files (which are used to sideload Android applications, as opposed to the standard method of downloading from the Google Play Store) of older versions (usually versions that have since-removed songs and charts) without any backlash from the developers or community management. Of course, the game is free, so it's not like the devs lose money, but even freeware game developers in general don't take kindly to unofficial/unauthorized distribution of their games.
• Doing It for the Art: This is actually enforced; the terms of some of the song licensing contracts require that the developers do not take in any profit from this game, which is another example of this trope in and of itself for the musicians (as normally, musicians want to be compensated for their songs being put in rhythm games).
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Due to a dispute between Jiang Mi Tiao and RocketLant, two of their collaboration songs in the Jiang Mi Tiao Collection folder got removed in an update three months after they were introduced. The 3rd-anniversary update brought back "Shadow" in particular, but the songs that were also worked on by RocketLant remain gone. This is notable by Chinese standards, as rhythm game developers based in China tend to be apathetic to respecting song copyrights due to the difficulty of foreign creators enforcing their copyrights in China.
• Screwed by the Network: The 1.6.0 update for the Android version was blocked from Google Play Store because the song artwork for "Dlyrotz" features someone smoking. Yet "MARENOL" and its infamously bloody artwork are totally okay in an E-rated game. Eventually the developers got tired of dealing with Google and decided to just not bother anymore, with the Android version now being exclusively available on TapTap.
• Troubled Production: The 1.5.3-1.6.0 period of updates suffered a lot of problems with the Android version, including Game Breaking Bugs that prevented the game from starting and one version being uploaded to TapTap but not the Google Play Store due to failing GPS's approval process. This caused the game's user rating to tank on GPS and many players to start getting their updates on TapTap instead, as TapTap seems to be more favorable to the game than Google is. The iOS version was largely unaffected.
• Word of God: The pink-haired girl in "MARENOL" and "MopeMope" was not named until two years after the former's two-year anniversary, when its composer LeaF announced her name on Twitter: Misui.