I will forever miss the first time I played Genshin. It was so magical and an amazing experience. I’m so sad that I’m burnt out of it now. Even with the new regions. :(
the co-op has gone awful, it used to be, yay lets go finish dragonspine or some other side quest or even just hang out! now its just, ''can i take sumeru mushrooms'' or no words, lv 90 domain/boss inv, decline = kick
I really don't get the issue. Just stop playing and come back when the next region is out. Nobody is forcing you to play daily or roll for new characters. You don't even need a good team to clear main story stuff. It's all piss easy.
Same. Artifacts, resources, dailies, resin, I did the maximum amount to not waste anything in that day but with the cost of my sanity. Thank goodness I quit, don't know if I want to go back in 4.0 tho, maybe I just gonna watch the story on RUclips cus I still love to know what happened.
Fr cool characters is the only reason why the game is still on my mind. I really want Arlecchino and want to gather the primos for her, but damn it feels like a chore nowadays.
It's magical that Genshin has gotten so many of us through dark times in our life And while it's not as enjoyable as it once was, I will always cherish the first few weeks of it that I experienced...
Absolutley, idk if you felt the same way but when dragonspine first came it out i remember it was christmastime, i was alone but seeing the mountain and its beauty and just the quests and the events really made me *feel* yk? Genshin will never be the same for me now because it's repetitve for the events yk.
@@Kasuzuke-wm2lzTOTALLY UNDERSTAND THIS! i remember that during christmas i got my first 5* and i was so happy and excited, every single time genshin did these announcement programs i remember being so excited about what they were going to add to the game. Its so sad to remember that cuz i dont feel this way anymore,
@@petrarcasupremacy8142 yess, i felt exactly liek this and i would honestly make an effort to watch all of the special announcement programs. there was honestly so much i did for this game because i loved it
once I started treating genshin as a more casual game instead of a chore my interest on it has gradually been increasing back. I can now skip dailies without fear while enjoying the game
this is true, even when I have the game open and then I felt like I don't want to do dailies anymore, I just close it, I see 160/160 resin? I don't care anymore as It's more fun playing it when you want to than being forced to play daily
@@piotrkrawczyk913yeah i took a 1 year break each time and played for like 2 months and burn out lol, now i dont force myself anymore and it's way better now
Remember when you were running around Mondsdadt? Or the first time you saw wangshu inn with your 4 star main? The times below Ar40 were magical, I cant explain. Now all we care about is strong teams, op artifacts, meta 5 stars. its not wrong but exploring and quests were just something else. I wont quit genshin soon but im on a burnout break. Thank you for everything genshin, you were what helped me get through last year.
i feel like crying because, regardless of what crticism genshin deserves, it's a game that has helped me cope with a lot of issues, gave me pretty good memories, and made me fall with its characters, worldbuilding and lore...I've tried so hard to get into it again but i just can't, so I'll just miss it forever. Edit after 7 months (this is what i replied to someone in the comments but i think that anyone who watches this video or reads these comments and think it's ridiculous should read this and shut the fuck up, you are no one to tell anyone how to feel about anything, stop bothering ppl writing their hearts out in this comment section): As the OP of the first comment, you couldn't be more wrong. I was 18 when genshin dropped, it wasn't my first game either, obviously. if you thought a little bit you'd realize that it also dropped during covid, people (including me) were struggling a lot, had ppl they care about dying of covid, etc w/o mentioning other personal issues. you can call me a snowflake all you want but you'll never make me feel ashamed for getting emotionally attached to stories and art, i feel like this with every piece of media or art I've ever loved and it's okay for me to feel sad about not being able to enjoy it anymore. You sound like an incel redditor, that's even more embarrassing than actually showing emotions like a normal person.
that is called grief, its a good thing, and part of grief is moving on and accepting the bad parts, seeing the experience as a whole an through the lens of reality. The game helped you, the company that ran the game is another story, but its great to have those memories and to leave them as such. Years from now players will probably return to the game and hope for semblance of nostalgia and it wont hit the same but it will still feel nice.
Really well done video. You explained what a lot of players feel and weren't exactly able to put into words fully. From a content creator perspective, I FEEL the general tiredness of the playerbase (and viewerbase). We love the game, the universe, the story...we feel attached to it but don't feel like there is a meaningful way to engage with it right now, beyond limited events. I'm grateful for the work hoyo puts in to new areas and new stories but there is something so lacking in the daily repeatable content. I'm glad hoyo is working on it (they said so in patch notes) but it is wild how long its taken. same with all the bugs and strange design/UI issues. why doesn't our cooldown reset when you restart an abyss chamber? they restart with limited events so why cant they fix this? it feels like a lack of care. And if its all about story, why can't we access old limited quests? quests that are SO IMPORTANT to the lore and character development. It makes me wonder what the end goal of the game beyond money. And just to be clear, im not blaming writers, designers, artists, etc,. Its so clear how much love they pour into these stories and characters. A lot of these decisions gotta go down a massive flagpole before they get to us.
compared to honkai impact (i play both games but i mainly play genshin)... genshin feels like it has no purpose...other than money. unlike honkai. honkai has story, which feels like it has worth, meaning, hope, everything.
I think it was a big mistake for them to say that they weren't making any end-game content. No matter how much you love a game, without end-game content/replayable content, then you're going to get bored of it. And the only replayable content we have right now is the spiral abyss and TCG. You never hear anyone saying that Spiral Abyss is a fun thing to do, and if you simply aren't into card games, then you're out of luck. The only reason I've been playing this long is exploration. Most people find it absolute torture, but thankfully for me I actually enjoy exploring everything and opening literally every single chest in the game, so with Sumeru and all the terrain they released I was entertained, I loved admiring the beauty of the sights around me, but even then exploring wasn't quite as fun as it used to be. I also think they should allow us to replay all of the story that we have played before. All of it, especially archon quests, even limited event stories if we've played them before. I don't understand WHY they refuse to let us replay archon quests and the 5 star story quests. I would love to relive some of those wonderful story moments again in game(watching it on RUclips just isn't the same), it gives us something to do, they don't have to award us primogems for replaying it, it's literally zero skin off of their back. So why in the world are they refusing to let us replay the story without any rewards? it makes no sense, it's like they're trying to bore us
Not burned out but have certainly taken breaks. I think that's the biggest challenge with Genshin; there's SO MUCH to do, but at the same time you can also feel really pressured to complete everything event-wise in time or simply even keep up the mountain of tasks and farming. I regularly raid in FFXIV and play a good handful of other games in the downtime so in a rush to complete the rest of Sumeru and Summer Paradise, I am certainly back to pushing Genshin hard again. It's certainly been an amazing game for better or worse!
This is the reason I take so many breaks from it! I can’t keep up with the amount of story quests and side quests and hangouts and events and it starts feeling like piled-up homework. Especially when I have to complete one quest in order to do another, or jump through different ones because one character is busy. And they keep adding so many characters! I still love the game, but it definitely feels a little bit much after a while.
Yeah. That happens to me, like I took a break from Sumeru like 8 months ago. Just comeback to play again, and it's been so fun! Even if I've missed all Sumeru events and stuff lol
There is not so much to do. Stop competeing with the community and you will realize there is nothing to do. Laughed so hard at a video where people are still caring about damage in this game. My pyschotherpaist friend said it the best. " Genshin impact has the biggest mentally fragile/ broken community I have ever seen" I have to be the best, so you want PVP no. oh I see you want to brag but you can't handle it if someone else is curb stomping you in a single player game. She's not wrong.
the thing that bothers me is definitely the amount of things to do whether that be missions reputation, exploration, farming, events etc i just feel like i wanna do everything but i can’t
@@phantomblade89 Legit. If I miss any events, I'll just watch it on RUclips. I haven't been burnt out from Genshin yet, and my trick for that is to just sit back and relax.
The reason so many people become burned out is that the game is designed to pull you in with it's early game content and then expects you to stay and grind well into the late game. It's hard to put into words exactly, but small problems become more apparent as you progress into mid and late game, and just simply compound on top of each other until it becomes too much for the player.
And what’s worse is that because they expect you to play consistently and follow along with the main and side story quests, if you take a long hiatus from the game, chances are you will forget a lot of important details about the story, and not knowing them is a huge problem because so many things just won't make any sense!
Yea imagine if genshin was just a solo rpg complete game with no filler dialogue, that ended after completing exploration and some abyss. It would be a near perfect game, but because it just keeps dragging on it loses all the magic. The game is it's own worst enemy
@@thefallencomrade50 sadly, hoyoverse owns everything with it's visual, while ToF doesn't have the visuals, it make up for interactivity with my crewmates
I started playing on version 1.3. I saw my brother and friends playing it and decided i wanted too. I made some new friends, got closer with one of my classmates all thanks to the game. It used to be magical to me, it kinda helped me during the pandemic when i was quite lonely and chronically online. I was obsessed with the game, farmed for characters religiously, constantly comparing my account to my friends’ . I felt like it was never gonna be enough no matter how much time and effort i put in. My grades were faltering too. I was so burned out that even now I still can’t come back to the game. Hopefully some day I can play it casually again.
"Where did all the magic go?", "I miss the way that this game made me feel" Oh god, i relate to this so much. Started playing in 1.3, when xiao's banner dropped. I remember exploring monstadt and liyue, it was truly magical - the feeling of accomplishing quests and literally getting to greater heights, it was always breathtaking. That was where i felt the magic. When GAA dropped, personally, genshin's magic was at its peak, that's also the time i get to play with friends (and all of us needed each other's help since none of us have maxed out chars). It was one of the most fun i had in any game i played, so far. Inazuma dropped, the magic was still near its peak, but it took just a little dip. It was still magical - where liyue and mons still felt "logical", inazuma's magic was it's mind-boggling "world-building". Nothing made sense, and that's why it was beautiful. The story was soooo good too (archon quests of mons up to sumeru). It was always an adventure and u will always be in for a surprise. Patch 1.6 and 2.0 will always have a special place in my heart (the last patch i felt this magic was when enkanomiya dropped, but even then it wasn't in the same level as those 2 patches). The patches after that (2.1 or 2.2, and beyond), I was already feeling the magic (slowly but surely) fading away. I honestly dont know how i kept myself playing this game until the patch b4 Baizhu's banner dropped. Now that i think about it, 1 (of many) the things that made me quit was the 1st cardgame-heavy event. I just couldn' be bothered with it (this was also the time the college semester was getting harder for me). It was the perfect time to quit so i did. I didnt miss genshin when i was not playing it, tbh. I tried going back after the semester ended (just this current patch), but it really lost it's magic for me. I thought i would go back just for the story, but now, idk... I will always miss that "magic", it was one of the best experiences I had in life, even if it's "just" from a game.
I have realized I will just read teh story online. There is no longer a reason to play the story and the dialogue in teh game got too much, hoyo needed to learn how to portray their story with WAY less dialogue. If I wanted to read it I can go on a fandom page :P
Okay the fact that this was basically almost me to a T. I started right before 1.3, and fell hard for the world and magic. I’m a huge fantasy lover so this game was right up my alley. And I loved it, truly did, I spent hours a day just grinding and exploring the world, being all up to date on quests, finding secret ones and trying to max out the statues. 1.6 was definitely the most fun for me, with the map and story and the hype from the upcoming inazuma release, I remember driving in the boat and hearing the music and just sat there in awe taking in the beauty of the world and I felt like I never wanted to leave. But then the magic started wearing off..I think sometime in the mid 2.0 patches, around Enka release and Chasm. At the time I was still playing consistently but it was far less, and I was getting tired with some repeating events. Then 2.7 I had the first lapse, around three weeks of me not playing with the occasional log in to do coms and log right off. At that point I felt something was wrong but shook it off, although I never played for more than an hour now. Sumeru release patch brought back the magic temporarily. I played it for a long while and felt that mystical wonder of being in a new place, before it quickly wore off. At that point I realized I was truly burnt out and couldn’t keep forcing myself to go on everyday. So I stopped, only hopping on to complete the last few days of an event or collecting mail, but coms were no longer a priority. I stopped doing anything completely this update with the Sumeru event. I was already taking a break, and even after seeing the trailer, saw the banners it wasn’t enough to bring me back into the game. I’ve reached a point where I can’t afford the time to play it, especially when the people I used to play it with don’t go on anymore and the events aren’t enough to intrigue me. That and HSR has taken up my attention as well. It’s sad. I really wanted to get in but the moment I reach the loading screen I just leave. I simply can’t bring myself to play it once more, i guess after all those 10+ hour grinds I used to do in pandemic it’s really starting to catch up to me. That and well, I realized after I found other games as well that genshin isn’t the greatest at rewarding players that are hardcore. Games like arknights have a nice progression where you earn better stuff the more time you invest, with genshin it was a hit or miss, especially in artifact grinds. That and the fact I was no longer in those pandemic times, so that meant less time to play it. This has gone on for too long and I apologize but seeing this video and how it succinctly describes my thoughts, and to see others that felt the same, was really touching. Now I plan to prob go back for Fontaine release, but mainly for main story. Maybe for characters, I’m really digging Wriothesely’s design but otherwise I’m out for the time being. I still try keeping somewhat up to date on new stuff or looking at fan work but that’s about it for the near future. Hopefully I’ll feel good enough to come back, and that y’all do too.
The magic didn't really go away for me. I played it from launch to when Dragonspine released then quit. I returned when the second Golden Apple archipeligo came and quit again just before Nahida came out. The magic never went away because of it. I'll probably return when the next primary element region comes and I'll probably have as much fun as I had previously.
@yourdad5799 everyone's experience is different. Gotta realize that the magic not leaving meant you had a healthier relation with the game but for many people it became a true focal point of their life. When the game faded so too did that history for them. But more could learn to have your mentality with games, much healthier
Genshin is definitely not a game you can grind every day and feel rewarded for it. It's a very casual game to log in when you want, do what you want to do, and log out. Unless you are like me, a person that enjoys pointless grinding every day for artifacts, achievements, lore, etc. I've played almost since launch, pretty much every day, and I still enjoy the game, events, abyss, combat mechanics, elemental reactions, etc.
i have no idea how you do this. i played from 2.0 to 2.8 (about 8 months) and i got extremely burnt out to the point where waiting the game to open alone felt like a curse. im trying to play genshin impact nowadays but i cant get myself to play over 10-15 minutes because of the genshins gacha system and why its one of the worst i have seen in a game. genshin almost doesnt reward you with anything ever because mihoyo doesnt care and wont care since their 2 year boring event system works and gives them alot of money. i really want to have the interest some people have in playing genshin even after having 2-3 month burnouts.
@@rockwastaken I can understand how people get burnt out, the game is very repetitive unless you are always pulling the new characters and building them (I don't). The events are the same thing and mechanics with different art designs. I just like the story, world building, character design, and open world aspect. I don't mind (even enjoy) pointless grinding. It's very sad to see people that want to enjoy the game, but can't anymore, however, at the end of the day everyone has a different idea of what the game should look like and Hoyoverse can't and won't satisfy everyone. They are a company after all, and they want to make money. They wont' change a formula that makes them millions every patch. I also think that there is nothing wrong in recognizing that the game is not for you and moving on, or just coming back for big events and not loging in for a while. This is just my opinion though, I'm sure not everyone sees it this way, and that's ok. 🙂
I also begun playing Genshin during Covid and it was absolutely magical. Stuck to it for the first year and a half but after that I begun taking hiatuses, and they became more frequent as time went on. Other things and other games that were more interesting popped up and I couldn't be bothered to play. It's such a shame because Fontaine is around the corner and I'm not even excited for it, or the new characters.
True, take a character like Dainsleif for example. People have been waiting for him for more than 2 years now and honestly by the time he comes out. I don't think people are going to be hyped anymore for him. It's like what happened with Baizhu. Also with Khaenri'ah, by the time we get to visit the place (maybe after a year or two) most people won't be excited about it
@@derric0412 Genshin is a good testament as to how long it takes for hype to die. Mentioning Baizhu, people were speculating all sorts of things about his kit, the Dendro element, and his identity since 2020. They put off doing anything about Dendro until it was so late and a lot of people who were hyped for Baizhu left the game already.
@@inplane9970 yeah exactly, and either that or the baizhu wanters were just saving up (like the scara savers) so they were thriving for a bit while the rest just . didnt care because . while he was the first confirmed dendro character technically, he came out so late within 3.0 that there were so many characters who are much better in terms of meta which a lot of people care about, not me tho im thriving with my baizhu 🔥
I remember really enjoying doing the story and archon quests for mondstat and liyue when the game was still young. The dialog was interesting and entertaining enough to keep me paying attention and the story was in general well structured. The best part was that one quest would unlock everything in the entire region so you could explore absolutely everything as you pleased. As far as I'm aware, nowadays you need to do world quests with no voice acting that are longer than old story quests in order to unlock some story/archon quests that are themselves unnecessarily long for what feels like absolutely no storyline progression. On top of this shit, the dialogue is far more repetitive than I remember and paimon's voice makes me want to commit unspeakable atrocities. The story and archon quests used to be something I really enjoyed in this game, perhaps even my favorite part of the game, but now it's a horrible chore that makes me want to either close the game or continue grinding aimlessly
i agree played since release then stop after scaramouche banner, genshin right now is just dialog simulator that u cant skip, i mean i dont mind if the dialog is part of main story but sometimes the dialog is pointless and pain in the ass
Omg I thought maybe it was just me but a lot of the inazuma quests just were never nearly as engaging as those in Mondstadt and Liyue. I used to read everything when I was in Mondstadt but now Ive just started skipping Inazuma and Sumeru dialogue if it wasn't important to the plot
Absolutely. The game was never top tier storytelling but the concepts were at least serviceable enough to get me to care about certain characters or the gorgeous world or just the game in general. It has since become a complete, incoherent borderline unplayable slopfest. I genuinely hate doing “””quests””” in this game now. I literally cannot play this game without a fucking autoclicker, or I’dve had to replace my mouse be now. If most gamers weren’t already conditioned to consume slop, this probably would have killed the game. Fontaine is coming out soon, could not care less. About the entire story actually. Sibling, archons, celestia, who cares. It’s just going to be the same uninspired corporate sludge they’ve been passing off as storytelling for over a year now.
Which is crazy because it shows how they don’t care about players, yet the players will go out of their way to defend every flaw in the game with their life.
That's true. I'm a new player and for a whole week my mind was completely occupied by genshin. But i have imp irl commitments and also came across such videos and i was able to extricate myself from the spiral. The think is genshin attracts players to play it daily by using daily commissions etc so players log in daily to do them as a chore. They get burned out. You just have to play it how you play other AAA games. Only play when you want to not because you'll get some primos or something
@@kitten_with_bad_breath I played for 2 Years almost everyday and you can very much compare it to smoking or other drugs with how addictive it is. Now i only play when i want to for big events or actual new content.
To me, Genshin burn out comes from being forced to do "chores" to get to the fun stuff. For a lot of people these chores manifest in daily commissions, artifact grinding, min-maxing resin consumption, battlepass leveling, F.O.M.O minigame events, and the fear of losings the fifty-fifty on an anticipated character. Those chores developed over the course of the player's gametime because a lot of it is tied to the Primogem -> Gacha -> New Character cycle born from the desire to expand our ways to have fun playing the game in the first place. Think back to when you first started the game, the feeling of unimpeded discovery, not only of the map but of the game systems and elemental reactions. The moment you discovered the Cryo Regisvine and Anemo Hypostasis or the thrill of reading "Snow-Covered Path (Highly Dangerous)" in Dragonspine for the first time. These moments are slowly replaced by mastery of the game's systems and we subconsciously min-max the "fun" out of the game. We try to explore Inazuma but it's gated behind an extensive questline at AR 30, we try to explore the caves of Sumeru but it's gated behind a voiceless sidequest that is as lengthy as the region's Archon questline. A new player tries to ascend Shenhe or Yae Miko but find out they won't be able to reach their leveling bosses for weeks while their favorite characters grow weaker as their world level ascends. For me the gacha has always been secondary to the exploration and gameplay (combat) so I enjoy the spiral abyss for the most part. New areas continue to draw me in but is usually hampered by questlines stopping or limiting my fun. The gacha experience can especially sours enthusiasm as failing to get a character will undoubtabley drain the drive to continue playing the event/story, especially since characters are teased all the time so the hype of playing a new character may be all that motivates that player at the moment.
I felt so free when I stopped caring about the gacha system. Then I burnt out because my world level is too high for my characters, and the grind to get them up to strength is too daunting. Even just trace and ascension materials are a pain, not to mention artifacts. I would love to return to Genshin, and I have tried a few times, but it's just too hard for me to get back to that level where things were fun and grinding didn't take too long. And when I try to play through the story, the dialogue is so bloated that I stop caring. Honestly there is so much Mihoyo can do to improve the game. If traversal were easier, grinding would be quicker and easier. If they added a skip button for the story quests, people who don't care about the story could get to the parts they like. I don't have much hope that Genshin will change for the better, though I'll probably keep hopping on a couple times a year to play a little and grind some more. Maybe it will clock again for me someday.
@@lucidragon5260 oh i know what should mihoyo put, a warning that after lv 40 you got to have good characters. I'm a casual player, have been playing the whole sumeru region and feeling fine after the same burnt out of not having good chars and feeling intimidated by enemies when I was AR 45. Now that most of the monster are pretty casual (not underpowered), I'm having better time for it, but the quest is piling up and I have not the energy after the very frequent events, which is actually possibly the best events in any game I have tried. the improvement part is a bit weird, as it incentivizes people to not play the game to enjoy the game. I love BDO, but man I can't stand how fast paced it is, so I guess genshin's slow paced and embrace the more traditional approach to gaming is better for casuals, when you got to be excited for the story and the game than focusing on the lack of time you had to finish this part of the game. Man I wish I have that much time, I got to use my break at work to finish some story. Oh and adding the button will make it easier for people to skip the story, making their story unheard, and thus making it less fun to create engaging story, and thus harder to sell their character, and thus get lower income and had to make even more predatory elements, and that's a no go. I think having us monkey brain having to at least hit the button to advance some texts made us aware of the story even for a tiny bit, and I'll take that than turning the game into another mobile gacha games. And the grind, if it is easier wouldn't that make it less rewarding to get the character to be good? my characters rarely have skill lv more than 6, and most of them are in level 70, and honestly I'm pretty fine playing in AR 56. It's the mentality that our characters has to be the best they could, the expectation and the grind you are looking at probably is what makes it daunting and less enjoyable. And I see less and less people who cares about big damages surviving the long project that is Genshin, and no I am not shaming anyone, but I hope the people who got burnout from not having big numbers on their screen can sit back and enjoy the game story and exploration and less about getting into the top ten first abyss finisher or something. Maybe the end game is to explore and have fun, just like how you and everyone who got burnt out said what makes you enjoy the game at first. It was not big damage, it was (fill your own here)
this is so real!!! like genuinely a great explanation of why I'm not that interested in genshin anymore. Everything is locked behind unavoidable, wordy and insignificant quests, when all I want to do is just explore. Probably the same reason why I didn't like Inazuma and didn't even play Sumeru lol
You don't have to minmax in genshin, people have shown that you can even clear SA with F2P characters, Genshin isn't designed to be played hardcore, its okay to put down the game and play whenever you want to play it.
@@ThoseFerretsthe worst part is that the exploration in sumeru was insanely good, like some of the best world design I’ve seen and made inazuma look meh, but holy shit the story was so long and terrible. I forced myself through it because I really liked the area, but playing the “game” felt like work and it took forever even with spamming the space bar to skip dialogue.
genshin's open world being able to hold memories just like our world is so crazy. every region can hold feelings of what you experienced as you played through it and i find it so cool! it's just upsetting we can't make any more of these in the new ones because there aren't any good feelings left to enjoy within the game.
I still feel those memories as I will spontaneously run through one of the beautious regions in the game, ahnd the memories of exploring firstly, along with appreciation for just how beautiful it is almost always comes through. Sumeru holds a lot of these for me, some as fresh as a few months ago. I don't know how Fontaine is gonna feel, buht with the high standard they set in Sumeru, I imagine it will also be pretty dang captivating.
When I gave Genshin a real try I fell in love with it, loved it's characters, story, voice acting, scenes, secondary quests, etc., got hooked and played it every single day to discover new things, understand how the combat worked, get the 100% of every region. Played the game my way, I was enjoying it as an RPG, not a gacha. But that magic started to fade away as soon as I realized that exact thing: playing it my way, with the characters I like the most, the way I liked the most, relaxed, enjoying the story, the narrative, the scenary and unlocking things slowly, was going to completely ruin my experience in the future. Ayaka was my first 5 star but couldn't get her a team because her best teammates weren't even close to be in the banner, didn't care and decided to wait till they were available, which took around 8 months btw, meanwhile I continued playing, enjoying as much as possible, and I really did, but when I realized I couldn't wait forever for the proper team, I focused on getting new characters to progress without issues and to remain having fun. That, without me noticing it, very slowly took me away from what I loved the most about this game in the first place, it started this non stop cycle of doing everything available to save as much primogems as possible to see if I was lucky enough to get the next character, or save enough till the one I needed for my team arrive, build them, try them in a team, repeat. As I said at first I didn't even noticed it, and was having lots of fun, but with time, Genshin became a game I played to grind instead of enjoying it's world as I did in the beginning. A clear symptom of it is when I finally got Shenhe on her rerun, the character I wanted the most since my early days in Genshin thanks to her story and character overall, I even got her C3 with her weapon, just to play for a couple of weeks more and don't touch the game ever since. Didn't feel the excitement I used to, it became that rush of having a character but after that you feel empty, bored. The efforts you do simply don't pay off, you grind for weeks for a character, if you planned ahead correctly then it means you have the proper team, play with that team and enjoy for a while but if you want to try something new, that means you have to repeat the cycle I wrote above again and again, meaning that you will be spending your whole time trying to get to enjoy the game, instead of enjoying the game in the process.
I like (and dislike lol) Genshin a lot for quite a few reasons, but what really stands out to me is the ost. I can’t really describe how beautiful I find the soundtracks to be, and don’t even get me started on the character themes! They have a really special place in my heart and the effort and care that goes into them is on a different level. Seems like all the tracks are symphony recorded and I think that’s really special. As long as Yu Peng Chen keeps providing us with masterpieces I will continue to play the game.
Best comment here. And I completely agree. The Genshin OST’s are a huge part of why I stay honestly. They’re phenomenal. And highly under-appreciated for how spectacular they are. They just kill it with the new music every season.
Fellow ost enjoyers, we are next to fontaine and I CANNOT wait to listen all the new ost this game has for us. Also looking forward for the arlecchino battle theme if it ends up happening.
I started playing genshin at the first day of the release, got really hooked up and reached "end of content" whcih at that time was when we arrive at Liue and see "archont die"... it took about a month or smth.. and seeing that there is... no more story i stopped playing.. then,maybe 4-6month later i saw a Eula teaser.. and i simped so hard,i went back to playing,and played A LOT.... just to get Qiqi. Stopped playing till her next banner and actually got her.. and kept playing for a whole.. then stopped.. again.. then one of y friends brought me bac to Genshin and tht was the longest i played it actively.. i got few 5*, even got lucky on weapon banner.. but just after getting this luck.. runnign around and having fun.. something clicked in my brain.. Even if i was having fun... i was not enjoying the game..i closed the game.. with hope that i will return ro it.. then Starrail came out.. never touched it.. and then i deleted Genshin.. And the feel of relief i felt doing that.. is amazing. I felt like i.. fried myself from it. I didnt need to comeback. It was a good journey.. but every journey comes to an end, and it was an end for my journey with genshin.. Im glad i could play and enjoy it, and i def will miss the feelings starting genshing gave me, but current Genshin is just.. not for me. Genshin thought me to move on. To let stuff go away and leave it, if its feel like a burden. when it should be fun. I tank Genshin for it , and i wot touch any games of Hoyo
I played Genshin every day (multiple hours even) since around 2.4 and loved it. It was my comfort game for a long time. I then startetd to feel very burnout at the end of 3.7 due to streaming it for 8 hours 3 times a week and didn't even log in to do dailies for 2 months. With the release of Fontaine I started to love the game again. I feel in love with the new characters and the underwater world. It was the first time in a while that I was just wandering(swimming) around and listened to the beautiful music
To sum it down, genshin is a story based open world exploration game, and that's what's fun about it. Later you learn about different characters and the pulling system so you continue playing to pull 5stars and 4star cons and it's a dopamine rush and super satisfying when you get the characters you want. What makes the game fun is the amazing world and interesting lore and story line. In a few months you've basically explored most of the world and completed the story line. It continues being fun since you get a rush pulling characters even though it's a boring process doing dailies and pretty much boring events over and over. But after a while you have a good amount of 5 stars and getting new ones doesn't change ur account much and the whole process is just repeating, dull, mind numbing and boring. Not to even talk about artifact farming and how repetitive and boring that gets. Been playing for 2 years and recently quit since its just not any fun. But to be fair story based open world exploration games (like breath of the wild, witcher 3, rdr2 etc..) are generally designed to be played from 40-200 hours maybe up to 400max. Once you complete the story, explore the map, complete all horizontal content, there is nothing left to do and you're done. And that's good, you move on, remember it as a fun game and play something else. The problem with genshin is that they try to get you to stick around with the pulling system and you end up playing even after completing all or most content in the game and end up doing boring content and trying to convince yourself that it's fun
Hit the nail on every point. This is basically why. I believe the reason why HYV doesn't really try to improve the end game is because most of the players are casuals anyway and wouldn't care and the game is first and foremost, a story exploration game and character collecting. This is also why they can get away with reverse powercreep.
another problem is that against their great story, they make useless filler content. In HSR, the main event now in 1.2 is you telling your adventure to a storyteller and he argues it's uninteresting, so together you craft a fake story around it. I always try to read the story quests of NPCs too, but this is pushing it too far.
Wht are you keep repeating "it's over?" The game is still ongoing both in story and adding characters, they're just locked behind patches, so once you've done and took a look at everything in the "current" patch, you can quit and return when the "next" patch comes with all it's new content of all kinds.
Genshin helped me moved on. I strated playing since 1.0. When my brother and my mom died, it was difficult for me to move on. I was extremely sad and wanted to end my life. Then here comes Genshin and I fell in love with the music, scenery, and gameplay. There were events that I can relate to such as finding Razor's parents. There are stories with real life lessons. Suddenly I felt burnt out. I stopped playing even with the blessings and battle passstill active for a couple of months.With the help of my live-in-partner who actively plays and very much in love with the game since release, I went back and played again. I think we all go through the process of being burnt out even in other games. Right now I actively play and looking forward to Fontaine. There's so much to catch up to since Sumeru is huge but at least there's a lot to be done and explored. I found my way back to Genshin.
I think star rail has really made me realize what burnt me out on genshin. Like as a whole i probably had a more enjoyable time in genshin just cause theres more game to it, but the expectation to log in daily a dedicate a significant amount of time and effort to finish all of my dailys and use all of my resin just made playing the game feel like a chore i had to get done and really just made the rest of the game feel unappealing. Where as with star rail i can quickly get my dailys and all of my farming while im doing something else and its just made me feel way morw motovated to actually play the game
i miss the old genshin times, when inazuma came out during lockdown i was having the time of my life 😭 i was so attached to the game, connected the characters.. co-oped and spoke to my genshin friends every day.. it’s such a shame i’ll probably never talk to them again or play the game. i guess at this point all we can do is be grateful for the memories, feelings and experiences, and keep on going with the rest of our lives 🫶
thats so funny because me and my friends all agree inazuma totally ruined the game lol. i hate how intense the terrain is now, monsadt and liyue are so flat and inazuma and sumeru r wayyy too geogrpahically taxing... exploring isnt that fun bc of how hard it is. i also think inazumas quests were just way too long and repetive
@@munchyy5287literally and being electrocuted to death when you just arrive in inazuma like they feel like they have to keep “one-upping” each area when it’s just making it more exhausting
I’ve been back and forth of being into this game since it came out, but the one thing that’s always pulled me back into the game is the new regions. I still get the same excited feeling when I explore a new area. I love stepping into the new region for the first time and hearing the new soundtracks in the background.
@@butt_slapper69 I liked Sumeru, but I also didn’t feel as excited about it when I explored it. Inazuma was probably the region I was the most excited about. I’m also really excited for Fontaine, so hopefully it will be fun to explore.
I can relate to that, however, I haven't played the archon quests in Sumeru and I can't do it either because the "character is busy somewhere else" and what happens when I try to do the other quest instead? Exactly... another character is busy somewhere else and so on. It just doesn't stop. I don't want to skip through walls of dialogue just to get to an exciting new quest or area in Fontaine.
Genshin also was my main pastime during the pandemic, and the game was SO IMPORTANT to me. I always felt such deep joy and connection with everything the game provided, and it certainly made the pandemic more bearable. Since I went back to the office at the beginning of the year, I was genuinely sad I didn't have enough time to "properly" enjoy the game anymore. It soon started feeling so overwhelming, and such a chore to log in every day just to do the same things over and over again. I used to love big events such as this last Klee/Eula one SO MUCH, I enjoyed everything about them. But this one was literally painful to play through. It was lore deep to the point where you can't do anything for like 5 minutes until characters stop info-dumping you. I was sad both because I couldn't enjoy the lore and also couldn't enjoy the game BECAUSE of the lore. I'm kinda heartbroken I couldn't care less about Fontaine.
I started playing Star Rail and I immediately abandoned Genshin. SR actually has a sense of passion behind it- seeing as I’ve only played it for two months and I already have five five stars and there’s also such dynamic cut scenes and pretty animations for all characters. And all the issues Genshin has are fixed in SR, especially the materials collection.
I feel like the HSR team was more receptive to the genshin players' complaints than the genshin team. Probably because theyre a new game so they want to hook us in, but i really hope they keep it up, because its what gives so much more life to HSR, especially how active the MC is as a character unlike Aether/Lumine
Me too. I told myself that I wouldn’t abandon Genshin, but HSR is so much better… I’m really invested and it feels refreshing… still love Genshin! It will always have a place in my heart.
Same, I was actually so relieved when Star Rail came out. It made me realize that I had already been ready to quit genshin for a year, and the daily routine respects my time by having dailies that I already need to do and that take literally 2-3 minutes. Also auto farming, better lore, cooler character designs. And I love turn based so it was an easy choice
At a certain point, the sense of discovery wears off; we develop a sense of mastery, form opinions, and look for an extrinsic motivator to keep us going, rather than enjoying doing it because it’s fun. Gacha games are very good at the extrinsic motivators (in the beginning), but eventually the reward no longer outweighs the effort to log in every day, and the flaws show through. I believe the solution is a combination of the individual player setting intrinsic motivations for themselves, and the devs finding a way to consistently reward players in *meaningful* ways with clear, lengthy, but *guaranteed* goals, and mitigating the punishment players feel for taking breaks or avoiding burnout.
the sense of discovery definitivily fell off for me after playing genshin for a month. i still think its world looks beautiful, the music is good and the open world is among the better ones, its just that it has become so boring to play. i just got of that small island in inazuma and its just not fun to play anymore. it doesnt help that i have to do commisions every day. im currently playing honkai impact 3rd now and so far its just much more respectful of the player by giving you options to outright buy many good characters with ingame currency (that isnt even hard to get). upgrading characters are also much easier and can be done without even using the gacha. even spending money in honkai is a much better deal than spending it in genshin and honkai have a very generous new player experience compared to genshin. there is also many different game modes with elysium realm and open world being my favorites.
The trick is to just never log in just because of the dailies. Only log in to the game if there's something you actually want to do or if you actually feel like playing it at the moment, and do dailies and events at the start or end of that session.
As a day 1 player that stops when the first time Nahida banner came out and I never stepped on Sumeru, I had a ton of fun exploring and doing silly things when genshin impact came out. There's the secret island near mondstadt that really far and me and my friend tried to cross using kaeya on the sea. But, exploring can be tiring too. Imagine searching for whatever-culus that spread around the world + getting all the chest while keep changing tab between genshin and map marker. And the further you explore, the more things you need to unlock only to be rewarded by cheap change of primo - to the point that I feel like a forced labour slave with minimum wage. It no longer become a fun adventure full of wonder and exploration, but full of chores! day in day out only to do events to get petty sum of primo and farm artifacts. I didn't even bother touching abyss because I don't want to feel burdened and waste my time on something too hard.
thats how i feel about it too with everything basically being a chore. i dont touch Abyss anymore because of how long it takes to finish. but what really bothers me is the point about the 99 problems in Genshin and barely any getting fixed, theres SO MANY quality of life issues that bog the game down that it makes certain aspects feel worse than they should be.
It’s because it is lol. There’s actually people who run ‘pilot’ services for your account where you pay them to play the game for you and do all the slave labor. Upon finding that I was hysterical.
As I watch this video, my observation is that all or most of your passion for Genshin was in the gacha system. You said it was responsible for some of your most memorable gaming moments and then proceeded to talk about all the banners you pulled for, and I believe the passion was there.
Yes. It was the banners that just sucks you in the game and what keeps people playing. Genshin is just overall not a good game. It has interesting lore and characters but even with that, it couldn't make up for the boring gameplay.
@@cherry414 yea and most old players probably has 10+ five star characters now or enough to make 2 strong abyss 5 star teams. So it's not necessary to be excited to pull on banners anymore.
Unfortunately a massive reason why people there’s people that stick to only gacha games is that the dopamine they give you when you finally pull that 5* you’ve been waiting for, Genshin being one of them. People literally play the game as a chore, following routes to collect items every 3 days so they can level a character or collect primos from chests.
I‘m thankful for Genshin because I was going through the ugliest time of my life when it came out and I could just escape everything else. But it served its‘ purpose for me just like for everyone else. I quit the game almost a year ago and don‘t feel particular remorse. I just feel bad for those going through the same burn out right now that I was going through last year. It will become easier for you to accept that it‘s time to move on to something else (at least for now). You will feel a lot lighter too. Just be grateful for what this game gave you.
I love genshin. I hate how complicated it is now. When I first started it was so easy. Somewhere around when inazuma came out, I pretty much started getting confused, I would try and do quests but nothing made sense to me. It got harder from there. I just play to get primos and do any important quests, but everything is quite repetitive
the Sumeru Ana-whatever quests really got to me. i just didn't care about distinguishing between one name or another and was just playing them for the primogems. needless to say, without a compelling story to keep you coming back you really start to notice the repetition.
@@robogoofers9131 I haven’t even done it. I can’t do quests that don’t have a destination. I don’t have the type of memory to just know where the heck I have to go with one sentence to help
I start playing at 1.4 and I was burned out at 3.0 so I stop playing at 3.0 and I came back at 3.8 and it was the best decision on my life because now I rehave this burning passion that push me too play everyday and a whole new quest with new character and I don't force myself
Similar thing for me, started in 1.5, quit in 2.6 and just came back at the end of 3.7, ive been so motivated to play and that spark has totally returned
I started in 1.2, I started to really dig into it and grind alot but had to stop at 1.6 mainly due to health issues, then got back when I got back, by that time Inazuma released so I grinded and enjoyed it even more. But it all started to diminish when Sumeru came out. With so much content and hours long quests (that aranara quest), it felt so un-engaging to me since it felt like I wanted to log off. Sure sakura cleansing took me hours, but it kept me hooked. Then Sumeru released much more content at a rapid rate (I wasn't even 20% finished with 3.0) and it just went up more and more and I was so overwhelmed I practically lost my motivation. With the spiral abyss, it went from boring to absolutely annoying and mald-inducing. That was pretty much the final straw, I tried joining the streamer program to help my motivation that's barely clinging but it just went bye-bye. I made so much memories but I'm very tempted to uninstall.
same! i stopped playing at first Cyno banner, and came back recently, everything feels so new! i really missed my characters and now i feel a lot of excitement for Fontaine and new story.. i think maybe in 5-6 months i will feel bored, but i will make a break again and everything will be fine. genshin is like ur home u can always come back!
I quit around 3.0 as well and just came back, the summer story area is actually so much fun, really glad I came back it feels like my passion is reignited.
i’m a sucker for relaxing and exploring the beautiful landscape with my favorite characters, or playing with me friends and attacking monsters. what i HATE is the random world quests you accidentally walk into. that’s what made me burn out and quit for almost a year.
I'll never forgot how ridiculously beautiful I thought this game looked at first glance despite it being free. I spent a good hour just messing around in the forest. I was excited finally climbing up the hills to fight lvl. 12 hilichurls with a 0 xp traveler and thinking I was godly for finessing my way through it. I remember thinking 3-star artifacts and weapons were exciting and assembling my first team of xingqiu and xiangling was the greatest.
Something to note about 7:50 is that in recent times they've been significantly more willing to make a large portion of prerequisite quests optional; for example the current event only strictly requires that you beat the mondstadt archon quests in order to play (which seems to be a theme with events not held in inazuma, which in those cases require you to only complete the quests required to access the region instead of the whole of it). Fontaine will also be available immediately after completing mondstadt archon quests based on their recent dev blog, and the whole quest lock thing is going to have a (admittedly partial) solution in the form of being able to unlock quests without actually starting them.
What everyone a NEEDS to remember it's Genshin is basically a Skyrim/BotW/etc but gacha so there is regular free expansion DLC. None of those games are played forever in every waking hours. You taking breaks and playing other things is very much normal and intended. It is not a WoW or Lost Ark that's built on wasting your time and resetting all your progress regularly in deceptive ways with layers of hamster wheels and progression systems. The game is not built to accommodate you giving it your entire life. No matter how many hundred hours of content a game has, it will always be finite. As someone who played nonstop since launch Sumeru was definitely a low point for a whole year in terms of exploration and just the general backdrop because this kind of game works because of the feel of openness and freedom it gives, while in Sumeru you have a Jungle feel simulated by the geography making the place claustrophobic by blocking your vision, and the desert part is the same yellow sand and brown rock aesthetic with a few patches of green for 9 months... Fontaine is promising in so many ways because of it since it's one again an European aesthetic and not a middle eastern jungle and empty desert with barren rocky mountains.
I remember that first feeling of playing Genshin impact for the first time. Especially playing during the pandemic game was it’s peak during inazuma. 💯
i started playing it back in 2020 nov, the game had just came out around 3-4 weeks ago. i remember the experience i had when i first played it and it was truly magical. no other game will make me feel the way genshin did. and i'm proud to say it too. that one year i absolutely adored the game. the spark started dying out slowly around the end of 2021 when stuff was hard and i couldnt play everyday. my laptop at that time didnt handle genshin well either so i thought why not take a small break. so i went on hiatus and then later in 22 i got a better laptop and tried to start getting into it once again but it was just hard. the spark died out completely and i started going on hiatuses too often. i still play it sometimes but i will never forget how awestruck i was when i first played it. im honestly surprised that a game has stuck with me this long because i never play any game this long i just quit after some months. but genshin is different and its my little safe place that i'll somehow keep coming back to. i have a love-hate relationship with this game istg.
i stopped playing after Sumeru released. and now i've started playing it again, almost a year later, and the spark came BACK i'm so happy, i missed Teyvat
Incoming Essay: You have been warned, but here is a semi-accurate-though-mostly-vague T.L.D.R: "I relate to a lot of the feelings expressed in this video, but not only with Genshin." My story with Genshin begins just before the Covid Pandemic began, when I had gotten a serious case of the flu and was running a fever of around 101. I decided to give Genshin Impact a try because it looked very beautiful and seemed like it would be relaxing to explore. I loved Breath of the Wild, so I gave Genshin a try. I enjoyed it a lot at first, but in that first sprint, I only played it until I was feeling healthy again. A couple of days and I was gone. I came back when Eula came out, and it was then that I explored my favorite region in the game: Dragonspine, but this was the start of my longest sprint with the game: I continued to finish the main quest in Liyue, then the Summer Archipelago came out, then eventually Inazuma came out. When Inazuma came out, I took my second break, and would come back for another sprint when my current favorite character, Kuki Shinobu, was first released. This pattern continued into Sumeru, with Nahida, but fizzled out to the point where even though I enjoyed the first chapter of the Sumeru questline, I'm just not interested in continuing on to the second chapter. I bring this up because I shared a similar pattern with Genshin as Haedal here, logging on for specific characters, and maybe playing a little bit of the game too. I can't say for sure that my problems with the game stem from the late-game dissatisfaction that a lot of the fan-base has. I was never interested in the Spiral Abyss, I played the game below my highest level so I could enjoy the story without needing max-investment characters, and the only money I ever spent on the game was 1 time when I had been playing enough to max out the battle pass. I played Genshin incredibly casually, and I focused on enjoying the characters, the story, the environment... but it eventually wasn't enough to keep me interested. Now, I appreciate Genshin from afar, and that's about it. I almost relate with this video even more with another game that I've played for a long time but have recently felt burned out on: Destiny 2. While I always played Genshin alone, I played Destiny frequently with friends who I made while playing the game. Friends that I keep to this day. I'll always have fond memories of playing with them all for days after days, raiding together, doing dungeons together, making bets with each other, helping each other with tough quests and grinds... Like Haedal says: "It's not that I miss the way things were... but I miss the way that this game made me feel." I used to really enjoy the grind, and now I either barely tolerate it with friends, or I don't play at all. That goes for Destiny, that goes for Genshin... I think we all wanted a game that we could play forever, like a new-age World of Warcraft. Something that would exist beyond us in our shared experiences. Something that we could back on together and relive our memories, and that we would feel happy to play again, if given the chance. But instead, we just got the memories, and the game will have to go on without us. I'll miss the way Genshin made me feel when I was exploring Dragonspine for the first time, or when I got the 50/50 on Eula with minutes to spare on the Banner, or the time when I gave the Weapon Banner a try and I got Nahida's signature weapon, having just gotten Nahida minutes prior. I'll miss the way Destiny made me feel when I had my friends rallying around me in support of my attempts on the hardest of challenges the game had to give. When I solo'd raids and dungeons, when I helped teach them to others, when I met friend after friend, the late-nights, the joke-filled days. If you've been reading to this point, thank you for listening to my story, and I hope we can look back on the time we spent on games like these with smiles on our faces, no matter if we enjoy the game anymore or not. We'll always have the memories of those early days. The memories of how these games used to make us feel.
One of the issue I have with lots of modern days is the abuse of the FOMO. I absolutely freaking hate how they abuse of that to make you keep playing. I quit Genshin, didn't bother with ToF, couldn't even look at Lost Ark, and for a stupid reason I jumped onto HSR... but with a more casual mindset. Hoyoverse also has the issue that you can't skip their cutscenes, like, ALL QUESTS are stuck behind bland, stiff and long ass talk that I don't have the time for. I hate that the game is forcing you to take so many minutes just to smash repeatedly one button/key to skip asap because you can't actually do a full skip. Tbh the only game I keep coming back to, where the devs themselves tell people to back off from time to time just to take a break of the game and without using the FOMO formula, is FFXIV. Hell, their trial game is so damn long it takes months to complete without paying a cent. It's far from being perfect and I do take lots of breaks but at least whenever there's new content, I don't need to fear that I'm gonna miss out if I wait a week, two, or three months. Aside from that one, I'll stick to offline games without planned events. One time buy and done with it.
i remember stumbling upon this video when I was still in denial abt being burnt out from genshin. I am a lore junkie, and ppl have complained abt this before btw, this game's lore is all over the place, and its not getting better. I feel like characters are wasted and some have not gotten updates to their lore lore years, look at venti for example, he is an archon and he hasnt gotten any aknowledgement since the 1.x updates. After 3 years I feel like we weren't heard, despite surveys, and I was a dumbass and thought, "maybe its taking them too much time" and then I saw our feedback, our months of complains on star rail, it hurts so much being treated like trash tbh. It all came to a head last month (September) when I fell in love with final fantasy 14, and that kinda sealed the deal I spent 3 years on this game, and I feel I have many regrets, for one part this game gave me so many happy moments, but it gave me so much sadness, bc I hoped for something that will never come, and I decided to accept it, I would've loved to come to that conclusion sooner
I’ve been playing the game for almost a year. I joined when Sumeru released and even someone who had 4 nations worth of content can still look back on it and have similar feelings. I find myself longing for the feeling the game gave me when I was playing through mondstadt and liyue. I find myself wanting to play but logging on and doing anything feels like a chore. I was hyped when I saw Fontaine trailers but my first thought was “how long will that keep me busy until I’m back here with nothing to work towards?”
I played and then quit for a year(or two) I’ve started playing again less as something i NEED to do but rather something i can do, ive found that if you play the game as, well a game rather than a chore, its much more enjoyable
When you don't have much to work towards, take a lil' break I recommend. Maybe just do dailies just to keep up ahnd pop in once in a while, but take a week or two+ where you don't engage with the game too seriously. I've found thaht to be helpful for me in pacing myself with this'n game.
Sticking for 2 years is already a feat in itself. I just started the game end January, only pulled on 3 limited banners since and every single time I do, I feel so burnt out. Frustration is the sole thing it makes me feel, and I admit that while I haven't played many gacha games, it's the first one to actually frustrate me with its gacha system. I don't want to spend money on it specifically because of that, and I can't even imagine still being there in one year. I haven't even touched it since I got Eula. Though at worst, I probably will go back to it for Fontaine for a while, but I don't know how long I'll be willing to continue playing it. And it's a shame, because I do love many characters. It's just that loving characters is ultimately useless if the game only brings me frustration.
There might be more changes in genshin multiverese in the future and maybe we will be proud of so much work we put into this game but I understand, it´s too much effort to get primogems and the rewards seem to be too little for all the time we spend.
Fundamentally it's more or less about what your goals are for the game. The issue I see is that as much as some people hate to admit they play mostly for the gambling aspect. But that in itself just introduces a self inflicted grind the reality is that new End Game doesn't mean much its just a Vertical treadmill to justify grinding Artifacts Getting more and more characters doesn't add complexity or value it's buying a new toy once you've barely touched the old one I see a lot of people say they "Love the combat" But 75% of those people regurgitate the same crap CC and people on reddit say no attempt at diversifying or looking into the games complexity But that's only combat and maybe that's not what draws you into the game. For me at least I set my own goals I lm not going to wait for Hoyoverse to make some MMO style wall so I can spend months or years making bigger number's I set small goal for myself. A DPS Sayu how does she work? She's squish should I bring a shield? Swirling generates Health should I use VV or focus Anemo Damage If it's exploration I revist places I don't usually go so many amazing places we never revisit and I sometimes collect material there Maybe the game is just done for you no game will stays fresh forever and maybe moving on is for the best
@@demonking-zm3rs Dude, I've played for several hundred hours the same tycoon games and the same real-time strategy games. I replayed dozens of hours longs RPGs. I don't need games to "remain fresh" to be into them for years or decades. My goal in Genshin is the outmust basic: play with the characters I like, even if the teams are sub-optimal in consequence. Spiral Abyss aside (whose rewards are ridiculous compared to the expected investment anyway), the game is too easy to bother investing in the gameplay in any shape or form, hence why I don't mind using my fates on characters like Eula. Though, of course if you have fun focusing on the combat, you do you. And don't worry, I will move on when I want to. It's just sad how frustrating Genshin has been for me from the getgo.
5:25 no, no no no, that's absolutely true, hoyo doesn't gives half of a crap about us, that's exactly why I got burned out, each content, each new banner, EVERYTHING, just screams at me that hoyo only sees us as walking wallets...
My issue with genshin is more of the obligation of logging on everyday. At first, in my honeymoon phase, I loved logging in because I could play for hours and hours, but then my bad habits kicked in and I started spending hours everyday exploring the areas until 100%ing them all, as I have a completionist spirit and wanted to see that beautiful golden 100% everywhere on the map (and for that I take accountability- that’s my fault if I have that obsession). Now, this is bad because now I do not have anything else to do. But while with other games, if I finish the content I can just… stop playing and go play something else, with Genshin I still need to log on every day for a bunch of boring, menial tasks. I’m not even talking about artifact grinding, I don’t play the abyss except sometimes when I’m just particularly bored. It’s daily commission, refreshing the teapot, trying to reach the max level in the battle pass; since 3.6 I have never gotten past level 30 anymore because I just don’t care enough to do all the stuff to advance it, cause it’s all stuff I’ve done a million times before. Events are nice, but they present another issue, they give me more FOMO than banners. Most important events have story significance and I love genshin’s lore, but I can’t enjoy the story because it’s either presented in a slow, boring way because Paimon infodumps everything (this is something that happens in all story content in Genshin, don’t get me wrong, but in events this just shines even more). And if you miss an event, that sucks, I guess you won’t know about this piece of lore then! I wasn’t playing in 1.2 and was in hiatus during 2.3 which meant I missed Albedo-centric events despite the fact that he’s my favourite character, and I also missed his BiS weapon because OF COURSE I DID. If I could just have the strength to actually go in hiatus for a few months I’m sure it would help me feel magic towards Genshin again. I played from 1.6 to 2.2 initially, only to drop it at 2.3 because I felt burned out, then came back in 3.0, and although I felt burned out again after 3.5 (the Dehya situation definitely didn’t help) I kept playing until now at 3.8. I wish I had the strength to go hiatus again.
@@pontoancora but the devs want you to, that's why they've implemented daily quests and login bonuses and and energy system with resin that's needed to proceed through battle pass which means if you don't play daily you miss out on resources you'd need to pull for the next hyped character, so the game systems greatly incentivise you to grind daily or pay
@blairfujin every dev wants you to keep playing their games daily. But you don't need to. Most of the currency you get from events and other sources besides dailies And of course, if you don't play daily, you can't expect to build your chars as fast. But it is a single-player game. You can play at your own pace.
@@pontoancora it's FOMO of course many players will login daily and get a burn out. And some players like me just leave the game for months to just take a break after getting bored😂😂
@@zenoafro FOMO? Events run for 2 weeks and always end on a Monday 4am. You don't need to login everyday just play the event for a day and it won't take you a hour to complete all. If you are working or in school you like have at least 1 to 2 dayoff/s a week you don't need to rush for anything.
genshin rlly helped me in a time where i was pretty depressed and lost abt life. i wanted an escape and it truly helped me find smtg to at least look forward to in my day. i fell in love with the world building, the characters, the music, the gameplay. it was the first game i rlly invested in and its the gateway for me to try out other games too! however, after my life started getting back on track, and i don't feel as lost and depressed as I used to, genshin didn't serve that purpose of escapism for me anymore, and I couldn't purely enjoy the game for what it is. i was getting burnt out from the sheer amount of grinding i had to do and the (boring) story quests takes so long, that it became harder & harder for me to come back to the game everyday until i just didn't. my life became pretty busy compared to how it was during lock down, and i just have other things in life i find more enjoyable or have more passion for. so ill always appreciate genshin for what it personally means for me and how much it has helped me, but now it's time to let go of something that no longer helps me in life. ill miss the memories and the feelings associated with the game, but it'll always be smtg I cherish.
i genuinely miss genshin so much, i literally used to play this game every single day but one day there was just nothing to do anymore so i just stopped and now i wanna play it again and i'm overwhelmed cause theres a lot of stuff... i really wish i can play it while actually enjoy it someday again cause i love it sm
I have been logging in non-stop since 2021 and honestly i did feel like i was going to quit, but at the same time i was just so down deep into the game i was scared and somewhat sad for leaving all my characters, fun events behind. Knowing this game helped me through the toughest times (Ukraine was right now, from February 2022) is actually the thing that makes the game so special to me.
i've been playing genshin since 1.0 and i've seen so many friends (and online friends i made through the game) drop it and come back or drop it in it's entirety. i went on my first hiatus during 2.1 and it was because one of my main genshin friendgroups fell out and we were allowed to go back to real life school. i've gone through so many different hiatuses with genshin. after 2.1 i came back in 2.5 to wish for yae but then i dropped it again and came back for sumeru. every single time i have dropped genshin i always think that "oh i'll never go back to it again" but then a new thing releases and my love for the game comes rushing back and i feel like i've been transported into the pre inazuma era where i used to play every single day for hours on end. the game helped me so much, even through all my friendships breaking down and my relationship with my family fell apart, i still had genshin which would keep my mind off all the problems in my life. i fell in love with the lore, the story, the gameplay and just everything. now that fontaine has released i feel like my love for genshin has just hit me like a truck again and i feel like i'm back in the pre-inazuma phase of my life. i have to say they have done a really good job with fontaine, the swimming is so damn fun. i won't deny genshin has it's problems (everything that is stated in the video is ABSOLUTELY TRUE!!!!). but i feel like no matter what i'll always come back to the game for comfort.
I always tell my friends (who are still pretty new to the game) that early game genshin is like a completely different game than late game genshin. When I started playing the game I had a blast, and that kept going even until Inazuma. I think the game is more fun when your characters are still weak, because domains story quest etc. feel more rewarding. The burnout for me started in Inazuma i think when the chasm released, because at that point my fav characters were built and new content was just scanning the map for puzzles and chests to get the exploration percantage to 100. Combat became a joke and it got worse when sumeru released along with the dendro bs. I made a hyperbloom team with ayato shinobu and nahida and I was shocked how broken this dmg was. That being said there was a really long time where I basically froze the game and did only my comissions and the events, not even using my resin. Had the advantage that i accumulated about 18 million mora so now the leveling is way more pleasant. Sadly Sumeru was for me disappointing, besides the amazing archon quest the region itself was super boring for me and the way to long world quests took a toll on my impatient adhd ass, when i completed on of the aranara quests i remember leaving my pc super pissed and I couldnt even tell why. I think that was the first time I realized how burned out I was from the game. Funnily enough, that is why I made all my other non sumero regions (except enkanomiya, fuck that shit) to 100% exploration. In a nutshell the magic of genshin goes away as soon as you have your first working late game teams, after that the daily gameplay sadly consists only about getting def-infested artifacts. This is why I love the games events, and fontaine is making me super excited because the region is like no other for me, it has this modern vibe that the others dont have and I hope the devs wont disappoint me this time.
Does that mean keeping an "mid" team in term of power would make the magic stay? Because to be honest i enjoy the game a lot i did stop sometime but its more because of how i work whit games then me being burned out of the game itself and also because i used to be a mobile player whithout an pc at somepoint back in time and the game reached a point my phone couldnt handle it anymore so i had to stop until i get a pc or a better phone the thing is even tho my friend try to tell me my team is bad im using bad character or that im doing terrible character match i dont listen to them and just play the way i want and dont search to make the perfect meta team like its not even a pvp game why would i need those So ye in the end maybe thats the reason i never felt a burn out from the game and still find this magic in the game because i never tried to get an op team just a team that i enjoy
@@dragondesabysse2258 your doing everything right, I dont play meta either, in fact in the almost 3 years of playing the game I watched only 1 Guide, which was about how you build Nilou. Ppl who Tell you that characters are bad are buttcancer, you dont need characters that Deal millions of dmg, regarding my characters power I am mostly f2p and I am doing absolutely fine. However I dont think that having weak characters would prevent a burnout, instead you would be frustrated about the game difficulty (look at the abyss) What I try to say is once the nostalgia of unlocking the games content is gone, you will risk a Burnout. For example I had tons of fun farming my first 5star artifacts for Yanfei but doing it now for any other character is just a chore for me. The time where I froze the game helped me quite a lot, it wont be the same as it was at the beginning of playing the game, but I have a lot of fun again and as I already said I am really looking forward to the release of Fontaine, but also to natlan and shneznaya.
@@antilar4579 well my main right now is wanderer so i just gived him the anemo artefact set from mondstadt (i dont know the name of the set in english) which is rll easy to farm compare to the latest one so i didnt felt the need to make insane artifact farm yet i try to get some artifact for the raiden shogun but i manage to do well whit what i have so i dont feel an urge to farm the perfect 5* set i do it then i dont know what to do whit my resin but thats it
I lost the thrill for playing genshin right as the chasm came out too my fun stopped at inazuma, Ive never had well build character cuz the whole farming system overwhelmed me and i struggled alot in fight which i personally didnt like, but idk sumeru is rly pretty but it doesnt have the same feel
I don’t care how many people dog it, and how predatory it is, it’ll still be one of my favourite games. Not just because of the game itself, but the communities and friends I’ve found because of Genshin. I don’t play it anymore, but I’ll never forget the opportunities I’ve been given because I’ve played Genshin.
I always laugh when people said genshin is predatory, in what way the game is forcing you to gacha? It is a freaking single player game and the easiest game Ive ever played, you can just finish all the story without even pull a single character. The only thing bad in this game is the repitition and too much filler stories that make player get bored
@@theillustriouscosmowitch617 lol why predatory? Because you dont always get character that you want? If you call that predatory, you should not touch any free gacha games, just stick with paid console and pc games, you will get what you paid except EA games
@theillustriouscosmowitch617 not predatory at all. You spend only if you want. The game doesn't remember you about the gacha, and you don't need gacha characters at all. And if you want them, the game gives you enough for free to get 85% of the new chars each year.
I started playing in early 2021. Back when Xiao first came out. It helped me deal with COVID a lot, coping with the hours of indoor life and lack of physically social interactions through the co-ops. I met a lot of friends online who taught be a lot about life (I met a lot of people slightly older than me), and kept me company. So many fond memories were created, those of which still brings me warmth when I think back on them. Genshin was a huge piece of my teenage life and I would never forget it. It also allowed me to connect with some peers through Genshin when I transferred to a new school. I stopped playing Genshin after getting burnout upon reaching AR 56 for a while (about mid 2022), and got tired of grinding long quests, while already having a collection of powerful characters. Along with my busy academic career, I really just don't feel like it's worth putting time anymore. The spark and excitement and connection isn't there anymore. However I am still always thankful for how much joy (or cope...) this game brought me!
I used to be so passionate for this game a year before. Then all that passion went poof when they officially announced that they will never put anything other than the abyss in this game. I write all my thoughts that would probably improve the game more (IMO) in the monthly survey that they are conducting until I finally realized that im talking to a goddam wall and sending those survey answers to a black hole. I still play this game now, mainly because I used to be a dolphin for this game and stopped just this year. Im still trying to get my moneys worth. lol I'll cope and play this game for a little bit just because Im trying to save for the upcoming hydro archon and arleccino. The fontaine story looks interesting as well. the lore bombs are crazy in sumeru and i feel like Fontaine will have a crazier story, but that's it. I only treat this game like an open world visual novel now instead of a daily grind game. I think its the best way to play genshin now. But that being said, having a 100gb visual novel doesnt sound appealing at all. lol oh.. lastly, Hu Tao will forever be best girl.
I was in your headspace for a while, and the next step is cutting your losses and fully quitting. I haven’t gotten to the uninstall phase yet, but I only login like once a month to play some spiral and then bail. I don’t want to click a single menu or listen to a single conversation in a game too afraid to truly innovate or improve despite raking in billions
It all started when they ruined Dehya's kit, how can you care about a company who outputs characters that have such a good personality and design, but is outweighed by the shit mechanics.
i agree with a lot of this, but also feel the need to correct something. hoyo said that they won’t make other endgame content SIMILAR to the abyss, not that they will never make any end game content (like the tcg for example)
I’ve been playing since week 1 and we still going strong. I feel all these issues yet I can’t stop. Not even a whale I just can’t let this journey end.
the problem is that all of this is by design, gacha games aren't made hoping that players finish the game and close the book filling fulfilled, the plan is for players to feel engaged at the beginning and hopefully drop as much money as they can while they are in a good mood then eventually burn out, drop the game and move on, these kinds of developers are not afraid of not retaining players since new ones will take their place, most people that spend on gacha learn their lesson quick and progressively don't spend as much money any more after a while so developers prioritize keeping players impressed while they are still new comers, by the time they realize how monotonous the skinner box known as dailies and weekly missions is, and that the story is dragging its feet and by design will never end even by the time servers shut down, those players would have already outlived their usefulness.
I downloaded and played it for a year when the game came out like religiously, super fun Then I took a long hiatus and when I returned there was just a bunch of random stuff I’d never seen with no returner guidance and I logged off again When I open my quest tab it looks like I have like 15 essays due and I don’t wanna do them. The main reason I quit is because I really enjoy the game in its core, but I get so bored when being forced to listen to the story. I just wanna get strong characters and wack mobs, explore or grind. When I need to wait 20-30 min on autoclicker total for one quest to end, I usually just end up in another game and forget. If genshin had a skip button I’d come back in a heartbeat.
Honkai star rail is a million times better (faster cutscenes and dialogue, no need to wait for animations to end to continue etc) They also have returner rewards if you’re gone for more than a month or so Plus the grid for relics (artifacts) can literally be automated so you don’t need to sit and run the same domain manually They have so many quality of life upgrades in that game that could easily be added to genshin, but no they don’t do it
@@brindleface9316Rewards for returning players? As if Genshin doesn't have one. Yeah, and you also forgot to say that the number of artifacts in hsr has also increased, that is, even more grinds. In principle, there is a lot more grind in hsr than in genshin, so it is obvious that they had to do something with these otherwise the players would have died of boredom. And what they came up with is autofight, the worst feature for the game. What's the point of the game if you don't play it? How hsr players love to shit on genshin. Is it so hard for you to enjoy the game without shitting another one?
@@Raininpain lmao i've literally played genshin since release, im already AR60. It's alright, it's the literal same company, but for some reason they don't share the same quality of life stuff. There wasn't a lot of problems with genshin in the beginning, but as they continue to release content without optimization, the grind continues to clarify my statement about playing it for a year: it was a year straight, finishing everything that was available. until inazuma came out and i took around a 6 month break just to come back and not feeling motivated enough to continue. Then sumeru and the desert area comes out, even more stuff. i still have the game downloaded. I still play from time to time, but not every day. and if you dont play every day, the game literally punishes you. you cant keep more than 5 condensed resin, meaning you have to run some sort of grind thing every day to maximize the use of resin. They built the game on FOMO so you have to be there for events that have exclusive items etc.
@@iosis9324 The number of artifacts have increased by 1. But at the current moment there are 28 different farmable artifact sets in genshin. Thats only the 5-star only. Hsr only has 14 , 24 with plantetary. The planetary stuff is kinda separate, because you run the worlds weekly anyways to farm the bonus stuff. and you can make any part you dont have, instead of hoping for it in the genshin reroll thing. That's not even mentioning the amount of world bosses and normal bosses in genshin needed to ascend your characters. There is definetly NOT more grind (atm) in hsr than genshin. Autofight is a godsend. you dont HAVE to use it, but you can. I like both games. I'm pointing out flaws in a game i really used to enjoy. I am comparing them simply because its made by the same company, and they made them similar on purpose to lessen the difficulty of switching the game. I definetly believe that mihoyo, as they always do, will release more grind shit in hsr, but at the current moment it's livable. Genshin is not.
This video is so relatable. I have 'been playing' Genshin since 1.0. When I started the game, I fell in love the world, the story, characters, its exploration and the combat system designed around elemental reactions. One year passed, Inazuma came and I was still having fun, with one new region to explore. Then, in Feb 2022, Elden ring came and being the souls fan I am, I played that, but when I returned to Genshin, I felt that I didn't really care about it anymore. This was quite surprising because it was around the time Yae Miko's banner had come out, a character who I had wanted(and still got) ever since the trailer for Inazuma dropped. At that time, the 'explore Enkanomiya' event was running and I completely skipped it. Then Sumeru came, and while I did play the story quest, I had little to no understanding of how dendro or its reactions worked, until I got Nahida(on her rerun banner). As of now, sure I am AR 60, sure I have multiple 5* characters(with consts, one even C6) and weapons, but I don't really care about the game anymore, inspite of the time and money I have spent in this game. I feel its mainly due to the fact that when I started losing interest in this game, mihoyo did nothing to prevent me from doing so, they kept the game stale, they did nothing new
You know, I don't think any of the issues with the game are the real reason why people get tired of it ironically. It's just the natural progression that happens after spending too much time with a game, the problems start to feel bigger and you start to take the great parts for granted because you're used to it already. And I don't think there's any way to help with that kind of burnout except a break will alleviate it for some. If the game improves, it still won't be able to shed those feelings.
I don't think so because there are various games that came out ages ago and still see play to this day because they're fun to replay over and over. Genshin simply isn't fun unless Hoyoverse manually injects content into it. And most of that content is going to be fun for some and not others.'
@@thedead073 Those games are either designed around player creativity, biggest example being minecraft, or are competitive. Otherwise games will require content updates or they do lose player numbers.
I completely agree with you. The loss of magic, the monotonous quests and whatever else was said is just bound to happen and I don't think enough players realize that. Also, of course if you're playing the game since the early stages and log-in every day to do comms+resin+artefacts, you're going to enjoy it less. A lot of players are treating the game like a job where they NEED to do certain stuff religiously which weights on them eventually and that's not the game's fault. As a casual player (who paused the game to write this comment), I always raise an eyebrow at some of the criticism Genshin receives. Sometimes it's more about your mindset while handling the product than the quality of the product itself.
@hachikuji_mayoi That's not the full picture. Most games allow you to replay the story over and over again. Genshin doesn't. Most Gacha games require you to get new characters so that you can use them in the game's content. And while genshin has constantly updating content. Rarely does it relate to the character you just wished for. It doesn't matter how good the Hydro Archon is if you're using her to play windtrace. Most games have depth to them which allows players to express themselves in game or devote time to experiencing the mechanics that the game has to offer. Genshin has no such thing. Genshin ultimately is a collectathon at base with average exploration in it. And that was going to get stale much faster than any other type of game.
@@chib_bibi Exactly, when you feel like you need to log in to a game, that really is the sign that you really should not. Doing anything because of extrinsic motivation leads to burnout eventually.
you explained this perfectly. the more i try to pick it up again the more i feel like it gets me grieving over something that never really left. it honestly feels so bad to simply "fall out of love" with something that took up so much importance in your daily life
im burnt out and retired for like 1 year and half now, but i do still come back everytime they released new main story line and i disappear again from the game.
I started recently in April, the game captivated me, so many factors to adjust and make the perfect team with good characters, so many landscapes, but after playing intensively for a while now, I also realize there´s not much more to do other than doing the same things I already did and farm artifacts and primogems to get the next characters. Maybe the game will change in the future to have a wider and more advanced form of multiverse and we will be proud to have gotten the characters we had with so much work but for now, it seems monotony and repetition seems to be the norm.
Really I feel like there’s sometimes too much content that doesn’t make it very cohesive. You can decorate your Serinetea Pot, upcoming events, quests, play Genuis Invocation TCG, level up the statues and tree in Dragonspine. It makes me feel overwhelmed when I think about those things, but you’re definitely right when the core gameplay comes down to artifact farming and saving primos. It feels pretty repetitive.
@@penelles8400 i play genshin for 2 years now, and I have been taking few breaks for a few months. and my solution right now - to play the game once a week to do some events. i do play more if i am in a good mood for that, but if just give up on spiral abyss - no need to farm artifacts every day. i already have enough characters and artifacts, so i dont need to spend more then a few hours a week. but ofc that doesn't work for everybody
I started playing shortly after release and I think the worst mistake a new player can do is to play the game intensely. I made that mistake too and when I ran into the end of content, it came with a bang. Suddenly there was "nothing to do" in the game, and it lasted for what felt like very long time until Dragonspine expansion came. I learned to take things slow and enjoy everything the game offers and I believe that's why I still find it fun, no matter how repetitive the tasks may seem. Comparing it with my experience from other RPGs I played before, I find Genshin better because there are things that are actually new coming regularly, and six weeks cycle is much faster than many months it took the other games to come with any updates. But that's just my experience and to be honest I am not very knowledgeable about current games as I only have time to play one game at a time.
i can relate so well to this im in an eternal cycle of coming back for characters and grinding artefacts once in a while. i kinda hope to stop soon, but at the same time i want to keep playing the game because of all the memories it has given me.
For me personally, I've only played about a month or so. It's a good game, solid mechanics, ect.. but the way content and character progression is locked behind monotones story quests (you can't skip) is just obnoxious. I remember trying to collect the last few shards of light in the Chasm, only to find out that they were locked behind a completely unrelated story quest that took another 10 hours to complete. Don't get me wrong, the quest turned out to be really interesting.. but to have an open world then lock things away like that is just annoying. Further, due to the requirement of "story keys". You can't just unlock the characters you want, you have to unlock them AND COMPLETE THEM in a specific order. Which again, would be fine.. if not for the fact it takes 2 days to unlock a single questline. The quest I needed above, required 5 keys to get to the point in the story I could collect those last 3x shards of light. That's 10x days of waiting, all because I didn't know I needed those stories unlocked so I wasn't spending the keys on those stories specifically. As of this point, beyond logging in to collect my 90 "free" gems for the day (of which I have another 38 days of those left) and collecting/spending realm currency in the teapot.. I've pretty much stopped playing. That said, I would recommend checking out fontane if you do get a chance. The swimming mechanics/puzzles can be a lot of fun. It's also the closest thing you'll get to flying in the game. lol
I think I’m really not in the majority here but I played since 1.0 (YES, since october 2020), have nearly 1000 log in days and still enjoy the game. I think what made it possible to stick with the game is that I just play it for fun and to relax. The grinding part was never a priority. I think when you remove that “pressure” to have the best of everything it becomes more enjoyable. But hey, that’s just how I play.
Yeah, I can relate a lot. I started a few weeks after the game released and I've only ever gone hiatus once, however I just don't feel like doing quests anymore. I just log on, do commissions and use resin, which I guess makes the game feel even more boring. I've tried to force myself to do the current summer quest, because I didn't want to miss out on the skin and rewards, but I just end up turning the game volume down and doing something else in the background. I've heard people say that the people who don't enjoy Genshin are the same people who skip through quests, and while that may be true, there's a reason why I ignore the dialogue in the quest anyway. Like you said, Hoyoverse has repeated the same formula in Genshin for EVERYTHING. They have reused the formula of: Meet the event banner character -> Talk to banner character for 10 minutes -> Paimon summarizes the entire dialogue -> find out there is a problem that only the traveler can solve -> Traveler solves it. I feel like my friends quitting the game have also contributed to my burnout. Not being able to experience the game with friends has probably made it more boring. I get this sad feeling whenever I check my friends list, and see "has been offline 31 days ago". Not to mention Honkai Starrail exists which actually feels fun to play and not a chore. (I hope I don't experience the same burnout for this game in the future) All these factors have basically diminished my interest in Genshin. This is probably a rant that no one will read but I just wanted to express my thoughts. Time to go use my resin I guess.
I agree with pretty much most of what you said. What got me hooked at first was the beautiful world, the amazing music, fun combat and interesting story. This game even had me in tears on some parts, like during Zhongli's story with Azhdaha, and Ruu's quest on Tsurumi Island (actually had tears flowing down this grown man's face). I semi-whaled on this game because I loved it that much, but I regret it in the end. The leveling up is what frustrated me the most. Leveling up your characters took way too long, and WAY too many resources. Further more, the pay off wasn't even worth it. Congratulations, you spent 5 million Mora to level up your character's attack by 0.1%. The final blow to me was leveling up artifacts. You would spend days and thousands of resin to get the artifact with the main stat that you want, only to for you to roll HP and Defense on all of your sub stats. There is no reason for leveling up to be based on sheer luck. The only reason they, and most other gacha games do this is to artificially extend your playtime without having to put the effort to create new content. I just remember saying "this is stupid, I'm done." I quit playing right when Chasm was coming out, but I haven't touched the game sense. A coworker of mine kept bugging me to play FF14, and when I stopped liking Genshin, I decided to give it a shot. My only regret with that is I didn't start playing sooner. I had no idea what I was missing out on, and the thought of playing an MMO turned me away. I can't believe I was so closed minded on FF14 just because it was an MMO. 90% of the game can be done solo, but that's really closer to 95% now. I've been in love with FF14 for almost 2 years now (started playing when Endwalker came out) and it's been a great ride. I doubt I'll ever come back to Genshin Impact, not unless they do real changes. Wishes are too expensive, so there should be more ways to get Primogems so you don't have to break the wallet every banner. The artifact strongbox is a waste because you can't control the primary stat or substats. There should be away to guarantee you to get the stat you want, even if it's super grindy. Leveling up your character shouldn't be so painful, and the payoff for doing so should be huge, not just an negligible buff in stats. There should be more end game content, not just the Abyss. For all of the good the game does, like the presentation, music, stylization, and characters, these downsides are deal breakers. I do miss this game, and truth be told, I never uninstalled it. Sometimes I want to start it up, but then I just think of all the better things I could be doing with my time, like typing an autobiography in a RUclips comment on a video about a game I haven't played in years.
This explained my reasons why I got burned out too omg... fuck, I miss the feeling too. Seeing the scenery on your video made me feel nostalgic, it was my way to escape from daily life too and the beauty of the world of Genshin never failed to amaze me. I even miss the characters as well, my comfort one, Childe, but now... not even my love for him or the nostalgia will made me go back. It's just... not it anymore and that saddens me beyond words. Thank you for this video, it was very well made.
Fellow endgame player here, experienced nearly the same thing everyone has been talking about in the comments here. Had a wonderful time playing this game, have been here since the first freaking Klee banner. I think I took a hiatus at some point, but it was definitely short because I remember grinding this game quite heavily after I got bored of Animal Crossing. It was magical. The world building was truly something I had never experienced before, and the elemental reaction system was so fresh and fun to use. Then, like everyone else, I took a dip. I just stopped caring for multiple reasons (I started playing other more fun games, school was picking up the pace, and I wanted to spend more time irl with friends). I had known it had reached a pretty bad point when I didn't even finish the second Golden Apple Archipelago, one of my favorite quests. Up until that point, I was grinding like never before to get a character I had missed a few years back, Kazuha. Once I got him, I felt satisfied. The game was much more fun, for about a few weeks. I dropped it for several months, and have only come back for Wanderer. While I feel I will be playing for a bit longer than the Kazuha period, I will likely take another hiatus.
Genshin nowadays just feels unnecessarily clunky, especially when star rail became a thing. The snappiness of star rail makes every clunk in genshin an eyesore and it ticks me off every time I get annoyed by the most mundane thing I have to do in genshin. Literally every complaint genshin had they optimised it in star rail and let genshin rot in its own base because it’s a cash cow regardless of how dated it’s starting to feel. People keep bringing up the open world vs turn based argument but every optimisation done in star rail has nothing to do with game type nor scale. You don’t have to wait 5s to open up the party screen, every teleporter heals you the moment you get there and you don’t have to stay ABSOLUTELY STILL for 5s for the heal to happen, you can choose the daily quests you want to do and not having the balloon escort shoved deep down into your throat, etc etc. And from 3.0 genshin became more linear to the extent that half of the “open” world are locked behind quests intertwined with other quests, when I saw a dendroculus on the minimap and realised it’s blocked behind a rock that requires me to finish off a quest that I cannot start cuz the NPC is occupied by another quest it was over for me, it annoyed me off the game and I never came back.
man….. i felt this in my SOUL. i remember when i started playing like it was yesterday - it was sometime during the first run of the gaa, just before inazuma’s release. i would hop on every day, so eager to go through the story and explore the regions. i can even vividly recall pulling for kazuha, my first five star! now, it’s a miracle if i manage to play after a few months. it was definitely the monotony that did it for me - the frustrating grind for materials, the bland fetch quests and commissions, the repetitive slog that is the spiral abyss (and don’t worry, i’ve barely touched the card game, too.). after sumeru and nahida’s releases, i gradually lost interest in the game. it felt more like a chore to log in than it should be, which was when i knew i was burnt out. i don’t even keep track of what patch the game’s on or what banners are running - i’ve pretty much fallen out of love. and while i do still deeply treasure the time i spent in genshin, the honeymoon phase is over. i don’t think i’ll ever enjoy it as much as i used to. we’ve got a few years to go before the final region comes out, so i hope hyv fixes at least some of the game’s issues before then. it wouldn’t be enough for me to stay, but as an old player who’s only following genshin’s development for the story right now, it’d be nice to see! (i am coping.) well, that’s enough of my crazy little rambling. thank you for making this video! it’s like you took the words right out of my mouth. lots of love, man! ^_^
I am watching this because it is the first game I ever played for more than a month regularly. 3 years and I still love the game, and I really just want to know why people are getting burned out.
It becomes a chore if you have other things you want to do or games to play. It ends up just logging in to do the dailies then log out and not even bothering to spend the resin. Slowly, you hated this repetitive action daily and ended up burn out. For people that are short on time, genshin can become frustrating. This is especially so in long events such as the current summer Klee. That's why I like hsr more. I can autoplay to spend the trailblazer power and the dailies can be finished way faster. Events can be completed much faster too as there are more teleport points in map.
I’ve played since like 1.5 and I took a break after losing so many 50/50s because I had gotten so annoyed. Then Sumeru came out and I got back into the game and loved exploring the rainforest. There were things I wanted to do / level up characters, but I had to progress the archon story. Having to catch up on that felt like a genuine chore because of the “this character is involved in another quest” so I’d have to go and do that one to progress. The story was so boring and took way too long to complete, but I eventually did it because I needed to unlock the bosses to build my characters. But basically now that Fontaine is coming out, I want to be super excited for the new area, but knowing that I have days worth of story content I’ll need to beat in order to actually enjoy the area genuinely stresses me out. I never cared about the story, I’m just there to walk around and vibe, but the game forces their bad dialogue and repetitive storytelling onto you.
3 years of playing, I don't have that feeling anymore when I once play, I reach ar 60 and mostly got all the fav, still played Fontaine and all, but, don't seem to want to play everyday anymore, maybe once a week😅😅😅
i started in patch 1.3. i don't blame people getting burnt out coz the the desert regions were boring as heck i didn't even bother exploring it after finishing main quest. Hoping Fontaine will bring new and exciting stuff to the game.
Bro 3.4 desert area is my least fave. I always try to unlock all the teleport waypoints every region but omg I've only opened the ones near commissions and some bosses I'll never fight
The desert's pretty cool, but yeah does get boring. It's so big. I prefer the "forest" part of Sumeru for sure, wish that had been a bit larger instead of so much desert. Although despite being called a "forest", much of it only has a few trees dotted around...
the thing that burnt me out from genshin is the story quests tbh, like don't get me wrong I love the story and the characters but it's presented horribly. the stupidly long quest with main focuses of npcs, the lazy and repetitive animations, and the neglect to characters with potential is so aggravating. i know it's hard to make character designs and implement them in-game, and ik it's hard to animate but I feel as if they stopped adding pointless npc's into stories that are meant to hold meaning and if they didn't recycle the same animations maybe the quests wouldn't be so dreadful and would actually hold my attention. and personally I really just want more content of characters that are actually really cool and powerful in lore but never have a chance to rlly shine like chongyun and rosaria. there is a bunch of issues story wise I could talk about but those reasons rlly put me off
Nah, why waste money on making new additional animations, on new models (with unique faces) for key npcs, on a team of writers who can write an actually good plot, on voicing important quests.... when you can just put money in your pockets? Those idi0tic players will pay millions anyways.
I feel you man, Ive been playing Genshin consistently every day since launch but only recently got too burnt out to be bothered and stopped playing for almost a month. I only recently came back to rush the events for primos to prepare for fontaine but i cant be assed to do daily commissions or finish the pending quests i have for new sumeru areas. I really do miss how genshin made me feel and i find it sad too, im just clinging on but i dont think ill be playing it as consistently as i used to.
my feelings towards this game is really different from others. i stopped playing this game not because i lost the magic that i felt when i first played it, but because the more i progress the more i realized there isn't anything there for me to experience anymore. the gameplay just became a repetitive grind for artifacts and primogems while the story is just a visual novel with barely any gameplay value. i miss this game not because i'm burnt out. i miss this game because there wasn't anything new to do.
Same. I play it for the story. In addition to the main story quest, the big events have such beautiful and touching stories too. There's almost always something poignant and touching to be gleaned. Like this year's summer event. The real world is harsh, but in veluriyam mirage, idyia will always be there to support your dreams 😊
@@W4RMACHINES I did, and the story was okay... the gameplay is not as fun as genshin for me, but it seems to be a hit to many turn based rpg player. It's too repetitive to me, and in genshin I could do stupid things with the enemies and watch them get stuck to something while bombarding them with my newly pulled wanderer (RIP Kazuha that I lose to Jean)
I played the games since it got launched, i was waiting for it since the trailer dropped. It was so magical when I first opened the game the world, characters, story. I remember when I was climbing Qingyun peak and the music played that was the best moment I ever had playing this game. I also made my friends play Genshin and they loved it. But now everyone is burned out and we all quit playing 😔
Genshin will always have a special place in my heart. I began as a casual player, but as my dad got sicker, he got put into ICU and I couldn't talk to him anymore. To distract myself, I began playing Genshin more and more. When he passed away, Genshin was the only constant thing in my life that did not remind me of him and gave me a breather. I stopped playing for a long while once I felt the burnt out, and now I'm taking it up again. I am not trying to level up or finish all the quests anymore, I just want to take the game easy and enjoy it:D
A big part of it for me as well is that just the regular content kinda feels like a chore. By the time I'm done with commissions, spending my resin, and doing any events that may be on I'm just... ready to log out again. They take enough time and effort that by the time the daily chores are done I've barely got any motivation left for exploration or questing.
my problem with the game is that there's way too much dialogue that I have to skip. I don't mind the Archon quests and don't skip dialogues there. But other story quests and side quests just way too much dialogues. I get tired. I have only been able to complete 3-4 hangouts. Hangouts are literally a nightmare.
Crazy how there's still no actual skip button. As somebody that tries to read or at least skim most of the dialogues doe the most annoying thing is the padding, dialogues often repeat the same thing over and over, not counting paimon that has ONLY lines reiterating obvious or previously mentioned things, it makes it feel like way more of a slug to get through than it needs to be.
I played almost daily for a year, and the game gave me a lot of joy. I still miss the feeling of awe I had when I first saw the landscapes of Liyue and Sumeru (didnt care much for Inazuma). But it was an addiction, and I am glad I have zero desire to ever touch it again. I was neglecting my own mental and physical health for a virtual world, and I am so glad I did not get Wanderer. It made me realize I was no longer playing the game for any amount of pleasure, but just to get the next shiny thing. It feels good to be free. Also, Paimon was so annoying that it made me dread cutscenes. She ruined the story for me, and as someone who likes story driven games it was another deal breaker for me.
They have changed the paimon voice making her more annoying. I could feel it clearly because in monestad her voice was not bad but in the recent summer Paradise event her voice was very irritating
Joined 4 months before the first anniversary and I loved it, didn’t know how to pull and stuff and didn’t even know about the Gacha system at all at first because I got it through the ads not the gameplay and other people. Started a new account because I couldn’t beat the ruin guard in the Mond Archon quest but after taking the four month break necessary (effectively putting me in during the anniversary) I finally killed him off and slowly got to Liyue. I remember thinking Liyue was part of Mondstadt and that was just how big Mondstadt was, no, it wasn’t, but it was super cute looking back. I played with my bestest of friends back then, I made the new account just when she’d started and we had the same type of experience, I ended up competing to see who could get the higher AR - ultimately I won. She was a Yanfei main and I maimed Anemo Lumine (still my preferred Lumine) and I kept actively trying to understand how the game, elements and artefacts worked, which put me in-front of her and got me to help her a lot of the time, odd since she was the one who actually watched genshin content at the time. First time I pulled, I got Noelle, then Ningguang, I still love Ningguang to this day just like back then, and my first 5 star was Mona, I was so excited to tell my best friend - she’s kind of a Mona simp now lol - and I remember dragging Mona around everywhere with my impractical team of Anemo Lumine, Ningguang, Diona and Mona We’d keep racing, I got Mona c1 on standard banner and got Ayaya, who I built and now cherish greatly, she got Venti (I was very jealous lmao, but he came in clutch for her bc we would struggle with the ascension domains and she said she really needed a crowd control support) We used to go to each others teapots super duper often, at like 1AM, both not wanting to wake our families up, we’d just text via the genshin system, and I remember showing her around the festival area I made and the floating islands with the teapot money we get as compensation for the teapots closing for a while. (I also showed off the Raiden plushie I got that she couldn’t bc she was stuck with the Archon quest at the time which I beat solely for the plushie hehe) When she was about to build Kuki, her device crashed and that account was lost, but she eventually made a new one, and we still play together sometimes but it doesn’t feel the same anymore. I’m glad that I knew back then that these moments would eventually pass, and I’m glad I enjoyed them as much as I did back then. Genshin gave so many of us only the best gaming experiences, huh.
I started playing at around 1.4-1.5. The first time experience was amazing and I played daily. The story was so engaging too but as time went on it started to become stagnant and I got more and more burntout. Recently, I became more busy with college so I stopped playing, it was already exhausting at that point and it was just adding more stress instead of helping. I have no regrets and I lost any FOMO. I did return for a bit but only for Kaeya's new outfit. I'll play it at my own pace but for now it just isn't feasible and until they have a story that I am interested in and want to immerse myself in or until Dainsleif is announced then I won't really come back lol
Genshin is one of the three games I play and i joined in 2020. I joined genshin not because of the trend but because I liked open world games. I never got bored of it or burnt out. I only missed a few days because I was sick or busy. I just do some dailies and farming and finish in 20 mins. I think if you're bored of the game, its not for you. Don't play a game you don't like just because it's popular.
"Don't play a game you don't like." How to know that I will dislike the grinding system and the events of Genshin if I have not played once. In fact, I started since launch because it is a beautiful open world, not because it is popular, I continued playing for almost a year but I quit because the game was boring and repetitive and the community is toxic.
Just because you get burned out on a game you used to like doesn’t mean the game isn’t for you, it’s completely normal for a person to get burned out on games. I get burned out on Deep Rock Galactic, Darktide or Insurgency from time to time but I hop in and have a damn good time. Those games will probably get boring for me one day for one reason or another but I enjoy them until then.
imagine calling genshin open world. an open world doesn't have borders to limit you, and has the whole map unlocked the moment you step in. it's vast indeed, not open.
hey, this video really hit home for me. i made so many friends through this game, grew my art account, and had so much fun on it during my online classes, and it distracted me from the more depressing elements of my life. now, i just cant get back into it, ive stopped talking to those friends as often since we just have different interests now, and ive lost a lot of interactions and followers on my page because i dont draw it anymore. this video made me feel a lot better about everything, knowing that im not the only one with these feelings and gripes about the game. also youre funny as hell man, here's a sub - hope to see you grow on here!
10:00 there are some in development. biggest being Wuthering waves. Genshin really needs a decent competitor. To be fair they recently mentioned wanting to implement some feature from Star rail into genshin. They mentioned the event archive and hinted at something like the simualte universe to come to genshin. Simulate universe = a rouge lite mode in HSR (Star rail)
Hinted at SU coming to Genshin? Ohoho, I'll believe it when I see it. Otherwise, they aren't doing jack shit as far as I can see. They want to stay in their comfort development zone. They want to cater this game to the non-gamers who don't want to figure out how stuff works, Waifu/Husbando simps, and gay/lesbian shippers. After all of this, they seal their ears with wax hoping the complaints of the actual gamers who are demanding actual gameplay will eventually go away. Genshin isn't really a combat game. It's sort of a visual novel, with a side of exploration. The combat barely exists. It is there to make the exploration more meaningful and to justify their Gacha's existence.
There was an event back in 2.2 called Labyrinth Warriors, which is basically the SU equivalent of Genshin. That was one event that they would probably not bring back since it involved playable characters (Xinyan & Childe) and was voiced. And so far voiced events won't come back except for GAA. It came back in 2.8 but somehow not on 3.8
I don't believe that WW will be able to make a good competitor to genshin. They will have to really make a divine game, and they have to spend millions on advertising. But genshin will soon also have anime from ufotable, which will bring even more players to genshin, and from this ww can bend into obscurity on the wave of genshin's hype. Although ww will most likely definitely be more popular than tof.
@@iosis9324 Wuwa has a $100m budget, the same as Genshin had. Mihoyo are only spending about a tenth of Genshin's income on the game itself every year so Kuro have a pretty good chance at matching its content output and marketing, especially since they'll probably put a bigger emphasis on combat for things like events. A good thing for them to do (unlike ToF) would be *not* launching the month before Genshin's most hyped patch of the year. If Kuro put it out right before Natlan comes out, they're shooting themselves in the foot.
I will forever miss the first time I played Genshin. It was so magical and an amazing experience. I’m so sad that I’m burnt out of it now. Even with the new regions. :(
The new regions are so big already (especially Sumeru) that you’ll be overwhelmed just by thinking about it.
@@windsedge9303too much content also made me stop playing it cause it was getting overwhelming
the co-op has gone awful,
it used to be, yay lets go finish dragonspine or some other side quest or even just hang out!
now its just, ''can i take sumeru mushrooms'' or no words, lv 90 domain/boss inv, decline = kick
same. the game is just getting too repetitive and feels more like a chore. i wish the game would feel like when i started playing it
I really don't get the issue. Just stop playing and come back when the next region is out. Nobody is forcing you to play daily or roll for new characters. You don't even need a good team to clear main story stuff. It's all piss easy.
For me it’s a cycle of quitting bc of artifact and resource farming and coming back again for cool characters.
Same shit with me im back for hydro archon
Same. Artifacts, resources, dailies, resin, I did the maximum amount to not waste anything in that day but with the cost of my sanity. Thank goodness I quit, don't know if I want to go back in 4.0 tho, maybe I just gonna watch the story on RUclips cus I still love to know what happened.
Fr cool characters is the only reason why the game is still on my mind.
I really want Arlecchino and want to gather the primos for her, but damn it feels like a chore nowadays.
@@genoshift3010literally me 😭😭
I came back for yelan lost her 50/50 then came back for eula then left again because it got boring
It's magical that Genshin has gotten so many of us through dark times in our life
And while it's not as enjoyable as it once was, I will always cherish the first few weeks of it that I experienced...
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I really miss how magical genshin felt. I was a player since 1.0 and everything was absolutely breathtaking. I miss those days.
Absolutley, idk if you felt the same way but when dragonspine first came it out i remember it was christmastime, i was alone but seeing the mountain and its beauty and just the quests and the events really made me *feel* yk? Genshin will never be the same for me now because it's repetitve for the events yk.
@@Kasuzuke-wm2lzTOTALLY UNDERSTAND THIS! i remember that during christmas i got my first 5* and i was so happy and excited, every single time genshin did these announcement programs i remember being so excited about what they were going to add to the game. Its so sad to remember that cuz i dont feel this way anymore,
@@petrarcasupremacy8142 yess, i felt exactly liek this and i would honestly make an effort to watch all of the special announcement programs. there was honestly so much i did for this game because i loved it
same man, same
@@Kasuzuke-wm2lz Dragonspine was the best area they unlocked, because of the feeling, the time it came out too, was perfect
once I started treating genshin as a more casual game instead of a chore my interest on it has gradually been increasing back. I can now skip dailies without fear while enjoying the game
skipping dailies is the best thing. I now very much excited to play the game once in a week. still not skipped an event though
True. I quit this game 3 times. Now i play more casual and have fun again 😊
this is true, even when I have the game open and then I felt like I don't want to do dailies anymore, I just close it, I see 160/160 resin? I don't care anymore as It's more fun playing it when you want to than being forced to play daily
@@piotrkrawczyk913yeah i took a 1 year break each time and played for like 2 months and burn out lol, now i dont force myself anymore and it's way better now
Me too! The best way to beat the burnout is to do what you feel like doing and not what you feel like you "have" to do
Remember when you were running around Mondsdadt? Or the first time you saw wangshu inn with your 4 star main? The times below Ar40 were magical, I cant explain. Now all we care about is strong teams, op artifacts, meta 5 stars. its not wrong but exploring and quests were just something else. I wont quit genshin soon but im on a burnout break. Thank you for everything genshin, you were what helped me get through last year.
i feel like crying because, regardless of what crticism genshin deserves, it's a game that has helped me cope with a lot of issues, gave me pretty good memories, and made me fall with its characters, worldbuilding and lore...I've tried so hard to get into it again but i just can't, so I'll just miss it forever.
Edit after 7 months (this is what i replied to someone in the comments but i think that anyone who watches this video or reads these comments and think it's ridiculous should read this and shut the fuck up, you are no one to tell anyone how to feel about anything, stop bothering ppl writing their hearts out in this comment section): As the OP of the first comment, you couldn't be more wrong. I was 18 when genshin dropped, it wasn't my first game either, obviously. if you thought a little bit you'd realize that it also dropped during covid, people (including me) were struggling a lot, had ppl they care about dying of covid, etc w/o mentioning other personal issues. you can call me a snowflake all you want but you'll never make me feel ashamed for getting emotionally attached to stories and art, i feel like this with every piece of media or art I've ever loved and it's okay for me to feel sad about not being able to enjoy it anymore. You sound like an incel redditor, that's even more embarrassing than actually showing emotions like a normal person.
Exactly how I felt..
that is called grief, its a good thing, and part of grief is moving on and accepting the bad parts, seeing the experience as a whole an through the lens of reality. The game helped you, the company that ran the game is another story, but its great to have those memories and to leave them as such. Years from now players will probably return to the game and hope for semblance of nostalgia and it wont hit the same but it will still feel nice.
this is me..
Lmao then just keep playing.
@@GodammitNappa you're right, i'm mourning that time of my life as a whole. And as you said, i'll probably play it again in the far future
Really well done video. You explained what a lot of players feel and weren't exactly able to put into words fully. From a content creator perspective, I FEEL the general tiredness of the playerbase (and viewerbase). We love the game, the universe, the story...we feel attached to it but don't feel like there is a meaningful way to engage with it right now, beyond limited events. I'm grateful for the work hoyo puts in to new areas and new stories but there is something so lacking in the daily repeatable content.
I'm glad hoyo is working on it (they said so in patch notes) but it is wild how long its taken. same with all the bugs and strange design/UI issues. why doesn't our cooldown reset when you restart an abyss chamber? they restart with limited events so why cant they fix this? it feels like a lack of care.
And if its all about story, why can't we access old limited quests? quests that are SO IMPORTANT to the lore and character development. It makes me wonder what the end goal of the game beyond money.
And just to be clear, im not blaming writers, designers, artists, etc,. Its so clear how much love they pour into these stories and characters. A lot of these decisions gotta go down a massive flagpole before they get to us.
Frr over time the game feels like a chore which is unfortunate as it was really fun at first :(
We need to uninstall and never go back cause hoyo does not care bro
compared to honkai impact (i play both games but i mainly play genshin)... genshin feels like it has no purpose...other than money. unlike honkai. honkai has story, which feels like it has worth, meaning, hope, everything.
So you think you re gonna quit genshin?
I think it was a big mistake for them to say that they weren't making any end-game content. No matter how much you love a game, without end-game content/replayable content, then you're going to get bored of it. And the only replayable content we have right now is the spiral abyss and TCG. You never hear anyone saying that Spiral Abyss is a fun thing to do, and if you simply aren't into card games, then you're out of luck. The only reason I've been playing this long is exploration. Most people find it absolute torture, but thankfully for me I actually enjoy exploring everything and opening literally every single chest in the game, so with Sumeru and all the terrain they released I was entertained, I loved admiring the beauty of the sights around me, but even then exploring wasn't quite as fun as it used to be. I also think they should allow us to replay all of the story that we have played before. All of it, especially archon quests, even limited event stories if we've played them before. I don't understand WHY they refuse to let us replay archon quests and the 5 star story quests. I would love to relive some of those wonderful story moments again in game(watching it on RUclips just isn't the same), it gives us something to do, they don't have to award us primogems for replaying it, it's literally zero skin off of their back. So why in the world are they refusing to let us replay the story without any rewards? it makes no sense, it's like they're trying to bore us
Not burned out but have certainly taken breaks. I think that's the biggest challenge with Genshin; there's SO MUCH to do, but at the same time you can also feel really pressured to complete everything event-wise in time or simply even keep up the mountain of tasks and farming. I regularly raid in FFXIV and play a good handful of other games in the downtime so in a rush to complete the rest of Sumeru and Summer Paradise, I am certainly back to pushing Genshin hard again.
It's certainly been an amazing game for better or worse!
This is the reason I take so many breaks from it! I can’t keep up with the amount of story quests and side quests and hangouts and events and it starts feeling like piled-up homework. Especially when I have to complete one quest in order to do another, or jump through different ones because one character is busy. And they keep adding so many characters!
I still love the game, but it definitely feels a little bit much after a while.
Yeah. That happens to me, like I took a break from Sumeru like 8 months ago. Just comeback to play again, and it's been so fun! Even if I've missed all Sumeru events and stuff lol
There is not so much to do. Stop competeing with the community and you will realize there is nothing to do.
Laughed so hard at a video where people are still caring about damage in this game. My pyschotherpaist friend said it the best. " Genshin impact has the biggest mentally fragile/ broken community I have ever seen" I have to be the best, so you want PVP no. oh I see you want to brag but you can't handle it if someone else is curb stomping you in a single player game.
She's not wrong.
the thing that bothers me is definitely the amount of things to do whether that be missions reputation, exploration, farming, events etc i just feel like i wanna do everything but i can’t
@@phantomblade89 Legit. If I miss any events, I'll just watch it on RUclips. I haven't been burnt out from Genshin yet, and my trick for that is to just sit back and relax.
The reason so many people become burned out is that the game is designed to pull you in with it's early game content and then expects you to stay and grind well into the late game. It's hard to put into words exactly, but small problems become more apparent as you progress into mid and late game, and just simply compound on top of each other until it becomes too much for the player.
Just playing tower of fantasy this game need love in western audience
I think the earlier story and character quests also feel somewhat more creative than the later ones at least up until I finally quit
And what’s worse is that because they expect you to play consistently and follow along with the main and side story quests, if you take a long hiatus from the game, chances are you will forget a lot of important details about the story, and not knowing them is a huge problem because so many things just won't make any sense!
Yea imagine if genshin was just a solo rpg complete game with no filler dialogue, that ended after completing exploration and some abyss. It would be a near perfect game, but because it just keeps dragging on it loses all the magic. The game is it's own worst enemy
@@thefallencomrade50 sadly, hoyoverse owns everything with it's visual, while ToF doesn't have the visuals, it make up for interactivity with my crewmates
i miss the pandemic era back then where genshin didn’t seem that overwhelming to play yet, i absolutely adore this game:(
We need another pandemic
@@arkvsi8142 we need eleazar pandemic
@@arkvsi8142people died…. no we don’t
@@arkvsi8142More free time I think
@@lilbeanbopwe need
I started playing on version 1.3. I saw my brother and friends playing it and decided i wanted too. I made some new friends, got closer with one of my classmates all thanks to the game. It used to be magical to me, it kinda helped me during the pandemic when i was quite lonely and chronically online. I was obsessed with the game, farmed for characters religiously, constantly comparing my account to my friends’ . I felt like it was never gonna be enough no matter how much time and effort i put in. My grades were faltering too. I was so burned out that even now I still can’t come back to the game. Hopefully some day I can play it casually again.
i have the same issue
I can't make friends because when someone arrives, it deduct your own party
@@jakedevera8714 yeah but if you’re a low level player, inviting friends can help.
"Where did all the magic go?", "I miss the way that this game made me feel"
Oh god, i relate to this so much. Started playing in 1.3, when xiao's banner dropped. I remember exploring monstadt and liyue, it was truly magical - the feeling of accomplishing quests and literally getting to greater heights, it was always breathtaking. That was where i felt the magic. When GAA dropped, personally, genshin's magic was at its peak, that's also the time i get to play with friends (and all of us needed each other's help since none of us have maxed out chars). It was one of the most fun i had in any game i played, so far. Inazuma dropped, the magic was still near its peak, but it took just a little dip. It was still magical - where liyue and mons still felt "logical", inazuma's magic was it's mind-boggling "world-building". Nothing made sense, and that's why it was beautiful. The story was soooo good too (archon quests of mons up to sumeru). It was always an adventure and u will always be in for a surprise. Patch 1.6 and 2.0 will always have a special place in my heart (the last patch i felt this magic was when enkanomiya dropped, but even then it wasn't in the same level as those 2 patches). The patches after that (2.1 or 2.2, and beyond), I was already feeling the magic (slowly but surely) fading away. I honestly dont know how i kept myself playing this game until the patch b4 Baizhu's banner dropped. Now that i think about it, 1 (of many) the things that made me quit was the 1st cardgame-heavy event. I just couldn' be bothered with it (this was also the time the college semester was getting harder for me). It was the perfect time to quit so i did. I didnt miss genshin when i was not playing it, tbh. I tried going back after the semester ended (just this current patch), but it really lost it's magic for me. I thought i would go back just for the story, but now, idk...
I will always miss that "magic", it was one of the best experiences I had in life, even if it's "just" from a game.
Oh my god. This is 100% how I feel, you put everything into words!!!!!
I have realized I will just read teh story online. There is no longer a reason to play the story and the dialogue in teh game got too much, hoyo needed to learn how to portray their story with WAY less dialogue. If I wanted to read it I can go on a fandom page :P
Okay the fact that this was basically almost me to a T. I started right before 1.3, and fell hard for the world and magic. I’m a huge fantasy lover so this game was right up my alley. And I loved it, truly did, I spent hours a day just grinding and exploring the world, being all up to date on quests, finding secret ones and trying to max out the statues.
1.6 was definitely the most fun for me, with the map and story and the hype from the upcoming inazuma release, I remember driving in the boat and hearing the music and just sat there in awe taking in the beauty of the world and I felt like I never wanted to leave.
But then the magic started wearing off..I think sometime in the mid 2.0 patches, around Enka release and Chasm. At the time I was still playing consistently but it was far less, and I was getting tired with some repeating events. Then 2.7 I had the first lapse, around three weeks of me not playing with the occasional log in to do coms and log right off. At that point I felt something was wrong but shook it off, although I never played for more than an hour now.
Sumeru release patch brought back the magic temporarily. I played it for a long while and felt that mystical wonder of being in a new place, before it quickly wore off. At that point I realized I was truly burnt out and couldn’t keep forcing myself to go on everyday. So I stopped, only hopping on to complete the last few days of an event or collecting mail, but coms were no longer a priority.
I stopped doing anything completely this update with the Sumeru event. I was already taking a break, and even after seeing the trailer, saw the banners it wasn’t enough to bring me back into the game. I’ve reached a point where I can’t afford the time to play it, especially when the people I used to play it with don’t go on anymore and the events aren’t enough to intrigue me. That and HSR has taken up my attention as well.
It’s sad. I really wanted to get in but the moment I reach the loading screen I just leave. I simply can’t bring myself to play it once more, i guess after all those 10+ hour grinds I used to do in pandemic it’s really starting to catch up to me. That and well, I realized after I found other games as well that genshin isn’t the greatest at rewarding players that are hardcore. Games like arknights have a nice progression where you earn better stuff the more time you invest, with genshin it was a hit or miss, especially in artifact grinds. That and the fact I was no longer in those pandemic times, so that meant less time to play it.
This has gone on for too long and I apologize but seeing this video and how it succinctly describes my thoughts, and to see others that felt the same, was really touching.
Now I plan to prob go back for Fontaine release, but mainly for main story. Maybe for characters, I’m really digging Wriothesely’s design but otherwise I’m out for the time being. I still try keeping somewhat up to date on new stuff or looking at fan work but that’s about it for the near future. Hopefully I’ll feel good enough to come back, and that y’all do too.
The magic didn't really go away for me.
I played it from launch to when Dragonspine released then quit.
I returned when the second Golden Apple archipeligo came and quit again just before Nahida came out. The magic never went away because of it.
I'll probably return when the next primary element region comes and I'll probably have as much fun as I had previously.
@yourdad5799 everyone's experience is different. Gotta realize that the magic not leaving meant you had a healthier relation with the game but for many people it became a true focal point of their life. When the game faded so too did that history for them.
But more could learn to have your mentality with games, much healthier
Genshin is definitely not a game you can grind every day and feel rewarded for it. It's a very casual game to log in when you want, do what you want to do, and log out. Unless you are like me, a person that enjoys pointless grinding every day for artifacts, achievements, lore, etc. I've played almost since launch, pretty much every day, and I still enjoy the game, events, abyss, combat mechanics, elemental reactions, etc.
i have no idea how you do this. i played from 2.0 to 2.8 (about 8 months) and i got extremely burnt out to the point where waiting the game to open alone felt like a curse. im trying to play genshin impact nowadays but i cant get myself to play over 10-15 minutes because of the genshins gacha system and why its one of the worst i have seen in a game. genshin almost doesnt reward you with anything ever because mihoyo doesnt care and wont care since their 2 year boring event system works and gives them alot of money.
i really want to have the interest some people have in playing genshin even after having 2-3 month burnouts.
U play in Asia?
@@rockwastaken I can understand how people get burnt out, the game is very repetitive unless you are always pulling the new characters and building them (I don't). The events are the same thing and mechanics with different art designs. I just like the story, world building, character design, and open world aspect. I don't mind (even enjoy) pointless grinding. It's very sad to see people that want to enjoy the game, but can't anymore, however, at the end of the day everyone has a different idea of what the game should look like and Hoyoverse can't and won't satisfy everyone. They are a company after all, and they want to make money. They wont' change a formula that makes them millions every patch. I also think that there is nothing wrong in recognizing that the game is not for you and moving on, or just coming back for big events and not loging in for a while. This is just my opinion though, I'm sure not everyone sees it this way, and that's ok. 🙂
@@beautifulbeast99 No, I play in NA. 😞I wish cross server was a thing.
@@LazyCatOnTheRoof finally a grown up that can understand the game unlike the rest of 9 yo who keep complaining
This video really hit me. I think I just want Genshin to be something it wasn't and the expectation is killing me.
I also begun playing Genshin during Covid and it was absolutely magical. Stuck to it for the first year and a half but after that I begun taking hiatuses, and they became more frequent as time went on. Other things and other games that were more interesting popped up and I couldn't be bothered to play. It's such a shame because Fontaine is around the corner and I'm not even excited for it, or the new characters.
Me too. i feel exactly the same.
True, take a character like Dainsleif for example. People have been waiting for him for more than 2 years now and honestly by the time he comes out. I don't think people are going to be hyped anymore for him. It's like what happened with Baizhu. Also with Khaenri'ah, by the time we get to visit the place (maybe after a year or two) most people won't be excited about it
@@derric0412 Genshin is a good testament as to how long it takes for hype to die.
Mentioning Baizhu, people were speculating all sorts of things about his kit, the Dendro element, and his identity since 2020. They put off doing anything about Dendro until it was so late and a lot of people who were hyped for Baizhu left the game already.
Damn this is exactly how i felt. This happened to me way back when sumeru is just releasing haha
@@inplane9970 yeah exactly, and either that or the baizhu wanters were just saving up (like the scara savers) so they were thriving for a bit while the rest just . didnt care because . while he was the first confirmed dendro character technically, he came out so late within 3.0 that there were so many characters who are much better in terms of meta which a lot of people care about, not me tho im thriving with my baizhu 🔥
I remember really enjoying doing the story and archon quests for mondstat and liyue when the game was still young. The dialog was interesting and entertaining enough to keep me paying attention and the story was in general well structured. The best part was that one quest would unlock everything in the entire region so you could explore absolutely everything as you pleased.
As far as I'm aware, nowadays you need to do world quests with no voice acting that are longer than old story quests in order to unlock some story/archon quests that are themselves unnecessarily long for what feels like absolutely no storyline progression. On top of this shit, the dialogue is far more repetitive than I remember and paimon's voice makes me want to commit unspeakable atrocities.
The story and archon quests used to be something I really enjoyed in this game, perhaps even my favorite part of the game, but now it's a horrible chore that makes me want to either close the game or continue grinding aimlessly
i agree played since release then stop after scaramouche banner, genshin right now is just dialog simulator that u cant skip, i mean i dont mind if the dialog is part of main story but sometimes the dialog is pointless and pain in the ass
Omg I thought maybe it was just me but a lot of the inazuma quests just were never nearly as engaging as those in Mondstadt and Liyue. I used to read everything when I was in Mondstadt but now Ive just started skipping Inazuma and Sumeru dialogue if it wasn't important to the plot
They need to do something about Paimon’s voice. Her voice is so pitchy and annoying.
Absolutely. The game was never top tier storytelling but the concepts were at least serviceable enough to get me to care about certain characters or the gorgeous world or just the game in general. It has since become a complete, incoherent borderline unplayable slopfest. I genuinely hate doing “””quests””” in this game now. I literally cannot play this game without a fucking autoclicker, or I’dve had to replace my mouse be now. If most gamers weren’t already conditioned to consume slop, this probably would have killed the game.
Fontaine is coming out soon, could not care less. About the entire story actually. Sibling, archons, celestia, who cares. It’s just going to be the same uninspired corporate sludge they’ve been passing off as storytelling for over a year now.
The gaming format of Genshin is not to retain their old players, but to keep attracting large streams of new players.
TRUE THO
Which is crazy because it shows how they don’t care about players, yet the players will go out of their way to defend every flaw in the game with their life.
That's true. I'm a new player and for a whole week my mind was completely occupied by genshin. But i have imp irl commitments and also came across such videos and i was able to extricate myself from the spiral.
The think is genshin attracts players to play it daily by using daily commissions etc so players log in daily to do them as a chore. They get burned out. You just have to play it how you play other AAA games. Only play when you want to not because you'll get some primos or something
@@kitten_with_bad_breath I played for 2 Years almost everyday and you can very much compare it to smoking or other drugs with how addictive it is.
Now i only play when i want to for big events or actual new content.
Which goes against needing late game materials to level banner characters. Their design philosophy is almost paradoxical.
To me, Genshin burn out comes from being forced to do "chores" to get to the fun stuff. For a lot of people these chores manifest in daily commissions, artifact grinding, min-maxing resin consumption, battlepass leveling, F.O.M.O minigame events, and the fear of losings the fifty-fifty on an anticipated character. Those chores developed over the course of the player's gametime because a lot of it is tied to the Primogem -> Gacha -> New Character cycle born from the desire to expand our ways to have fun playing the game in the first place.
Think back to when you first started the game, the feeling of unimpeded discovery, not only of the map but of the game systems and elemental reactions. The moment you discovered the Cryo Regisvine and Anemo Hypostasis or the thrill of reading "Snow-Covered Path (Highly Dangerous)" in Dragonspine for the first time. These moments are slowly replaced by mastery of the game's systems and we subconsciously min-max the "fun" out of the game. We try to explore Inazuma but it's gated behind an extensive questline at AR 30, we try to explore the caves of Sumeru but it's gated behind a voiceless sidequest that is as lengthy as the region's Archon questline. A new player tries to ascend Shenhe or Yae Miko but find out they won't be able to reach their leveling bosses for weeks while their favorite characters grow weaker as their world level ascends.
For me the gacha has always been secondary to the exploration and gameplay (combat) so I enjoy the spiral abyss for the most part. New areas continue to draw me in but is usually hampered by questlines stopping or limiting my fun. The gacha experience can especially sours enthusiasm as failing to get a character will undoubtabley drain the drive to continue playing the event/story, especially since characters are teased all the time so the hype of playing a new character may be all that motivates that player at the moment.
I felt so free when I stopped caring about the gacha system. Then I burnt out because my world level is too high for my characters, and the grind to get them up to strength is too daunting. Even just trace and ascension materials are a pain, not to mention artifacts.
I would love to return to Genshin, and I have tried a few times, but it's just too hard for me to get back to that level where things were fun and grinding didn't take too long. And when I try to play through the story, the dialogue is so bloated that I stop caring.
Honestly there is so much Mihoyo can do to improve the game. If traversal were easier, grinding would be quicker and easier. If they added a skip button for the story quests, people who don't care about the story could get to the parts they like.
I don't have much hope that Genshin will change for the better, though I'll probably keep hopping on a couple times a year to play a little and grind some more. Maybe it will clock again for me someday.
@@lucidragon5260 oh i know what should mihoyo put, a warning that after lv 40 you got to have good characters. I'm a casual player, have been playing the whole sumeru region and feeling fine after the same burnt out of not having good chars and feeling intimidated by enemies when I was AR 45. Now that most of the monster are pretty casual (not underpowered), I'm having better time for it, but the quest is piling up and I have not the energy after the very frequent events, which is actually possibly the best events in any game I have tried.
the improvement part is a bit weird, as it incentivizes people to not play the game to enjoy the game. I love BDO, but man I can't stand how fast paced it is, so I guess genshin's slow paced and embrace the more traditional approach to gaming is better for casuals, when you got to be excited for the story and the game than focusing on the lack of time you had to finish this part of the game. Man I wish I have that much time, I got to use my break at work to finish some story.
Oh and adding the button will make it easier for people to skip the story, making their story unheard, and thus making it less fun to create engaging story, and thus harder to sell their character, and thus get lower income and had to make even more predatory elements, and that's a no go. I think having us monkey brain having to at least hit the button to advance some texts made us aware of the story even for a tiny bit, and I'll take that than turning the game into another mobile gacha games.
And the grind, if it is easier wouldn't that make it less rewarding to get the character to be good? my characters rarely have skill lv more than 6, and most of them are in level 70, and honestly I'm pretty fine playing in AR 56. It's the mentality that our characters has to be the best they could, the expectation and the grind you are looking at probably is what makes it daunting and less enjoyable. And I see less and less people who cares about big damages surviving the long project that is Genshin, and no I am not shaming anyone, but I hope the people who got burnout from not having big numbers on their screen can sit back and enjoy the game story and exploration and less about getting into the top ten first abyss finisher or something. Maybe the end game is to explore and have fun, just like how you and everyone who got burnt out said what makes you enjoy the game at first. It was not big damage, it was (fill your own here)
this is so real!!! like genuinely a great explanation of why I'm not that interested in genshin anymore. Everything is locked behind unavoidable, wordy and insignificant quests, when all I want to do is just explore. Probably the same reason why I didn't like Inazuma and didn't even play Sumeru lol
You don't have to minmax in genshin, people have shown that you can even clear SA with F2P characters, Genshin isn't designed to be played hardcore, its okay to put down the game and play whenever you want to play it.
@@ThoseFerretsthe worst part is that the exploration in sumeru was insanely good, like some of the best world design I’ve seen and made inazuma look meh, but holy shit the story was so long and terrible. I forced myself through it because I really liked the area, but playing the “game” felt like work and it took forever even with spamming the space bar to skip dialogue.
genshin's open world being able to hold memories just like our world is so crazy. every region can hold feelings of what you experienced as you played through it and i find it so cool! it's just upsetting we can't make any more of these in the new ones because there aren't any good feelings left to enjoy within the game.
idk I think there really was some special moments in the desert area specifically
all games have the ability to hold memories just like our world though.. i have memories in specific places for every game.
The Dendro Archon questline was phenomenal
I still feel those memories as I will spontaneously run through one of the beautious regions in the game, ahnd the memories of exploring firstly, along with appreciation for just how beautiful it is almost always comes through. Sumeru holds a lot of these for me, some as fresh as a few months ago. I don't know how Fontaine is gonna feel, buht with the high standard they set in Sumeru, I imagine it will also be pretty dang captivating.
When I gave Genshin a real try I fell in love with it, loved it's characters, story, voice acting, scenes, secondary quests, etc., got hooked and played it every single day to discover new things, understand how the combat worked, get the 100% of every region. Played the game my way, I was enjoying it as an RPG, not a gacha. But that magic started to fade away as soon as I realized that exact thing: playing it my way, with the characters I like the most, the way I liked the most, relaxed, enjoying the story, the narrative, the scenary and unlocking things slowly, was going to completely ruin my experience in the future. Ayaka was my first 5 star but couldn't get her a team because her best teammates weren't even close to be in the banner, didn't care and decided to wait till they were available, which took around 8 months btw, meanwhile I continued playing, enjoying as much as possible, and I really did, but when I realized I couldn't wait forever for the proper team, I focused on getting new characters to progress without issues and to remain having fun.
That, without me noticing it, very slowly took me away from what I loved the most about this game in the first place, it started this non stop cycle of doing everything available to save as much primogems as possible to see if I was lucky enough to get the next character, or save enough till the one I needed for my team arrive, build them, try them in a team, repeat. As I said at first I didn't even noticed it, and was having lots of fun, but with time, Genshin became a game I played to grind instead of enjoying it's world as I did in the beginning. A clear symptom of it is when I finally got Shenhe on her rerun, the character I wanted the most since my early days in Genshin thanks to her story and character overall, I even got her C3 with her weapon, just to play for a couple of weeks more and don't touch the game ever since.
Didn't feel the excitement I used to, it became that rush of having a character but after that you feel empty, bored. The efforts you do simply don't pay off, you grind for weeks for a character, if you planned ahead correctly then it means you have the proper team, play with that team and enjoy for a while but if you want to try something new, that means you have to repeat the cycle I wrote above again and again, meaning that you will be spending your whole time trying to get to enjoy the game, instead of enjoying the game in the process.
I like (and dislike lol) Genshin a lot for quite a few reasons, but what really stands out to me is the ost. I can’t really describe how beautiful I find the soundtracks to be, and don’t even get me started on the character themes! They have a really special place in my heart and the effort and care that goes into them is on a different level. Seems like all the tracks are symphony recorded and I think that’s really special. As long as Yu Peng Chen keeps providing us with masterpieces I will continue to play the game.
Best comment here. And I completely agree. The Genshin OST’s are a huge part of why I stay honestly. They’re phenomenal. And highly under-appreciated for how spectacular they are. They just kill it with the new music every season.
Fellow ost enjoyers, we are next to fontaine and I CANNOT wait to listen all the new ost this game has for us. Also looking forward for the arlecchino battle theme if it ends up happening.
All of Hoyoverse's games have really good music. Hoyoverse really know how to make really good music.
I know!! I haven't played genshin in months but I still listen to the ost almost every day. It's honestly amazing
liyue music is literally the best !! like study or sleep music so perf
As someone who loved Genshin but can’t get back into it, thank you so much for this video. It comforts me knowing I wasn’t the only one
I started playing genshin at the first day of the release, got really hooked up and reached "end of content" whcih at that time was when we arrive at Liue and see "archont die"... it took about a month or smth.. and seeing that there is... no more story i stopped playing.. then,maybe 4-6month later i saw a Eula teaser.. and i simped so hard,i went back to playing,and played A LOT.... just to get Qiqi. Stopped playing till her next banner and actually got her.. and kept playing for a whole.. then stopped.. again.. then one of y friends brought me bac to Genshin and tht was the longest i played it actively.. i got few 5*, even got lucky on weapon banner.. but just after getting this luck.. runnign around and having fun.. something clicked in my brain.. Even if i was having fun... i was not enjoying the game..i closed the game.. with hope that i will return ro it.. then Starrail came out.. never touched it.. and then i deleted Genshin.. And the feel of relief i felt doing that.. is amazing. I felt like i.. fried myself from it. I didnt need to comeback. It was a good journey.. but every journey comes to an end, and it was an end for my journey with genshin.. Im glad i could play and enjoy it, and i def will miss the feelings starting genshing gave me, but current Genshin is just.. not for me. Genshin thought me to move on. To let stuff go away and leave it, if its feel like a burden. when it should be fun. I tank Genshin for it , and i wot touch any games of Hoyo
If they'd add a skip dialogue button, I'd play more. The dialogue is so boring
@@daizenmarcurio exactly same
@@daizenmarcurio For majority of the time i played with Autoclicker just to skup dialogs. TOO boring.
@@psychokuca302 at least you play on pc, im a console player so I'm stuck spamming x the entire time
I played Genshin every day (multiple hours even) since around 2.4 and loved it. It was my comfort game for a long time. I then startetd to feel very burnout at the end of 3.7 due to streaming it for 8 hours 3 times a week and didn't even log in to do dailies for 2 months. With the release of Fontaine I started to love the game again. I feel in love with the new characters and the underwater world. It was the first time in a while that I was just wandering(swimming) around and listened to the beautiful music
To sum it down, genshin is a story based open world exploration game, and that's what's fun about it. Later you learn about different characters and the pulling system so you continue playing to pull 5stars and 4star cons and it's a dopamine rush and super satisfying when you get the characters you want. What makes the game fun is the amazing world and interesting lore and story line. In a few months you've basically explored most of the world and completed the story line. It continues being fun since you get a rush pulling characters even though it's a boring process doing dailies and pretty much boring events over and over. But after a while you have a good amount of 5 stars and getting new ones doesn't change ur account much and the whole process is just repeating, dull, mind numbing and boring. Not to even talk about artifact farming and how repetitive and boring that gets. Been playing for 2 years and recently quit since its just not any fun. But to be fair story based open world exploration games (like breath of the wild, witcher 3, rdr2 etc..) are generally designed to be played from 40-200 hours maybe up to 400max. Once you complete the story, explore the map, complete all horizontal content, there is nothing left to do and you're done. And that's good, you move on, remember it as a fun game and play something else. The problem with genshin is that they try to get you to stick around with the pulling system and you end up playing even after completing all or most content in the game and end up doing boring content and trying to convince yourself that it's fun
That last part, fr 😂😭
Hit the nail on every point. This is basically why. I believe the reason why HYV doesn't really try to improve the end game is because most of the players are casuals anyway and wouldn't care and the game is first and foremost, a story exploration game and character collecting. This is also why they can get away with reverse powercreep.
another problem is that against their great story, they make useless filler content. In HSR, the main event now in 1.2 is you telling your adventure to a storyteller and he argues it's uninteresting, so together you craft a fake story around it. I always try to read the story quests of NPCs too, but this is pushing it too far.
@@dontthrow6064star rail Is Better in that regard
Wht are you keep repeating "it's over?" The game is still ongoing both in story and adding characters, they're just locked behind patches, so once you've done and took a look at everything in the "current" patch, you can quit and return when the "next" patch comes with all it's new content of all kinds.
Genshin helped me moved on. I strated playing since 1.0. When my brother and my mom died, it was difficult for me to move on. I was extremely sad and wanted to end my life. Then here comes Genshin and I fell in love with the music, scenery, and gameplay. There were events that I can relate to such as finding Razor's parents. There are stories with real life lessons. Suddenly I felt burnt out. I stopped playing even with the blessings and battle passstill active for a couple of months.With the help of my live-in-partner who actively plays and very much in love with the game since release, I went back and played again. I think we all go through the process of being burnt out even in other games. Right now I actively play and looking forward to Fontaine. There's so much to catch up to since Sumeru is huge but at least there's a lot to be done and explored. I found my way back to Genshin.
R.I.P, Im glad you want to catch up back into the game, keep your head up friend.
Rip..
lol
I feel like based from their replies, I am the one who died@@sincere3238 wahahaha
yall dont respond to the sincere guy troll above my comment they js want the attention their parents never gave them
I think star rail has really made me realize what burnt me out on genshin. Like as a whole i probably had a more enjoyable time in genshin just cause theres more game to it, but the expectation to log in daily a dedicate a significant amount of time and effort to finish all of my dailys and use all of my resin just made playing the game feel like a chore i had to get done and really just made the rest of the game feel unappealing. Where as with star rail i can quickly get my dailys and all of my farming while im doing something else and its just made me feel way morw motovated to actually play the game
i miss the old genshin times, when inazuma came out during lockdown i was having the time of my life 😭 i was so attached to the game, connected the characters.. co-oped and spoke to my genshin friends every day.. it’s such a shame i’ll probably never talk to them again or play the game. i guess at this point all we can do is be grateful for the memories, feelings and experiences, and keep on going with the rest of our lives 🫶
thats so funny because me and my friends all agree inazuma totally ruined the game lol. i hate how intense the terrain is now, monsadt and liyue are so flat and inazuma and sumeru r wayyy too geogrpahically taxing... exploring isnt that fun bc of how hard it is. i also think inazumas quests were just way too long and repetive
@@munchyy5287literally and being electrocuted to death when you just arrive in inazuma like they feel like they have to keep “one-upping” each area when it’s just making it more exhausting
I’ve been back and forth of being into this game since it came out, but the one thing that’s always pulled me back into the game is the new regions. I still get the same excited feeling when I explore a new area. I love stepping into the new region for the first time and hearing the new soundtracks in the background.
Same but mostly because i don't have time ..
tbh for me i dont even like the new regions anm. i was so excited for sumeru but then when i acc explored it it felt so boring
@@butt_slapper69 I liked Sumeru, but I also didn’t feel as excited about it when I explored it. Inazuma was probably the region I was the most excited about. I’m also really excited for Fontaine, so hopefully it will be fun to explore.
I can relate to that, however, I haven't played the archon quests in Sumeru and I can't do it either because the "character is busy somewhere else" and what happens when I try to do the other quest instead? Exactly... another character is busy somewhere else and so on. It just doesn't stop. I don't want to skip through walls of dialogue just to get to an exciting new quest or area in Fontaine.
Genshin also was my main pastime during the pandemic, and the game was SO IMPORTANT to me. I always felt such deep joy and connection with everything the game provided, and it certainly made the pandemic more bearable. Since I went back to the office at the beginning of the year, I was genuinely sad I didn't have enough time to "properly" enjoy the game anymore. It soon started feeling so overwhelming, and such a chore to log in every day just to do the same things over and over again. I used to love big events such as this last Klee/Eula one SO MUCH, I enjoyed everything about them. But this one was literally painful to play through. It was lore deep to the point where you can't do anything for like 5 minutes until characters stop info-dumping you. I was sad both because I couldn't enjoy the lore and also couldn't enjoy the game BECAUSE of the lore. I'm kinda heartbroken I couldn't care less about Fontaine.
I started playing Star Rail and I immediately abandoned Genshin. SR actually has a sense of passion behind it- seeing as I’ve only played it for two months and I already have five five stars and there’s also such dynamic cut scenes and pretty animations for all characters. And all the issues Genshin has are fixed in SR, especially the materials collection.
I feel like the HSR team was more receptive to the genshin players' complaints than the genshin team. Probably because theyre a new game so they want to hook us in, but i really hope they keep it up, because its what gives so much more life to HSR, especially how active the MC is as a character unlike Aether/Lumine
Me too. I told myself that I wouldn’t abandon Genshin, but HSR is so much better… I’m really invested and it feels refreshing… still love Genshin! It will always have a place in my heart.
The more i play star rail the less i want to play Genshin i want to love both but whenever i play Genshin I’m cursing it for not being Star rail
Same, I was actually so relieved when Star Rail came out. It made me realize that I had already been ready to quit genshin for a year, and the daily routine respects my time by having dailies that I already need to do and that take literally 2-3 minutes. Also auto farming, better lore, cooler character designs. And I love turn based so it was an easy choice
GENSHIN IS FACING THE MIDDLE CHILD SYNDROME I SWEAR. THEY FIXED EVERY GODDAMN PROBLEM IN GENSHIN IN HSR BUT LIKE WHY NIT GENSHIN BRUH AAAAAA
At a certain point, the sense of discovery wears off; we develop a sense of mastery, form opinions, and look for an extrinsic motivator to keep us going, rather than enjoying doing it because it’s fun. Gacha games are very good at the extrinsic motivators (in the beginning), but eventually the reward no longer outweighs the effort to log in every day, and the flaws show through. I believe the solution is a combination of the individual player setting intrinsic motivations for themselves, and the devs finding a way to consistently reward players in *meaningful* ways with clear, lengthy, but *guaranteed* goals, and mitigating the punishment players feel for taking breaks or avoiding burnout.
the sense of discovery definitivily fell off for me after playing genshin for a month. i still think its world looks beautiful, the music is good and the open world is among the better ones, its just that it has become so boring to play. i just got of that small island in inazuma and its just not fun to play anymore. it doesnt help that i have to do commisions every day.
im currently playing honkai impact 3rd now and so far its just much more respectful of the player by giving you options to outright buy many good characters with ingame currency (that isnt even hard to get). upgrading characters are also much easier and can be done without even using the gacha. even spending money in honkai is a much better deal than spending it in genshin and honkai have a very generous new player experience compared to genshin. there is also many different game modes with elysium realm and open world being my favorites.
the problem is developers just doesnt care about us. so none of these would ever happen. they would never ever hear us and change anything
The trick is to just never log in just because of the dailies. Only log in to the game if there's something you actually want to do or if you actually feel like playing it at the moment, and do dailies and events at the start or end of that session.
You know what will bring me back. Telling us who the fuck aether and lumine are
As a day 1 player that stops when the first time Nahida banner came out and I never stepped on Sumeru, I had a ton of fun exploring and doing silly things when genshin impact came out. There's the secret island near mondstadt that really far and me and my friend tried to cross using kaeya on the sea. But, exploring can be tiring too. Imagine searching for whatever-culus that spread around the world + getting all the chest while keep changing tab between genshin and map marker. And the further you explore, the more things you need to unlock only to be rewarded by cheap change of primo - to the point that I feel like a forced labour slave with minimum wage. It no longer become a fun adventure full of wonder and exploration, but full of chores! day in day out only to do events to get petty sum of primo and farm artifacts. I didn't even bother touching abyss because I don't want to feel burdened and waste my time on something too hard.
Same
thats how i feel about it too with everything basically being a chore. i dont touch Abyss anymore because of how long it takes to finish. but what really bothers me is the point about the 99 problems in Genshin and barely any getting fixed, theres SO MANY quality of life issues that bog the game down that it makes certain aspects feel worse than they should be.
It’s because it is lol. There’s actually people who run ‘pilot’ services for your account where you pay them to play the game for you and do all the slave labor. Upon finding that I was hysterical.
As I watch this video, my observation is that all or most of your passion for Genshin was in the gacha system. You said it was responsible for some of your most memorable gaming moments and then proceeded to talk about all the banners you pulled for, and I believe the passion was there.
Yes. It was the banners that just sucks you in the game and what keeps people playing. Genshin is just overall not a good game. It has interesting lore and characters but even with that, it couldn't make up for the boring gameplay.
@@cherry414 Yea, people do quests and commissions for what? TO PULL GACHAS lol
@@andrewg537 Yeah. They don't even do it because it's fun. The only fun is the gacha lol
@@cherry414 yea and most old players probably has 10+ five star characters now or enough to make 2 strong abyss 5 star teams. So it's not necessary to be excited to pull on banners anymore.
Unfortunately a massive reason why people there’s people that stick to only gacha games is that the dopamine they give you when you finally pull that 5* you’ve been waiting for, Genshin being one of them.
People literally play the game as a chore, following routes to collect items every 3 days so they can level a character or collect primos from chests.
I‘m thankful for Genshin because I was going through the ugliest time of my life when it came out and I could just escape everything else. But it served its‘ purpose for me just like for everyone else. I quit the game almost a year ago and don‘t feel particular remorse. I just feel bad for those going through the same burn out right now that I was going through last year. It will become easier for you to accept that it‘s time to move on to something else (at least for now). You will feel a lot lighter too. Just be grateful for what this game gave you.
Well said
I love genshin. I hate how complicated it is now. When I first started it was so easy. Somewhere around when inazuma came out, I pretty much started getting confused, I would try and do quests but nothing made sense to me. It got harder from there. I just play to get primos and do any important quests, but everything is quite repetitive
the Sumeru Ana-whatever quests really got to me. i just didn't care about distinguishing between one name or another and was just playing them for the primogems. needless to say, without a compelling story to keep you coming back you really start to notice the repetition.
@@robogoofers9131 I haven’t even done it. I can’t do quests that don’t have a destination. I don’t have the type of memory to just know where the heck I have to go with one sentence to help
@@Yukki._.you can always follow guides lol if you wanted
@@1234SLUR nah, I don’t want to. If the game is so hard that o have to rely on guides and tutorials then it’s really not a good game 😭
@@Yukki._. that is not true at all lol needing to look up guides = not good? o_o
I start playing at 1.4 and I was burned out at 3.0 so I stop playing at 3.0 and I came back at 3.8 and it was the best decision on my life because now I rehave this burning passion that push me too play everyday and a whole new quest with new character and I don't force myself
Similar thing for me, started in 1.5, quit in 2.6 and just came back at the end of 3.7, ive been so motivated to play and that spark has totally returned
I started in 1.2, I started to really dig into it and grind alot but had to stop at 1.6 mainly due to health issues, then got back when I got back, by that time Inazuma released so I grinded and enjoyed it even more. But it all started to diminish when Sumeru came out. With so much content and hours long quests (that aranara quest), it felt so un-engaging to me since it felt like I wanted to log off. Sure sakura cleansing took me hours, but it kept me hooked. Then Sumeru released much more content at a rapid rate (I wasn't even 20% finished with 3.0) and it just went up more and more and I was so overwhelmed I practically lost my motivation. With the spiral abyss, it went from boring to absolutely annoying and mald-inducing. That was pretty much the final straw, I tried joining the streamer program to help my motivation that's barely clinging but it just went bye-bye. I made so much memories but I'm very tempted to uninstall.
same! i stopped playing at first Cyno banner, and came back recently, everything feels so new! i really missed my characters and now i feel a lot of excitement for Fontaine and new story.. i think maybe in 5-6 months i will feel bored, but i will make a break again and everything will be fine. genshin is like ur home u can always come back!
I quit around 3.0 as well and just came back, the summer story area is actually so much fun, really glad I came back it feels like my passion is reignited.
Same here actually! I quit around the same time (if not sooner) and then came back to have a lot more fun and also share this game with my friends!
i’m a sucker for relaxing and exploring the beautiful landscape with my favorite characters, or playing with me friends and attacking monsters. what i HATE is the random world quests you accidentally walk into. that’s what made me burn out and quit for almost a year.
I'll never forgot how ridiculously beautiful I thought this game looked at first glance despite it being free. I spent a good hour just messing around in the forest. I was excited finally climbing up the hills to fight lvl. 12 hilichurls with a 0 xp traveler and thinking I was godly for finessing my way through it. I remember thinking 3-star artifacts and weapons were exciting and assembling my first team of xingqiu and xiangling was the greatest.
This was Oct 2020 I think 💯
those were the good days i swear
Something to note about 7:50 is that in recent times they've been significantly more willing to make a large portion of prerequisite quests optional; for example the current event only strictly requires that you beat the mondstadt archon quests in order to play (which seems to be a theme with events not held in inazuma, which in those cases require you to only complete the quests required to access the region instead of the whole of it). Fontaine will also be available immediately after completing mondstadt archon quests based on their recent dev blog, and the whole quest lock thing is going to have a (admittedly partial) solution in the form of being able to unlock quests without actually starting them.
What everyone a NEEDS to remember it's Genshin is basically a Skyrim/BotW/etc but gacha so there is regular free expansion DLC. None of those games are played forever in every waking hours.
You taking breaks and playing other things is very much normal and intended.
It is not a WoW or Lost Ark that's built on wasting your time and resetting all your progress regularly in deceptive ways with layers of hamster wheels and progression systems.
The game is not built to accommodate you giving it your entire life. No matter how many hundred hours of content a game has, it will always be finite.
As someone who played nonstop since launch Sumeru was definitely a low point for a whole year in terms of exploration and just the general backdrop because this kind of game works because of the feel of openness and freedom it gives, while in Sumeru you have a Jungle feel simulated by the geography making the place claustrophobic by blocking your vision, and the desert part is the same yellow sand and brown rock aesthetic with a few patches of green for 9 months...
Fontaine is promising in so many ways because of it since it's one again an European aesthetic and not a middle eastern jungle and empty desert with barren rocky mountains.
I remember that first feeling of playing Genshin impact for the first time. Especially playing during the pandemic game was it’s peak during inazuma. 💯
it was released during the pandemic you retard and because the numbers are declining the pandemic is still ongoing you brainless shithead
Fr!
frr the first archipelago and the release of inazuma were peak genshin. the game was still feeling fresh back then
i started playing it back in 2020 nov, the game had just came out around 3-4 weeks ago. i remember the experience i had when i first played it and it was truly magical. no other game will make me feel the way genshin did. and i'm proud to say it too. that one year i absolutely adored the game. the spark started dying out slowly around the end of 2021 when stuff was hard and i couldnt play everyday. my laptop at that time didnt handle genshin well either so i thought why not take a small break. so i went on hiatus and then later in 22 i got a better laptop and tried to start getting into it once again but it was just hard. the spark died out completely and i started going on hiatuses too often. i still play it sometimes but i will never forget how awestruck i was when i first played it. im honestly surprised that a game has stuck with me this long because i never play any game this long i just quit after some months. but genshin is different and its my little safe place that i'll somehow keep coming back to. i have a love-hate relationship with this game istg.
I hate genshin bcos I lost my first account due to weak security of mihoyo(hoyoverse)
i stopped playing after Sumeru released. and now i've started playing it again, almost a year later, and the spark came BACK
i'm so happy, i missed Teyvat
Incoming Essay: You have been warned, but here is a semi-accurate-though-mostly-vague T.L.D.R: "I relate to a lot of the feelings expressed in this video, but not only with Genshin."
My story with Genshin begins just before the Covid Pandemic began, when I had gotten a serious case of the flu and was running a fever of around 101. I decided to give Genshin Impact a try because it looked very beautiful and seemed like it would be relaxing to explore. I loved Breath of the Wild, so I gave Genshin a try. I enjoyed it a lot at first, but in that first sprint, I only played it until I was feeling healthy again. A couple of days and I was gone. I came back when Eula came out, and it was then that I explored my favorite region in the game: Dragonspine, but this was the start of my longest sprint with the game: I continued to finish the main quest in Liyue, then the Summer Archipelago came out, then eventually Inazuma came out. When Inazuma came out, I took my second break, and would come back for another sprint when my current favorite character, Kuki Shinobu, was first released. This pattern continued into Sumeru, with Nahida, but fizzled out to the point where even though I enjoyed the first chapter of the Sumeru questline, I'm just not interested in continuing on to the second chapter.
I bring this up because I shared a similar pattern with Genshin as Haedal here, logging on for specific characters, and maybe playing a little bit of the game too. I can't say for sure that my problems with the game stem from the late-game dissatisfaction that a lot of the fan-base has. I was never interested in the Spiral Abyss, I played the game below my highest level so I could enjoy the story without needing max-investment characters, and the only money I ever spent on the game was 1 time when I had been playing enough to max out the battle pass. I played Genshin incredibly casually, and I focused on enjoying the characters, the story, the environment... but it eventually wasn't enough to keep me interested. Now, I appreciate Genshin from afar, and that's about it.
I almost relate with this video even more with another game that I've played for a long time but have recently felt burned out on: Destiny 2. While I always played Genshin alone, I played Destiny frequently with friends who I made while playing the game. Friends that I keep to this day. I'll always have fond memories of playing with them all for days after days, raiding together, doing dungeons together, making bets with each other, helping each other with tough quests and grinds... Like Haedal says: "It's not that I miss the way things were... but I miss the way that this game made me feel." I used to really enjoy the grind, and now I either barely tolerate it with friends, or I don't play at all. That goes for Destiny, that goes for Genshin...
I think we all wanted a game that we could play forever, like a new-age World of Warcraft. Something that would exist beyond us in our shared experiences. Something that we could back on together and relive our memories, and that we would feel happy to play again, if given the chance. But instead, we just got the memories, and the game will have to go on without us.
I'll miss the way Genshin made me feel when I was exploring Dragonspine for the first time, or when I got the 50/50 on Eula with minutes to spare on the Banner, or the time when I gave the Weapon Banner a try and I got Nahida's signature weapon, having just gotten Nahida minutes prior.
I'll miss the way Destiny made me feel when I had my friends rallying around me in support of my attempts on the hardest of challenges the game had to give. When I solo'd raids and dungeons, when I helped teach them to others, when I met friend after friend, the late-nights, the joke-filled days.
If you've been reading to this point, thank you for listening to my story, and I hope we can look back on the time we spent on games like these with smiles on our faces, no matter if we enjoy the game anymore or not. We'll always have the memories of those early days. The memories of how these games used to make us feel.
I thought its TLDR
@@mirai-9318 The T.L.D.R is at the beginning
@@pensato348 nahh i was just joking i know :))
One of the issue I have with lots of modern days is the abuse of the FOMO. I absolutely freaking hate how they abuse of that to make you keep playing. I quit Genshin, didn't bother with ToF, couldn't even look at Lost Ark, and for a stupid reason I jumped onto HSR... but with a more casual mindset. Hoyoverse also has the issue that you can't skip their cutscenes, like, ALL QUESTS are stuck behind bland, stiff and long ass talk that I don't have the time for. I hate that the game is forcing you to take so many minutes just to smash repeatedly one button/key to skip asap because you can't actually do a full skip.
Tbh the only game I keep coming back to, where the devs themselves tell people to back off from time to time just to take a break of the game and without using the FOMO formula, is FFXIV. Hell, their trial game is so damn long it takes months to complete without paying a cent. It's far from being perfect and I do take lots of breaks but at least whenever there's new content, I don't need to fear that I'm gonna miss out if I wait a week, two, or three months.
Aside from that one, I'll stick to offline games without planned events. One time buy and done with it.
man... you just made me missing the game more. i quitted in Inazuma...
i remember stumbling upon this video when I was still in denial abt being burnt out from genshin.
I am a lore junkie, and ppl have complained abt this before btw, this game's lore is all over the place, and its not getting better.
I feel like characters are wasted and some have not gotten updates to their lore lore years, look at venti for example, he is an archon and he hasnt gotten any aknowledgement since the 1.x updates.
After 3 years I feel like we weren't heard, despite surveys, and I was a dumbass and thought, "maybe its taking them too much time" and then I saw our feedback, our months of complains on star rail, it hurts so much being treated like trash tbh.
It all came to a head last month (September) when I fell in love with final fantasy 14, and that kinda sealed the deal
I spent 3 years on this game, and I feel I have many regrets, for one part this game gave me so many happy moments, but it gave me so much sadness, bc I hoped for something that will never come, and I decided to accept it, I would've loved to come to that conclusion sooner
I’ve been playing the game for almost a year. I joined when Sumeru released and even someone who had 4 nations worth of content can still look back on it and have similar feelings. I find myself longing for the feeling the game gave me when I was playing through mondstadt and liyue. I find myself wanting to play but logging on and doing anything feels like a chore. I was hyped when I saw Fontaine trailers but my first thought was “how long will that keep me busy until I’m back here with nothing to work towards?”
i played from the beginning and quit when sumeru released 🥹
Don't worry, man. Genshin is a game where players normally come and go. Cool off if needed
I played and then quit for a year(or two) I’ve started playing again less as something i NEED to do but rather something i can do, ive found that if you play the game as, well a game rather than a chore, its much more enjoyable
@@AlvNikome exactly
When you don't have much to work towards, take a lil' break I recommend. Maybe just do dailies just to keep up ahnd pop in once in a while, but take a week or two+ where you don't engage with the game too seriously. I've found thaht to be helpful for me in pacing myself with this'n game.
Sticking for 2 years is already a feat in itself. I just started the game end January, only pulled on 3 limited banners since and every single time I do, I feel so burnt out. Frustration is the sole thing it makes me feel, and I admit that while I haven't played many gacha games, it's the first one to actually frustrate me with its gacha system. I don't want to spend money on it specifically because of that, and I can't even imagine still being there in one year. I haven't even touched it since I got Eula. Though at worst, I probably will go back to it for Fontaine for a while, but I don't know how long I'll be willing to continue playing it. And it's a shame, because I do love many characters. It's just that loving characters is ultimately useless if the game only brings me frustration.
you dont have to spend money that the thing. you can clear everything with the free chars. except maybe abyss but must agree, fuck the abyss xD
@@Dante1282 I didnt spend money. And I know I can, that's hardly connected to what I wrote. But thanks for trying to help I guess ?
There might be more changes in genshin multiverese in the future and maybe we will be proud of so much work we put into this game but I understand, it´s too much effort to get primogems and the rewards seem to be too little for all the time we spend.
Fundamentally it's more or less about what your goals are for the game. The issue I see is that as much as some people hate to admit they play mostly for the gambling aspect.
But that in itself just introduces a self inflicted grind the reality is that new End Game doesn't mean much its just a Vertical treadmill to justify grinding Artifacts
Getting more and more characters doesn't add complexity or value it's buying a new toy once you've barely touched the old one
I see a lot of people say they "Love the combat" But 75% of those people regurgitate the same crap CC and people on reddit say no attempt at diversifying or looking into the games complexity
But that's only combat and maybe that's not what draws you into the game. For me at least I set my own goals I lm not going to wait for Hoyoverse to make some MMO style wall so I can spend months or years making bigger number's
I set small goal for myself. A DPS Sayu how does she work? She's squish should I bring a shield? Swirling generates Health should I use VV or focus Anemo Damage
If it's exploration I revist places I don't usually go so many amazing places we never revisit and I sometimes collect material there
Maybe the game is just done for you no game will stays fresh forever and maybe moving on is for the best
@@demonking-zm3rs Dude, I've played for several hundred hours the same tycoon games and the same real-time strategy games. I replayed dozens of hours longs RPGs. I don't need games to "remain fresh" to be into them for years or decades.
My goal in Genshin is the outmust basic: play with the characters I like, even if the teams are sub-optimal in consequence. Spiral Abyss aside (whose rewards are ridiculous compared to the expected investment anyway), the game is too easy to bother investing in the gameplay in any shape or form, hence why I don't mind using my fates on characters like Eula. Though, of course if you have fun focusing on the combat, you do you.
And don't worry, I will move on when I want to. It's just sad how frustrating Genshin has been for me from the getgo.
5:25 no, no no no, that's absolutely true, hoyo doesn't gives half of a crap about us, that's exactly why I got burned out, each content, each new banner, EVERYTHING, just screams at me that hoyo only sees us as walking wallets...
My issue with genshin is more of the obligation of logging on everyday. At first, in my honeymoon phase, I loved logging in because I could play for hours and hours, but then my bad habits kicked in and I started spending hours everyday exploring the areas until 100%ing them all, as I have a completionist spirit and wanted to see that beautiful golden 100% everywhere on the map (and for that I take accountability- that’s my fault if I have that obsession). Now, this is bad because now I do not have anything else to do. But while with other games, if I finish the content I can just… stop playing and go play something else, with Genshin I still need to log on every day for a bunch of boring, menial tasks. I’m not even talking about artifact grinding, I don’t play the abyss except sometimes when I’m just particularly bored. It’s daily commission, refreshing the teapot, trying to reach the max level in the battle pass; since 3.6 I have never gotten past level 30 anymore because I just don’t care enough to do all the stuff to advance it, cause it’s all stuff I’ve done a million times before. Events are nice, but they present another issue, they give me more FOMO than banners. Most important events have story significance and I love genshin’s lore, but I can’t enjoy the story because it’s either presented in a slow, boring way because Paimon infodumps everything (this is something that happens in all story content in Genshin, don’t get me wrong, but in events this just shines even more). And if you miss an event, that sucks, I guess you won’t know about this piece of lore then! I wasn’t playing in 1.2 and was in hiatus during 2.3 which meant I missed Albedo-centric events despite the fact that he’s my favourite character, and I also missed his BiS weapon because OF COURSE I DID.
If I could just have the strength to actually go in hiatus for a few months I’m sure it would help me feel magic towards Genshin again. I played from 1.6 to 2.2 initially, only to drop it at 2.3 because I felt burned out, then came back in 3.0, and although I felt burned out again after 3.5 (the Dehya situation definitely didn’t help) I kept playing until now at 3.8. I wish I had the strength to go hiatus again.
You don't need to play everyday if you don't want
@@pontoancora but the devs want you to, that's why they've implemented daily quests and login bonuses and and energy system with resin that's needed to proceed through battle pass which means if you don't play daily you miss out on resources you'd need to pull for the next hyped character, so the game systems greatly incentivise you to grind daily or pay
@blairfujin every dev wants you to keep playing their games daily.
But you don't need to. Most of the currency you get from events and other sources besides dailies
And of course, if you don't play daily, you can't expect to build your chars as fast. But it is a single-player game. You can play at your own pace.
@@pontoancora it's FOMO of course many players will login daily and get a burn out. And some players like me just leave the game for months to just take a break after getting bored😂😂
@@zenoafro FOMO? Events run for 2 weeks and always end on a Monday 4am. You don't need to login everyday just play the event for a day and it won't take you a hour to complete all. If you are working or in school you like have at least 1 to 2 dayoff/s a week you don't need to rush for anything.
genshin rlly helped me in a time where i was pretty depressed and lost abt life. i wanted an escape and it truly helped me find smtg to at least look forward to in my day. i fell in love with the world building, the characters, the music, the gameplay. it was the first game i rlly invested in and its the gateway for me to try out other games too! however, after my life started getting back on track, and i don't feel as lost and depressed as I used to, genshin didn't serve that purpose of escapism for me anymore, and I couldn't purely enjoy the game for what it is. i was getting burnt out from the sheer amount of grinding i had to do and the (boring) story quests takes so long, that it became harder & harder for me to come back to the game everyday until i just didn't. my life became pretty busy compared to how it was during lock down, and i just have other things in life i find more enjoyable or have more passion for. so ill always appreciate genshin for what it personally means for me and how much it has helped me, but now it's time to let go of something that no longer helps me in life. ill miss the memories and the feelings associated with the game, but it'll always be smtg I cherish.
i genuinely miss genshin so much, i literally used to play this game every single day but one day there was just nothing to do anymore so i just stopped and now i wanna play it again and i'm overwhelmed cause theres a lot of stuff... i really wish i can play it while actually enjoy it someday again cause i love it sm
I have been logging in non-stop since 2021 and honestly i did feel like i was going to quit, but at the same time i was just so down deep into the game i was scared and somewhat sad for leaving all my characters, fun events behind. Knowing this game helped me through the toughest times (Ukraine was right now, from February 2022) is actually the thing that makes the game so special to me.
I took a two month break recently, came back jus before 3.8, and I now am having loads of fun with it again.
i've been playing genshin since 1.0 and i've seen so many friends (and online friends i made through the game) drop it and come back or drop it in it's entirety. i went on my first hiatus during 2.1 and it was because one of my main genshin friendgroups fell out and we were allowed to go back to real life school. i've gone through so many different hiatuses with genshin. after 2.1 i came back in 2.5 to wish for yae but then i dropped it again and came back for sumeru. every single time i have dropped genshin i always think that "oh i'll never go back to it again" but then a new thing releases and my love for the game comes rushing back and i feel like i've been transported into the pre inazuma era where i used to play every single day for hours on end. the game helped me so much, even through all my friendships breaking down and my relationship with my family fell apart, i still had genshin which would keep my mind off all the problems in my life. i fell in love with the lore, the story, the gameplay and just everything.
now that fontaine has released i feel like my love for genshin has just hit me like a truck again and i feel like i'm back in the pre-inazuma phase of my life. i have to say they have done a really good job with fontaine, the swimming is so damn fun. i won't deny genshin has it's problems (everything that is stated in the video is ABSOLUTELY TRUE!!!!). but i feel like no matter what i'll always come back to the game for comfort.
cringe ahh moment
I always tell my friends (who are still pretty new to the game) that early game genshin is like a completely different game than late game genshin. When I started playing the game I had a blast, and that kept going even until Inazuma. I think the game is more fun when your characters are still weak, because domains story quest etc. feel more rewarding. The burnout for me started in Inazuma i think when the chasm released, because at that point my fav characters were built and new content was just scanning the map for puzzles and chests to get the exploration percantage to 100. Combat became a joke and it got worse when sumeru released along with the dendro bs. I made a hyperbloom team with ayato shinobu and nahida and I was shocked how broken this dmg was. That being said there was a really long time where I basically froze the game and did only my comissions and the events, not even using my resin. Had the advantage that i accumulated about 18 million mora so now the leveling is way more pleasant. Sadly Sumeru was for me disappointing, besides the amazing archon quest the region itself was super boring for me and the way to long world quests took a toll on my impatient adhd ass, when i completed on of the aranara quests i remember leaving my pc super pissed and I couldnt even tell why. I think that was the first time I realized how burned out I was from the game. Funnily enough, that is why I made all my other non sumero regions (except enkanomiya, fuck that shit) to 100% exploration.
In a nutshell the magic of genshin goes away as soon as you have your first working late game teams, after that the daily gameplay sadly consists only about getting def-infested artifacts.
This is why I love the games events, and fontaine is making me super excited because the region is like no other for me, it has this modern vibe that the others dont have and I hope the devs wont disappoint me this time.
Does that mean keeping an "mid" team in term of power would make the magic stay?
Because to be honest i enjoy the game a lot i did stop sometime but its more because of how i work whit games then me being burned out of the game itself and also because i used to be a mobile player whithout an pc at somepoint back in time and the game reached a point my phone couldnt handle it anymore so i had to stop until i get a pc or a better phone
the thing is even tho my friend try to tell me my team is bad im using bad character or that im doing terrible character match i dont listen to them and just play the way i want and dont search to make the perfect meta team like its not even a pvp game why would i need those
So ye in the end maybe thats the reason i never felt a burn out from the game and still find this magic in the game because i never tried to get an op team just a team that i enjoy
@@dragondesabysse2258 your doing everything right, I dont play meta either, in fact in the almost 3 years of playing the game I watched only 1 Guide, which was about how you build Nilou. Ppl who Tell you that characters are bad are buttcancer, you dont need characters that Deal millions of dmg, regarding my characters power I am mostly f2p and I am doing absolutely fine.
However I dont think that having weak characters would prevent a burnout, instead you would be frustrated about the game difficulty (look at the abyss)
What I try to say is once the nostalgia of unlocking the games content is gone, you will risk a Burnout. For example I had tons of fun farming my first 5star artifacts for Yanfei but doing it now for any other character is just a chore for me. The time where I froze the game helped me quite a lot, it wont be the same as it was at the beginning of playing the game, but I have a lot of fun again and as I already said I am really looking forward to the release of Fontaine, but also to natlan and shneznaya.
@@antilar4579 well my main right now is wanderer so i just gived him the anemo artefact set from mondstadt (i dont know the name of the set in english) which is rll easy to farm compare to the latest one so i didnt felt the need to make insane artifact farm yet i try to get some artifact for the raiden shogun but i manage to do well whit what i have so i dont feel an urge to farm the perfect 5* set i do it then i dont know what to do whit my resin but thats it
I lost the thrill for playing genshin right as the chasm came out too my fun stopped at inazuma, Ive never had well build character cuz the whole farming system overwhelmed me and i struggled alot in fight which i personally didnt like, but idk sumeru is rly pretty but it doesnt have the same feel
i hate GI puzzles, yes one of the reason is because im a dumb2 but cmon, me gaming for fun not for more stress
I don’t care how many people dog it, and how predatory it is, it’ll still be one of my favourite games. Not just because of the game itself, but the communities and friends I’ve found because of Genshin. I don’t play it anymore, but I’ll never forget the opportunities I’ve been given because I’ve played Genshin.
I always laugh when people said genshin is predatory, in what way the game is forcing you to gacha? It is a freaking single player game and the easiest game Ive ever played, you can just finish all the story without even pull a single character. The only thing bad in this game is the repitition and too much filler stories that make player get bored
Speaking as someone who unapologetically loves the game, no. It is absolutely predatory, and everyone who calls it out is justified in doing so.
@@theillustriouscosmowitch617 lol why predatory? Because you dont always get character that you want? If you call that predatory, you should not touch any free gacha games, just stick with paid console and pc games, you will get what you paid except EA games
@theillustriouscosmowitch617 not predatory at all.
You spend only if you want.
The game doesn't remember you about the gacha, and you don't need gacha characters at all.
And if you want them, the game gives you enough for free to get 85% of the new chars each year.
Bro said he loves the game for the community ... 😂 Pun intended ?
I started playing in early 2021. Back when Xiao first came out. It helped me deal with COVID a lot, coping with the hours of indoor life and lack of physically social interactions through the co-ops. I met a lot of friends online who taught be a lot about life (I met a lot of people slightly older than me), and kept me company. So many fond memories were created, those of which still brings me warmth when I think back on them. Genshin was a huge piece of my teenage life and I would never forget it. It also allowed me to connect with some peers through Genshin when I transferred to a new school.
I stopped playing Genshin after getting burnout upon reaching AR 56 for a while (about mid 2022), and got tired of grinding long quests, while already having a collection of powerful characters. Along with my busy academic career, I really just don't feel like it's worth putting time anymore. The spark and excitement and connection isn't there anymore. However I am still always thankful for how much joy (or cope...) this game brought me!
I used to be so passionate for this game a year before. Then all that passion went poof when they officially announced that they will never put anything other than the abyss in this game. I write all my thoughts that would probably improve the game more (IMO) in the monthly survey that they are conducting until I finally realized that im talking to a goddam wall and sending those survey answers to a black hole. I still play this game now, mainly because I used to be a dolphin for this game and stopped just this year. Im still trying to get my moneys worth. lol I'll cope and play this game for a little bit just because Im trying to save for the upcoming hydro archon and arleccino. The fontaine story looks interesting as well. the lore bombs are crazy in sumeru and i feel like Fontaine will have a crazier story, but that's it. I only treat this game like an open world visual novel now instead of a daily grind game. I think its the best way to play genshin now. But that being said, having a 100gb visual novel doesnt sound appealing at all. lol
oh.. lastly, Hu Tao will forever be best girl.
I was in your headspace for a while, and the next step is cutting your losses and fully quitting. I haven’t gotten to the uninstall phase yet, but I only login like once a month to play some spiral and then bail. I don’t want to click a single menu or listen to a single conversation in a game too afraid to truly innovate or improve despite raking in billions
It all started when they ruined Dehya's kit, how can you care about a company who outputs characters that have such a good personality and design, but is outweighed by the shit mechanics.
@@chaptereight3406 yeah I was really really hyped for dehya, she was my raiden shogun of Sumeru. And then….made it so easy to bail
i agree with a lot of this, but also feel the need to correct something. hoyo said that they won’t make other endgame content SIMILAR to the abyss, not that they will never make any end game content (like the tcg for example)
I’ve been playing since week 1 and we still going strong. I feel all these issues yet I can’t stop. Not even a whale I just can’t let this journey end.
Yea, too many unanswered questions, lol
the problem is that all of this is by design, gacha games aren't made hoping that players finish the game and close the book filling fulfilled, the plan is for players to feel engaged at the beginning and hopefully drop as much money as they can while they are in a good mood then eventually burn out, drop the game and move on, these kinds of developers are not afraid of not retaining players since new ones will take their place, most people that spend on gacha learn their lesson quick and progressively don't spend as much money any more after a while so developers prioritize keeping players impressed while they are still new comers, by the time they realize how monotonous the skinner box known as dailies and weekly missions is, and that the story is dragging its feet and by design will never end even by the time servers shut down, those players would have already outlived their usefulness.
I downloaded and played it for a year when the game came out like religiously, super fun
Then I took a long hiatus and when I returned there was just a bunch of random stuff I’d never seen with no returner guidance and I logged off again
When I open my quest tab it looks like I have like 15 essays due and I don’t wanna do them.
The main reason I quit is because I really enjoy the game in its core, but I get so bored when being forced to listen to the story. I just wanna get strong characters and wack mobs, explore or grind. When I need to wait 20-30 min on autoclicker total for one quest to end, I usually just end up in another game and forget. If genshin had a skip button I’d come back in a heartbeat.
Honkai star rail is a million times better (faster cutscenes and dialogue, no need to wait for animations to end to continue etc)
They also have returner rewards if you’re gone for more than a month or so
Plus the grid for relics (artifacts) can literally be automated so you don’t need to sit and run the same domain manually
They have so many quality of life upgrades in that game that could easily be added to genshin, but no they don’t do it
@@brindleface9316 that's why I hate HSR players. Can't go without a minute without shittinh on Genshin
@@brindleface9316Rewards for returning players? As if Genshin doesn't have one.
Yeah, and you also forgot to say that the number of artifacts in hsr has also increased, that is, even more grinds. In principle, there is a lot more grind in hsr than in genshin, so it is obvious that they had to do something with these otherwise the players would have died of boredom. And what they came up with is autofight, the worst feature for the game. What's the point of the game if you don't play it?
How hsr players love to shit on genshin. Is it so hard for you to enjoy the game without shitting another one?
@@Raininpain lmao i've literally played genshin since release, im already AR60. It's alright, it's the literal same company, but for some reason they don't share the same quality of life stuff. There wasn't a lot of problems with genshin in the beginning, but as they continue to release content without optimization, the grind continues
to clarify my statement about playing it for a year: it was a year straight, finishing everything that was available. until inazuma came out and i took around a 6 month break just to come back and not feeling motivated enough to continue. Then sumeru and the desert area comes out, even more stuff. i still have the game downloaded. I still play from time to time, but not every day. and if you dont play every day, the game literally punishes you.
you cant keep more than 5 condensed resin, meaning you have to run some sort of grind thing every day to maximize the use of resin. They built the game on FOMO so you have to be there for events that have exclusive items etc.
@@iosis9324 The number of artifacts have increased by 1. But at the current moment there are 28 different farmable artifact sets in genshin. Thats only the 5-star only. Hsr only has 14 , 24 with plantetary. The planetary stuff is kinda separate, because you run the worlds weekly anyways to farm the bonus stuff. and you can make any part you dont have, instead of hoping for it in the genshin reroll thing.
That's not even mentioning the amount of world bosses and normal bosses in genshin needed to ascend your characters.
There is definetly NOT more grind (atm) in hsr than genshin. Autofight is a godsend. you dont HAVE to use it, but you can.
I like both games. I'm pointing out flaws in a game i really used to enjoy. I am comparing them simply because its made by the same company, and they made them similar on purpose to lessen the difficulty of switching the game.
I definetly believe that mihoyo, as they always do, will release more grind shit in hsr, but at the current moment it's livable. Genshin is not.
This video is so relatable. I have 'been playing' Genshin since 1.0. When I started the game, I fell in love the world, the story, characters, its exploration and the combat system designed around elemental reactions. One year passed, Inazuma came and I was still having fun, with one new region to explore. Then, in Feb 2022, Elden ring came and being the souls fan I am, I played that, but when I returned to Genshin, I felt that I didn't really care about it anymore. This was quite surprising because it was around the time Yae Miko's banner had come out, a character who I had wanted(and still got) ever since the trailer for Inazuma dropped. At that time, the 'explore Enkanomiya' event was running and I completely skipped it. Then Sumeru came, and while I did play the story quest, I had little to no understanding of how dendro or its reactions worked, until I got Nahida(on her rerun banner).
As of now, sure I am AR 60, sure I have multiple 5* characters(with consts, one even C6) and weapons, but I don't really care about the game anymore, inspite of the time and money I have spent in this game. I feel its mainly due to the fact that when I started losing interest in this game, mihoyo did nothing to prevent me from doing so, they kept the game stale, they did nothing new
5:50 I'm still surprised that there're still people who still believing that this game needs skills to play
You know, I don't think any of the issues with the game are the real reason why people get tired of it ironically. It's just the natural progression that happens after spending too much time with a game, the problems start to feel bigger and you start to take the great parts for granted because you're used to it already. And I don't think there's any way to help with that kind of burnout except a break will alleviate it for some. If the game improves, it still won't be able to shed those feelings.
I don't think so because there are various games that came out ages ago and still see play to this day because they're fun to replay over and over. Genshin simply isn't fun unless Hoyoverse manually injects content into it. And most of that content is going to be fun for some and not others.'
@@thedead073 Those games are either designed around player creativity, biggest example being minecraft, or are competitive. Otherwise games will require content updates or they do lose player numbers.
I completely agree with you. The loss of magic, the monotonous quests and whatever else was said is just bound to happen and I don't think enough players realize that. Also, of course if you're playing the game since the early stages and log-in every day to do comms+resin+artefacts, you're going to enjoy it less. A lot of players are treating the game like a job where they NEED to do certain stuff religiously which weights on them eventually and that's not the game's fault.
As a casual player (who paused the game to write this comment), I always raise an eyebrow at some of the criticism Genshin receives. Sometimes it's more about your mindset while handling the product than the quality of the product itself.
@hachikuji_mayoi That's not the full picture. Most games allow you to replay the story over and over again. Genshin doesn't.
Most Gacha games require you to get new characters so that you can use them in the game's content. And while genshin has constantly updating content. Rarely does it relate to the character you just wished for. It doesn't matter how good the Hydro Archon is if you're using her to play windtrace.
Most games have depth to them which allows players to express themselves in game or devote time to experiencing the mechanics that the game has to offer. Genshin has no such thing.
Genshin ultimately is a collectathon at base with average exploration in it. And that was going to get stale much faster than any other type of game.
@@chib_bibi Exactly, when you feel like you need to log in to a game, that really is the sign that you really should not. Doing anything because of extrinsic motivation leads to burnout eventually.
you explained this perfectly. the more i try to pick it up again the more i feel like it gets me grieving over something that never really left. it honestly feels so bad to simply "fall out of love" with something that took up so much importance in your daily life
im burnt out and retired for like 1 year and half now, but i do still come back everytime they released new main story line and i disappear again from the game.
I started recently in April, the game captivated me, so many factors to adjust and make the perfect team with good characters, so many landscapes, but after playing intensively for a while now, I also realize there´s not much more to do other than doing the same things I already did and farm artifacts and primogems to get the next characters. Maybe the game will change in the future to have a wider and more advanced form of multiverse and we will be proud to have gotten the characters we had with so much work but for now, it seems monotony and repetition seems to be the norm.
I started in April too, I wish there was more in game content, and I hope Hoyoverse can find it in them to change this formula they've had forever.
Really I feel like there’s sometimes too much content that doesn’t make it very cohesive. You can decorate your Serinetea Pot, upcoming events, quests, play Genuis Invocation TCG, level up the statues and tree in Dragonspine. It makes me feel overwhelmed when I think about those things, but you’re definitely right when the core gameplay comes down to artifact farming and saving primos. It feels pretty repetitive.
@@penelles8400 i play genshin for 2 years now, and I have been taking few breaks for a few months. and my solution right now - to play the game once a week to do some events. i do play more if i am in a good mood for that, but if just give up on spiral abyss - no need to farm artifacts every day. i already have enough characters and artifacts, so i dont need to spend more then a few hours a week. but ofc that doesn't work for everybody
I started in April too
I started playing shortly after release and I think the worst mistake a new player can do is to play the game intensely. I made that mistake too and when I ran into the end of content, it came with a bang. Suddenly there was "nothing to do" in the game, and it lasted for what felt like very long time until Dragonspine expansion came. I learned to take things slow and enjoy everything the game offers and I believe that's why I still find it fun, no matter how repetitive the tasks may seem. Comparing it with my experience from other RPGs I played before, I find Genshin better because there are things that are actually new coming regularly, and six weeks cycle is much faster than many months it took the other games to come with any updates. But that's just my experience and to be honest I am not very knowledgeable about current games as I only have time to play one game at a time.
i can relate so well to this
im in an eternal cycle of coming back for characters and grinding artefacts once in a while.
i kinda hope to stop soon, but at the same time i want to keep playing the game because of all the memories it has given me.
For me personally, I've only played about a month or so. It's a good game, solid mechanics, ect.. but the way content and character progression is locked behind monotones story quests (you can't skip) is just obnoxious. I remember trying to collect the last few shards of light in the Chasm, only to find out that they were locked behind a completely unrelated story quest that took another 10 hours to complete.
Don't get me wrong, the quest turned out to be really interesting.. but to have an open world then lock things away like that is just annoying. Further, due to the requirement of "story keys". You can't just unlock the characters you want, you have to unlock them AND COMPLETE THEM in a specific order. Which again, would be fine.. if not for the fact it takes 2 days to unlock a single questline.
The quest I needed above, required 5 keys to get to the point in the story I could collect those last 3x shards of light. That's 10x days of waiting, all because I didn't know I needed those stories unlocked so I wasn't spending the keys on those stories specifically.
As of this point, beyond logging in to collect my 90 "free" gems for the day (of which I have another 38 days of those left) and collecting/spending realm currency in the teapot.. I've pretty much stopped playing.
That said, I would recommend checking out fontane if you do get a chance. The swimming mechanics/puzzles can be a lot of fun. It's also the closest thing you'll get to flying in the game. lol
I think I’m really not in the majority here but I played since 1.0 (YES, since october 2020), have nearly 1000 log in days and still enjoy the game. I think what made it possible to stick with the game is that I just play it for fun and to relax. The grinding part was never a priority. I think when you remove that “pressure” to have the best of everything it becomes more enjoyable. But hey, that’s just how I play.
Yeah, I can relate a lot. I started a few weeks after the game released and I've only ever gone hiatus once, however I just don't feel like doing quests anymore. I just log on, do commissions and use resin, which I guess makes the game feel even more boring. I've tried to force myself to do the current summer quest, because I didn't want to miss out on the skin and rewards, but I just end up turning the game volume down and doing something else in the background.
I've heard people say that the people who don't enjoy Genshin are the same people who skip through quests, and while that may be true, there's a reason why I ignore the dialogue in the quest anyway. Like you said, Hoyoverse has repeated the same formula in Genshin for EVERYTHING. They have reused the formula of: Meet the event banner character -> Talk to banner character for 10 minutes -> Paimon summarizes the entire dialogue -> find out there is a problem that only the traveler can solve -> Traveler solves it.
I feel like my friends quitting the game have also contributed to my burnout. Not being able to experience the game with friends has probably made it more boring. I get this sad feeling whenever I check my friends list, and see "has been offline 31 days ago".
Not to mention Honkai Starrail exists which actually feels fun to play and not a chore. (I hope I don't experience the same burnout for this game in the future) All these factors have basically diminished my interest in Genshin.
This is probably a rant that no one will read but I just wanted to express my thoughts. Time to go use my resin I guess.
lol this is exactly what im experiencing rn, but the characters is the only thing keep me in, im desperately want wanderer lol
I agree with pretty much most of what you said. What got me hooked at first was the beautiful world, the amazing music, fun combat and interesting story. This game even had me in tears on some parts, like during Zhongli's story with Azhdaha, and Ruu's quest on Tsurumi Island (actually had tears flowing down this grown man's face). I semi-whaled on this game because I loved it that much, but I regret it in the end. The leveling up is what frustrated me the most. Leveling up your characters took way too long, and WAY too many resources. Further more, the pay off wasn't even worth it. Congratulations, you spent 5 million Mora to level up your character's attack by 0.1%. The final blow to me was leveling up artifacts. You would spend days and thousands of resin to get the artifact with the main stat that you want, only to for you to roll HP and Defense on all of your sub stats. There is no reason for leveling up to be based on sheer luck. The only reason they, and most other gacha games do this is to artificially extend your playtime without having to put the effort to create new content. I just remember saying "this is stupid, I'm done." I quit playing right when Chasm was coming out, but I haven't touched the game sense.
A coworker of mine kept bugging me to play FF14, and when I stopped liking Genshin, I decided to give it a shot. My only regret with that is I didn't start playing sooner. I had no idea what I was missing out on, and the thought of playing an MMO turned me away. I can't believe I was so closed minded on FF14 just because it was an MMO. 90% of the game can be done solo, but that's really closer to 95% now. I've been in love with FF14 for almost 2 years now (started playing when Endwalker came out) and it's been a great ride. I doubt I'll ever come back to Genshin Impact, not unless they do real changes. Wishes are too expensive, so there should be more ways to get Primogems so you don't have to break the wallet every banner. The artifact strongbox is a waste because you can't control the primary stat or substats. There should be away to guarantee you to get the stat you want, even if it's super grindy. Leveling up your character shouldn't be so painful, and the payoff for doing so should be huge, not just an negligible buff in stats. There should be more end game content, not just the Abyss. For all of the good the game does, like the presentation, music, stylization, and characters, these downsides are deal breakers. I do miss this game, and truth be told, I never uninstalled it. Sometimes I want to start it up, but then I just think of all the better things I could be doing with my time, like typing an autobiography in a RUclips comment on a video about a game I haven't played in years.
This explained my reasons why I got burned out too omg... fuck, I miss the feeling too. Seeing the scenery on your video made me feel nostalgic, it was my way to escape from daily life too and the beauty of the world of Genshin never failed to amaze me. I even miss the characters as well, my comfort one, Childe, but now... not even my love for him or the nostalgia will made me go back. It's just... not it anymore and that saddens me beyond words. Thank you for this video, it was very well made.
Fellow endgame player here, experienced nearly the same thing everyone has been talking about in the comments here. Had a wonderful time playing this game, have been here since the first freaking Klee banner. I think I took a hiatus at some point, but it was definitely short because I remember grinding this game quite heavily after I got bored of Animal Crossing. It was magical. The world building was truly something I had never experienced before, and the elemental reaction system was so fresh and fun to use. Then, like everyone else, I took a dip. I just stopped caring for multiple reasons (I started playing other more fun games, school was picking up the pace, and I wanted to spend more time irl with friends). I had known it had reached a pretty bad point when I didn't even finish the second Golden Apple Archipelago, one of my favorite quests.
Up until that point, I was grinding like never before to get a character I had missed a few years back, Kazuha. Once I got him, I felt satisfied. The game was much more fun, for about a few weeks. I dropped it for several months, and have only come back for Wanderer. While I feel I will be playing for a bit longer than the Kazuha period, I will likely take another hiatus.
Genshin nowadays just feels unnecessarily clunky, especially when star rail became a thing.
The snappiness of star rail makes every clunk in genshin an eyesore and it ticks me off every time I get annoyed by the most mundane thing I have to do in genshin. Literally every complaint genshin had they optimised it in star rail and let genshin rot in its own base because it’s a cash cow regardless of how dated it’s starting to feel.
People keep bringing up the open world vs turn based argument but every optimisation done in star rail has nothing to do with game type nor scale.
You don’t have to wait 5s to open up the party screen, every teleporter heals you the moment you get there and you don’t have to stay ABSOLUTELY STILL for 5s for the heal to happen, you can choose the daily quests you want to do and not having the balloon escort shoved deep down into your throat, etc etc.
And from 3.0 genshin became more linear to the extent that half of the “open” world are locked behind quests intertwined with other quests, when I saw a dendroculus on the minimap and realised it’s blocked behind a rock that requires me to finish off a quest that I cannot start cuz the NPC is occupied by another quest it was over for me, it annoyed me off the game and I never came back.
man….. i felt this in my SOUL. i remember when i started playing like it was yesterday - it was sometime during the first run of the gaa, just before inazuma’s release. i would hop on every day, so eager to go through the story and explore the regions. i can even vividly recall pulling for kazuha, my first five star! now, it’s a miracle if i manage to play after a few months. it was definitely the monotony that did it for me - the frustrating grind for materials, the bland fetch quests and commissions, the repetitive slog that is the spiral abyss (and don’t worry, i’ve barely touched the card game, too.). after sumeru and nahida’s releases, i gradually lost interest in the game. it felt more like a chore to log in than it should be, which was when i knew i was burnt out. i don’t even keep track of what patch the game’s on or what banners are running - i’ve pretty much fallen out of love. and while i do still deeply treasure the time i spent in genshin, the honeymoon phase is over. i don’t think i’ll ever enjoy it as much as i used to. we’ve got a few years to go before the final region comes out, so i hope hyv fixes at least some of the game’s issues before then. it wouldn’t be enough for me to stay, but as an old player who’s only following genshin’s development for the story right now, it’d be nice to see! (i am coping.)
well, that’s enough of my crazy little rambling. thank you for making this video! it’s like you took the words right out of my mouth. lots of love, man! ^_^
I am watching this because it is the first game I ever played for more than a month regularly. 3 years and I still love the game, and I really just want to know why people are getting burned out.
I feel the same way. I’ve been playing everyday a bit more casually but I am very pumped for Fontaine!
It becomes a chore if you have other things you want to do or games to play. It ends up just logging in to do the dailies then log out and not even bothering to spend the resin. Slowly, you hated this repetitive action daily and ended up burn out.
For people that are short on time, genshin can become frustrating. This is especially so in long events such as the current summer Klee.
That's why I like hsr more. I can autoplay to spend the trailblazer power and the dailies can be finished way faster. Events can be completed much faster too as there are more teleport points in map.
I’ve played since like 1.5 and I took a break after losing so many 50/50s because I had gotten so annoyed. Then Sumeru came out and I got back into the game and loved exploring the rainforest. There were things I wanted to do / level up characters, but I had to progress the archon story. Having to catch up on that felt like a genuine chore because of the “this character is involved in another quest” so I’d have to go and do that one to progress. The story was so boring and took way too long to complete, but I eventually did it because I needed to unlock the bosses to build my characters.
But basically now that Fontaine is coming out, I want to be super excited for the new area, but knowing that I have days worth of story content I’ll need to beat in order to actually enjoy the area genuinely stresses me out. I never cared about the story, I’m just there to walk around and vibe, but the game forces their bad dialogue and repetitive storytelling onto you.
@@elledawn the Sumeru story was really amazing. If you did not like it, then your problem lies with the fact that you do not like Genshin at its core.
@@Jdogrey1and that's good
3 years of playing, I don't have that feeling anymore when I once play, I reach ar 60 and mostly got all the fav, still played Fontaine and all, but, don't seem to want to play everyday anymore, maybe once a week😅😅😅
i started in patch 1.3. i don't blame people getting burnt out coz the the desert regions were boring as heck i didn't even bother exploring it after finishing main quest.
Hoping Fontaine will bring new and exciting stuff to the game.
Bro 3.4 desert area is my least fave. I always try to unlock all the teleport waypoints every region but omg I've only opened the ones near commissions and some bosses I'll never fight
The desert's pretty cool, but yeah does get boring. It's so big. I prefer the "forest" part of Sumeru for sure, wish that had been a bit larger instead of so much desert. Although despite being called a "forest", much of it only has a few trees dotted around...
Ughhh the pyramid mazes and invisible walls make me wanna off myself
the thing that burnt me out from genshin is the story quests tbh, like don't get me wrong I love the story and the characters but it's presented horribly. the stupidly long quest with main focuses of npcs, the lazy and repetitive animations, and the neglect to characters with potential is so aggravating. i know it's hard to make character designs and implement them in-game, and ik it's hard to animate but I feel as if they stopped adding pointless npc's into stories that are meant to hold meaning and if they didn't recycle the same animations maybe the quests wouldn't be so dreadful and would actually hold my attention. and personally I really just want more content of characters that are actually really cool and powerful in lore but never have a chance to rlly shine like chongyun and rosaria. there is a bunch of issues story wise I could talk about but those reasons rlly put me off
Nah, why waste money on making new additional animations, on new models (with unique faces) for key npcs, on a team of writers who can write an actually good plot, on voicing important quests.... when you can just put money in your pockets? Those idi0tic players will pay millions anyways.
Early genshin was peak and the fact that it came out in the middle of the pandemic made it a coping mechanism for a lot of people
I feel you man, Ive been playing Genshin consistently every day since launch but only recently got too burnt out to be bothered and stopped playing for almost a month. I only recently came back to rush the events for primos to prepare for fontaine but i cant be assed to do daily commissions or finish the pending quests i have for new sumeru areas. I really do miss how genshin made me feel and i find it sad too, im just clinging on but i dont think ill be playing it as consistently as i used to.
They single only way to improve genshin is to give us a damn skip button for dialogue!
Preach!!!
my feelings towards this game is really different from others.
i stopped playing this game not because i lost the magic that i felt when i first played it, but because the more i progress the more i realized there isn't anything there for me to experience anymore.
the gameplay just became a repetitive grind for artifacts and primogems while the story is just a visual novel with barely any gameplay value.
i miss this game not because i'm burnt out. i miss this game because there wasn't anything new to do.
Playing since launch. What made me stay is I really love the story. The main quests are engaging and the world of Tevat is truly amazing.
Have u played star rail?
Same. I play it for the story. In addition to the main story quest, the big events have such beautiful and touching stories too. There's almost always something poignant and touching to be gleaned. Like this year's summer event. The real world is harsh, but in veluriyam mirage, idyia will always be there to support your dreams 😊
@@W4RMACHINES I did, and the story was okay... the gameplay is not as fun as genshin for me, but it seems to be a hit to many turn based rpg player. It's too repetitive to me, and in genshin I could do stupid things with the enemies and watch them get stuck to something while bombarding them with my newly pulled wanderer (RIP Kazuha that I lose to Jean)
That is indeed true, but the frequency is really off
@@W4RMACHINES Someone that likes exploration and story really shouldn't play Star Rail, neither of those things are the draw.
Honestly… I haven’t played in a year and just going through the entire Sumeru quest line from start to finish without waiting has been amazing lol
I played the games since it got launched, i was waiting for it since the trailer dropped. It was so magical when I first opened the game the world, characters, story. I remember when I was climbing Qingyun peak and the music played that was the best moment I ever had playing this game. I also made my friends play Genshin and they loved it. But now everyone is burned out and we all quit playing 😔
Genshin will always have a special place in my heart. I began as a casual player, but as my dad got sicker, he got put into ICU and I couldn't talk to him anymore. To distract myself, I began playing Genshin more and more. When he passed away, Genshin was the only constant thing in my life that did not remind me of him and gave me a breather. I stopped playing for a long while once I felt the burnt out, and now I'm taking it up again. I am not trying to level up or finish all the quests anymore, I just want to take the game easy and enjoy it:D
A big part of it for me as well is that just the regular content kinda feels like a chore.
By the time I'm done with commissions, spending my resin, and doing any events that may be on I'm just... ready to log out again. They take enough time and effort that by the time the daily chores are done I've barely got any motivation left for exploration or questing.
the discovery and story is refreshing but the daily and building char is a chore I'm not even last after that liyue big monster with a flying castle
my problem with the game is that there's way too much dialogue that I have to skip. I don't mind the Archon quests and don't skip dialogues there. But other story quests and side quests just way too much dialogues. I get tired. I have only been able to complete 3-4 hangouts. Hangouts are literally a nightmare.
Crazy how there's still no actual skip button. As somebody that tries to read or at least skim most of the dialogues doe the most annoying thing is the padding, dialogues often repeat the same thing over and over, not counting paimon that has ONLY lines reiterating obvious or previously mentioned things, it makes it feel like way more of a slug to get through than it needs to be.
I played almost daily for a year, and the game gave me a lot of joy. I still miss the feeling of awe I had when I first saw the landscapes of Liyue and Sumeru (didnt care much for Inazuma).
But it was an addiction, and I am glad I have zero desire to ever touch it again.
I was neglecting my own mental and physical health for a virtual world, and I am so glad I did not get Wanderer.
It made me realize I was no longer playing the game for any amount of pleasure, but just to get the next shiny thing.
It feels good to be free.
Also, Paimon was so annoying that it made me dread cutscenes. She ruined the story for me, and as someone who likes story driven games it was another deal breaker for me.
Good on you. I'm glad you broke free.
They have changed the paimon voice making her more annoying. I could feel it clearly because in monestad her voice was not bad but in the recent summer Paradise event her voice was very irritating
Joined 4 months before the first anniversary and I loved it, didn’t know how to pull and stuff and didn’t even know about the Gacha system at all at first because I got it through the ads not the gameplay and other people.
Started a new account because I couldn’t beat the ruin guard in the Mond Archon quest but after taking the four month break necessary (effectively putting me in during the anniversary) I finally killed him off and slowly got to Liyue.
I remember thinking Liyue was part of Mondstadt and that was just how big Mondstadt was, no, it wasn’t, but it was super cute looking back.
I played with my bestest of friends back then, I made the new account just when she’d started and we had the same type of experience, I ended up competing to see who could get the higher AR - ultimately I won.
She was a Yanfei main and I maimed Anemo Lumine (still my preferred Lumine) and I kept actively trying to understand how the game, elements and artefacts worked, which put me in-front of her and got me to help her a lot of the time, odd since she was the one who actually watched genshin content at the time.
First time I pulled, I got Noelle, then Ningguang, I still love Ningguang to this day just like back then, and my first 5 star was Mona, I was so excited to tell my best friend - she’s kind of a Mona simp now lol - and I remember dragging Mona around everywhere with my impractical team of Anemo Lumine, Ningguang, Diona and Mona
We’d keep racing, I got Mona c1 on standard banner and got Ayaya, who I built and now cherish greatly, she got Venti (I was very jealous lmao, but he came in clutch for her bc we would struggle with the ascension domains and she said she really needed a crowd control support)
We used to go to each others teapots super duper often, at like 1AM, both not wanting to wake our families up, we’d just text via the genshin system, and I remember showing her around the festival area I made and the floating islands with the teapot money we get as compensation for the teapots closing for a while. (I also showed off the Raiden plushie I got that she couldn’t bc she was stuck with the Archon quest at the time which I beat solely for the plushie hehe)
When she was about to build Kuki, her device crashed and that account was lost, but she eventually made a new one, and we still play together sometimes but it doesn’t feel the same anymore.
I’m glad that I knew back then that these moments would eventually pass, and I’m glad I enjoyed them as much as I did back then.
Genshin gave so many of us only the best gaming experiences, huh.
I started playing at around 1.4-1.5. The first time experience was amazing and I played daily. The story was so engaging too but as time went on it started to become stagnant and I got more and more burntout. Recently, I became more busy with college so I stopped playing, it was already exhausting at that point and it was just adding more stress instead of helping. I have no regrets and I lost any FOMO. I did return for a bit but only for Kaeya's new outfit. I'll play it at my own pace but for now it just isn't feasible and until they have a story that I am interested in and want to immerse myself in or until Dainsleif is announced then I won't really come back lol
Genshin is one of the three games I play and i joined in 2020. I joined genshin not because of the trend but because I liked open world games. I never got bored of it or burnt out. I only missed a few days because I was sick or busy. I just do some dailies and farming and finish in 20 mins. I think if you're bored of the game, its not for you. Don't play a game you don't like just because it's popular.
"Don't play a game you don't like." How to know that I will dislike the grinding system and the events of Genshin if I have not played once. In fact, I started since launch because it is a beautiful open world, not because it is popular, I continued playing for almost a year but I quit because the game was boring and repetitive and the community is toxic.
Забугорные геншинята не меняются :)
Just because you get burned out on a game you used to like doesn’t mean the game isn’t for you, it’s completely normal for a person to get burned out on games. I get burned out on Deep Rock Galactic, Darktide or Insurgency from time to time but I hop in and have a damn good time. Those games will probably get boring for me one day for one reason or another but I enjoy them until then.
imagine calling genshin open world. an open world doesn't have borders to limit you, and has the whole map unlocked the moment you step in. it's vast indeed, not open.
@@ejokurirulezz thats not how open world works my guy
im not burned out im just limited in what i can do on a day to day basis so that i cant set my own goal for the day
hey, this video really hit home for me. i made so many friends through this game, grew my art account, and had so much fun on it during my online classes, and it distracted me from the more depressing elements of my life. now, i just cant get back into it, ive stopped talking to those friends as often since we just have different interests now, and ive lost a lot of interactions and followers on my page because i dont draw it anymore. this video made me feel a lot better about everything, knowing that im not the only one with these feelings and gripes about the game. also youre funny as hell man, here's a sub - hope to see you grow on here!
10:00 there are some in development. biggest being Wuthering waves. Genshin really needs a decent competitor. To be fair they recently mentioned wanting to implement some feature from Star rail into genshin. They mentioned the event archive and hinted at something like the simualte universe to come to genshin. Simulate universe = a rouge lite mode in HSR (Star rail)
Im so excited for wuwa
Hinted at SU coming to Genshin? Ohoho, I'll believe it when I see it. Otherwise, they aren't doing jack shit as far as I can see. They want to stay in their comfort development zone. They want to cater this game to the non-gamers who don't want to figure out how stuff works, Waifu/Husbando simps, and gay/lesbian shippers. After all of this, they seal their ears with wax hoping the complaints of the actual gamers who are demanding actual gameplay will eventually go away.
Genshin isn't really a combat game. It's sort of a visual novel, with a side of exploration. The combat barely exists. It is there to make the exploration more meaningful and to justify their Gacha's existence.
There was an event back in 2.2 called Labyrinth Warriors, which is basically the SU equivalent of Genshin. That was one event that they would probably not bring back since it involved playable characters (Xinyan & Childe) and was voiced.
And so far voiced events won't come back except for GAA. It came back in 2.8 but somehow not on 3.8
I don't believe that WW will be able to make a good competitor to genshin. They will have to really make a divine game, and they have to spend millions on advertising. But genshin will soon also have anime from ufotable, which will bring even more players to genshin, and from this ww can bend into obscurity on the wave of genshin's hype. Although ww will most likely definitely be more popular than tof.
@@iosis9324 Wuwa has a $100m budget, the same as Genshin had. Mihoyo are only spending about a tenth of Genshin's income on the game itself every year so Kuro have a pretty good chance at matching its content output and marketing, especially since they'll probably put a bigger emphasis on combat for things like events. A good thing for them to do (unlike ToF) would be *not* launching the month before Genshin's most hyped patch of the year. If Kuro put it out right before Natlan comes out, they're shooting themselves in the foot.