The Genshin Impact Anniversary CONTROVERSY Explained
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2021
- Here is everything you need to know about the Genshin Impact Anniversary Controversy!
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Imagine spending 100$ for cosplay and you get 100 primogems
*TRADE*
You cosplay worth 100$
You get 100 primos
Law of inequivalent exchange says Grand Pooh-Bah Da Wei
@@degenerate3796 wrong info my dude, its a VERY SMALL CHANCE to get a 100 primos
Br uh
@@FreneticPotato -9999 liyue reputation credit
_"Money doesn't change people, it only shows who they truly are"_
- a witty comment I once stumbled upon in this website
Dam
Yeah I've heard this somewhere before too
And welp it is spoken true in this case cause both the company and players shows themselves who they truly are.
That's not witty, that is real shit. A very true fact of life
It’s more of showing your habit and history than accurately showing who you truly are.
Remember that your background is part of what making you to become or how you interact differently. A person who has everything they satisfied and need nothing will eventually don’t care much about having some couple expenses out.
Everything is built up on your belief of what is the correct answer to a specific topic or issue. Otherwise temptation does not work if there is nothing to get addicted to. Just like playing with human behavior against sexual tolerance and things make you excited about.
A month late, but you missed out this really important fact:
The mihoyo's official rewards thread was deleted because it was reported too many times. Literally their own official post was reported SO MANY TIMES the automatic system deleted it.
They deserved it ngl
That's a burn xD
15:00 as a cosplayer, can confirm. I spent about €500 on making my Lisa cosplay. Genshin cosplays are super fucking expensive and difficult to make because of how complex the designs are. To make a decent cosplay you’ll be spending hundreds on fabric & supplies & need to be a very advanced sewer. The prize was legitimately insulting.
I hope you get to make a return on investment with your cosplay, I'm sure it's awesome
@@MoonOffSpringC haha thanks! I got a rly positive response when I brought her to London Comic-Con which was enough for me!
@@LadyAltaria Cosplayers and Drag Queens are often used and it's just not right. We work so hard, you deserve to make your profit. (I'm a rare breed that tips Cosplayers for entertaining me)
Not a very advanced sewer but yeah, you definitely need quite a lot of money. Or at least save it to buy fabrics.
Are cos plays normally a one time costume thing because whenever I see one they always seem practically impossible to get out of without cutting something
Who else still remembers when they promised that we'd get info on how to obtain the KFC collab glider outside of china by the end of a certain month? They still haven't . . .
Kfc gliders?? Im still waiting for that damn switch port. We'll get both when half life 3 comes out
They ligit forgot 💀
@@feeahblaiddyd I think it might be nintendo's fault genshin not being on switch.
@@ieda18 it can go either way honestly, 'cause I have no idea how mihoyo managed to make this game run on my crappy phone but not the Nintendo Switch. Only time will tell though, if Genshin Impact on Switch comes suspiciously after Breath of the Wild 2 releases, it will be pretty damn clear where the roadblock was.
I'm high on hopium and wanting the massive delay to be because mihoyo wants the rights to put Link in Genshin and give him a month early for Switch players, just like how Aloy was handled, but Nintendo is refusing. The "chinese knockoff" of Breath of the Wild would come full circle lol.
@@ieda18 Mihoyo have a hard time polishing GI, there's still latency issues in mobile, not to mention how heavy updates are.
The best thing to come from this whole fiasco is Qiqi got a LOT of attention.
Qiqi is a good girl and deserves more love from the community.
She was just a tool
@@chocolatesquirrel2002 arent we all- qiqi 2021
genshin impact itself got alot of attention, imagin if this was a 5head business move from mhy for free attention
qiqi pat :3
@@chosenuwu ruclips.net/video/DFGBQ4Ut8OY/видео.html pat the qiqi :D
In reference to the "scary" and "exotic" thing mentioned at around 4:05, part of the problem was actually that the English localization team's translations somewhat deviated from what the original Chinese version said. I know for Kaeya the Chinese version never called him exotic and instead said that he was a foreigner. For Xinyan, I believe the translation was confusing enough to cause a misunderstanding for those who hadn't read her story very closely, but in the Chinese version it was very clear that the "scary" part was Xinyan's rock aesthetic and not Xinyan herself. There are other cases of the English localization being way too different from the original, but these two examples are the most well known.
I bet they were just stirring controversy for some extra clicks
These modern games, man. There was no race-baiting in Banjo-Kazooie
Big reason for that naming is it is more attractive and punctual.
Yes
twitter being twitter
Kaeya is exotic cause his homeland is dead, and Xinyan is scary because she shoots fire from her guitar XD
I hated the fact that they even stopped people from changing their in-game profile signatures and sharing their opinions and stances that way. Like they disabled a whole in-game feature because they couldn't take the fact that people wanted to voice their opinions.
@Nina Tote I've actually stopped playing pretty much all together. Mihoyo's response to the whole anniversary event was sickening honestly, and it really tainted my opinion on the game.
@@LittleParade_ And people already forgot it :/
@@giulia1361 not really, the whole gacha community look at genshin anniversary thing have now made genshin a joke, and rightfully so
Fun fact: They have done the exact same stuff when tiananmen masaccare anniversary came around. We couldnt change our signatures or anything for a week lol.
@@hafidlho7332 Wth is the "gacha community" lmao, what are the popular gacha games nowadays? I mean they can call Genshin a joke if they want, but I'd rather play a joke than an auto mode simulator
Lol I love how high spenders showed a picture of tectone.
Staff of homeless moment 😂😂😂
and he even got mona lmfao
Because he's the definition of a clown
@@C.HAD69
And he has an entire circus of a community that follows him XD
@@dragolectron9351 why?
MHY knows their player base. I already saw a few comments saying that they will C6 Itto. Your money is your money, but this behaviour is exactly why MHY won't change a thing. I would love to be proven wrong.
Yeah same. The behaviour of the fanbase is what problematic
This fandom is the very definition of hypocrite sometimes. I mean, most obvious example is when a character that is hyped is just released, they're called shit, then after the banner ends, people realise they're good.
I was shocked to learn that this apparently happened---- with Kazuha????
So them saying "[blank] is shit" but turn their heel and start gushing is just the expected pattern at this point.
@@blackbun130 lmao, people tend to called him budget venti, while he's literally High Testosterone Sucrose. His crowd control and elemental support is in Sucrose level but higher.
@@blackbun130
On the opposite end, I never see that. The only one I saw are the ones about ACTUAL bad characters like Kokomi, Yoimiya and Sara. Why? Because I follow theorycrafters who do actual math and review kits. No one from the TR community was saying Kazuha will be bad, pretty sure you’re taking memers way too seriously as people who actually know anything about the game combat system.
@@spookyscarylamppost3431 Kazuha got SO SO much hate when he first got released, like literally he got bombarded with hate especially in social medias. I still remember a kazuha post, basically someone used kazuhas E instead of plunging and then he said kazuha was so fun. And lmao the comment section literally started trashing him saying he's trying to convince people to pull for kazuha even though kazuha is bad. People kept saying sucrose is WAY better than kazuha, especially in polls. People would test out kazuha in reaction comps and since he won't buff reactions, he's automatically called trash. And people would say sucrose em and edmg while kazuha only buffs edmg, kazuhas cc is smaller than ventis etc. so kazuha isn't good at anything. The hate he got was way horrible than albedo. And now like 2 months like, kazuha's suddenly the meta xD
I love how this video is different from the others. Because it's not just "look the community is bad. Omg toxicity" I like that he actually explains things
the community is toxic
but its not like the dev arent bad either
ofc the community gonna be toxic bcs its literally one of biggest multiplayer game today, the hype still not died even after a year
instant 1* on anniversary is a prove that the community still thriving
He leaves out some important things like how we got one of the best claymores in the game during the event, and a lot more than just 10 wishes.
@@simplysolus8916 xinyan was unavailable for tons of players though, because lots of people struggled fighting ei and la signora to finish the archon quest. we did get 20 pulls though, and i’m happy, but it still was extremely underwhelming
@@cad1848 ...? What does an area that hadn't yet been released have to do with Xinyan & a Liyue event that occurred before inazuma was even released?
@@simplysolus8916 weren’t you talking about the one with childe and the paper figure i forget his name
Honkai Impact: The favorite child that knows they’re the best.
Genshin Impact: The burnt pancake that turned into a dumpster fire.
Tears of Themis: Is just there
Star Rail : our future seems to be not so great either...
naah dear themis had a fiasco too
@@elusixXrelix Explain?
@@ilikepointlessinternetargument they butchered the gacha system in CN/TW servers and applied it on the anniv. the gacha system was redeem system to hard pity system. global players only experience the hard pity system. How mihoyo responded to the CN and TW was almost the same what they did to genshin anniv
@@chenchen6150 just add kiana there and... Bam! it turned into a brighter future.
My favorite part of all this drama was when they tweeted about Elon Musk and got so much hate they deleted it
I kinda feel bad for elon, like really
@@ramtosantosa7661 he inherited money from his dad in apartheid SA, works children in his cobalt mines, and now grifts people for money using his worker's inventions.
@@ramtosantosa7661 tbh I wish he got more hate for how absurd his greed is.
@@blorblin thats not the point here but sure
That was a real tweet?? I thought it was a joke lmao
How can you say the best waifu is Xinquiu? It's obviously Gouba
Eula: Haha no
@@volcanicz6739 Madame ping:..... Hehehhe HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHA no
Venti : laughs in femboy
@@owjekndjw5193 venti isn't a femboy your just disgusting
@@Him_000 I mean technically he looks like a girl like atleast 7% of people confuse venti for female it’s just his bard outfit
mannnn! i remember arguing with someone who thought the anniversary rewards were 1000% fair, and that i was being entitled for being disappointed 😭
Yeah, the typical conformist whiteknight.
People just obsesing for primogems
@@hysh9483 it's wasn't an obsession for primos, it was mihoyo not giving a shit about the players. even the even was extremely mid tier. they're a billion dollar company...not some small company. it wouldn't have cost them anything to give us maybe at least 1 free 5*
@@trblrvng lmao imagine, thats how gacha game works, you wont get free a 5 star
@@hysh9483 plenty of gacha games give free 5 stars? Not even during anniversaries only, anytime
22:00 Let me confirm it for you; CENSORSHIP DID HAPPEN. In multiple ways, and the one everyone cannot deny because it happened to us all was that at the time of Anniversary people could not modify their signatures to express their absolute disgust and hatred for the Anniversary between the players. So yes, censorship did indeed happen and so did the removal of all the justified 1 star ratings against Genshin Impact. Trolls or not, a game that had nearly 5 stars from a player base of nearly 50 million doesn't drop to 1 star in the span of roughly 24-48 hours from botting and trolls. That rating was 100% authentic and done by the Genshin community as a COMPLETE whole, and Mihoyo knew it. Honestly they didn't deserve to get the #1 mobile game reward for 2021 because if they had kept things honest, those ratings would've stripped them away from that honor instantly.
You do fail to realize this game is free to play and all of you take that for granted, not to mention mihoyo is also having problems with the ccp due to their new laws
@@banjoowo4001 I don't fail to realize the game is free to play. I also don't fail to realize that without the GENERAL support of the majority of players who come together to make this game fun, enjoyable, and tolerable (at worst), this game would be nothing without us, and without us, the whales who chip in the most to support the game and the vast majority of low spenders who match them, would have zero support, therefore, zero income and zero reason to continue playing as well the moment ALL of us walk away from this game.
So before you preach to me the whole "free to play" argument, let me remind you a business should *always* continue giving incentives for people to remain invested in their product so more people have reasons to consider hopping on the bandwagon. We got NONE of that for the anniversary, despite all of us trudging through scraps of bare minimum primogem rewards only to get pitied by C2 Qiqi.
As for the CCP management issues; that's not our problem is it? I doubt CCP is telling Mihoyo "keep daily primogem rewards at a total of 60" "keep character costume output at a rate of half a year." "make sure instead of making guaranteed weapon pity at 180 wishes, like featured character banners, make it 270 instead" "make sure artifact domain resin costs remain 20 per run, keep shitty primary stat rates high and keep pretending it's RNG based rather than mathematically manipulated to always favor shitty stat rates/rolls" "make sure in order to for people to max out a character that it costs 5 MILLION MORA per character, not including artifact upgrade costs"
Like dude, there's only so much excuses people can make for the free to play argument before you just CANNOT excuse the amount of time and effort it takes for the grind PER character and for wishing. There's "difficult" and then there's "bullshit". Mihoyo's been at "bullshit" for a while now and it should change because there's only so much grinding people can take before being completely fed up and burnt out.
@@SeraphimDragon if you have so much problem then why play? There are better games out there , besides they gave like 15 free wishes this update , then will give another 10 in the next , just be grateful or leave the game
@@banjoowo4001 Sorry but that’s fallacious, people can and will be passionate about games and it is common courtesy for that to be addressed. Personally I found the review bombing to be stupid, but the “accept it or quit” mentality is even more stupid and almost as immature.
@@banjoowo4001 Just because a game is free, doesn't give the company excuse to milk their community for cheap, non credit Ads for their game.
As a cosplayer, thank you SO MUCH for talking about the effort required to do this; that Mona cosplayer who was on screen for a few seconds probably spent hundreds, more likely thousands, making that costume and achieving that shot and learning how to do those effects or paying someone to do them for her - to say nothing of the time investment. I feel awful for every cosplayer who got suckered into making a negative investment on that contest, good god. People do not understand that we take hundreds upon thousands of photos just to get ONE that looks right or how much money we spend on materials, set design, and effects for costumes and single shots that take hundreds of hours to complete. It is WORK and it's work I really enjoy but people constantly taking it for granted is exhausting.
The fact you generalize everyone into your personal headspace of thinking you should be rewarded for everything you do is funny enough on its own already .
Just goes to show that you don't create because you love to create. The people who participated in those more than likely don't give a shit about rewards. There could have been no rewards and they would have still done it because for many people, it isn't about rewards from the company. They just wanna share their creations with the world and other fans. But of course people like you need to exist to project your moral compass on to everything as if you're some sort of arbiter for people who create things. Speak for yourself, and *only* for yourself. The fact you think it's "being taken for granted" just proves that you have a personal issue you need to sort out where you view art as a commodity rather than as a passion.
Mad because your favorite artist won't give you a free commission arentcha?
@@justsomeguy727 this also applies to your opinion so.... the irony.
@@justsomeguy727 mihoyo bootlicker at its finest
@@justsomeguy727 this guy so far up Mihoyo's ass he's giving them a free prostate exam
1) It still boggles my mind that people would attack the Voice Actors and Developers for decisions they have no involvement with. Everything regarding the Anniversary "rewards" was decided by corporate, and everything regarding a character's skill kit is decided by the Genshin team.
2) Mihoyo definitely doesn't listen to their community. If they did then they would have overhauled their weapon banner by now. The weapon banner is one of the biggest complaints the community has had with the gacha system since the game launched.
3) I love Kokomi's design, but the fact that she was a healer that has -100% crit rate kind of ruined her chances of being pulled for. I hope they will rework her if she ever gets a rerun in the future. Healers serve no real purpose in late game outside of Spiral Abyss. I think a lot of people in the community want a proper dps hydro unit over another healer.
Tartaglia and Xingqiu exist. Why do you need more?
@@ForeverDegenerate Xingqiu is a support, Tartaglia has a skill issue
@@khmaou Xingqiu can function as either a Main DPS or a Sub DPS depending on your build. And what is Childe's Skill Issue?
@@ForeverDegenerate pretty sure what they meant about support is a Sub dps, Xingqiu functions alot better as a hydro applicator.
@@crispyliciouschicken244 I know that. I was saying he could function in either role if you build him right. You are right that his specialty is Hydro Application, but that doesn't mean you can't run him as a Main DPS.
It’s been a while since the anniversary, but I still find this sickening. This is why you don’t spend hard-earned money on a game that doesn’t listen to the community.
That's why I've made the best decision on replacing genshin with cookie run lol
@@ShrimpnMangoes i understand you and as a player who never spend a single money in this game anniversary rewards doesn't concern but yeah feel bad for some players who spend money in this game.
@@franzkeishiwaitingforscara263 i agree to this statement right here its so tru on the players who likes to whale on every banner in the game and wasting money on welkin and battle pass
That's how socialism works especially the origin country of this game.
@@Aanonymous88
??? What are you trying to do?
China isn't even socialist. It's communist, but I bet if you're going around making statements like that, you don't even know the difference.
Another thing I remember seeing on the internet. MiHoYo doesn't care about the opinions of any of its fans apart from the Chinese ones. Zhongli got a massive buff when Chinese whales complained about him, while international players were left ignored. The KFC glider was a "Chinese Only" item for a long time, and I believe the anniversary gifts for the Chinese were better too. I remember seeing a video about one of the devs (I believe, but I could be wrong) sort of jokingly say "we don't listen to the English speakers {of the game}." And another thing that I've seen touched on quite a bit is mistranslations. There have been a lot of mistranslations in MiHoYo and nearly all of them had to be explained by the fans (most of them of Chinese descent, I believe) before MiHoYo changed the mistranslations.
actually the chineses didn't get more reward than us but that's only true if you only count the anniv ev. Chinese players got some other rewards from mini events that EN sever didn't have
Bc the english speakers are toxic
@@Gamfluent but muh representation!
@@Gamfluent it's not a "just for chinese" type of game. It never meant to be like this, just by looking at the gameplay and the way game looks, it seems like they knew what they were doing. And it's also pretty much a global game, so origins of the game shouldn't matter.
I left valid criticism on the google review page, a 1 star review listing some things that the game hasn't addressed that you've mentioned in this video, I talked briefly about how the anniversary events were subpar and were handled poorly, and that I still loved the game and deeply wanted it to start communicating with the player base and improving itself.
Within a few hours, my review was deleted with no warning or message about it, I went back to check the review scores later that day and noticed that Google Play was asking me to review the game again.
1* review is very disingenuous though. 1* reviews is what you would give a game that is unplayable due to being riddled with bugs, or because the game is inundated with ads making it impossible to enjoy. At worst Genshin is a 2* game. I don't blame GP for removing 1* reviews at the time of the review bombing. It would've been better for you to leave a 2* review while putting in caps, all of your criticisms and grievances.
A smart person would leave a 5* review with scathing criticisms. It's more likely that your review would be at the top and that people would see your review. The star rating doesn't matter if the first review on the game is 'NOT WORTH DOWNLOADING GAME IS UNPLAYABLE AND BRICKS YOUR DEVICE. ONLY LEFT 5* REVIEW SO YOU WOULD SEE THIS'
@@GoodwillWright yeah the Devs never look at the comments itself it's best to lower the score itself so that they can get the message
@@heistingcrusader_ad3223 No point leaving 1* reviews though as they may be ignored. Honestly, they couldn't care less if Genshin is 1* on the play store but they are still getting hundreds of millions a year.
Target the players, money speaks louder. Inversely, there have been great games that were reviewed highly but were shut down due to not making any money.
their customer service is awful, spend money, account got stolen(?), tried many times to get contact and even after solid proofs of purchases, data etc, they couldn't give me a proper explanation after 5 months of constant contact
I initially gave it a 3 star rating but my review got deleted multiple times that in the end I scored it 1 star and that review stuck.
I can't believe this actually happened a few weeks ago, it feels so surreal now that I think about it. Great analysis as always!!
Real sort explanation:
People were already annoyed because the anniversary and rewards were so shitty and then mihoyo started to censor people complaining which was like hitting a wasps nest with a stick
Honestly, a 'Choose your own constellation' event for Amber, Kaeya and Lisa would have been all I could have asked for. They are the characters we start the game with and who also happen to be the hardest to get constellations for. An annual anniversary event that let us get them a little more stronger each year would have been perfect.
I didn't expect a 5-star, in my mind that was being too greedy, even if they would be standard banner choices. All in all, Mihoyo was just too slow to reveal the festivities and said festivities turned out to mostly be free advertising for themselves and a concert that not many people were all that interested in. The concert itself was actually very good, but they did only release half of it for the community and monetized the second half as a boxed set. For a company who went from niche to household name in less than a year I would have expected them to be more generous with wanting to thank the community for that growth as they couldn't do it without the players. The anniversary debacle was disgusting and it really made the company feel empty, as if they were saying, 'Take these rewards or don't, there will always be new players to replace you if you aren't happy with them.'
Me too cause I main Keaya
Honestly i think it’s because mihoyo lets us not be greedy I was genuinely shocked when I played other gacha games I felt surprised when I got handed so many 5 or 6 stars for free
Let's not forget that a sizeable number of the players in Genshin, are veterans of many gacha games. They know what they're getting into, have experience with the genre and still got disappointed....
Which is if anything, a great accomplishment considering veterans have low expectations to begin with
All gacha developers are greedy monsters. It's been like 7 or 8 years since the first gacha game came out (hell maybe it was more)
here in the west and people still waste their money on them. I can't wait for them to shut it down and then a bunch of morons will scream that they put x amount of money into the game and now they can no longer play it ,and then proceed to start playing a new gacha maybe even from the same scumbags that made the previous one.....MOBILE GAMERS LADIES AND GENTLEMAN! What a bunch of clown they are.
@@HandheldGamer1991 10 year minimum. puzzle and dragons is 10 years old, and idk if there was a gacha game before it
Fanbase: I'm gonna quit Genshin Impact until Mihoyo listens!
Mihoyo: release a filler update
Fanbase: OMG!!! CHILDE AND XINYAN IS IN THERE!!!
well i guess that also explain one of the issue in the community lol
The community has no backbone spine to stand on because they are easily manipulated just liek the RWBy fanbase
But that's the best event yet. Like they actually listened about dodo events. Credit will be given where credit is due same as backlash🥰🥰
@@magnuscritikaleak5045 Well, I mean to be fair. Like 90% of the complaints people tend to have tend to be minor compared to the actual quality game we're getting. People making mountains out of hills. Cause end of the day, objectively, Genshin is still a very quality game.
@@gameboy8010
Yeah, you can’t cut off the support for all the actual game designers, voice actors, etc just because of the marketing/rewards people. You can’t kill a game for that, and it’s not as easy as getting “new management” it takes time, and by dunking on MiHoYo for this reason, you could be dunking on everyone who’s working hard to make a good game unintentionally.
That's how all gacha fanbases are long term
Genshin had the framework to be more than just another gacha but they've kind of blown it at this point. Most people outside the gacha fanbase see the genshin fandom as just as bad if not worse than the Minecraft stans
Doesn't help that the game feels very superficial and repetitive. The open world only lasts so long and even then, the latter half of your time in it is for very superficial reasons. It's just a higher production gacha game and to see it as anything else means they have already trapped you and there isn't much help for you. Gacha is literally a synonymous term with lootbox, it's called a gacha game because the sole intent of the game is to take as much money from the user as possible. By any means necessary
The biggest thing from the outside looking in that many people and non players fail to realize is this:
Within the sphere of Gacha games, the way that Mihoyo has handled this anniversary is VERY atypical and odd to see if you look at the standard within other gacha games.
Gacha games at their core are…FREE. And much like any free thing, there’s always a catch. For most gacha games, the catch is that without spending money, there are often times bottlenecks for certain things in game. Whether it’s gameplay progression, leveling, or summoning currency to get new units. Every gacha game does this in some regard, and the degree to which money is required or not required to progress through the regular game loops is what defines a gacha games “free to play friendliness”. What this means is that games that are “F2P friendly” are games where you can get a decent amount of playability and progression out of the game while spending no real life currency on the game. Now, obviously, for gacha games with a high degree of “F2P friendliness” you might wonder “how does a game like that make money?” Well, that’s where things get interesting. In general, most gacha games that are F2P friendly do not really have an impetus to satisfy to needs of free to play players. These players represent an absence of profit for the company because….well, they’re making use of the company’s product but do not spend any money on the game. Speaking purely business wise, these players are dead weight and not a priority to cater to. The vast majority of money made by the company comes from “whales” or players that spend a large amount of money on the game at a repeated and regular interval that usually aligns with new character and content updates. However, F2P players also SHOULD represent something else to gacha game companies. And that’s this: they represent POTENTIAL whales. Very few people who whale started out from the beginning wanting to do so. They were drawn in to doing so. How does this transition from F2P to whale happen though? Well, it’s through being drip fed the right amount and right kind of FREE incentives every now and then. Gacha games have constant “events” or giveaways. Things where even F2P players get comparatively rare in game items and rewards. Now, why would a company want to do this? Because it gives F2P players a reason to keep playing, and also, give players a reason to CONSIDER spending money. If you’ve been saving for a rare character that you only have a chance of pulling, and suddenly, you’re offered a free pack of 10 wishes, or gacha pulls, you suddenly have a surplus of resources, as that was 10 free pulls that you got for free without having to grind for. In a game like genshin specifically, getting new characters is the PRIMARY means by which you can entertain players with new content and things to do. You can now build that character you didn’t maybe have before. That takes up at least a few weeks of time, and gives you something to do in game. And when is the free gift giving the sweetest without exception in the world of gacha games? On anniversary dates. Even THE MOST STINGY gacha game companies pour on the charm during anniversary dates. Without exception, it’s just “A thing” that’s done in this genre of games. And most free prizes during these periods are BIG. Such as 100 free pulls, or “a free super rare character of your choosing from the standard character pool”. And the reason, is like we previously discussed, to sweeten the deal and get people to come back for more, and consider spending some money cuz they now have something to do in game.
Mihoyo did none of that, and seemingly rested on their laurels of earning so much money for a mobile/free game. One event with sub par prizes, no even mention of the anniversary and thanks to fans, and a really scummy series of online events that essentially pitted hundreds of thousands of fans to advertise for Genshin for free with the reward being….sort of cool irl merch like a free Mac book for one grand prize winner. But most fans would be left in the dust and no matter what, fan art submissions and cosplay submission take a LOT of time, effort and money for a one in a million chance of earning a prize that was barely breaking even on how much they spent to make their submissions. It was just so abnormal for them to do this and be out of touch and tone deaf to the desires of fans, and the expectations of what most gacha games would have offered during a milestone like this. And the fan desires were NOT unreasonable either. Just, 10-30 pulls or a 5 star of the players choice from the standard banner pool. That would not have broken the bank or been a big ask in ANY universe. So, hopefully, you can see why the fan backlash was so bad. This was a very important event that was treated very lazily and in the lowest effort way possible. It was the subtext of the matter that was reall what rubbed fans the wrong way. Fans MADE Mihoyo what it was, the billions it earned was from devoted fans, and it just gave a huge message of “we got your money, so honestly, we could not care less what you peons want”.
you’re completely right!! whales will still continue to be whales even if they get free rewards, and people who can’t buy stuff won’t do it at all, so it’s not like they’re losing anyone OR any money, if anything it keeps their players playing because they’re excited for the rewards
keep lamenting, the problem with freeloaders like you is that you misunderstand and have unrealistic expectations. anniversaries don't mean a big thing to mihoyo, but something like lantern rights ie chinese new year is the occasion they've decided on giving the big free aways... all crybabies here wanting 2 anniversary per year
@@llortsenorita219 You call the expectations unrealistic, lets compare it with Honkai Impact 3rd's (another game by mihoyo) 1st anniversary rewards, that was 5 years ago
Honkai:
-3000 crystals, thats about 11 pulls
-3 free character skins
-another 4 skins, obtained from lucky spins
-1 shard of a material used to upgrade rare weapons
-20 fragments to unlock a character, 11 more fragment needed to unlock the character, and
-ANOTHER skin for that character obtained from the fragments
Genshin:
-20 pulls
-a free glider skin
-a furniture for a mini domain
and you call them high expectation crybabies?
@@icytastic3086 lol it wasn’t even 20 pulls and a glider, just 10 pulls. Don’t ever include that additional 10 pulls and glider because those were clearly damage control.
Can i get a tl:dr
I hope there are changes in 2nd anniversary. That first anniversary is a nightmare. I played a lot of gacha games and Genshin takes the cake for the most horrible in arranging an anniversary event.
I agree! I play other gacha games and at least their anniv rewards arn't that bad.
I honestly feel like they are the most horrible in more ways then just that
@@nyannyannyan870 Other gachas have content
fr ! I hope they learn their lesson and make the 2nd anniversary better however Im not keeping any expectations
@@DhrithionVocals mhm same here
I had a few problems with how this would sound to non genshin players. "10 wishes?? Isn't that 10 characters you can play with?? Isn't that what you wanted? So greedy..." No, a wish is a useless small weapon and it takes 10 wishes for a single random character. Not to mention it takes 90 wishes to get a 5 star character, which also only has a 50% chance of being the one you wanted meaning you have to spend up to 180 wishes to get one character you want, plus the same thing for constelations. The anniversary rewards were horrible in comparison to what you need to get something. Next he forgot to mention there wasn't much to do in genshin, a "drought" of content. That's why a lot of the playerbase was already hating on mihoyo before.
And the chance for 5* character is still 0.5%
I'm spender and I always say how cheap the gacha is for spenders, but f2ps are really punished, anniversary are usually love letters to the players but it just felt like a death threat this time, threatening the time and effort you put into a game you enjoyed. Now it looks like baggage
tbh even fgo is more generous than genshin lol
also: you may not even get a random 4* character after 10 wishes. you can win a 4* weapon, and there's no guarantee you'll get the 4* character you want from the banner.
i'm AR56 and still lack a chongyun after over 90 wishes on hutao's first banner, where he was also featured.
@@stephenmarid.labandria1547 fgo's actually really generous with anni rewards and has a better 5* rate. there's no pity, but fgo rewards are usually pretty good
edit: fgo now has a pity
@@overseire yup
Thanks for putting this vid out there nbc. Mihoyo needs to constantly hear this criticism. They honestly are making soooo much money and there are so many accounts that spend immense amount of money and get nothing for it. They have alot to improve
Not really MiHoYo itself, but just the Genshin team. But yes, you are right.
@@M1TZUKII Well who ever is in charge...
@@Player-jh4ko yeah, that's basically what I was trying to say.
@@Player-jh4ko I remember reading something and that person said mostly that the dev's arent responsible and it's the people that are in charge I guess
And they will continue getting nothing and Mihoyo won't improve. They know whales are retards that will throw money for opportunity to get abused by game dev. You're delusional if you think a video by nobody youtuber will change anything.
Honestly, one of the worst details about Genshin's anniversary, was how Mihoyo literally called the playerbase "bots" after genshin received a ton of bad reviews in google playstore
Player here who was there during the whole anniversary drama. I really enjoyed this video, since you went to the roots and all the way before the actual day and controversy happened, the reason WYH everyone had every right to be so disappointed and angry.
The Inazuma storyline ended so terribly, Raiden was broken in a bad way with Beidou and Kokomi brought in a whole new world of genshin "fans" and all our ideas and things we put into the surveys every time an update was ending were simply ignored. I used to take the survey seriously, I'd write things they could improve on etc., but to no avail. The communication is terrible, when you have massive bugs you got an "oh so sorry please wait 6 weeks for the next version to fix this bug lol thanks" and I got merchandise YESTERDAY for an event that I won in freakin July.
I had my expectations low so you can't feel the disappointment hit you too hard, but I remember being on social media all morning on my way to work during the anniversary. It was such a mess. Nobody was really happy or able to be positive. I wrote an article on the subreddit, barely stated that I was disappointed and scared for the future of Genshin. I really have come to love this game and hold it dear. I was and sometimes still am afraid it is not gonna go well, hell I'm already afraid for 28th September 2022. My post, and that of many others, was meant well. After work I went online to check the comments only to see that mine got deleted as well in the masses of posts. I get deleting the death threats etc. That's just messed up. But the posts where players who seriously love your game try and voice their concern?
It was just the most frustrating feeling I have probably felt in a long time. Every social media was filled with the anniversary; people who had never even touched the game talked about it, everyone had to chip in their two cents. It felt like talking to a wall and when the 1600 were sent in, nobody was really happy about it, knowing full well that it was simply damage control. It didn't feel genuine whatsoever.
The anniversary is months old, this video turns almost 2 months as well and all the issues you've addressed are still there. Weapon banner is still a scam (even if less), 50/50 shit still needs to go on the character banner, RNG for artifacts gets worse the more characters you get and want to build. I had a time in summer where I was only working on 2 characters, now I literally have 6 I NEED to work on, not WANT to. All we have left as end-game players is the daily stuff to farm and carefully hoard primos until someone comes along who we really want to pull for, otherwise you'll be left broke. And instead of taking care of these things, just like at the time of making this video, none of the issues have been changed. It's frustrating.
I remember my friends and I saying we wouldn't continue playing the game if the anniversary does end up to be utter shit. It's hard to let a game you like a lot go. I haven't missed a single day since April.
I agree with you totally. Your point about not being able to leave the game is so true. But if ever feel like not playing, just don't. I left the game for 2 months and came back refreshed. Yes I agree it's not the solution we want, but a band-aid. After so long I've even stopped hoping that something will change. Well it was our delusion in the first place to think that genshin impact will be a revolutionary game. At first it was, but now not so much. Don't get me wrong this game is still good to play in the beginning, but there is no endgame. Just the same old spending of resin, fighting the same bosses, collection of bullshit artifacts, complete spiral abyss, build characters, get primogems, pull for more characters and the cycle continues.
@@zephyr2600 Unfortunately the only solution is to have some good old competition that starts biting customers away from MHY. GI, for now, has no real rival in that sector of gaming, this monopoly is why MiYoYo feels safe in ignoring the issues, both ingame ( the bugs, the RNG, the resin system, the banners etc) and off game ( customer care). We'll see, but i don't see a bright future ahead. Inazuma can be summed up in : stalling you with puzzles and breadcrumbs. The new archon quest ( as they call it) is nothing more than a promo for the new chicks on the banners and has ZERO progession in the storyline. We still are exactly at the same point of more than 1 year ago. And it takes even longer to build single unit due to the blocks they posed after Inazuma release. They know the cow is gonna run dry soon.
Yup, when I first started playing it was amazing. I was so excited for Raiden, I had Beidou built out and saw a video of Raiden's ult working with Beidou's. Had some primos saved up, bought my first primos to get constellations for her. Only managed C1, lost both 50/50s, and doesn't work with Beidou. MiHoYo makes a statement after the banner releases that she doesn't work with Beidou damn well knowing people were expecting her to way before that, and after we'd already seen it working in the beta.
Then anniversary, I got burned that first time, but blamed it on me falling for the gacha mechanic, no more spending on the game. I was super excited, had already been working on some art to submit in case they had a contest. Contest prizes come out, a welkin moon, 100 primos, not even 1 pull. I could probably sell my art, buy $100 worth of primos and have some cash left over, and they want me to just give it to them to use for advertising after just screwing me over with the whole Raiden banner, for 100 primos, maybe a welkin moon. Go f!@k yourself MiHoYo. Fool me once. I stopped playing after the anniversary, played again a couple days ago, nothing's changed, no apologies, no fixes. Just business as usual at MiHoYo and in the community. It's like it all just blew over. At least the past couple years have taught me not to get too attached or expect really anything from a video game, the standards have been so low.
Edit: I did love the 2.4 Archon quest though, I can appreciate the good in the game, unfortunately the creators and the suits have different goals and ideals.
being a complete outsider to all of this, it baffled me when mihoyo revealed their plans for the anniversary because of just how fucking awful they were, not only that, but this is also where the "outsider" part comes into play, because i have seen games do events like these that just blow even the individual details of genshin's anniversary out of the water, rainbow six siege, for instance, always has a christmas event where you're gifted a random dlc character, or valve, who are straight out offering $100,000 dollars to the winners of a csgo skin competition they have, knowing the success genshin had, they had all the capacity to do stuff like this and beyond, but they didn't, and it's baffling.
Believe me, it's not even Mihoyo's problems, it was Genshin community managers being out of touch, even us Honkai Impact players (from a product which also Mihoyo owned) are spoiled even since 1st anniversary, while Genshin players are still waiting for free character outfits when Honkai Impact gaves us 4 free grindable bikini outfits before anniversary, and again, it wasn't really Mihoyo but more of genshin community managers' problems
Hopefully things gets better from next update for every Genshin players, especially when they just announced banners to be rerun and attained faster just like every other mobile game products, which I personally appreciated and a 5 Star character I anticipated for 4 months too after my personal bad gacha results in Genshin until now ;-; please Mihoyo make it right already
Yeah even other gachas like Dokkan fire emblem heroes and even fucking Yu-Gi-Oh have better anniversaries than this
Most games are actually WAY worse, with many not even celebrating their anniversary, or using their anniversary purely as a cash grab.
The reality is we got a really fun event, one of the better claymores in the game, and a chance for a free character with the free wishes and many primo gems we got from the event. (And considering the type of game Genshin is, changing the town around and creating unique content is a lot of work - something virtually every game doesn't do.)
This was an embarrassing moment of entitlement.
@@simplysolus8916 tell me a popular mobile game that dosent celebrate it's anniversary
@@simplysolus8916 How to say Genshin is your first gacha without saying it. Anniversaries are the biggest events of the year in gachas for some reason, obviously people had huge expectation given how big the game has become. Noone was expecting them to give out Cygames levels of stuff, but a bigger commemorative event and maybe something on the scale of a 4 star selector...
I still can't believe how quickly people forgot about this situation. I use every opportunity to tell genshins team that game has some serious issues but people around me just stopped doing this after the anniversary nightmare... It's really sad.
@Nina Tote Yep. Im disgusted by how they just treat their player base. If people truly enjoy the game as it is now then great good for them. But some dont and some dont like being treated this way.
Anniversaries aren’t special to me at all, at least game ones.
@@maraisfan4life517 Well, anniversaries in gachas are special. You don't matter.
yep, anniversaries in gacha games, or any f2p games are special. It's a very important event for the game to show the dev's gratitude toward players for keeping their game alive, as well as attracting new players. Azur Lane often doesn't have that much anniversary freebies to players, but at least they don't forget the person who keeping their game afloat despite not hitting top revenue, but when you see Genshin gave little rewards and respond "this is all you get, losers! Start whaling or go fuck yourself!" You really wanna keep supporting?
@@evilmiyoho6742 and your opinion on Mihoyo doesn't matter either, they are still making millions while you are crying your ass off. You don't matter.
the worst part is- the twitter account is fairly active and responds to players. They just don't listen when we try to give general critiques
It's been about a year and a half in the game's lifespan and I really love how EVERYTHING you speak of is still an issue, I just love it how mihoyo spits on player's mouths and everyone just say stuff like "move on" or "get over it".
Cry about it
I also say that :)
TRUE
@@g76agi
hmmm
why?
@@g76agi ok
@@g76agididn’t ask
Seeing Qiqi fallen nowadays just brings a smile on my face for no discernable reason
its mark the day of revolution
watch how the rating drops to 1* nearly _instantly_ on a single day
which is showed how popular and how powerful community they had built
but they decided to give shit to community
it blowed my mind so damn hard
I know I'm not speaking for all, but a good number of us are wary and extra-vigilant now of Mihoyo's actions. The betrayal was real, but my anger has just turned to disappointment, and yeah, my expectations were pretty low......
IMO ever since I saw version 2.2 roll out, I've been hoping (at the risk of being let down AGAIN) that, by releasing a filler update, mHY would get the Genshin dev team to focus on addressing (at least some of) the bug fixes & QoL updates players have been asking for for months. I'll have to see if that hope is well-placed in 2.3, but for now, I've been seeing endgame players at least a little satisfied with the current event, which is the very kind of endgame content they have been asking. And I feel that Genshin is in a sticky situation anyway, thanks to the anniversary fiasco destroying the morale of a lot of its players.
aren’t you forgetting about something?
I was pretty disappointed too as a person who has been playing since launch - I'd hoped we would get a bit more with the og characters at minimum and maybe a cool choice reward like lantern rite. I was really pleasantly surprised with the cute little journey web event but the in game rewards felt really lack luster and I'd hoped the in game events would outnumber social media ones but they didn't. I honestly would have loved if they just put the vision weilders we've grown to love and know around town for the event's duration and made us run an erand for them for 20 primos each or something like a hang out in celebration of the game. Since there are about 30 or so characters at this point, that would have given players a nice little experience and around 2 full 10 pulls.
I'm not complaining about the beautiful harp or pretty wings but I'm hoping we get something a bit more come the next in game holiday or anniversary because this time around was just.... not great.
@@browyn140 I meant the concert,
and they did TECHNICALLY give 20 pulls
@@nacitalatincirli793 Oh, I was responding to the original commenter, but yes the concert was nice too. My favorite part was the web event thing though ^^
I am very late to this, but around the time of the anniversary art contest, I was muted and my drawings were removed that very contest. Albeit, my drawings were mocking in nature and very stupid- but I had a reason to express my disappointment through my art. I had entered these art contests for Genshin before, and lost to a stickman. I just didn't believe in putting in hours of work for absolutely nothing in the end, and even if I did get something, was it worth the hours and exploitation by Mihoyo? It wasn't. I can confirm that Mihoyo did remove posts from Hoyolab, but I can't confirm if they were more civilized than my "hey look at this silly photo of Kaeya I drew mockingly" that I participated in. Anyways people probably aren't going to see this, but if someone does then share your experience if you have one!! :)
That's really an awful thing to have happen. I'm glad u have a sense of humor about it.
I think the way u describe it, it sounds like when guys blurt out some nasty thing to a girl, and get rejected.
It's just a fact of life, I guess. Genuine expressions are revolting to people, if those expressions don't fit an agenda.
I hope you don't forget that your art exists outside the realm of "good" or "bad" taste. Personally, I've found there's NOTHING purposeful on that particular road one can go down.
I am not surprised, I am one of those who have complained about the rewards and the resin system. Used to buy the welkin moon each month. Call me entitled, but the rewards was never enough. The whole gacha system and how they built it, is predatory. Why not design a good game, where players want to support the game, instead of trying to squueeeeeeze all the money you can get from you players, using manipulative and addictive tactics to get people to spend. FOMO etc. Not my first gacha game, but this was my last. Absolutely disgusting game design.
lol
@@alyastastic wow
Here’s what we should have gotten for the anniversary:
THE 👏 SWITCH 👏 PORT 👏
Not going to lie, I really got my hopes up when there was a Nintendo Direct so close to the anniversary. I was like... "Even most 3pp games leave the proper announcements to Nintendo and then drop a trailer at the same time, that I've seen... So *maybe.*"
I don't blame them that it didn't end up happening, but I did get my hopes up a little.
@@Vgy1592
Well, from a business standpoint at least, one would have every right to blame them.
I mean, the Nintendo Switch is honestly the perfect handheld gaming console for Genshin (at least with the biggest audience) and miHoYo is losing out on potential millions by still not having released it on the Switch, which is out of character for greedy miHoYo.
And, the controls and battery life are 10x better than on your phone, not necessarily because it will last longer, but because you don't have to burn your phone's battery just to play Genshin (which is quite demanding on your phone).
And to the controls: Nothing beats physical controls, but I get people have gotten used to touch controls, but still, physical buttons are usually better for reaction times and it's also significantly better on your hand posture.
@@Sherolox I’m hoping that they can optimize it like on mobile than what we got from the PS4 port with incredibly slow load times, and FPS drops/stutters/also game is capped at 30FPS as well.
im still waiting
Or a mac client for that matter ;-;
As a veteran genshin player i'm amazed you have anylized every problem genshin had to a T. And i think in the next few months genshin will experinced a "downtime", it's just a shame seeing a game you love feel so confused at time being, i hope that Mihoyo will have a better way to communicate to the community.
Have a good day everybody
Yeah they better listen more especially on global.
I had a few problems with how this would sound to non genshin players. "10 wishes?? Isn't that 10 characters you can play with?? Isn't that what you wanted? So greedy..." No, a wish is a useless small weapon and it takes 10 wishes for a single random character. Not to mention it takes 90 wishes to get a 5 star character, which also only has a 50% chance of being the one you wanted meaning you have to spend up to 180 wishes to get one character you want, plus the same thing for constelations. The anniversary rewards were horrible in comparison to what you need to get something. Next he forgot to mention there wasn't much to do in genshin, a "drought" of content. That's why a lot of the playerbase was already hating on mihoyo before.
Also a side note, we never got KFC collaboration
Sadly, MHY knows their base... just toss out another limited waifu/husbando and they'll come clamoring back.
Hu Tao rerun gave them 2nd best record sales next to Raiden, for example.
If only humans were not swayed by their impulses and desires, eh? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
@@pandagiri too bad I'm not the said type. Because my complain is not the gacha items. is the content of the game f2p. like PIA gathering some materials for cooking and limitation to convert. Billets that 'supposedly' part of f2p decent rate drop ended up rarer than 5 star weapons. The chests not respawning, sigil tradeable shop that will be never be restock. Resin Limited System, where they purposedly makes the game limited intentionally. No sharing of resources pickup for materials when in coop mode. Can't even allow to change world level freely to any level with 24 hr refresh limit? In single player mode? The most questionable is meagre 'character exp' and mora drop amount not relative to world level or the characters average level. why exist when the boost experience item is 1000x giving more exp. I got a lot more QOL mind bogling questions haven't said yet.
@@acecombat2gameplay477 I agree completely with your statement! I don't like their methods either. My comment was more tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, I guess. Humans will continue to be human though, so that part I stand by.
The reason why MHY refuses to make any substantial changes is because people are still throwing them money. They've made more money than any other gacha out there and don't need to make any changes because there is NO competition! They're the only open-world gacha game right now. And they know this. They're capitalizing on this fact while they can... because eventually, there will be other games just like this.
Dude, almost 7 months since this, i hope this year doesn't be like this
*insert John Cena "are you sure about that" gif*
Today is Genshin anniversary 2nd and I barely noticed or even unnoticed the hype. The rewards almost like last year
The anniversary event sure was a roller-coaster of events. It was like watching a massive, multiple plane crash. It didn't help that we could see this disaster coming from a mile away, yet nothing was done to prevent this issue. So much could've been mitigated if they'd kept in touch with us. Whether their lesson was learnt or not, we'll be able to see in the next year.
Tbh even if the company was being vocal instead of silent, I don't see how it would have made anything any better. If anything players would use statements against them and this whole thing blew up before they were even silent so it goes to show it would have continued even if they weren't.
@@blackbun130 the fact that they weren't vocal about it makes it worse!
@@croissant-kun4025 yeah the incident was quite crazy what makes it funny it further prove why you should cut ties with Genshin reddit and Discord related topic because boy the amount of copium the fillial son are beyond help like imagine say resin pass card a legit pure scam because you have to pay 5 dollar just for what? 60 resin upon purchase and then 40 resin per day for 1 month is optional, can't even see how absurb and pure capitalism the resin card just show these people ain't player anymore and more like a cult thinking mihoyo bear no sin also I remember one of the person in discord i used to see he want to break his phone because got call out for being on hopium and pro censorship because he use excuse blatant censor as "moderation" , it's just suck that these people infecting some genshin lore focus channels.
@@croissant-kun4025 like a certain other company that "used" to make games
@@blackbun130 Bruh XD all the people who say "Something" bad or Good get delete in seconds, communication was the problem
Glad you've covered this! Now the chaos can be immortalised on the internet and hopefully stand as evidence of how impactful Mihoyo's mess up really was. Hopefully next year the rewards will be better.
We should still expect nothing to avoid more disappointment though.
Depends how many players play the game and their revenue
@@1mol831 well not releasing on switch and being acting like they are owned by sony is not going to make the player base any bigger
"impactful" heh
@@kx2174 No no, you should be expecting stuff. Otherwise you give them free passes.
What people need to do is to be realistic.
Regarding Raiden's ult not working with Beidou, it was a decision made because of corporate greed, something that is very clear if you've been playing the game for a long time and understand the mechanics. MHY purposefully made it so that Raiden's ult wouldn't work with Beidou's because it would be "too strong". If Raiden worked with Beidou, Raiden would be strong enough that people will think that C0 is enough and not roll for the massive damage spike at C2. It was no coincidence that MHY made Raiden's C0 feel lackluster, and made her C2 almost mandatory because of the damage increase. Raiden's banner was the banner with the most revenue not only because people liked Raiden and rolled because they thought Beidou would be good with her, it was also because people realized how crazy her C2 was and continued rolling on her banner for C2. If Raiden worked with Beidou, her banner sales wouldn't be nearly as high as it is, sure it'll still be very high, but definitely not record breaking. So in essence, MHY planned this from the very beginning. They made Raiden's ult not work with Beidou's to give the impression that Raiden C0 is lackluster (which it is) and tempt people to pull for her C2 for that massive damage spike. They also made her power spike her C2 and not C6 for the same reason. C6 would be too expensive and would lead to less impulsive spending while C2, although still expensive, seems reachable enough that people might impulse buy and try to get her C2.
her E doesnt even work on elemental shield
they wont buff her soon or anytime in the future
shes the BIGGEST revenue at this time, LOTS of ppl have her
buffing her would remove the market or raising future hero ability which is bad bcs of how fast powercreep would become
Mihoyo's crappy balance and design decisions should have been expanded upon in this vid! It's why I quit Genshin. Mihoyo doesn't just actively nerf mechanics and characters that might dissuade people from whaling. What they don't do is also problematic. They can't be happy with releasing weapons that are good for general purpose so most of them are designed specifically to work best on the 5-star character they're released with. They can't give a smidgen of QoL improvements to old characters because they want to release a 5-star someday to kick that character out of their niche. Noelle's horrid energy management and the frustration of Mona's sprint are perfect examples that I experience in-game of their lack of action.
EDIT: I wanted to revise this comment to better explain weapon balance issues but I'm just going to edit in more of my thoughts. The Spear and Bow classes have been subject to wild increases in their power levels and quality of weapons. Mihoyo intentionally kept these classes as 4-star-only in 1.0 version. Compare that to now, where the current best DPS characters are event-limited 5-star Spear and Bow users. This is no coincidence and I'm sure it was profitable to make whales suddenly need whole new classes of weapons. This "developer-enforced class tier list" is further evidenced by two 5-star spears being the best-in-slot or second-best on all spear users.
I will only pull for her for eula
And now raiden one of the best dpses in spyral abyss with f2p catch and C0. Where is "Raiden so weak, mihoyo buff" now?
Look at the shogun now, a high tier character still apparently. I use her on an all inuzuma team and have fun
I've played Honkai and a lot of gachas before Genshin. Honestly, my expectations were low for Genshin anniversary rewards but they managed to surpass it lmao. It was almost like they never planned anniversary rewards from the beginning. As you've said, Honkai is VERY generous with event rewards, if I may add other games I'd include Arknights, PGR and King's Raid perhaps.
As a dolphin who spent quite a bit on the game, I'm still playing Genshin Impact. However, I've stopped purchasing Welkins and BP ever since the anniversary rewards. Why should I spend money on a game that don't listen to their customers, don't take criticism well and no proper channel of communication? Most players, including myself, are quite tired of the lack of content in the game. After you finish the story quests or side quests, there's nothing much you can do. There is no typical 'end game' and there's only the abyss. The current event is quite great to implement as a permanent dungeon, but that too is just a temporary event. Resin is still a huge problem since the rate of recovery is abysmal (I regained 4 resins from watching this video, may be 5 by typing this comment) and the amount of resins needed just to farm artifacts, exp books and Mora costs way too much. Even condensed resin is capped to 5. The weekly bosses, while they did half the resin count for the first three challenges, should have just not any resin needed since these are already time gated and can only be done once a week.
I've played many other gacha games, from famous ones like FGO and even as well ones such as Ange, but honestly speaking, the anniversary for Genshin is one of the worse ones I've ever encountered.
FGO had the exact same first anniversary though? 10 tickets and some materials. It's technically even worse consideirng how their gacha is, those rolls wouldn't amount to anything without luck.
In the end we got 20 rolls, some materials and free exclusive cosmetics (and a free 5* either at the time or around that corner). I wasn't even upset with FGO's first anniversary, just shrugged and moved on so I did the same for Genshin but the blowup was just so uncalled for.
Besides in terms of resin, while 8 minutes per resin is such a weird decision to make, is still no different from other gachas. Hell starting out, especially when the game just released, you're always so dry on stamina items but that quickly gets resolved once the game adds more chances to replenish that. I started dry in FGO but ofc now I can grind as much as I want because of all the apples I accumulated and while Genshin started rough, now they added several more chances to get fragile resins compared to before? BP and Teapot? Now I have like, 60, so I can grind whenever I feel the need. Besides the amount of resins needed, especially after they changed the limit, is pretty damn standard. Around 4 runs worth in a single stage is what you'd expect from other gacha games too (without replenishing items). Even better considering they're one of the games that actually don't charge your stamina until you get the rewards, in case you make a mistake. In FGO if I accidentally put the wrong team, poof, my stamina gone anyway.
FGO wasn't so bad. Sure, we got 20 rolls and a few add-ons. But don't forget, for the first anniversary, FGO permanently reduced the quartz of one roll to 3 quartz and 10 rolls to 30 quartz, and we got back the accumulated quartz that was used when it was 4 quartz per rolls. I remember receiving back close to 300 quartz during that event. On top of that, you get a paid 10 roll gacha for a guaranteed SSR once with choice of between knight classes and horsemen classes (and yes, I opened my wallet for this) and a different banner rerun each day for about a week. The reason why I personally was okay with that was mainly the permanent quartz reduction and the guaranteed gacha, which unfortunately gave me NP2 Jeanne. I don't actually see why Mihoyo can't just do the same, having Mondstandt and Liyue choice banner and with a guarantee 5 star using Genesis Crystals, just once and can't gacha from either banner again.
The problem with Resin is unlike FGO, which gives you free apples left, right and center that to finish them already is hard enough -you rarely get really fragile resin outside of BP and once in the pot, which is gated for 7 days. Sure, you can save fragile resins, but you can finish all fragile resins from day 1 within 2 to 3 hours of farming and still not have enough. Once you finish all resins, you can't do anything else aside farming wood for furniture, food, limited ores and mindless exploration. And outside of Abyss, which is just DPS checks, you don't have anything else to do. And with the extremely low RNG nature of artifacts you can be stuck farming in a single domain for days if not weeks just for a decent artifact, even if you're not min-maxing (Mihoyo, give me back my 2 months each from Crimson Witch and Thunder domains). Even for their sister game, Honkai, I don't have issues with stamina when I started playing some 3/4 years ago, and I get additional 60 stamina each day outside the normal recovery and their recovery rate is every 6 minutes. A few other gacha games I play lets me play the game for 2 to 3 hours without much stamina issues (think about it, 80 max stamina with farming stamina cost of 5, while farming coins and exp card cost 0 though limited to 4 times daily and still farmable with stamina after that). I can get stuck with that game for a good chunk of time, too. Which is why I find Genshin's resin system is way too bad. Everything is high cost, with low recovery.
@@blackbun130 so... You mean you have to go through years before getting decent rewards? pretty sure that sounds scuffed, especially when they can gate more people I to their game by adding better rewards, meaning it's a problem with their management.
And no it doesn't just justify the years off toll, most gacha's I play who are only a year older than Fgo has better rewards, heck even alchemy star who actually gives you a free 5* on your first pull.
Either that or that's just bad business planning on miHoYo for actually not taking the opportunity for the community to grow.
@@blackbun130 the free 5*, Aloy, has nothing to do with anniversary lol, it's a collab with Sony. The 10 free fates we get, technically is not from anniversary - which is another issue with mihoyo, shit communication, as it was announced in the 2.1 livestream as anniversary rewards, but later in the news they're just the mid autumn event rewards, no "anniversary" found lol. And the 1600 primo + cosmetics are only reactionary after all the backlash. It's very clear when logging in, you see a 100+mb update being downloaded. If that was their intention, those would just be included at the beginning of the patch, no need for downloading more. And those cosmetics are not even exclusive, they are parts of a pack that will be bought with money - this is not from leaks, it's from mihoyo themselves - and for now they haven't denied selling the pack in the future. So there's nothing exclusive about the cosmetics lmao
the thing most paying players complain about isn't even about the shit initial rewards, it was a lack of celebration. There was no event, no exclusive item to commemorate it. Logging in the game on the anniversary date is just empty as shit, not even a single scene in-game for the 1 year lmao. Just a simple cutscene, an exclusive namecard, or traveler's skin that is not obtainable by new players would be enough already, but we got nothing lol
even in mihoyo's previous game, Honkai Impact 3, the rewards are also equivalent to 10 pulls, but we have genuinely fun events, which were hyped up for weeks, and exclusive frame that no newbies can get. In Genshin, we get nothing lol
Lmao and you think they will give a shit you stop spending on them? Your not special my dude if anything ur cripling urself from buying things that help you in game. Wether you stop spending or not it wont make jack shit diference. For example 99% spend and ur that 1% for example. You think they will care for that 1% no lmao
When the only way to get any response from a developer is to review bomb the game then in my opinion people are justified in doing so. they wont listen to the players unless they threaten the bottom line and reputation of the whole company
I mean, if you want a response, you could just threaten to kill one or few of the staff, or not just simply threaten. That will definitely get a response if that's what people are looking for.
@@GoodwillWright 😳
Ah yes so when your mother doesn't give you a birthday present and you ask her why and she doesn't tell you, you're completely justified in going out in the street and punching everyone else in the face out of frustration that your mom didn't wanna pay attention to you, right? Lmfao grow up
But if they bomb review other games is not justified.
@@justsomeguy727 Writing a negative review and punching random people is different. and i am not paying for a present. So very childlike to take an argument and blow it out of proportion to debunk it.
you covered all the points and the only thing i wish to add about is the baal controversy. the thing that infuriated me the most was that while beido didn't work together with baal xingqiu did. they have the same strike when attack lands description but somehow xingqiu works but beidou's doesn't? it made no sense and they knew it.
it was no longer just felt like they did it on purpose. they def did it on purpose when there was no reason too. like even if it was to promote a future 5 star cough yae cough there will not be a significant decrease in sales at all as long as they are unique enough and don't have an atrocious kit like kokomi ( who ppl still pulled for cause collectors and fans of her character exist)
They did it to scam players buying Baal.
We are nearing the second anniversary for genshin and I am intrigued to see what’s going to happen.
To me, Tectone was the one who really had the strongest reason for why the anniversary was hated so much. It had nothing to do with the anniversary, there have been things broken in the game for over a year, like Xinyan's one constellation has been, and people wanted to see that our input actually mattered. Well after a whole year, not only were many of the issues untouched, they were also totally ignored when saying "how successful the game has been" where they decided to give one of the weakest rewards ever.
The only thing they ever fixed was Zhongli purely because it was the whales complaining about him and they need them to keep spending. If it's Amber, Xinyan, story quotes not reading, spell errors, requests to have less filler quests, to hold onto fun game modes, add extra end game content, etc, they just kinda ignore it. Right now many people have beaten the abyss with all 36 stars. Now what? What am I farming artifacts for, why am I still playing the game daily? It's a question I shouldn't be asking but being one of the highest grossing games on the market, you can fix this easily, but they just don't care.
Even though I personally dislike Tectone, his opinions do seem to be right sometimes, and he is brave enough to voice them.
I'm a veteranAK player and I do have my issue with him alongside with other player in the community but he do have some good point especialy when he talk about "relationship will always be ruin if you're not honest and just keep slient" well...genshin PR nightmare really prove his point about it and it will goes worse and worser the more silent. Thanks to all of this avoidable incident Genshin now is a cool thing to hate around the internet now and not just the CN part anymore. Geez I can't believe I have to agree with him.
Can you explain the Xinyan constellation?
@@hyjaph okay, just looked into it. It seems to be poorly translated. It's the description of C2 people are fighting over which says "rifts revolution's physical DMG has its CRIT Rate increased by 100%". Some people have been confused on it thinking it means double the CRIT Rate but it just means no matter what your character CRIT Rate is, that attack will always CRIT it doesn't increase the odds of say a more powerful CRIT just that you are guaranteed to CRIT. The confusion is based on a mix up of CRIT DMG which 100% is double your base damage. The same is not quite true with CRIT Rate. CRIT DMG is in addition to the original attack while CRIT Rate is just the odds of a CRIT.
My bad. Heard some major channels mention this constellation confusion and thought it'd be more substantial. But still doesn't change the fact the game still has bugs with characters continuing to read the next line without clicking continue, some conversations saying the line after the current one instead of the current one, silence where there should have been quotes (a bit more rare), etc. Still say the biggest oversight in game is that if you didn't do "we will be reunited" and you go to the Inazuma introduction quest, it just spoils the plot of that whole quest. Considering they had those things considered for Mona and Scaramouche based on if you did reconciled stars, it's clearly an oversight mainly caused by we will be reunited being hidden in the event tab not the quest tab.
I personally despise kektone but he was spot on for once. Still hate him and his entitled attitude.
Like they starve players without any feasible rewards or cohesive engame goals. We spend 600+ hours grinding shitty artifacts with no goal in sight.
I only play Genshin Impact "once in a blue moon" (mainly because I play at least four other gachas (Dragalia Lost, Princess Connect Re:Dive, Sword Art Online: Integral Factor, and Sword Art Online Alicization Rising Steel (soon to be named Unleash Rising Steel)), but this is kinda disgusting. Communication is a necessity for any video game company, and if it's not there, there *will* be problems. Not gonna give this game any more money, at least until they decide to "fix their gliders so they can actually glide and stop crashing", so to speak.
Look at Honkai
Aye, fam playing Re:dive.
@@dra7531yeah fuckin communicate with the community
A lot of the community are also angry at mihoyo due to the fact they mentioned releasing a switch port somewhere in september but still haven’t,
Probably the best explanation so far. He literally explains not only the controversies.. but *ALL EVENTS* that lead to the controversies. Even though there's still much MUCH more problems Mihoyo has done to the game, this is as close as we can get to the community response for Mihoyo's negligence.
I do believe this much *IMPORTANT MESSAGE* should be included in every content creator's channel to Mihoyo can finally see what's to be fixed bcoz obviously Mihoyo only listens to whales that PAY MONEY to them.
Comparing this to Arknights’s recent 2nd anniversary. We got a free 6 star, new characters, an in game event, new outfits and oodles of free pulls and gems. It’s a shame that Genshin, a game already struggling to win over its longtime fans (or just fans at all), couldn’t do something similar.
A free pull (wish) every day + a 10 roll card
Gems
Still pretty fun in co-op. Once in a while, you'd meet people you can chat on hours with.
2nd anniversary? Not yet boy. 2nd anniversary's on January 2022
@@MTRBR-mp7wj Huh? Arknights just had it's second anniversary...
Nice. I feel like you handled this subject pretty well. This drama surely will be something that Mihoyo might need to reflect on to not make the same mistake twice, cause it felt like they hurt a lot of people, including those who were passionate about this game. I'm looking foward for more Genshin related videos that you upload. For now, I just want to say that I enjoyed this one
Also, not something important, but it's nice to see some of my favorite Genshin streamers/youtubers in here haha. They're all guys that I was able to recognize
I still play this game even through all this, even though I am pissed at miHoYo for just refusing to level this game to its next level. It could be an absolute gem and a joy to play, but good lord are they greedy. For that reason, whenever someone discovers I play this game and they ask me if they should give it a shot, I told them hell no followed by a list of reasons they can fact check. The good doesn't outweight the bad in this case.
...cant and wait for the second anniversary......💀
Here's my favorite instance of mihoyo being out of touch: xinyan's shield has been bugged since release where it doesn't trigger the highest level of the shield. Mihoyo recently gave her out for free. As far as I am aware they still havent fixed it, so they gave a bugged character out for free.
And now that Hu tao's + Staff of Homa banner drops, Genshin Impact once again dominates all top revenue's in multiple country despite all the shit they've done just a month before.. which is why they don't give a shit about any players complain or communication, because at the end of the day.. people still pay..
sorry if im rude but it is the american server kids , who are just obssesed with anime. They have no backbone n dont stand with what they say, one moment theyre review bombing another spending big bucks on the banner but like u said as long as the money coming in they have no problem
@@Joshua-fk9zm i wouldn't give all the blame to them TBH
yeah because there's no game that can compete with genshin currently, sadly... this is Destiny all over again
NA try to boycott but the expert ones on doing that are the asians lol, wasnt the dude in china that invaded mihoyo building bcs they did something ingame he didnt liked ? LMAO, people on the east are the extremists on this kind of game not people on the west
@@Joshua-fk9zm no it isnt, easterners do this shit too
If there is one thing that can be said for sure about this trainwreck of bad executive decisions, is that it set a precedent for gacha games. Other developers saw the consequences and took note to do whatever possible to avoid such a blowout.
I happened to be stumble upon 2 anniversaries in two completely different games, and both went above and beyond with their anniversary gifts. One game created a separate banner with most S-ranked characters available and provided around 40 free pulls for it. The other game gifted each player ~4K gems (would equal to ~3.6K primogems in genshin currency) to go with a major anticipated event.
So, at the very least the rest of the gacha community should give credit to genshin fans for setting a precedent and most likely providing a better experience for all the games across the spectrum.
My expectations on this game is super super low that getting a 5 primogems in a regular chest is a blessing.
Ganyu best girl
But honestly, I think that the rewards for daily commissions should be higher, it's too little for a game that is so expensive, or at least the pity system should be a bit more generous. I remember that I swiped the entirety of Liyue in search of chests or quests to get some primogems to pull for Xiao, and I didn't even have enough for a 10 pull :/ ever since then I cannot play without having the welkin moon activated
60 primos for daily's, meaning that you need 3 days of commissions to get one pull. ONE. PULL. For context, you need 10 pulls to get a (guaranteed) 4-star, and 90 to get a (guaranteed) 5-star. AND THAT'S NOT EVEN GUARANTEEING THE CHARACTER ON THE BANNER
The maximum you can get as a f2p from dailies, 36* spiral abyss, daily check-in on hoyolab, events and live streams is 11100 primogems (69 pulls) in 3 MONTHS. That's not even enough for a guaranteed 5* let alone for the banner character if you lose 50/50.
Of course chests, quests etc. give primos too but there is a limited amount of them
I've never played Genshin Impact but I'm honestly scared to play it, and get addicted to it...
You can play it, but you should know how to control your urges to play it.
@@TheTiredBard that’s like telling someone to take crack but control their urges
@@AnAceCase Eh, fair enough.
@@AnAceCase "Use it responsibly" they say 😅😅
All i can say is go full f2p and only spend for something that you can enjoy
Honestly, I enjoy playing the game alone. I could care less about getting S+ tier characters. I love the lore, music, and art, so I would like to keep enjoying these things about the game😌It's always the higher-ups / business department making the greedy decisions and the artist / designers / writers / VAs of the game has no say in it what so ever.
Yup, for me when Genshin does indeed hit it's highs at certain points I hope you continue to enjoy the game.
That's big respect to you, my friend. Also Genshin isn't mainly online multiplayer either aside of CO-OP as a sub mode but glad you had your own way of playing this game, man
Same here, I like the game a lot, and only play with others when I have to, in events for example.
Same here. I couldn't care less about getting a 5-star character. I love the story (well, the Inazuma story is a mix feelings, but still enjoy it regardless), music and art. It's always the higher business department who are greedy.
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People were banned, it was hard to notice but I payed attention to the Discord during the Qiqi raid, it was pretty bad and doesn't help that it was all done secretly, that number would not stay above 799,980 at some points (800k is max capacity)
still wish people know it more of a Genshin team problem rather than a Mihoyo as a whole problem since they handle it very well with every other game
every game they made handle by different team and people, and Genshin have the worst one specially recently with team change which is why the recent Archon story is rushed
Seeing this docu-vid the thing that strikes me most is just how inventive the community got with their protests without any premeditation.
The bad art submission in particular, I dont think I ever seen any community pull off something like that. Pretty epic.
Oh believe me that shit was pretty funny
What made me laugh even more is they made Qiqi a symbol of rebellion
When comparing other games to Genshin, Call of Duty Mobile for example had a nightclub with playable arcades, a free new epic character and blueprint during its first anniversary and the second anniversary gave us a new Battle Royale map and another epic character and blueprint.
I have heard and seen from my friend that play Geshin and the rewards weren't all that big for an important year. It is kinda disappointing Mihoyo messed up their 1st anniversary of Genshin Impact.
Can’t wait for the review bombs. I’m kinda excited after the 3.1 stream
In all fairness, all the chest/enemy drops/percentage rewards in the Moonchase and Trails of Delicacies events are pretty much exactly what you would get from a normal event shop, up to and including a Crown of Insight (Material needed to upgrade one of a character's Talents to the highest rank) and a fully refined (albeit really stupid looking) 4 Star weapon with damn good stats, especially when paired with the recipes that you get from both the Xiangling/Keqing story event the Adeptibird's coming minigame that took place during the festival.
Hell, it's probably the easiest event rewards to collect, especially since it's got no co-op option so the damn Trials of Tianqu quest can't lock you out of it (looks sadly at my presumably permanently Refinement Rank 3 Festering Desire sword from the Dragonspine event).
People tend to forget very fast these days.
Either forget or refuse to see problems.
With the anniversary, many people did go to far.
However, the same people are now still purchasing content and playing the game, if asked "What about the Anni?" "We got our compensation" "What about the other game related problems?" "Don't concern me, I just want proper rewards for playing this game"
Just starting to downvote other games because rewards were bad, is unacceptable. I guess most of thoses didn't even remove their 1-star vote, even if this "compensation" was enogh t calm their anger.
A shame really. This game is a beautiful piece of work, from every angle of development, however the bugfixing and customer communication are some of the worst out there in the "higher" gacha game area,
Sadly majority of GI player base are casuals playing gacha game for a first time in their lives, so they never have seen a real gacha game anniversary awards(in some cases even 100+ of free pulls in span of a week) and they repeated the word "entitled" like parrots. The fact how big the game became (billions $ earned) and how good were anniversaries for their other title Honkai Impact 3rd inflated a bubble of expectations for many veteran gacha gamers and many of them are content creators so they could spread those expectations. I got over it but name "miHoYo" left a bad taste in my mouth for a long time to come.
Incredibile how they have managed to construct a game so detailed around a slot machine simulator.
I have a few problems with a small portion of the community and the company’s overuse of censorship, but I’m still enjoying the game. Genshin is one of the funniest communities I’ve been a part of.
Well it is a Chinese company…
You talked like censorship is unique to the company , every game will censor their forums for sure , thats what the mods were paid for. Reddit gets "censored" not because companies owned them , the moderators there wants to have as little duplicated post as possible , they dont care if you bash mihoyo there on mihoyo's subreddit. So yeah i like how ppl sprout "censorship" bullshit everywhere and link it to the country of origin although hate campaign censorship is a very common thing in every game forums.
@@Ecaea That too, but I was also referring to the heavily censored in-game chat. I found out that “mother” was censored with a friend. Just because evey game has censorship, it doesn’t mean we should be complacent with it.
@@Ecaea in the cases I’ve seen it wasn’t a hate campaign, I’m sure there was plenty but the valid criticisms I saw got deleted
@@word69420 people use your mother as a vulgarity in asia. Ask a chinese guy to how to scold someone with mother in it and they can probably think of 10 lines right away.
i personally was not playing during the year anniversary, logging on just for the 1st day reward, and i recently found out about the qiqi fallen raids, so this was extremely well put to cover everything that went on leading to the moments. thank you!
Kokomi also became the face of anniversary too since she was released around its time. An underwhelming character for an underwhelming anniversary. It was insane.
Everyone was wrong about kokomi though
The game is really nice, but I´ve started to reflect on the EXTREME GREED the makers have... for me, a new game used to cost 64€, and then you could get everything (every character in that game). My daughter wanted to get one special character in GI... that alone took some (work + 120€ in wishes to get) - ONE character!!!!! I should be able to get 2 professional games with that (like Elder scrolls!).
Guys remember about the Kfc glider and the Switch version of the game? Yeah.. Mihoyo acts like they never announce them. 🤪🤪
Honestly, I'm indifferent to the Anniversary Rewards because miHoYo never said it was going to be great or promised anything. But the KFC glider, that's actually something that had an official announcement that has never been followed through.
The KFC wing have copyright issues with the global KFC franchise so that a long shot the Switch well let say, the BoTW can come after Genshin after that announcement bundle with the development team making a whole brand game overhaul to fit in the switch just like what they did to the PS then that is also a long shot.
@@phuct4980 Then why did they announced a definite month for it?
@@phuct4980 I think Nintendo wants more of it's hands on that gacha money and Mihoyo is like.. "Nope".
@fategrandoroder2 fair enough, Nintendo have an extremely shitty corporate, beside the games, Nintendo been extremely shitty to there own while the Mihoyo have been in the gutter, Nintendo have the awful reputation for years now and while the games is well loved, the company isn’t until executive changes that are less greedy but that won’t likely come.
I always thought that the general expectations for the anniversary were a little high but even I, who expected almost nothing, was exceedingly disappointed. The fact that the best part of the event (the daily login thing that gave 10 intertwined fates) was just a feature that was in the game to begin with but was removed to be used as event bait was not only disappointing but offensive. :/
ive seen ppl counterarguing by saying that by handing out free rare items, mihoyo's sales will drop
like giving out fair rewards is going to stop whales from spending thousands of dollars for c6 hu tao..
A little late but thank you for doing such a detailed analysis! So many people are quick to point at only the terrible anniversary rewards but there's actually so many other underlying issues before the anniversary rewards (like the game weapon banner, the cosplayer girl, etc). The anniversary rewards was more of a tipping point.
Yes, the anniversary is only the small straw. There's so, so so so many things that's just infuriating about how the the "grind" system works. I keep looking away from it and just focus on the upcoming story. I just realized, that, mihoyo gamble too much with their game, their award, their decision, even gamble their company's fate on how they deliberately struck down players enjoyment in this game.
I swear if I ever see the person who's behind these decision making, I'll instantly write their name on death note and made them fix the game before dying.
Dude you're gonna write a lotta name there lol
@@ramtosantosa7661 just wrote the CEO's name. Done
@@kiattim2100 oh sweet summer child, you cut one head more shall takes its place.
@@kiattim2100 no its not that person fault
There is long running topic that there is always one or more people work in a game company solely to ruin the company reputation, just like the AK CC3 deleted song because the composser got caught and intendedly plagiarise a song from Taishi to get the company fell into lawsuit, good lord HG found it fast and people mention that the composser record have a....not so bright history always asking for trouble especialy BOFU 2018 incident if I'm not wrong. In Genshin side the higher execs, management, marketting and some of their developer is rather...out of touch and like to exploiting their developer creativity. It's gonne be a long way to got if they really exploit and do some messed up stuff just like Blizzard currently facing makes me wonder why Mihoyo never have a good transparency record to begin with. I'm just hope Yu Peng Chen and some of their og developer from GGZ and HI3 just leave the shit hole company, their own company is no longer just some college buddies make games now is just become corpo garbage.
The same CEO and Company President (Liu Wei and Cai Haoyu) are in charge of deciding rewards for all the MHY games actually.These are always game executive decisions.
Fun trivia: Wei is a butt monkey in Honkai side content.
@@pablotomasllodra4423 uh context
Wei has an avatar of sorts in omake mangas and humorous events that is object of physical abuse or ridicule for comedy. The Unusual Hilichurl is based on that character.
I got banned from the discord server because of a fallen Qiqi emote.
I can't say anything for all of your content as this is my first video of yours, but the amount of effort in this video is honestly amazing! The format and the script is really well done.
I’m happy that NBC is stretching out to other games to make videos about, instead of only being Zelda. There’s nothing wrong with making Zelda content, In fact I really enjoy it. It’s just making videos about other games helps keep the experience fresh.
Interesting opinion you have there considering what happens when a RUclipsr actually does this...
Regarding the moonlite merriment event - I think the rewards they meant was the items an ascension materials you get with the collection progress, including the luxurios sea lord weapon you get when you complete liyue's 100% chest collection, and the balsams you can get to refine the weapon when you complete monsdadt and dragonspine. (In the perpective of someone in the world, this would be equal to exchanging rewards, so linyang saying that we can exchange rewards during the event is equal to exchanging progress for limited-time items.)
i wish they would have let us keep old event items.
"making more money for other characters that have perfect synergy with ei like yae" few months later she did infact have perfect synergy with ei
the people who are like well just quit if u dont like it are the real problem because they shut down all constructive criticism and cant take any negative opinion on the game and if that would be the majority genshin would have a very short lifetime...
the qiqi sticker incident in discord was allowed to go on for nearly 2 full weeks iirc and a large portion of the regular chatters just wanted to start talking, they slowly started closing stickers in chats starting with the help section so it could slowly turn back to normal. In general I'd say this was a fine thing to stop at this point. (most people posting this stuff have been either lurkers or new joins after discord purges because a fair few people got kicked and banned for acting like a moron (cough obviously breaking rules not just being annoyed cough) not people who were active in this chat)
i dont understand the qiqi sticker drama,,,,
@@limitsthe iirc it started with the korean side spamming it on social media and eventually other communities caught on and decided to do the same thing
@@lynx5327 ohhh
You missed the funniest one with Elon Musk free advertisement!
I think he recorded everything before hat happened (he did say the video was long in the making).
But it would've been funny as heck to include it, especially out of context lol.
I think the reason why Mihoyo gave such lackluster rewards in the first place was due to how they think they're giving out rewards. They probably calculated and thought that one 10 pull was equivalent to giving the players $25 in pulls instead of thinking of it as a free expense because they virtually cost nothing. They think that they need to control the player's rewards and powers so much because they are such a huge game. But, that's getting rid of the satisfaction of their "customers." They think of us as customers, and they think that they are a store giving out money for free. They don't think of this game as a game, but a store.
The whole event in general has left a sour taste in my mouth. This event just changed my perspective of the game in general. I'm also experiencing severe Genshin burnout because of patch 2.2. I'm just in here hoping for the next update to be good. But yeah, this anniversary fiasco has changed my perspective and how I like the game in general. I used to be so excited for new patches, but now I just lost that care and excitement towards new updates. I just hope that new players won't have to experience this, and they'll be able to appreciate the games graphics, lore, gameplay and much more other than pulling on characters, and waiting for the best. Having one thing just ruin your experiences in general is not fun at all. :(
@@dragini3551 Yeah a lot of people have started to feel that burnout including RUclipsrs like Mtashed, I'm hoping that 2.4 will help me feel less of this but I wish you the best and hope you have fun whatever game you play.
Regarding Kokomi, I’m so thankful they added the new set of artifacts, I got her in a good comp with fischl and Ayaka for freeze and stun locking
As someone who plays multiple gacha games, I haven’t had issues with Genshin’s drop rates. Those that complain clearly haven’t played Fate/Grand Order and dealt with their atrocious drop rates. (FGO) It’s a 1% chance to summon a five star servant and on top of that 1%, you then have a 0.04% that you’ll receive that five star servant.
Especially when in FGO you don't even have guaranteed 5* servant after x pulls. In theory you can spend really ridiculous amount of money and don't get a single 5* servant.
It's 0.06% in Genshin. But yeah, you do have pity so the drop rate isn't the biggest issue
Jesus…and I though 0.503% with no guaranteed/pity was bad….
FGO only costs 3 SQs per pull while Genshin costs 60x more. FGO's gacha isn't that horrible cause you get much more chances with same amount of money.
@@azutsukimiya One saint quartz is $0.99 while 167 saint quartz is $79.99. When looking at it that way, sure you might get more chances, doesn’t make it any better. The last event I cared about (I can’t recall the title) my fiancée bought me a $200 gift card to use on the game. I went through all of the saint quartz with no five star summons until my last 10x summon. That last summon allowed me to get the servant that I wanted but the fact I went through all of it is a problem. I’m not saying they should be given out like candy otherwise what’s the point of having rarity, but look at Azur Lane. Their drop rates are balanced enough that you don’t have to spend your life savings to try to get the SR, and they basically give you all the resources you need to be able to construct the ships as a free to play player. Whereas FGO keeps a tight grip about saint quartz being given out forcing your hand to spend real world currency to maybe obtain that five star servant. (I know, mana prisms, fragments, tickets, etc. but that’s more long term save up scenario not short term I need now scenario)
The "Elon Musk Milestone" was another thing that REALLY should not happen after all this Anniversary problems. Personally I felt offended and I gave a break from the game until now
Great video!!
Ah, can't wait for future you to realize the cringy mobile ads they make and more Genshin RUclipsr drama stirring up again..
2nd Anniversary is coming soon and I came here to rewatch this
I really hope this upcoming 2nd anniversary's rewards are mind-blowingly good it exceeds my expectations, but i will keep low expectations from how the first anniversary turned out... after all Mihoyo changed company or something similar to hoyoverse. So im just hoping for the best, but with low expectations once again.