I want to add to the 1.6 to 2.0 talk Yeah i ended up pulling on all 3 banners and i had the insane luck of losing only 2 50/50 (one on mei and one on swan) My premium roster of characters is currently perfected so i now dont need to pull on ANYTHING. So now im awaiting for something insane for the game to force my hand to pull. First team is a Kafka swan mei luocha, while second is Selee/Free Ratio Bronya Xuan Tingyun. Ive cleared MoC 12 with little issue. So if you have such a team you can yourself just chill and pull now only for funsies or just stock up for a character you love (i know i did love Kafka cause she is mysterious like Makima, and demon bs too)

Im certain HSR will give a free 5 star for anniversary. Why? You said yourself they are competing against other turn based autobattler gacha games. Ratio showed expectation that they are willing to release a free 5 star character that is good. If a great anniversary is the standard for old time gacha players, they likely have played other turn base gacha games. Meaning yes. They have to release another 5 start. Also, Beta HSR leaked a special item that was essentially the 5 star version of HSR 4 star selector. So yes. It's there.

Amazing read. Thanks.

thanks for that aswell :3

@@arnowisp6244 Its not just that, Star Rail project and genshin is lead by different people, cai haoyu for genshin and david jiang on honkai, jiang is known to be very generous, Hi3 for instance gave away free meta 5 star units every so often ever since jiang take over from cai haoyu, who while he is in charge of Hi3, got the same complaints as the genshin players had right now

Thanks, I put a lot of thought into it!

omg hi dave

Rivalry between same people lmao

Thanks! I try my best!

RIGHT? i dunno what tricks like mihoyo mental conditioning to their players, but holy damn that's the same impression i got listening to him, this is come high quality shit comming from someone with this little subs i thought this guys could be more than 400K subs at least but damn this is soooo concise and like, entertaining too, and not too much random yapping and structured and again entertaining but to the point like what the hell did this guy come from!? thank you for your graceful descent ALittleSIMPle.

@@nyuuh REAL SHIT

​@@nyuuh fr fr

wait were they actually at less than 200 a few days ago cuz if so this vid really hit the algorithm

Thanks! Though, I admittedly spent a lot of time thinking about how I wanted to structure this video, so I wouldn't say common sense came quickly to me xd

@@ALittleSIMPle trust me, some folks who jump on the “Genshin is giving nothing” bandwagon exercise minimal thinking because they fall for the “more pulls free five star better anniversary” sales pitch. And when you tell them that HSR needs a bigger roster and incentivise you to pull more as opposed to Genshin, they will come up with “but F2P four star dps can do the same” while also failing to mention those people probably hard reset in HSR and do those things with five star light cones

@@ALittleSIMPle at least you took some time to think before you made this video, which a lot of people don't do.

frr

Thanks!

my only disappointment is that there are too many people that just dont care for being treated like shit. I pray eithere Wuwa release, or HSR does something insane like another free 5star to really rile up genshin fans (and i am a genshin player i just want more gameplay...)

​@@Ggigothydra Yeah. White knights are a Big Problem. Literally calling it entitled to expect a Company to give free Gifts on Anniversary despite the fact most gacha games rarely reach their anniversary

Well it cant be helped since most ppl dont even read in game so dont have the brain to think properly

@@Ggigothydra i don't think that star rail releasing another free 5 star will really do anything, because tbh players that actually like genshin myself will keep playing even if we're in an abusive relationship with hoyoverse--we hate it enough to complain about it but not enough to stop playing lol really the only thing that would make hoyoverse be more generous to genshin players is competition (please wuthering waves be good); but it's really hard to compete with genshin simply based on its role in the whole open-world gacha genre, since it'd be hard for developers to compete against a behemoth like hoyoverse and its decades of experience

coming from botw player, mood

me who was a certain gacha game player: "Wait you guys have pity?!??!"

What game was it? ​@@hlonghi

@@SmashTheAdamprob FGO 😭 truly one of the pity systems of all time

If you've played any live service games before and experienced their anniversaries, one would certainly feel pretty bad about what we got

ABOBA

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Thank you! You're probably right, I can certainly see why some features are intentionally withheld, but I do try to lean on the optimistic side of things. Probably not something I should keep making a habit of xd

To be really fair, I've been hearing from the start that Genshin, being worked on the time Hoyo was just a startup, without having even a 100 of employees, did not had the best clean code and documentation practices, so the technical limitations actually really seem pretty plausible. The game getting the company as big as it is now while making it having a lot of new devs isnt that easy to change the bad practices from before without breaking the game.

@@joaomoreno307 Genshin is not hoyo's first game, not even 5th.. 1) legend of saha 2) fly me 2 the moon 3) Zombiegal kawaii 4) Houkai Gakuen 2 / Gun Girls Z 5) Honkai Impact 3rd 6) Tears of Themis 7) Genshin impact 8) HSR 9) ZZZ the most likely reason GI isnt getting QoL is because the development focus is always NEXT game, not current first HSR, and now ZZZ So less, about MHY not being able to QoL genshin, but rather the extra devs needed to be allocated to GI to work on QoL, since the core GI team needs to never stop working on characters and the needed amount of new/fresh content/areas to keep players there and spending on characters; will not be allocated/reallocated to GI because of current project: ZZZ; and of their games since GI has no competition, unlike the others even less fiscal reason to temporarily reallocate for QoL

It's always a funny thing to me when I reflect back on it. I remember asking my mother why I couldn't do something and she'd always say "trust me, mommy knows best." She was always right.

@@ALittleSIMPle 16 and know my parents would never allow me to spend on any game, so I don't even bother asking as it would just end up troublesome. I always thought that when I get my own job I'd set aside a tiny budget for Genshin just because I enjoy the game so much, but even though I don't think about it at those times, I'm sure things my parents would urge me to listen to would come back and let me know that they were right. In a way it sucks, but it sucks more that being young makes you ignore them anyway lol 🥲. Btw loved your vid, surprisingly super high quality. It got me to sub!

Being told life lessons on patience and strategy by gambling sim in a video game is crazy. But same, I did spend some money and my parents never straight up not allow me to do it, they just gave me very little so I had to be smart about it... So I spent it all on getting 10 welkins in a row for the next year

@@ALittleSIMPle for me that is the WORST answer i can be given "i am the adult listen" "i am the parrent trust me" "i am God and i sied OBEY" i WILL rebell! but if tell me WHY i will ofton be oh thank you! thank you for protection and i will OBEY, but pull the "becuase i sied so" card and i WILL rebell!

@@NightmareRex6 Oh, I agree, I also love knowing why. I feel like there's no reason to withold the logic behind a decision since it teaches your kid to watch out for similar things in the future. But she was still always right xd

That's true! I'm kicking myself for forgetting to mention that...

By the same logic, Genshin should give Free Tighnari when Sumeru released....but eh.

Except that we have free Yukong. You would know about this if you were playing HSR And yes, as another person correctly noted in the comments - where is free Tighnari?

Then where was the free tighnari

@@broccoli5176 I believe the point was Imaginary units are sparse, not non-existent. There is likely no free Tighnari for the same reason Genshin wouldn't give us any other free 5* unit. We're stuck with our (cope) free Collei, instead. It seems the point of the comparison was lost, the idea behind whether Genshin could or couldn't give out a free 5* unit isn't related to Star Rail (just because Star Rail gave out a free unit doesn't mean Genshin would, too). I used Star Rail to emphasize their differences in both game mechanics and pull economy in an effort to provide a reason as to why we don't receive the same things. I like to believe that decisions are made with some kind of reasoning behind them and sometimes speculating is fun. And just to be extra-clear, I don't agree with MiHoYo. I may have provided reasons as to why I think things are the way they are, but I don't have to be happy about it.

Not gonna lie, I'm not entirely sure what you just said, but hell yeah.

@@ALittleSIMPle I don't know what I'm saying either 🔥🔥🔥

Split shit indeed 🗿

Genshit simpact indeed brother

But always remember, “WE ARE THE IMPACT” - Zyox

Your comment has humbled me. League and Dota do make a lot of sense, I think I was just hyper-focused on the open world & exploration aspects that I didn't even think of it at the time. Having also played League for a few years, I never made the Sunfire connection, either. At least I knew about Morgana, though. Thanks for your comment, my mind has been expanded!

@@ALittleSIMPle Yea, I dabbled into Paladins for the same hero motif of character style gameplay (paladins over overwatch cuz free and fantasy > scifi) and got used to noticing "borrowed concepts" between devs across a few games, since a few friends played Smite for another angle. And there's a few Pokemon Unite kits I'd love as League champs (namely Gardevoir, but Aurelion Sol seems to have adopted Charizard). So I actively grew interested in open world Zelda but with (real enemy variety, music, no rain slipping and) MM transformations as League champs that fills in my heart's hole for a "'competently written' RWBY anime".

uhm, I'm pretty sure Morgana is meant to be Mona + Ganyu + Diona = Mogana

​@@YumiSumireit is but the name came from a char outside the game which is why venti isn't in the name despite being the core member of morgana

You have my favorite comment so far.

Honestly, I'd be happy with a Keqing or Dehya Constellation xd

Bruh i hope that come one day my c1 diluc need it

Free 5 star but it's Qiqi

Thanks, I'm glad you found it entertaining!

Numbers talk, and HoYo has access to them!

@@ALittleSIMPle Indeed. If you want to send a message then delete your account stop having a toxic relationship with a company and stop extending your toxicity to those that are at peace. If those who bark will delete their accounts the Hoyo will feel that and if they care enough, they will have to improve each of their products to prevent their current and future player base from leaving.

​@@Kiwi-AragaYou say that like the attachment people have gotten to the unique aspects of the game, their investment, and the addiction psychology applied in the game's design are just non-factors. Quitting is literally hard. Rationality alone doesn't override that. And to invalidate that is nothing more than being obnoxious in return.

The Genshin story and lore are pretty interesting, it's good that we can get them from KZfaq videos and stuff. But I definitely agree with you, some things can be really exhausting...

I thought I was gonna miss out after I quit after 2.0, coming back a little during Baizhu's release it reminded me I am missing out on nothing. The character and lore is what I am interested in most, so lore-tubers are carrying my interest in Genshin Impact.

Most of my genshin interest is fueled through Ashikai’s lore vid

What exactly make you want to spend money? The Abyss? The Trailers? In most Gacha it's the pressure to keep up or the allure of new characters constantly bombarding you Also.. Hoe long did you play Genshin? Because for most saying I played a game for 2 to 3 years and then got bored seems ...fine I like Elden Ring I couldn't stomach playing it for thousands of hours

Its fear of missing out. That's why even people who cleared every content of Genshin. Still whaling on new characters​@@demonking-zm3rs

I'm looking forward to trying it! I didn't get into the beta, unfortunately...

You'll get bored of that too. Stop looking for endgame in gacha games you doofus, play a regular VIDEO GAME not a gambling simulator

@@ALittleSIMPleOof, same here. It looks really fun tho.

Sorry about the audio, I'll have it fixed for next time! Glad you're enjoying both games, and thanks for the comment!

I actually hope they will feel at least a little ratioed when they won't get what they wanted 😈 too much "honor" for them

Thanks! I wish I was as smart as you're giving me credit for, I had to think on this for a long time xd

I think VARS II is doing similar.. thats why im subbing on this cuz its good.. l

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Arlecchino got me down bad. I wish you luck in your endeavors! I think if we're just having a good time, it's best not to let others ruin it for us xd

Thanks! I try my best!

Thanks!

i agree with everything else tho, im just bothered when ppl think hsr can't also be completed with 4* characters and free LCs. not in a 🤬angry way but it gives me an opportunity to be nerdy lmao

all in all i think hsr vs genshin is a great example of how important competition is. bc genshin is the only popular game of its kind they have room to be lazy and hardly listen to players, while HSR has both competition and its older sister to live up to, therefore much more catering to players and giving out more rewards

Oh my God, that's so true The video is well made

Thanks! I put a lot of thought into it! Though, admittedly, possibly not enough xd

I tried my best, thanks!

Thanks! I put a lot of thought into this video, glad you liked it!

Thanks, I hope you enjoy them!

Thanks! I put a lot of thought into it!

I agree, it can get tiring. It's much easier to enjoy both games when you knock out some of the external sources of noise xd

@@ALittleSIMPle yeah, the games certainly has flaws but people can overreact and stray too far from the actual problems haha

Thanks, glad you're enjoying them!

I will happily take a free Dehya. My simp brain outweighs my meta brain.

Give me one free Dehya, please. I've been staring at Diluc's ass for three years now.

Thanks, I put a lot of thought into it!

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

Hmm, I'm not so sure. I can do it on both of my accounts, and on my friends' accounts, all of varying Constellations. I also never said you couldn't do it in HSR, but HSR will require more investment across all of your units. Let's say you run a National team in Genshin and your Bennett isn't particularly well-geared, he only only stays on the field for about two seconds. Outside of his field time, he's in no danger. In Star Rail, all units have a chance of being attacked (unless you taunt with Fire TB, but there are still enemy AoE attacks or the chance your taunt fails), it's not like you can just dodge. Some higher level content with faster enemies can sometimes dogpile one unit if you're particularly unlucky. Sure, you can gamble with RNG and be successful, but I've played both Genshin and Star Rail since their launch, and I've had an easier time pushing Spiral Abyss early in Genshin's lifecycle compared to Star Rail's Memory of Chaos. That being said, I've felt more of an impact on my account's power level when pulling in Star Rail compared to pulling in Genshin. The point of the argument was to say that Star Rail has different modes of endgame combat that play to the strengths of different units, so a player can feel significant benefits from a more diverse roster. This is not to say this is better or worse than Genshin's system, the point of the video was never to call one better than the other. They're just different, and it's important that the pull economy is adjusted for this.

Thanks! I appreciate it!

Thanks! No worries if it's not up your alley, it certainly isn't for everyone. If Star Rail is your thing, I'm afraid those videos will likely be a little less frequent, but I do plan to cover some topics from time to time!

Some people just like the feeling of superiority, I guess xd I hope Wuthering Waves comes out swinging.

They certainly could have! But Dr. Ratio builds more hype!

Thanks! I try my best!

Thanks, I promise to try!

My teachers always told me math would be important.

i mean, in the end, the more roll, more dopamine, and genshin could at least give more wishes on the standard banner, and that wouldnt break the economy

I mean, just because there are more powercreep doesn't mean the older character instantly obsolete tho. Same like genshin, literally fontaine character are more powerful but will you say the older character become obsolete? No right?. And honestly if anything SR, have better balancing than Genshin, so older character in SR is more viable than in genshin. Second, most of the time in HSR, even they release 2 new characters every patch, you can't go wrong with both of them anyway, so there's no "ugh i want to pull this character but he/she sucks" sentiment.

​@@pon9035 Fontaine characters are powerful but don't feel exactly the same as any of their older counterparts. Lyney and Klee work best in mono Pyro but one is a bow user the other is a catalyst user; Wriothesley and Ganyu both have Melt teams but one punches and the other aims charged shots. Neuvillette and Navia add refreshing playstyles while Furina literally revived team wide healers, including Qiqi. Can't say the same about Yanqing HSR has been releasing new characters without adding new gameplays or elements which results in blatant powercreeping (Sparkle > Bronya). Have you seen Acheron kit? And because it's AFK/turn-based there's nothing players can do to manually spice things up. Worrying less about powercreeping allows you to not feel obligated to pull for everyone to keep up with meta. Once you get 2 solid teams (8-10 characters) to clear Abyss you can pull for who you like. Some units even future proof your account like Nahida, Yelan, Kazuha, Furina, and the holy trinity of 1.0 broken 4 star Bennet-Xingqiu-Xiangling.

@@pon9035 The powercreep in Genshin isn't as steep at all, to this day even the weakest older characters have a use either due to their weapon, on-field or off-field, role, element, application, energy or mechanics outside of damage. Fontaine characters don't overlap with any of the older characters nor do they push the damage limit other than Neuvillette, but it's only by a single-digit percent in 3 years, compared to Star Rail's 8 months yet the newest damage dealers push the damage cap by double-digit percent better damage numbers and even the tanks(Fu Xuan) and supports(Ruan Mei/Sparkle). Star Rail's only mechanics outside of roles, buffs and debuffs are shield elements, but those are increasing every patch and so are the HP pools of enemies whilst new characters also have an ever increasing damage cap, more shield-breaking and overlap with other characters in what they do resulting in clearly better choices which if it keeps going will make older characters obsolete that can't even clear the hardest content at maximum investment. You can see it in 4* challenges, people still find ways to clear 36* Abyss in Genshin with 4* characters even without 5* weapons or Constellations, yet in Star Rail to even have a chance at it you micro-optimize for specific chances with E6 4* to even work which wasn't the case at release, the game is out for 8 months and powercreep is already felt, Genshin is 3+ years and powercreep is barely felt.

Thanks, I'm glad you think so! Hope you enjoy your stay!

Aw, thanks! I appreciate it!

I'm glad you're enjoying it! It's a well-made game! I agree, Bronya is hot.

You make a good point! Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Another person commented that League and Dota make a lot of sense since all of those games follow a character release schedule and it's important to see how players react to different kinds of units from different styles of games. I'm kicking myself for missing these points, I think I was too focused on the open-world aspects of the gameplay. Thanks for the comment!

nah its full of bugs and glitch, translation error, doxxing JP player, story is shit, music is boring, combat ....its just hi3/PGR/TOF in open world.

actually, in HSR you can brute force any enemy with any unit so long as you have the sustains to not die. There are no hard immunities unlike genshin, where if you bring a hydro catalyst against a hydro slime or hydro abyss mage or other hydro immune enemy, you're not killing it no matter what. That said, Dr Ratio is a cracked unit and holy man am I happy I got given him for free. Completely decimates anything and doesn't even have the major downside most hunts have of being strictly single target, since he can dual target quite well.

Thanks!

My opinion of Tower of Fantasy may be a little skewed at this point, I haven't played it in a while. I tried it on launch and played for a couple of months. I couldn't stick with it. I had a lot of problems with lag early on, but I forgave that since it was new and they probably didn't expect the load they got. Some of the combat mechanics were pretty annoying when it came to multiplayer content. Some enemies had skills that you couldn't dodge, but there was a mechanic where a perfect dodge would freeze the enemy and give you a DPS window. It was really cool, but poorly implemented, as this could only be activated if you dodged perfectly and you were the target of the attack. This meant that if a boss was targeting one person with an attack that could cleave 100 people, all 100 people would take the hit, even if they dodged correctly but the one target did not. The exploration was good, but some of the daily loop elements had layers of RNG I didn't like, even before the loot drops. There were these things called Gates, similar to Genshin's leylines, but their drop rates varied based on their rarity. It was like if you went to grab a leyline and sometimes it would give you 20k Mora, sometimes it would give you 5k (I don't remember the values, numbers are just for example). So if you didn't get a good rarity, your resource income suffered. The good news was you could link your Gate in chat and share your high rarity Gate with others. What sucked about it was they were pretty hard to come by and parties filled up quickly. I'd often wait around for an hour just to burn some stamina. I had a lot more issues with it, but this comment's getting a little lengthy and I don't want to bore you xd And again, a lot may have changed by now, so maybe things are a lot better. I haven't been keeping up with the news, so I'm a little out of the loop. I think most people don't treat it as competition because its player base seems to have dropped substantially since its launch. Usually when a game gets a reboot so early in its lifecycle, it tends to be bad news. A game shouldn't need a reboot if it's already doing well.

There was a way heavier (fairly compulsory) multiplayer component, which not everybody was into, and the story was meh. It felt more like an MMO than an open--world story game, so it didn't really fill the same niche. The power creep was more intense than Genshin's as well, which I think turned a fair few people off. As for WuWa I'm sure it will find success among those Genshin players that want more (or more difficult) end-game content, but the difficulty may end up alienating Genshin's more casual core fanbase and preventing them from migrating. The quality of its story and lore will determine whether it can entice those people to try it out and stay despite the more difficult combat. Genshin is so hard to kill because it appeals to a wide variety of players, and I'm not sure that WuWa is also going to be able to do that. (Or that it's trying to - all of the people I've seen interested in it so far are hardcore combat lovers that have skipped most of the story in the beta.) And that's perfectly fine. One game can't be everything to everybody, and attempting to do that is why some portion of Genshin's fanbase is always complaining loudly about something. If WuWa steals the Genshin players asking for more endgame content but not the rest, that may end up being a boon for both games, since Genshin can solidify itself as catering to casuals (and morale will be up with a prominent crowd of vocal dissenters out of the community) and WuWa will have a solid playerbase to start with. Kind of a win/win for both communities; the worst blow is to Hoyoverse but I think they've crunched the numbers and decided that losing that portion of the playerbase would be less financially devastating than investing the resources to cater to them and possibly driving the casuals away by doing so. So...less 'killing' Genshin and more 'stabilizing' it, perhaps. But that's subjective analysis, and it's hard to know for sure what will happen in advance.

Don't feel bad, I'm not famous, either xd The games are easier to enjoy when people aren't screaming at each other.

@@ALittleSIMPle Personally, for me just enjoy what you like. Quit when you're tired. Comparing games or having arguments between games are just wasting your time. People don't have much time to play these games anyway because they have work to do or something else to do. I'm glad atleast someone like you noticed the problem and put a response to the internet. I'll just play whatever, because whatever makes me happy I'll play it! Hoyoverse games are free too so that's always in my mind when playing free games with such quality.

Honestly, just play the game and they'll come in. You get Primogems from a lot of things, they'll add up. Good luck on your Furina pulls!

@@ALittleSIMPle thank you!

I'm glad you're having fun! Keep on keeping on! And I agree, breaks are important, burn out feels awful.

Thanks for watching!

This is true. I assume Genshin still has a significant amount of new players coming in, which makes an automatic artifact equip system a sensible thing to add. It might not be what veteran players want, but I'm sure it's helpful for newer people that may be overwhelmed by all of Genshin's menus and mechanics.

Except that things like "artifact recommendations" are just bad for games like Genshin where 99% of the players are casual. Remember that all the "statistics" that are reflected to beginners are compiled based on the decisions of other players about what they should put on the character. It's just a meaningless mechanic that doesn't help in any way. People in the Genshin community like to look for excuses like, "oh, it's not added because those who need it are a minority". But shouldn't games listen to their entire audience? To do something only for one part of the audience, turning a blind eye to the other... something tells me that this leads to the leaving of another part of the audience. Who could stay, no?

@@broccoli5176 how is it exactly bad? Like it helps them not making stupid decisions, I don't see how that's bad. Also in a entertainment industry like gaming ,most of the time you shouldn't hear all of your audience ,. You can't appeal or satisfy everyone and it's more important to prioritize things most of your playerbase likes ,instead of a few . Otherwise you will stretch your self thin and no amount of money will save you .

@@broccoli5176 I agree that the artifact recommendations are not optimal, but in a game where 99% of the players are casual and using casual builds, it will likely work "well enough" for other casual people utilizing the same casual mechanics. People that don't know what they're doing will at least have a place to start. I don't believe it's realistic to appeal to an entire audience. You can't make everyone happy because some people just like or want different things. Even if you could hypothetically appeal to everyone, it still makes the most sense to prioritize the majority.

@@Dojafishwell the issue with stat fed systems in a game where 90% of players are casuals is that the menu can be fed bad information and by extension give new players bad information. So if you look at it that way it helps nobody.

Yeah, if you want to tell a company you're not happy with something, the best way to do it is quit! It's tough to keep everyone happy, but I do feel like I notice some of Genshin's playerbase seems to be particularly loud sometimes xd

"How can you keep them satisfied" you ask as if Hoyo have ever tried to appease complaints. The only time they did react to them was the Zhongli fiasco where they got spammed by the Chinese players with invoice requests, which they're legally obligated to provide, but realistically couldn't with what the sheer number of requests was, so they could've had the shit sued out of them. It took a figurative gun to their head for them to listen. And quitting isn't something you just do. People are invested, they're attached to the good things about the game, they crave more of what makes the game unique and they can't get from any other game, and there's straight up addiction psychology applied in the game's design. You don't simply logic your way out of that, that's not how humans function. People want this abusive relationship to drop just the abuse part, not also the relationship part. Yeah, the whining isn't helping, but your invalidation of people's frustration is a plain and simple insult. And your own advice goes for you too - just don't watch the whiny videos, don't read the complaints in comments sections and the reddit and Hoyolab posts. By responding with shit like this you yourself choose to participate in this drama you scoff at. Nothing is forcing you to see it, scroll past it. But some part of you doesn't want to, does it.

Thanks!

And Honkai 3rd is a character action game somewhere in between (though I think people bring up that it's become more "unga bunga big numbers" as of late, supposedly compared to Punishing Gray Raven especially, a game I still haven't tried yet but was interested in). HI3 Abyss is even more brutal than Genshin's, though IIRC the latter half of that game's main story lets you use rentals

It has its upsides, but it's definitely not for everyone! Glad you gave it a shot!

I'm happy for you! Unfortunately, I don't have the same level of restraint orz

@@ALittleSIMPle For me, it’s a matter of being bored of the same old gacha girl aesthetic that’s pumped out 70% of the time. The males are sort of unique ig, but honestly Sam is literally the only release out of both Genshin and HSR that I’ve been looking forward to. TLDR im just gonna go play Zenless Zone Zero when it releases because I can be a 3 ton bear there 😂

Thanks for looking into it! I wasn't totally certain of the numbers, but the source I used looked close enough to illustrate my point. I also didn't consider the standard pulls. They can certainly help a new player (or even sometimes an older one), but I think generally people are more concerned with pulling the limited units, which is why I didn't really go into it. I also didn't want the video to run too long, didn't wanna feel like I was wasting people's time xd Thanks for your feedback!

As far as I can recall, I've only played one game from that developer (admittedly for longer than I expected to), but this was many moons ago and I don't know how different it is now. I do plan to push out more discussion videos, but they're not likely to be in the same vein as this one, and will probably only be covering Star Rail or Genshin. Branching out into different games is going to be a significant time investment and my smooth brain can only juggle two things at once xd

I agree! A lot of my Wuthering Waves hype is built by what I hope it can do over Genshin, but I suppose I could be setting myself up for disappointment. Either way, having more options is always nice!

Aw, thanks, I appreciate it!

The CEO in charge of HSR knows how to pull in engagement while the other CEO knows how to pull in the big bucks

If you're talking about Cai, that's not true. He hasn't worked on genshin since 1.x lol really wish this narrative would stop

​@@justsomeguy727so who's the current Lead developer then?

Thanks for watching!

I've put down some money on Genshin, I also feel like the value I've gotten was definitely worth it. I think in terms of content pushes, Genshin's pretty spot-on with their formula.

Hi. How long have you been playing Genshin having spent only $10?

same here. i spent 10$ for two months of the moon blessing, been playing for some time, and i don't feel the need to pull. there are banners i am waiting for (hence the 10$ moons) but it's not a big deal and the experience is overall positive. the game is predatory and uses a lot of tricks to make players pay though, so the criticism in this regard is justified, but the game content itself is totally enjoyable even as a f2p, and especially so if you're more of a casual player like me

@@Alderberanirgal2 years

It seems manipulative, but honestly, it's smart business-practice. As a company, they want to make money. If someone's gonna quit their game, they're not making any more money from that person, so the next best thing is to funnel your quitting players into other games (also made by you.) Giving away freebies isn't necessarily something I would say is strictly bribing, either. Many gachas do it for a number of different reasons - it does a lot for business, but it could also be a genuine expression of good will. Not to say I know for certain which it is, or if it's both, I'm mostly speculating xd

Thanks!

I do think Genshin may be at a point where it's too big to fail (without some significant force), but at least with Wuthering Waves, we'll have more options!

@@ALittleSIMPle yeah wuthering wave have a lot of option but my problem is i dont feel anything to all Waifus design wise they're Generic good at best but not HOT like Genshin, Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, Girls Frontline 2 even Grand Blue fantasy Relink = Zeta and Narmaya have hotter design not even waifu game Snow break waifu is bit better or the same level of Generic waifu design of wuthering waves

Even if a Genshin content creator who is aware of the drama make a poll, the majority of their community will say that they won't quit Genshin. Can you believe it? Even people involved in the Genshin community, people who follow content creators and, by extension, the spiral of negativity that comes with them, don't want to quit Genshin. If they can't even take a stance, I think it's fair to assume that the average, casual Genshin players doesn't give a f about drama and negativity. Those crybabies are just a drop of water in an ocean

Thanks! Sorry to hear about your experience, though. Sometimes having an opinion is rough.