I mainly agree with what you said, however I feel like a lot of the beginning was about primos.. I feel like a lot of people focus on the characters and pulls more than the actual story. Maybe its because I am not caught up to date with the all archon quests and world quests, but there are so many quests to do that add to the story. Yes, some are AWFUL and take SO DAMN LONG to complete, but Genshin is more than a gacha game if you want it to be. I think a lot of people forget that.
Welp, in the end it's all about the quality of the content. A lot of people are holding because they already spent too much in it. I played every day non-stop for like 2 years and every update just felt overwhelming. If I jump back into Genshin rn I would have to sit trough HOURS of text and overly explicit content. On the other side, I decided to try Destiny again after being gone from the game for 3-4 years. They made a story-line with a few missions from every patch to make sure I was up to date and go over the newest expansion. It also depends on if you have the time for the grind. I no longer care for grind but the experience. When I started genshin I was a uni student during the pandemic and now I have a full time job with irl stuff that requires most of my time. So yeah, I wish genshin did something to make it easier to return for casuals like me and improved the stuff the community has been asking for so long.
As Day 1 player: "Resin is a problem" never felt that, as everything has always be a "aight, I'll do it tomorrow" "F2P will never be as easy as swiping the card" never felt this as I usually spend 30 minutes farming something and then the "I can do this tomorrow" feeling kicks in and so I do it tomorrow, never wanted to rush a buld or anything as this game has no pvp or a score board so there is really no point in rushing. "Others spend their summer while I'm stuck inside with this game". I do my dailys in 30 minutes and then I'm free to do whatever. "The meta" Always avoided the meta as that is the most antifun experience I've had in this game "The devs doesn't care" And neither do I, like I remember 1st Anniversary everyone was crying for the lack of free stuff, meanwhile I forgot it was the anniversary and I was surprised when I got a few free stuff, it wasnt until I looked at youtube that I saw the angy fans but me, I was like "meh, whatever, I need to farm some Samachurl books". The way I see this vid and many others who has dropped the game seems to be burnout, people come in the game wanting to be the metaplayer they saw in a video or livestream, they invest hours on end farming hitting the resin cap head first, realize they need to pay to speed the meta and find themselves empty when the numbers ain't as big or the team is not complete and so the money and time feels wasted. Meanwhile I from day one have always have the same attitude: "Eh, I can do this tomorrow", because is not like the game is gonna go away, and as Max0r said practice patience and control, stop and smell the flowers and you will find your fun. And with this mentality, I'm only missing like 3 characters I want (Ayaka, Chiori and Chevyruse, as I'ma waifu collector), but it doest bother me as there's always a rerun, and at this point, I have enough characters in my plate that I'm glad those reruns aint coming any time soon. For me, I like the grind, spending some 15-30 minutes hunting, gathering materials and running around is the reason I picked Genshin, I have fun with the story and I like most characters so I see no reason to stop playing. At the point I'm at, with 100% on every map, sometimes I struggle to even go beyond the 15 minute mark in this game for daily quests and resin spending, now I try to take my sweet time exploring and even then I 100%ed Fontaine in like a month, the Undersea and the new section of Liyue were 100%ed in a week, that's why to me, the most exciting part of the Natlan livestream was the new World Level. But yeah, tl;dr, all the issues you mentioned seem to stem from a lack of self control that I see present in the perception of how the game should be played instead of having fun with what you have.
Your comments sounds like complacency from someone who's too afraid to criticize the game. First off, with how stingy this game is, why wouldn't people be "crying" about the lack of anything special for the anniversary events. Just because this game's problem don't affect you, doesn't mean they don't exist. Resin is a problem because of how much it limits a players time in the game and fast they progress. It has nothing to do with meta, it has to with how much the game doesn't value the time you put into it by making you waste so much of the little fragile resin and leveling materials on crap. I shouldn't have to dread pulling a new character. The funny thing is, when this game came out, people weren't rushing through. Players were having a good time, until the game ran out of content, and they could do nothing except farm materials and take on the abyss until the next patch. A game shouldn't put such a huge cap on how long the player can play.
"F2P will never be as easy as swiping the card" is the funniest reasoning to me, I wanna see them not swiping to get the 5 star weapon every time they pulls a 5 star character in the "decent competitor" game since it does not have any good f2p options at all and the powercreep is already ridiculous
The resin problem is because china limits the time of how long ppl are allowed to play per day and i think the resin is there to lower the players time. @StephonZeno
@@ChrisBeYT Yeah, China's laws on gaming really astounds me. Playing games for too long is bad, but sinking hundreds to thousands of dollars into a glorified casino is a-okay. Regardless, if I'm gonna have that much of a limit placed on me for how long I can play, the game can at least compensate for making that time worth it.
Play Lord of the Rings Online. It is a bit dated but it has great quests (you have to read them) and interesting class mechanics. It is free to play until level 95; even then, that could take months or years, depending on how you play. The game is about the journey and not the destination.
This might be the most hilariously stupid video I've ever seen If Genshin is legit causing emotional financial stress to your life, you got problems OUTSIDE of a video game that you need to address. This whole video was genuinely laughable... for god's sake people, its a VIDEO GAME lmao
you write like you know the secret solution to the issue. "if you are addicted to alcohol just don't drink alcohol then!". Wow, We never thought of that before, you actually just solve alcoholic, gambling addiction, drug addiction around the world! most people started genshin during the lockdown period and didn't realize that they are slowly developing a habit to opening the game daily and spend more and more into "sunk cost fallacy". Years later when lockdown period ended, not everyone are able to make a rational decision to move on due to the bad habit developed over the years.
@@Nelsonnshdx lmao Genshin is so easy, there's absolutely no need to spend thousands of dollars on it. If you are that addicted to a game that you are spending thousands on it, you have problems far deeper than the game itself. Warning people to stay away from Genshin simply due to your own mistakes and faults is absolutely laughable. Any responsible adult would easily understand that spending that much money on a game is incredibly dumb... and to blame the game for that is even sadder
@@pineablesoda She's talking about Genshin like it was a bad ex or something lmao... you people need to touch grass and realise that games are not that serious
@@foxtaunt seem like you have a really short attention span, just by looking at what you are writing basically you just watch 5 second of the video and decide bring your own opinion, twist people word and shit talk people? Reflect your own statement and the video statement: 1. This is not a "Warning to stay away Genshin", it is a topic about "Gacha Game" itself The Video Statement point out that Gacha Game own issue as a whole and Genshin as a Example of her Experience 0:04 - "This Video is about my personal experience with genshin and my OWN reason to not play the game anymore" 0:10 - "The Sole Purpose of this video is once again to aware people about how unhealthily and bad GACHA games can be.... This is not a Boycott Genshin Video" 2. Spending more because Genshin is difficulty has nothing to do with the statement of this video. You make that up yourself and add into the argument. The Video statement about spending is wanting to collect as many character as possible, that is her own greed and the reason of her spending. 4:03 - "I wanted to collect as many character as possible and that was the only way to play the game for ME" 3. She did not blame Genshin for her Bad Decision Making and she acknowledge that The Video statement about she acknowledge it 9:34 - "was I force to spend money on the game, no, it was my own decision, really dumb decision in my opinion, I am the on responsible for it"
@@Nelsonnshdx so she's warning people about gacha games but she points out Genshin specifically in the title lmao... she also spends time talking about how bad she thinks genshin is my dude
It actually helps if you dont play it when you dont feel like it. Even though there are dailies you shouldnt force uourself to play if you dont want to. I did several breaks from the game and now that natlan is out i really enjoy playing it again. . And for me: yes the gacha is annoying but doesnt define the game for me. I just love to explore the vast and rich world. I would probably love the game more if there wouldnt be gacha, or stupid random artifact drops. I dont think you have to pay to get every character you want. They get regular reruns.... If you really play since say one and play the events iou can get quite a few gems without buying. I am free to play since inazuma came out. And even before i only bought 3 welkins. I dont like being forced to login daily and claim my gems 😅
Day 1 player here. Started the game because it was a Breath of the Wild clone (which I was playing and loving at the time). I stopped after the first Zhongli banner and haven't picked up the game since. Was it because of the gacha system? No. Was it because the time the game wanted me to invest into it made me feel like it wanted me to put a wedding ring on it's finger? No. Is it because of the bad story, disproportionately unlikable characters, and un-utilized potential of the setting? No. I stopped playing because the game fucked up on a catastrophically basic level. And that's that the core gameplay loop isn't fun. Combat is so mind numbingly *boring*. Characters have almost no flexible mechanics to actually play around with and most feel like their kit revolves entirely and just using their skill and then just switching to another character. Enemy design does pretty much nothing to encourage high level play and feel more like sandbags to beat on.This is supposed to be the main way of interacting with the game. The most fun I had with the game was actually just exploring, but it didn't take long for the world to stop inspiring my curiosity. I did not want to waste time on a game that wasn't fun for me, so I simply stopped playing. About a year later, I heard about the new Inazuma update and checked in to see if the game improved. I don't think I have to explain my disappointment from here.
Day 1 Player here as well, reached AR60 since pre-Inazuma ; Kazuha first banner. In Inazuma made 2 other new accounts and reached AR60 on Alhaitham banner, went through 2 years AR60, felt like I am not progressing at all. Login everyday to do dailies, welkin and resin.. Login weekends to finish events, REPEAT. Stupidly bought every paid skins on all 3 accounts (I regret nowdays). Seeing Natlan trailer was the final straw for me, Genshin double downed on it's design telling everyone this game is made for kids.
To quote someone else, you are so brave for this. 😂 I'm an ex-player, a dolphin of 700+ days playing. I had to go for various reasons but I'm at peace with my decision. It is my life, after all. Have a nice day!
i dont get how this video has a 70 / 30 like and dislike ratio. this sums up exactly what i feel about genshin and it really is a problem because i tried so hard to catch up after more than 1 year of not playing (started in 1.1 and stopped after sumeru came out) because i finally had time after i was out of school and i was super excited to see all the new stuff but the unskippable hour long yapping in quests are just making it unbearable for me, especially in sumeru where you cant even explore half of the map without going through all of those aranara quests. i love getting new characters and i want to play them but the amount of time that you have to invest to get through quests and to explore for such little rewards is very sad. a simple skip button would bring me such joy in this game because i love exploring. the music and scenery in genshin are unmatched and unique in every region and without the stress of catching up to maybe get the characters i want, this could be such a relaxing experience. the archon quests became much better, i really liked fontaines and natlans and the tribe quests also didnt feel too long and boring. exploration became even more exciting with the new characters that i spent so long grinding primogems for. if the quests were interesting, i would sit through those quests and enjoy them but sadly the majority of side quests just feel extremely boring and like a complete waste of time so i mute the game, start spam clicking and watch a video on the other screen which should not be a thing in a game. i am fine with working my ass off to get rewards if it is not boring. fighting stuff to get more resin if you need it would be great. getting more fixated ways for good artifacts instead of complete rng and years of grinding if youre unlucky would be great. having triple banners or something that solves the 5 star rerun issue would be great. having a way to get the rate up 4 star you want instead of a random one between the 3 rate ups would be great. having a travel companion that doesnt talk 90% of the time while mc is just there would be great. not being treated like a dumb idiot that doesnt understand anything by the game would be great. more showing, less telling would be great. i started honkai star rail because of the really awesome character demos and dropped the game after some time because it feels like a downgraded genshin experience. you cant explore freely, cant jump and some stuff is simply impossible to do, not because of skill issue but because you may not have been lucky enough to get the characters you need for those enemy weaknesses or mechanics. its like fighting abyss mages in genshin but you dont have the appropriate elements in your team and cant even dodge or heal whenever. the game has more yapping than actual gameplay in the story. i also started zenless zone zero and this is just a fantastic game. you have a skip button but i never even felt the need of skipping because the animations are simply amazing. i like zzz a lot and have never felt bored even slightly. also tried wuthering waves after seeing camelliya and i like genshins atmosphere, design and music better but combat is pretty interesting and cutscenes are pretty cool. the best thing about wuwa is the skip button. the upcoming characters look pretty fire (carlotta!!) and kuro games (developer) actually listens to their playerbase and changes things so quickly so i am really looking forward to this game. conclusion, i feel obligated to play genshin for the daily rewards to get the characters i want (citlali is peak character design) and to use up my resin to be able to actually use the characters and i am eager to get shit done yet it feels impossible to catch up and brings me no joy but i cant bring myself to quit after having invested so much time in it so i gotta admit that i am somehow addicted and therefore extremely disappointed in myself
If what you play is no fun, its a good time to stop and move on. I started with 1.1 and only did a 2 week break to try out WuWa. Didn't like it much so I started playing Genshin again. I like the story, exploration and the great music and voice actors. Genshin is the right mix of all the mentioned aspects for me, a good solution I found for the grinding problem is: I don't grind unless I want someting, for example I got a new char I want to build. I do the weekly bosses since it won't hurt and is quick to finish with 4 players.
For me i always had fun with genshin mostly bc of the story, characters and banger exploration the biggest problem i had was with sumeru desert it was boring to me and artefacts but it seems it will easier now. The only time i was feeling that im forcing myself to play was the sumeru desert patches and fontine quickly fixed that So yeah dont play the game you dont enjoy anymore Im personally looking foward to natlan and the qoL if those changes are bc of zzz,wuwa or hsr im not complaining competition is good and if this will make genshin even better im happy
Damn i guess i never was effect by genshin and gacha game negative side because its always been a side game... But i can see why it would be horrible if its a full game.... The fact that you play this game while out with friends and irl events, The game has to be good for you to enjoy doing that, But if its not i can see why it would be bad. The effects of FOMO, resin system isnt that bad if you just simply dont care about the latest trend. But thats how gacha game get a grip on you. Ppl apparently do care. I know a lot of people that purge the entire game of its content. Like the achievement system, The character story, hangout, all the bits and bob for some primos especially if you cant afford to be a spender because your a kid or a struggling adult. Again the pull of a gambling game can be dangerous. I wasnt effected because i do not have financial issue, which i am fortunate to be in. Nor am i compelled by this FOMO, or trend joining, or by husbando and waifu attraction. I just get my yearly archon c6r5 and play the game as if i was f2p casual. I only do main event and light exploring. I dont do Side content like character story. I simply look at the people who upload the side quest and story quest so i can enjoy the good parts of it not the walking simulator part. So in the end i dont think i am much of a target for genshin... Sure i drop maybe 500$ a year? if im really lazy cuz sometimes other games and irl activities pull me away... and 500$ is very very affordable compared to any other of my hobbies. At my age i value time over money. Also i leave the game completely if it has too much filler.... and i simply have someone else create a summary of the story and curated playthrough for me to watch. So i get to say im caught up with everything without needing to do the walking simulator part of the game for tiny about of primos. By maining only the archons.... i avoid the artifact RNG and Resis system entirely. And to have fun i simply purchase and play other games or do irl activities. I think people agree purging the game for every bit of primos is not fun. Or religiously grinding for gear for 20+ chracters ???? see im not even effected by Artifact mismanagement since i only have 5 sets atm. Genshin should be caring about its addicts. But there was never an alternative and.....unlike me despite the game being "BAD" these addicts would stay? and sometimes i had arguments where people said the walking simulator part of the game is fun... The 5 primos for spending hrs on an achievement is fun... THis is what you said in your video... denial... LIKE what is the dev suppose to do with this information... People say its bad but still pay and play that that ridiculous numbers? I have the switch and ps5 and other pc games to play when genshin choose to have filler content or grind content be its mainfocus... if they want me back to play release more big and fun events.... so i did my part and im glad you are now doing the same. Though looking in your comments i see people agreeing with what you said but will still make no change in how much they play.... In moment like these im glad there is WUWA... but WUWA imo is not a genshin killer... they actually feed on each other... people who are addicted to gacha will simply play more gacha games... the omega whales or the f2p that put their 24 hrs of life into video games the target of all gacha games... What i have always said was the genshin killer is the disillusion of the genre gacha.... The genshin killer is when people realize gacha games are not fun all the time... there are irl things you could be doing for fully paid 60$ COMPLETE Games , and many more genre that you can swap too like me. So what will these gacha game do to be on par with everything else i just mention?
if u not enjoy genshin you should stop playing it but it isnt nothing to do with others right? if people still enjoying it why they should stop playing too? for me i played genshin since its released . i love they story and characters sometimes its boring sometimes it got me hyped and i never decide to play a game by freestuff
I watched your vídeo from start to finish (since I liked yout video on Infinity Nikki). You're right on the mark when you talk about the devs and a lot of things remaining unchanged. I think that is my biggest complaint and disappointment about this game. QoL slow updates, the way they choose to make some things work, how they ignore player feedback until the revenue drops, etc... However, you kinda missed me on the pulls/primogem/pulling characters/having to do long story quests rant, especially when you talk the buyers remorse on Hu Tao. Having also played a gacha before (like you) I learnt the golden rules - not every banner is for me and beware of their predatory business. The majority of what they sell will be appealing, but you need to see with fits with you. The gacha aspect of Genshin is a small part of it and endgame (combat) also remains a small part of the game, so the need to pull, pull, pull seems exaggerated. Your initial disclaimer feels disingenuous, especially coupled with your title. It makes your opinion seem somewhat biased, if someone were to check your other videos. But I do agree with you that we should spend our time/money on games that brings us happiness.
Thank you for watching my video, really appreciate the support. I agree that my urge to pull on every banner was not good and definitely not healthy behaviour, I understand it now, but in that moment it was like the one and only way to play the game. It is a predatory business practice but it got me hooked. Also I haven't played the game for more then a year, so my memories may be a bit blurred. Playing genshin may feel different now than it was years before. You are right that disclaimer may be a bit off. I wanted to make video like this for a long time, but it happens that I managed to do it on the boycon period, so just wanted people to not take it as "I hate genshin" video but more like "this is my story" video, that's why I added the disclaimer. I liked the game, genuinely, it gave me a lot of fun.
I stopped playing after the latest lantern rite and acquiring xianyun. I feel the same as you do, except the additional issues are the behind the scene with some extremely toxic Genshin EN VA that i regret having an autograph with. I am currently sticking to kurogames that offers better gameplay and community environment and only sticking to Japan VA moving forward.
I saw the writing on the wall with this game a while ago, but every new big update seems to pull me back now and then, and I give it a fair shoot until I have enough. When I realized that i HATED dailies, i stopped doing them altogether. At least now you can get them by literally playing the actual game, that should have been a thing since day 1. Now, I will mostly come back to Genshin to see if a new story features my Goddess Furina.
i only go to genshin for story other wise i only log in to get my 90 promogems and do my battle pass buty i spent like 20 mins then i move on i like the natlan update but i will wait till the story is complete before going to natlan, i dont like playing bit by bit meaning i have to wait till 5.1 for next chapter i just wait for all 5.0 to come out and play like i did with fontain
Very understandable. I played Genshin religiously from 1.0 to 1.6 and I quit when 2.0 released. I logged in to pull for Ayaka, got her and never opened the game again. I recently came back though during the 4.8 patch. It had been about 3 years since I last played and I wanted to see how the game has changed. I also played WuWa on its release and was wondering how the gacha game space had evolved. And while I do enjoy WuWa, Genshin was closer to my heart so I decided to drop WuWa and try Genshin again (don't have enough time for both) I realise why I kept playing Genshin in the first place. I loved the world, characters and the stories involving them. They were just sooo magical and getting to experience them again recently brought back some good memories. I initially stopped due to burn out and constantly having the thought that I _have_ to play. But going so long without playing, I was able to reflect on myself and how I wanted to play the game. It also helped that I never spent a dime back then (I finally swiped recently tho teehee) Now that I'm basically playing catch-up, I don't feel as if I have to follow the latest crowd anymore. I'm 3 years behind, it would be insane for me to try and match people who have been consistently playing. I'm playing the game at my own pace and when I want to, I don't even play everyday now! I am able to ignore the FOMO because I'm already so behind, what good is there for me to try and keep up lmao. I'm just here to experience the world and story again, I fricking love it man. The characters and music are so nostlagic to me. Especially Mondstadt, Liyue and the first Golden Apple Archipelago. I kept listening to these region's music for the past 3 years even without playing, because they're just so good Anyway, I suppose it was lucky that I started playing again around the time of a "revival" patch. I have no idea how the game went down for the past 3 years but the community seems to be treating 5.0 like it's some kind of 2nd coming of Genshin lmao. Those poor guys probably been starved of compensation for the past 3 years. Doesn't really affect me, but hopefully this means good things will continue to come!
Omg! This is almost exactly what happened to me?! I half thought about coming back around 2.0, but by then my iPad could no longer open the game haha. Came back in 4.8 once I had a laptop capable of games. Playing catch-up at my own speed has been nice. And so many world quests! I get a good laugh whenever “the meta” for character building comes up, as I’m pretty sure my account would have given a hefty portion of the community nightmares… (still might haha) I’ve always loved the stories and lore, so it’s been fun revisiting that.
Its only opinions at last...i think that i'll stick to the game like before...going for the story an a bit of farming when i have to wait for new archon quests i leave it there...still my acc has good 5 stars and decently builded enough for me
Totally agree with all you said. For me is not that the game itself is completely bad because I used to enjoy it a lot but the way Hoyoverse decided to just deny their player base until they had to do something because of many reasons but mostly because of competitors. They really had to make the player base wait 4 years.
me too, for me when i read that "in 5.0 genshin will focused on story" thats an exit door for me, like were the focusing on anything before? so yeah i quit play genshin for good after arlechino update(i play from 1.0) and even after i saw the upcoming update news, i wont comeback because it would just pain doing all over again, the music is indeed very good so then i would just listen it on their chanel, and if i want to know the story i would just look on youtube so i can enjoy it without any incentive to pull the "newest character" that later made me asked myself "why would i pull and build this character?" again when i fully built it so yeah i personally wont comeback, its not worth it, im not play genshin just to listen to good music and read/watch story and just jumping/running around in the empty world, i played it because its open-world action game, good music and story just a bonus not the main thing
my experience with drop genshin is different, i got hacked and i lost 3 games account, after that i manage to recover 2 others games but i couldn't recover genshin account due to the complex ... i provided 90% of information that prove im the owner but they refuse to belive. i still love genshin but unfortunately was created by devs don't care about their game more than care about money, not to mention the game surrounded by community 75% of them are psychopath and Toxic people, and some youtubers Exploit those things to make drama to get more views ... i played many games and i never seen game surrounded by "EVIL AURA" like this. imagine genshin was created by kuro where they give all love to the game and their community ... the game will be the best game in the history.
The accounts problem is upsetting, so sorry that you have experienced that. Yep, genshin toxic community is a thing that repels people from playing it. Genshin had a potential to be a better game, but developers attitude sent it into the drain
you know what so funny about my account problem that i forgot to mention ... after one year the hacker didn't connect to the account so far nor even sell it to someone else. i dont feel sorry about the time and some money that i spent to invest to that account but i feel sorry for those devs they dont care and they did their job as it should. im not the only case ... many people lost account and they didn't able to recover it.
I may wind up dropping Genshin because I spend more time watching, reading, and listening to the game than actually playing it. Seriously... Ever since Inazume, the dialogue in this game has become so unbelievably, long winded and uninteresting.
hyperbloom was never meta , its just the best option for bang for the buck (most cost efficient) and it doesnt exactly compare to the best dps's unless you invest a lot into it
The 5.0 dev live stream was kinda the final nail in the coffin for me. Yeah they added a lot and are giving us a lot of free stuff, But only AFTER the fact that they got a good competitor. Great vid Ani 🔥🔥🔥
I dont think there was enough competition to threaten the game, but i understand how it could look very scummy. But hey at least we got something good out of this. Unfortunately they are just a company, they have to make the most amount of money possible. I really hope they did these QoL updates because they care about their community and want to change
@@awdsmj its probably because the stingy director of the genshin team isn't working on genshin anymore. He's working on a project in America now so i think thats definitely the main reason why genshin is finally getting the hi3, hsr treatment.
I don't get it. I know lots of problem in Genshin but I feel like I'm watching a review of someone who has no self control and is encline to bad decision seasily and blame it mostly on the game...
@@pineablesoda yeah if we don't praise them for doing something good and sending them criticism when they fuck up, i'm quite sure they wont bother trying to make more QOL updates, because it wont matter, dev's make great changes for the game and "players" start hating because the changes are "late" ? if the change is good and for the better them is not a bad thing, stop trying to find things to hate on genshin when they are actively listening to feedback, and for the people saying "only because of wuwa", IT DOES NOT MATTER IF IT WAS WUWA, COMPETITION makes things EVOLVE and GROW and THAT IS GOOD
@@datupabuCH what changes would you want? loadouts, more resin/condensed resin cap raised, new endgame content? yeah that would be great and i really think they will add more QOL/end game updates in the future people are just too quick at hating them for changing things slower than HSR
I installed Genshin because I was so curious why the local comicon had so many Genshin cosplayers. I wanted to understand why everyone came out of the lockdown playing one of these gambling games. Made my account in 3.2 (partly thanks to targeted ads lol; installing the game during the Nahida banner was no coincidence especially when idk who she was), experienced the story, lore, fashion, culture, and the world of Teyvat got me hooked. I got why this game took off. However, all the unresolved problems the players voiced for so many patches chipped away at my goodwill until the misrepresentation in Natlan made me stop playing altogether. In the live service gaming space, respect goes a long way. Witnessing WuWa listening to their players (sometimes to their detriment) was something I haven't seen since I played Warframe. FOMO is a permanent fixture in these games but the sting of it becomes bearable when the devs and their players communicate to create the best experience for both parties I've not change my stance on Genshin since the 5.0 update. If anything, it shows me that they respect their competition, not their player base
Agree, communication is a key to better understanding. I think I just tired from not being heard. I have tried to not mention wuwa in the video at all, but its appearance definitely made genshin devs do some actions, and this is a good thing in my op
Don't play a game (gacha game) when you don't have any self control, it only ruins your favourabilty towards it. And its for every gacha game out there.
i will not drop a game just because of someone's reasoning. i have my own. guess what, i dropped wuwa after playing zzz. wuwa didn't offer something big & new. it's just another genshin by kuro. im still playing genshin at least once a week. I'm still attached to the even with burnout. i don't ride with all these dramas from toxic ccs.
Im ok with hoyo ignoring western players, they have been doing a very good job gate keeping the game from turning into another aaa generic trash like overwatch, cod, valorant, etc. Im not a gamer myself but genshin is like the only game i really enjoy the way it is, my only complaint is that they should add autoplay for domains.
Quit Genshin after 4.6 dont get me wrong I like the game but it got boring doing the same exploration and I like the teams and artifact but abyss was to easy and also I dont like Resin I hope a cheat version of this game will exist.
I thought I was the only one that ever felt like this about the whole entire game but in all honesty I just feel like the game today is just not even worth playing even with all the new stuff that's coming up it's just not worth it like I'm only pumped up for one character that I'm saving for by literally not even doing anything but logging in and getting certain things done and that's about it
candace isnt boring , u prob got the wrong idea abt her she is basically a better option than yunjin for some dps's like for example ayato + she has a hydro infusion to any1 on field
I dropped Genshin for a few months but I recently came back and just dropped my world level so I could have fun getting through story They dropped great QOL updates and 5.0 is about to be the biggest one lmao So TLDR: nah don’t think I will lil bro 😃
needing every character to play comfort picks where some characters are slightly better than others in doing something pulling for characters you don't even like playing with faulting the game for one's own introverted personality that's new these are excuses(honestly the dumbest reasons and most common ones to boot), you don't NEED, sure wanting is one thing but the world doesn't work like that, if you have the means you can get what you want if you don't then get the means to do so it's a capitalistic world baby the fact that the game exist/sustained is because of capitalism and the reason it's good is because of the creativity and passion mihoyo has calling the game bad would be a per individual case "bad for me" as to say it's understandable not everyone can control their urges and that's something some people are born with in the DNA you can find strands that influence the likelihood for addiction and if that's the case for you it's a good thing to not play any gacha games same as not touching cigarettes even once because the big bad nicotine will get you hooked also genshin becoming a part of your life and a daily routine is a okay you can choose whatever you want to spend your time on from a nihilistic perspective no matter what you do it will be a waste of time even if you save people from death which would count as gaining more time thus is the only true value of your time(since nothing is more precious than time objectively) eventually those people would waste their time which concludes in a net lose either way in the end of the day do whatever makes you happy(murder/torture/abuse/extortion and everything along those lines don't do em even if they make you happy but me saying that won't help will it, you need to instill fear and morals into people so they won't do it not because logic dictates you not do something like that) genshin is NOT a co-op game heck even MMOs are not co-op oriented anymore(just because you can doesn't mean you should/will) so it's understandable why you wouldn't enjoy the game if the reason you've started playing it was because of your friends all in all it's a logical conclusion to quit the game with the reasons you've stated but here's the thing with humans if you approach the game from a different perspective, for a different reason you might enjoy it on your own terms so if you ever feel a nostlagic kick give it a try but do make sure to change your reason for playing the game besides it being nostalgia because a game this passionately polished doesn't come often(maybe a few a year from the thousands that swamp the market) sure it's predatory even if you compare to other gachas or even live service games heck even normal one time purchase games with DLCs it's still more predatory but unlike most gacha games they maintain something that is not seen and that's powercreep other gacha games force you to pull for newer characters. just because someone paid for your meal does not entitle you for demands, i am sorry but this game is built on whales not on you the welking spender(i am too a welking spender beats buying 1 meal outside that would satisfy me for 1 meal) sure the whales need the the minnows and planktons which creates an eco system. it's an open market so it will always be like this, the 1# spot doesn't need to improve until its position is jeopardized just look at any monopoly in the real world, that's how things work but unlike monopolies in the real world it's harder to put pressure on small businesses which monopolies do all so well
you spent money to cope with your depression with the game i punched so many trees i burned out and left the game for a year and a half than later left it again for another half year. ive only spent about 70$ from launch to today while some people on launch i know spent over 1k to get C6 chichi just to leave immediately. hoyoverse i to don’t trust those bastards to some who enjoy the story and hangouts for me its a unskippable yap fest that i click through wishing the skip button was real. fountain detective story was so long i had go to bed leave one eye open until auto play stop just to click and go back to bed. the thing i enjoyed the most about genshin was the food delivery were i made it half way to a mountain just to step on a stupid puddle saying “food is wet restart” who da faq orders food at the peak of a mountain GOD i WISH that infuriating NPC ended himself this ain’t no damn jimmy johns.
i wouldnt say characters skin colors are a problem , afterall the nations were only INSPIRED by the cultures , not based on them or supposed to be 100% like them
I saved up for 5 months for chlorinde. 88 pity i got her. Rolled again. 80 pity later i got a copy of Jean. Went for her weapon. 89 pity later i got some kinda green aerodynamic looking sword. I wanted to build her. All the dungeons to get the right artifacts were closed off untill 2 days later. That's how i quit. Just like that.
there's something that needs to be acknowledged about this game. Under the video concert of the new OST I commented that it is absurd that almost all people in that video are black because of the african and native american background of natlan yet not one single character is black, and this can only mean whitewashing. You wouldn't imagine the amount of racist chinese people that tried to gaslight me and insult me under that comment. I'm pretty sure most of them are paid by the game and some of them even sounded like bots.
@@foxtaunt are u joking? the skintones in game are not darker than a one day tan in the beach, and even if you wanted to consider them they are 5-6 on 90 characters in total that are paper white. are those genshin bots following me here too?
@@foxtaunt giving the message that black people are always secondary and never main characters, not even in a region heavily based on their own culture, language and music. I would really feel like the quote "we like your culture, your clothes, your language, everything... except you"
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I mainly agree with what you said, however I feel like a lot of the beginning was about primos.. I feel like a lot of people focus on the characters and pulls more than the actual story. Maybe its because I am not caught up to date with the all archon quests and world quests, but there are so many quests to do that add to the story. Yes, some are AWFUL and take SO DAMN LONG to complete, but Genshin is more than a gacha game if you want it to be. I think a lot of people forget that.
Welp, in the end it's all about the quality of the content. A lot of people are holding because they already spent too much in it. I played every day non-stop for like 2 years and every update just felt overwhelming. If I jump back into Genshin rn I would have to sit trough HOURS of text and overly explicit content.
On the other side, I decided to try Destiny again after being gone from the game for 3-4 years. They made a story-line with a few missions from every patch to make sure I was up to date and go over the newest expansion.
It also depends on if you have the time for the grind. I no longer care for grind but the experience. When I started genshin I was a uni student during the pandemic and now I have a full time job with irl stuff that requires most of my time. So yeah, I wish genshin did something to make it easier to return for casuals like me and improved the stuff the community has been asking for so long.
As Day 1 player:
"Resin is a problem" never felt that, as everything has always be a "aight, I'll do it tomorrow"
"F2P will never be as easy as swiping the card" never felt this as I usually spend 30 minutes farming something and then the "I can do this tomorrow" feeling kicks in and so I do it tomorrow, never wanted to rush a buld or anything as this game has no pvp or a score board so there is really no point in rushing.
"Others spend their summer while I'm stuck inside with this game". I do my dailys in 30 minutes and then I'm free to do whatever.
"The meta" Always avoided the meta as that is the most antifun experience I've had in this game
"The devs doesn't care" And neither do I, like I remember 1st Anniversary everyone was crying for the lack of free stuff, meanwhile I forgot it was the anniversary and I was surprised when I got a few free stuff, it wasnt until I looked at youtube that I saw the angy fans but me, I was like "meh, whatever, I need to farm some Samachurl books".
The way I see this vid and many others who has dropped the game seems to be burnout, people come in the game wanting to be the metaplayer they saw in a video or livestream, they invest hours on end farming hitting the resin cap head first, realize they need to pay to speed the meta and find themselves empty when the numbers ain't as big or the team is not complete and so the money and time feels wasted.
Meanwhile I from day one have always have the same attitude: "Eh, I can do this tomorrow", because is not like the game is gonna go away, and as Max0r said practice patience and control, stop and smell the flowers and you will find your fun. And with this mentality, I'm only missing like 3 characters I want (Ayaka, Chiori and Chevyruse, as I'ma waifu collector), but it doest bother me as there's always a rerun, and at this point, I have enough characters in my plate that I'm glad those reruns aint coming any time soon.
For me, I like the grind, spending some 15-30 minutes hunting, gathering materials and running around is the reason I picked Genshin, I have fun with the story and I like most characters so I see no reason to stop playing. At the point I'm at, with 100% on every map, sometimes I struggle to even go beyond the 15 minute mark in this game for daily quests and resin spending, now I try to take my sweet time exploring and even then I 100%ed Fontaine in like a month, the Undersea and the new section of Liyue were 100%ed in a week, that's why to me, the most exciting part of the Natlan livestream was the new World Level.
But yeah, tl;dr, all the issues you mentioned seem to stem from a lack of self control that I see present in the perception of how the game should be played instead of having fun with what you have.
Your comments sounds like complacency from someone who's too afraid to criticize the game. First off, with how stingy this game is, why wouldn't people be "crying" about the lack of anything special for the anniversary events. Just because this game's problem don't affect you, doesn't mean they don't exist. Resin is a problem because of how much it limits a players time in the game and fast they progress. It has nothing to do with meta, it has to with how much the game doesn't value the time you put into it by making you waste so much of the little fragile resin and leveling materials on crap. I shouldn't have to dread pulling a new character. The funny thing is, when this game came out, people weren't rushing through. Players were having a good time, until the game ran out of content, and they could do nothing except farm materials and take on the abyss until the next patch. A game shouldn't put such a huge cap on how long the player can play.
"F2P will never be as easy as swiping the card" is the funniest reasoning to me, I wanna see them not swiping to get the 5 star weapon every time they pulls a 5 star character in the "decent competitor" game since it does not have any good f2p options at all and the powercreep is already ridiculous
The resin problem is because china limits the time of how long ppl are allowed to play per day and i think the resin is there to lower the players time. @StephonZeno
@@ChrisBeYT Yeah, China's laws on gaming really astounds me. Playing games for too long is bad, but sinking hundreds to thousands of dollars into a glorified casino is a-okay. Regardless, if I'm gonna have that much of a limit placed on me for how long I can play, the game can at least compensate for making that time worth it.
The TRD of this video is basically saying don't play games you don't enjoy 😊❤
Play Lord of the Rings Online. It is a bit dated but it has great quests (you have to read them) and interesting class mechanics. It is free to play until level 95; even then, that could take months or years, depending on how you play. The game is about the journey and not the destination.
This might be the most hilariously stupid video I've ever seen
If Genshin is legit causing emotional financial stress to your life, you got problems OUTSIDE of a video game that you need to address.
This whole video was genuinely laughable... for god's sake people, its a VIDEO GAME lmao
you write like you know the secret solution to the issue. "if you are addicted to alcohol just don't drink alcohol then!". Wow, We never thought of that before, you actually just solve alcoholic, gambling addiction, drug addiction around the world!
most people started genshin during the lockdown period and didn't realize that they are slowly developing a habit to opening the game daily and spend more and more into "sunk cost fallacy". Years later when lockdown period ended, not everyone are able to make a rational decision to move on due to the bad habit developed over the years.
@@Nelsonnshdx lmao Genshin is so easy, there's absolutely no need to spend thousands of dollars on it. If you are that addicted to a game that you are spending thousands on it, you have problems far deeper than the game itself.
Warning people to stay away from Genshin simply due to your own mistakes and faults is absolutely laughable. Any responsible adult would easily understand that spending that much money on a game is incredibly dumb... and to blame the game for that is even sadder
@@pineablesoda She's talking about Genshin like it was a bad ex or something lmao... you people need to touch grass and realise that games are not that serious
@@foxtaunt seem like you have a really short attention span, just by looking at what you are writing basically you just watch 5 second of the video and decide bring your own opinion, twist people word and shit talk people?
Reflect your own statement and the video statement:
1. This is not a "Warning to stay away Genshin", it is a topic about "Gacha Game" itself
The Video Statement point out that Gacha Game own issue as a whole and Genshin as a Example of her Experience
0:04 - "This Video is about my personal experience with genshin and my OWN reason to not play the game anymore"
0:10 - "The Sole Purpose of this video is once again to aware people about how unhealthily and bad GACHA games can be.... This is not a Boycott Genshin Video"
2. Spending more because Genshin is difficulty has nothing to do with the statement of this video. You make that up yourself and add into the argument.
The Video statement about spending is wanting to collect as many character as possible, that is her own greed and the reason of her spending.
4:03 - "I wanted to collect as many character as possible and that was the only way to play the game for ME"
3. She did not blame Genshin for her Bad Decision Making and she acknowledge that
The Video statement about she acknowledge it
9:34 - "was I force to spend money on the game, no, it was my own decision, really dumb decision in my opinion, I am the on responsible for it"
@@Nelsonnshdx so she's warning people about gacha games but she points out Genshin specifically in the title lmao... she also spends time talking about how bad she thinks genshin is my dude
It actually helps if you dont play it when you dont feel like it. Even though there are dailies you shouldnt force uourself to play if you dont want to.
I did several breaks from the game and now that natlan is out i really enjoy playing it again. .
And for me: yes the gacha is annoying but doesnt define the game for me. I just love to explore the vast and rich world.
I would probably love the game more if there wouldnt be gacha, or stupid random artifact drops.
I dont think you have to pay to get every character you want. They get regular reruns.... If you really play since say one and play the events iou can get quite a few gems without buying.
I am free to play since inazuma came out. And even before i only bought 3 welkins. I dont like being forced to login daily and claim my gems 😅
Day 1 player here. Started the game because it was a Breath of the Wild clone (which I was playing and loving at the time). I stopped after the first Zhongli banner and haven't picked up the game since.
Was it because of the gacha system? No.
Was it because the time the game wanted me to invest into it made me feel like it wanted me to put a wedding ring on it's finger? No.
Is it because of the bad story, disproportionately unlikable characters, and un-utilized potential of the setting? No.
I stopped playing because the game fucked up on a catastrophically basic level. And that's that the core gameplay loop isn't fun.
Combat is so mind numbingly *boring*. Characters have almost no flexible mechanics to actually play around with and most feel like their kit revolves entirely and just using their skill and then just switching to another character.
Enemy design does pretty much nothing to encourage high level play and feel more like sandbags to beat on.This is supposed to be the main way of interacting with the game.
The most fun I had with the game was actually just exploring, but it didn't take long for the world to stop inspiring my curiosity.
I did not want to waste time on a game that wasn't fun for me, so I simply stopped playing.
About a year later, I heard about the new Inazuma update and checked in to see if the game improved. I don't think I have to explain my disappointment from here.
As a fellow day 1 player, I understand your position entirely.
Day 1 Player here as well, reached AR60 since pre-Inazuma ; Kazuha first banner. In Inazuma made 2 other new accounts and reached AR60 on Alhaitham banner, went through 2 years AR60, felt like I am not progressing at all.
Login everyday to do dailies, welkin and resin.. Login weekends to finish events, REPEAT. Stupidly bought every paid skins on all 3 accounts (I regret nowdays).
Seeing Natlan trailer was the final straw for me, Genshin double downed on it's design telling everyone this game is made for kids.
To quote someone else, you are so brave for this. 😂 I'm an ex-player, a dolphin of 700+ days playing. I had to go for various reasons but I'm at peace with my decision. It is my life, after all. Have a nice day!
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i dont get how this video has a 70 / 30 like and dislike ratio. this sums up exactly what i feel about genshin and it really is a problem because i tried so hard to catch up after more than 1 year of not playing (started in 1.1 and stopped after sumeru came out) because i finally had time after i was out of school and i was super excited to see all the new stuff but the unskippable hour long yapping in quests are just making it unbearable for me, especially in sumeru where you cant even explore half of the map without going through all of those aranara quests. i love getting new characters and i want to play them but the amount of time that you have to invest to get through quests and to explore for such little rewards is very sad. a simple skip button would bring me such joy in this game because i love exploring. the music and scenery in genshin are unmatched and unique in every region and without the stress of catching up to maybe get the characters i want, this could be such a relaxing experience. the archon quests became much better, i really liked fontaines and natlans and the tribe quests also didnt feel too long and boring. exploration became even more exciting with the new characters that i spent so long grinding primogems for. if the quests were interesting, i would sit through those quests and enjoy them but sadly the majority of side quests just feel extremely boring and like a complete waste of time so i mute the game, start spam clicking and watch a video on the other screen which should not be a thing in a game. i am fine with working my ass off to get rewards if it is not boring.
fighting stuff to get more resin if you need it would be great. getting more fixated ways for good artifacts instead of complete rng and years of grinding if youre unlucky would be great. having triple banners or something that solves the 5 star rerun issue would be great. having a way to get the rate up 4 star you want instead of a random one between the 3 rate ups would be great. having a travel companion that doesnt talk 90% of the time while mc is just there would be great. not being treated like a dumb idiot that doesnt understand anything by the game would be great. more showing, less telling would be great.
i started honkai star rail because of the really awesome character demos and dropped the game after some time because it feels like a downgraded genshin experience. you cant explore freely, cant jump and some stuff is simply impossible to do, not because of skill issue but because you may not have been lucky enough to get the characters you need for those enemy weaknesses or mechanics. its like fighting abyss mages in genshin but you dont have the appropriate elements in your team and cant even dodge or heal whenever. the game has more yapping than actual gameplay in the story. i also started zenless zone zero and this is just a fantastic game. you have a skip button but i never even felt the need of skipping because the animations are simply amazing. i like zzz a lot and have never felt bored even slightly. also tried wuthering waves after seeing camelliya and i like genshins atmosphere, design and music better but combat is pretty interesting and cutscenes are pretty cool. the best thing about wuwa is the skip button. the upcoming characters look pretty fire (carlotta!!) and kuro games (developer) actually listens to their playerbase and changes things so quickly so i am really looking forward to this game.
conclusion, i feel obligated to play genshin for the daily rewards to get the characters i want (citlali is peak character design) and to use up my resin to be able to actually use the characters and i am eager to get shit done yet it feels impossible to catch up and brings me no joy but i cant bring myself to quit after having invested so much time in it so i gotta admit that i am somehow addicted and therefore extremely disappointed in myself
If what you play is no fun, its a good time to stop and move on. I started with 1.1 and only did a 2 week break to try out WuWa. Didn't like it much so I started playing Genshin again. I like the story, exploration and the great music and voice actors. Genshin is the right mix of all the mentioned aspects for me, a good solution I found for the grinding problem is: I don't grind unless I want someting, for example I got a new char I want to build. I do the weekly bosses since it won't hurt and is quick to finish with 4 players.
For me i always had fun with genshin mostly bc of the story, characters and banger exploration the biggest problem i had was with sumeru desert it was boring to me and artefacts but it seems it will easier now.
The only time i was feeling that im forcing myself to play was the sumeru desert patches and fontine quickly fixed that
So yeah dont play the game you dont enjoy anymore
Im personally looking foward to natlan and the qoL if those changes are bc of zzz,wuwa or hsr im not complaining competition is good and if this will make genshin even better im happy
Damn i guess i never was effect by genshin and gacha game negative side because its always been a side game... But i can see why it would be horrible if its a full game....
The fact that you play this game while out with friends and irl events, The game has to be good for you to enjoy doing that, But if its not i can see why it would be bad. The effects of FOMO, resin system isnt that bad if you just simply dont care about the latest trend. But thats how gacha game get a grip on you. Ppl apparently do care.
I know a lot of people that purge the entire game of its content. Like the achievement system, The character story, hangout, all the bits and bob for some primos especially if you cant afford to be a spender because your a kid or a struggling adult. Again the pull of a gambling game can be dangerous. I wasnt effected because i do not have financial issue, which i am fortunate to be in. Nor am i compelled by this FOMO, or trend joining, or by husbando and waifu attraction. I just get my yearly archon c6r5 and play the game as if i was f2p casual. I only do main event and light exploring. I dont do Side content like character story. I simply look at the people who upload the side quest and story quest so i can enjoy the good parts of it not the walking simulator part.
So in the end i dont think i am much of a target for genshin... Sure i drop maybe 500$ a year? if im really lazy cuz sometimes other games and irl activities pull me away... and 500$ is very very affordable compared to any other of my hobbies. At my age i value time over money. Also i leave the game completely if it has too much filler.... and i simply have someone else create a summary of the story and curated playthrough for me to watch. So i get to say im caught up with everything without needing to do the walking simulator part of the game for tiny about of primos.
By maining only the archons.... i avoid the artifact RNG and Resis system entirely. And to have fun i simply purchase and play other games or do irl activities. I think people agree purging the game for every bit of primos is not fun. Or religiously grinding for gear for 20+ chracters ???? see im not even effected by Artifact mismanagement since i only have 5 sets atm.
Genshin should be caring about its addicts. But there was never an alternative and.....unlike me despite the game being "BAD" these addicts would stay? and sometimes i had arguments where people said the walking simulator part of the game is fun... The 5 primos for spending hrs on an achievement is fun... THis is what you said in your video... denial...
LIKE what is the dev suppose to do with this information... People say its bad but still pay and play that that ridiculous numbers? I have the switch and ps5 and other pc games to play when genshin choose to have filler content or grind content be its mainfocus... if they want me back to play release more big and fun events.... so i did my part and im glad you are now doing the same.
Though looking in your comments i see people agreeing with what you said but will still make no change in how much they play.... In moment like these im glad there is WUWA... but WUWA imo is not a genshin killer... they actually feed on each other... people who are addicted to gacha will simply play more gacha games... the omega whales or the f2p that put their 24 hrs of life into video games the target of all gacha games... What i have always said was the genshin killer is the disillusion of the genre gacha....
The genshin killer is when people realize gacha games are not fun all the time... there are irl things you could be doing for fully paid 60$ COMPLETE Games , and many more genre that you can swap too like me. So what will these gacha game do to be on par with everything else i just mention?
if u not enjoy genshin you should stop playing it but it isnt nothing to do with others right? if people still enjoying it why they should stop playing too?
for me i played genshin since its released . i love they story and characters sometimes its boring sometimes it got me hyped
and i never decide to play a game by freestuff
I watched your vídeo from start to finish (since I liked yout video on Infinity Nikki). You're right on the mark when you talk about the devs and a lot of things remaining unchanged. I think that is my biggest complaint and disappointment about this game. QoL slow updates, the way they choose to make some things work, how they ignore player feedback until the revenue drops, etc...
However, you kinda missed me on the pulls/primogem/pulling characters/having to do long story quests rant, especially when you talk the buyers remorse on Hu Tao. Having also played a gacha before (like you) I learnt the golden rules - not every banner is for me and beware of their predatory business. The majority of what they sell will be appealing, but you need to see with fits with you. The gacha aspect of Genshin is a small part of it and endgame (combat) also remains a small part of the game, so the need to pull, pull, pull seems exaggerated.
Your initial disclaimer feels disingenuous, especially coupled with your title. It makes your opinion seem somewhat biased, if someone were to check your other videos. But I do agree with you that we should spend our time/money on games that brings us happiness.
Thank you for watching my video, really appreciate the support. I agree that my urge to pull on every banner was not good and definitely not healthy behaviour, I understand it now, but in that moment it was like the one and only way to play the game. It is a predatory business practice but it got me hooked. Also I haven't played the game for more then a year, so my memories may be a bit blurred. Playing genshin may feel different now than it was years before.
You are right that disclaimer may be a bit off. I wanted to make video like this for a long time, but it happens that I managed to do it on the boycon period, so just wanted people to not take it as "I hate genshin" video but more like "this is my story" video, that's why I added the disclaimer. I liked the game, genuinely, it gave me a lot of fun.
I stopped playing after the latest lantern rite and acquiring xianyun. I feel the same as you do, except the additional issues are the behind the scene with some extremely toxic Genshin EN VA that i regret having an autograph with.
I am currently sticking to kurogames that offers better gameplay and community environment and only sticking to Japan VA moving forward.
This is a video that summed up pretty much the crappiness of this organization as a whole and i thank you for making a good video about it
I saw the writing on the wall with this game a while ago, but every new big update seems to pull me back now and then, and I give it a fair shoot until I have enough. When I realized that i HATED dailies, i stopped doing them altogether. At least now you can get them by literally playing the actual game, that should have been a thing since day 1.
Now, I will mostly come back to Genshin to see if a new story features my Goddess Furina.
i only go to genshin for story other wise i only log in to get my 90 promogems and do my battle pass buty i spent like 20 mins then i move on i like the natlan update but i will wait till the story is complete before going to natlan, i dont like playing bit by bit meaning i have to wait till 5.1 for next chapter i just wait for all 5.0 to come out and play like i did with fontain
Very understandable. I played Genshin religiously from 1.0 to 1.6 and I quit when 2.0 released. I logged in to pull for Ayaka, got her and never opened the game again. I recently came back though during the 4.8 patch. It had been about 3 years since I last played and I wanted to see how the game has changed. I also played WuWa on its release and was wondering how the gacha game space had evolved. And while I do enjoy WuWa, Genshin was closer to my heart so I decided to drop WuWa and try Genshin again (don't have enough time for both)
I realise why I kept playing Genshin in the first place. I loved the world, characters and the stories involving them. They were just sooo magical and getting to experience them again recently brought back some good memories. I initially stopped due to burn out and constantly having the thought that I _have_ to play. But going so long without playing, I was able to reflect on myself and how I wanted to play the game. It also helped that I never spent a dime back then (I finally swiped recently tho teehee)
Now that I'm basically playing catch-up, I don't feel as if I have to follow the latest crowd anymore. I'm 3 years behind, it would be insane for me to try and match people who have been consistently playing. I'm playing the game at my own pace and when I want to, I don't even play everyday now! I am able to ignore the FOMO because I'm already so behind, what good is there for me to try and keep up lmao. I'm just here to experience the world and story again, I fricking love it man. The characters and music are so nostlagic to me. Especially Mondstadt, Liyue and the first Golden Apple Archipelago. I kept listening to these region's music for the past 3 years even without playing, because they're just so good
Anyway, I suppose it was lucky that I started playing again around the time of a "revival" patch. I have no idea how the game went down for the past 3 years but the community seems to be treating 5.0 like it's some kind of 2nd coming of Genshin lmao. Those poor guys probably been starved of compensation for the past 3 years. Doesn't really affect me, but hopefully this means good things will continue to come!
Omg! This is almost exactly what happened to me?! I half thought about coming back around 2.0, but by then my iPad could no longer open the game haha. Came back in 4.8 once I had a laptop capable of games. Playing catch-up at my own speed has been nice. And so many world quests! I get a good laugh whenever “the meta” for character building comes up, as I’m pretty sure my account would have given a hefty portion of the community nightmares… (still might haha)
I’ve always loved the stories and lore, so it’s been fun revisiting that.
Its only opinions at last...i think that i'll stick to the game like before...going for the story an a bit of farming when i have to wait for new archon quests i leave it there...still my acc has good 5 stars and decently builded enough for me
Totally agree with all you said. For me is not that the game itself is completely bad because I used to enjoy it a lot but the way Hoyoverse decided to just deny their player base until they had to do something because of many reasons but mostly because of competitors. They really had to make the player base wait 4 years.
me too, for me when i read that "in 5.0 genshin will focused on story" thats an exit door for me, like were the focusing on anything before? so yeah i quit play genshin for good after arlechino update(i play from 1.0) and even after i saw the upcoming update news, i wont comeback because it would just pain doing all over again, the music is indeed very good so then i would just listen it on their chanel, and if i want to know the story i would just look on youtube so i can enjoy it without any incentive to pull the "newest character" that later made me asked myself "why would i pull and build this character?" again when i fully built it
so yeah i personally wont comeback, its not worth it, im not play genshin just to listen to good music and read/watch story and just jumping/running around in the empty world, i played it because its open-world action game, good music and story just a bonus not the main thing
my experience with drop genshin is different, i got hacked and i lost 3 games account, after that i manage to recover 2 others games but i couldn't recover genshin account due to the complex ... i provided 90% of information that prove im the owner but they refuse to belive.
i still love genshin but unfortunately was created by devs don't care about their game more than care about money, not to mention the game surrounded by community 75% of them are psychopath and Toxic people, and some youtubers Exploit those things to make drama to get more views ... i played many games and i never seen game surrounded by "EVIL AURA" like this.
imagine genshin was created by kuro where they give all love to the game and their community ... the game will be the best game in the history.
The accounts problem is upsetting, so sorry that you have experienced that. Yep, genshin toxic community is a thing that repels people from playing it. Genshin had a potential to be a better game, but developers attitude sent it into the drain
Yeah me too, one of many reasons i leave genshin was i lost respect for the devs too, so i decided to "just do what you want devs, im out of this"
you know what so funny about my account problem that i forgot to mention ... after one year the hacker didn't connect to the account so far nor even sell it to someone else. i dont feel sorry about the time and some money that i spent to invest to that account but i feel sorry for those devs they dont care and they did their job as it should.
im not the only case ... many people lost account and they didn't able to recover it.
I may wind up dropping Genshin because I spend more time watching, reading, and listening to the game than actually playing it. Seriously... Ever since Inazume, the dialogue in this game has become so unbelievably, long winded and uninteresting.
Yeah, if not for the competition they would not change. Mihomo is giving negative edge vibes! Goober cancel that company!
yeah the grinding gets very tiring and boring
around/after inazuma it gets tiring to explore the region instead of being actually fun not gonna lie
hyperbloom was never meta , its just the best option for bang for the buck (most cost efficient)
and it doesnt exactly compare to the best dps's unless you invest a lot into it
The 5.0 dev live stream was kinda the final nail in the coffin for me. Yeah they added a lot and are giving us a lot of free stuff, But only AFTER the fact that they got a good competitor. Great vid Ani 🔥🔥🔥
Totally agree. The whole 5.0 livestream I felt uncomfortable. Like, I know that they are lying
I dont think there was enough competition to threaten the game, but i understand how it could look very scummy. But hey at least we got something good out of this. Unfortunately they are just a company, they have to make the most amount of money possible. I really hope they did these QoL updates because they care about their community and want to change
@@feederico1011 knowing them and the fact that they haven't done anything for 4 years I doubt it's cuz they care
@@awdsmj its probably because the stingy director of the genshin team isn't working on genshin anymore. He's working on a project in America now so i think thats definitely the main reason why genshin is finally getting the hi3, hsr treatment.
@@SouyakunchansamaI'm going to need more than a single update to see that.
I am only staying to see story to end. Once its done, i am gone for good.
I don't get it. I know lots of problem in Genshin but I feel like I'm watching a review of someone who has no self control and is encline to bad decision seasily and blame it mostly on the game...
In case you're wondering, yes she's a Wuwa player.
GACHA GAMES ARE BAD AND CAN BE FINANCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY DRAINING
btw, I love wuwa tehe
this chick, smh
that explains everything. lol
I saw how the artifacts equivalent for Wuwa work and i think they did not learn their lesson on Genshin tho.
Exaggerated randomness never works.
what is the problem with that ?
Sponsored? Because if you know what's connected to wuwa then you know what's going on here
Playing Genshin as a new player, whenever I have to deal with some annoying things in the game, I often think to myself 'People put up with this?'
genshin does something good for once and people are mad is so stupid holy
Wait, so genshin had been bad then?
@@datupabuCH not bad but really not great with QOL updates that the community wanted
@@pineablesoda yeah if we don't praise them for doing something good and sending them criticism when they fuck up, i'm quite sure they wont bother trying to make more QOL updates, because it wont matter, dev's make great changes for the game and "players" start hating because the changes are "late" ? if the change is good and for the better them is not a bad thing, stop trying to find things to hate on genshin when they are actively listening to feedback, and for the people saying "only because of wuwa", IT DOES NOT MATTER IF IT WAS WUWA, COMPETITION makes things EVOLVE and GROW and THAT IS GOOD
I'm sorry, but, the "good" is a tad bit too late tho. its good for new players, yes; but for veterans and day 1 players, this ain't it.
@@datupabuCH what changes would you want? loadouts, more resin/condensed resin cap raised, new endgame content? yeah that would be great and i really think they will add more QOL/end game updates in the future people are just too quick at hating them for changing things slower than HSR
I installed Genshin because I was so curious why the local comicon had so many Genshin cosplayers. I wanted to understand why everyone came out of the lockdown playing one of these gambling games. Made my account in 3.2 (partly thanks to targeted ads lol; installing the game during the Nahida banner was no coincidence especially when idk who she was), experienced the story, lore, fashion, culture, and the world of Teyvat got me hooked. I got why this game took off. However, all the unresolved problems the players voiced for so many patches chipped away at my goodwill until the misrepresentation in Natlan made me stop playing altogether.
In the live service gaming space, respect goes a long way. Witnessing WuWa listening to their players (sometimes to their detriment) was something I haven't seen since I played Warframe. FOMO is a permanent fixture in these games but the sting of it becomes bearable when the devs and their players communicate to create the best experience for both parties
I've not change my stance on Genshin since the 5.0 update. If anything, it shows me that they respect their competition, not their player base
Agree, communication is a key to better understanding. I think I just tired from not being heard.
I have tried to not mention wuwa in the video at all, but its appearance definitely made genshin devs do some actions, and this is a good thing in my op
Don't play a game (gacha game) when you don't have any self control, it only ruins your favourabilty towards it. And its for every gacha game out there.
Man...the old model
i will not drop a game just because of someone's reasoning. i have my own. guess what, i dropped wuwa after playing zzz. wuwa didn't offer something big & new. it's just another genshin by kuro. im still playing genshin at least once a week. I'm still attached to the even with burnout. i don't ride with all these dramas from toxic ccs.
Im ok with hoyo ignoring western players, they have been doing a very good job gate keeping the game from turning into another aaa generic trash like overwatch, cod, valorant, etc.
Im not a gamer myself but genshin is like the only game i really enjoy the way it is, my only complaint is that they should add autoplay for domains.
Quit Genshin after 4.6 dont get me wrong I like the game but it got boring doing the same exploration and I like the teams and artifact but abyss was to easy and also I dont like Resin I hope a cheat version of this game will exist.
I thought I was the only one that ever felt like this about the whole entire game but in all honesty I just feel like the game today is just not even worth playing even with all the new stuff that's coming up it's just not worth it like I'm only pumped up for one character that I'm saving for by literally not even doing anything but logging in and getting certain things done and that's about it
candace isnt boring , u prob got the wrong idea abt her
she is basically a better option than yunjin for some dps's like for example ayato
+ she has a hydro infusion to any1 on field
I dropped Genshin for a few months but I recently came back and just dropped my world level so I could have fun getting through story
They dropped great QOL updates and 5.0 is about to be the biggest one lmao
So TLDR: nah don’t think I will lil bro 😃
needing every character to play
comfort picks where some characters are slightly better than others in doing something
pulling for characters you don't even like playing with
faulting the game for one's own introverted personality that's new
these are excuses(honestly the dumbest reasons and most common ones to boot), you don't NEED, sure wanting is one thing but the world doesn't work like that, if you have the means you can get what you want if you don't then get the means to do so
it's a capitalistic world baby
the fact that the game exist/sustained is because of capitalism and the reason it's good is because of the creativity and passion mihoyo has
calling the game bad would be a per individual case "bad for me" as to say
it's understandable not everyone can control their urges and that's something some people are born with
in the DNA you can find strands that influence the likelihood for addiction and if that's the case for you it's a good thing to not play any gacha games
same as not touching cigarettes even once because the big bad nicotine will get you hooked
also genshin becoming a part of your life and a daily routine is a okay you can choose whatever you want to spend your time on
from a nihilistic perspective no matter what you do it will be a waste of time even if you save people from death which would count as gaining more time thus is the only true value of your time(since nothing is more precious than time objectively) eventually those people would waste their time which concludes in a net lose either way
in the end of the day do whatever makes you happy(murder/torture/abuse/extortion and everything along those lines don't do em even if they make you happy but me saying that won't help will it, you need to instill fear and morals into people so they won't do it not because logic dictates you not do something like that)
genshin is NOT a co-op game heck even MMOs are not co-op oriented anymore(just because you can doesn't mean you should/will)
so it's understandable why you wouldn't enjoy the game if the reason you've started playing it was because of your friends
all in all it's a logical conclusion to quit the game with the reasons you've stated but here's the thing with humans
if you approach the game from a different perspective, for a different reason you might enjoy it on your own terms
so if you ever feel a nostlagic kick give it a try but do make sure to change your reason for playing the game besides it being nostalgia
because a game this passionately polished doesn't come often(maybe a few a year from the thousands that swamp the market)
sure it's predatory even if you compare to other gachas or even live service games heck even normal one time purchase games with DLCs
it's still more predatory but unlike most gacha games they maintain something that is not seen and that's powercreep
other gacha games force you to pull for newer characters.
just because someone paid for your meal does not entitle you for demands, i am sorry but this game is built on whales not on you the welking spender(i am too a welking spender beats buying 1 meal outside that would satisfy me for 1 meal) sure the whales need the the minnows and planktons which creates an eco system.
it's an open market so it will always be like this, the 1# spot doesn't need to improve until its position is jeopardized
just look at any monopoly in the real world, that's how things work but unlike monopolies in the real world it's harder to put pressure on small businesses which monopolies do all so well
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i'm not dropping genshin lol
you spent money to cope with your depression with the game i punched so many trees i burned out and left the game for a year and a half than later left it again for another half year. ive only spent about 70$ from launch to today while some people on launch i know spent over 1k to get C6 chichi just to leave immediately. hoyoverse i to don’t trust those bastards to some who enjoy the story and hangouts for me its a unskippable yap fest that i click through wishing the skip button was real. fountain detective story was so long i had go to bed leave one eye open until auto play stop just to click and go back to bed. the thing i enjoyed the most about genshin was the food delivery were i made it half way to a mountain just to step on a stupid puddle saying “food is wet restart” who da faq orders food at the peak of a mountain GOD i WISH that infuriating NPC ended himself this ain’t no damn jimmy johns.
Why I drop wuthering waves and you should probably too.
Pgr better
Genshin is famous for giving the things that players don't want.... 😅😅
Sorry, this comment sent me, LMAO.
sounds like a you issue not the game issue
Oh my goodness oh huh interesting how wonderful
i wouldnt say characters skin colors are a problem , afterall the nations were only INSPIRED by the cultures , not based on them or supposed to be 100% like them
crazy idea just don't spend money 🤯
I saved up for 5 months for chlorinde.
88 pity i got her.
Rolled again. 80 pity later i got a copy of Jean.
Went for her weapon. 89 pity later i got some kinda green aerodynamic looking sword.
I wanted to build her. All the dungeons to get the right artifacts were closed off untill 2 days later.
That's how i quit. Just like that.
Tourists finally got filtered out.
there's something that needs to be acknowledged about this game. Under the video concert of the new OST I commented that it is absurd that almost all people in that video are black because of the african and native american background of natlan yet not one single character is black, and this can only mean whitewashing. You wouldn't imagine the amount of racist chinese people that tried to gaslight me and insult me under that comment. I'm pretty sure most of them are paid by the game and some of them even sounded like bots.
they're all fake and a facade, and it's even more absurd that this is one of the main topics of their very own game lol
@@simonironson8518 there are tons of black characters in the game lmao what the fk are u talking about
@@foxtaunt are u joking? the skintones in game are not darker than a one day tan in the beach, and even if you wanted to consider them they are 5-6 on 90 characters in total that are paper white. are those genshin bots following me here too?
@@simonironson8518 the playable characters are light skinned, the npcs are much darker
@@foxtaunt giving the message that black people are always secondary and never main characters, not even in a region heavily based on their own culture, language and music. I would really feel like the quote "we like your culture, your clothes, your language, everything... except you"
genshin is garbage...thas all..not the game but the one who made the game so yeah...
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