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Statement Regarding the Delay in Player Salary Payments and Current Club Status

Hello, this is the Dplus KIA Front Office.

First, we bow our heads in deep apology to the fans who always cherish Dplus KlA and send us your unwavering support, as well as to our reliable partner.

As the front office responsible of all operations of the club on the ground we feel a heavy sense of responsibility for the recent unfortunate situation. We wish to transparently disclose the facts and convey our sincerest words to our fans.

Despite operating in a challenging environment, the Dplus KlA front office has run breathlessly alongside our fans with a spirit of challenge, harboring bold and grand dreams. The moments we spent playing on the global stage, crying and laughing together with our fans, are the proudest and most precious memories for all the executives and staff of our front office.

However, we have reached a point where the club requires a larger scale of capability and support to grow to the next level, which coincided with changes in the business environment. Consequently, based on a management decision that welcoming a new owner is the best choice to guarantee a continuous leap forward and a sustainable future for the club and its roster, acquisition/sale proceedings are currently underway.

Accordingly, the club is undergoing the sale process to secure a more stable, long-term development path for Dplus KlA and to strengthen the global competitiveness of our roster. While closely conducting detailed discussions with the buyer we have been negotiating with, we have officially signed a contract with a professional M&A advisory firm to systematically carry out the process, aiming to quickly push forward sale proceedings with other capable potential buyers who can actively realize the club's value and vision.

However, as this is a crucial contract upon which the club's future depends, administrative procedures during the final coordination and advisory process were delayed slightly longer than expected. In this process, a temporary disruption occurred in the club's financial plans, ultimately resulting in the unfortunate situation where player salary payments were delayed by one month.

Before this issue arose, our front office explained the current cash flow situation and the progress of the sale to the players and coaching staff, and went through a communication process to politely ask for their understanding and indulgence. We convey our deepest apologies along with an inexpressible gratitude to our players, who have trusted the club without wavering through this transitional chaos, encouraging one another and dedicating themselves to their training and schedule.

All executives and employees of our front office feel a deep sense of responsibility regarding this situation and are taking it very seriously We are doing everything in our power to complete the salary payments as quickly as possible and normalize overall operations of the club. We also promise to wrap up the ongoing sale process as soon as possible to firmly rebuild a stable operational foundation.

The most important and absolutely non-negotiable value in our club is the "stable activities of our players." We will mobilize all of our resources to prioritize psychological stability and welfare support so that the players do not feel any anxiety on or off the stage and can focus entirely on their play.

Once again, we sincerely apologize to the fans and partners who walk alongside Dplus KiA for causing deep hurt and disappointment. We will make every effort to resolve this situation quicky so that we can be reborn as a stronger and more systematic club, thereby repaying the love of our fans.

Thank you.

July 16,2026

From all members of the Dplus KlA Front Office

From interview: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1McMH6hEZ7/

Q1: Zhuo : Today you won 3-1. In the first two games you seemed to be having a blast.

Knight : I just feel like the LCK region isn't that strong, LPL is the strongest.

Q2: Zhuo : Your Orianna has a 14-game winning streak, but in my stereotype, I feel like your Orianna isn't that strong. What's going on?

Knight : I think most people's memory of me being bad at Orianna is because of my performance with Top Esports. Later on, I had a deeper understanding of the champion, so I played better.

Q3: Zhuo : Do you realise one of your habits, that you smiled most of the time during your interview, but immediately switched to grave face once the question was asked?

Knight : A bit, maybe?

Zhuo : Try it out.

Q4: Zhuo : Predict who your opponent might be in the finals?

Knight : To be honest, it's Hanwha, I'd like to play G2! G2 is also a good friend of the LPL! I've never even fought them (in this MSI).

Dear Administrator:

We are very grateful to all the administrators for their continued support and love for "Aether Gazer." Your companionship has enabled us to persevere in expanding the game's content over the past four years. However, we are also well aware that due to the team's limited strength and experience, the quality of much content production has fallen short of the administrators' expectations, and the project's market performance has been less than ideal.

After careful consideration by the project team, we have made the following decision:

Aether Gazer will officially cease receiving updates after the V5.2 update on July 23, 2026.

After updates stop, the server will continue to run, and administrators can still log in normally.

To thank the administrators for their long-term support, after the version update on July 23, 2026, we will distribute a special thank-you gift to all servers. Administrators can log in to the game and receive it in their mail. The gift includes: 90 Precise Detection Certificates, 1 Sleeping Child of True Sakura, 1 Oath Ring, and 168 Costume Change Tickets.

At the same time, this version will open a special event called "Heart's Choice Moment". Administrators who participate in the event can receive one selectable corrector (including all correctors added in V5.2, but excluding collaboration-limited correctors).

The upcoming V5.2 update is the summer event version, mainly featuring a reset of the early main storyline and summer event content. Originally planned as an insert version during the update of the Void Chapter, to avoid the Great Wilderness Chapter's story becoming incomplete due to a hiatus, we will be using the remaining resources of the project team to complete the final chapter's storyline, aiming to finish this part within this year.

We will be launching the "With You" version soon, which will adjust game events, card pool rotation, and resource output. The game is planned to officially transition to a companion server mode in this version. Please stay tuned for further official announcements and updates.

The arrangements for all matters are as follows; any changes will be announced separately:

1. At 11:00 on July 9, 2026, registration and recharge functions will be discontinued across the entire platform.
2. From 05:00 to 12:00 on July 23, 2026, version V5.2 will be updated, and a special thank-you gift will be distributed to all servers.
3. From 15:00 on August 6, 2026 to 15:00 on September 6, 2026, a refund application page will be open in the game. Administrators can apply for a refund for all existing unused Transfer Flowers in their accounts since the official launch. Refund amounts will be tallied from 00:00 on August 1. For details, please refer to the "Refund Processing Plan Announcement".
4. On September 17, 2026, the "With You" version will be launched. Please stay tuned for further official announcements for details.
5. On October 17, 2026, the download portals for the client applications on various platforms were gradually closed.
6. In the second half of 2026, the main storyline "Human World" will be added and updated.

Finally, we would like to thank the administrators once again for their continued support and understanding. We remember every version and every event we've participated in together over the years, and we cherish both the criticism and the praise. This journey has been invaluable because of your companionship, and we will continue to move forward with this precious experience.

I sincerely wish all administrators a happy life and all the best in the future!

Aether Gazer Project Team

July 9, 2026

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