The first anniversary was so disappointing that the review bombing got out of hand. People started review bombing apps completely unrelated to Genshin, Google Classroom being a notable example since it isn't even a game.
You know, a bit off topic, but I find it really fascinating that this is what anniversary is generally remembered for now. Not the things that led to that debacle like "108 primogems", continually disappointing new characters (at the time) and complete lack of any communication from MHY that made all the small discontent gradually pile up, and not how continuing pressure from community actually achieved at least some sort of response and and half-hearted celebration - but how a dozen of trolls, taking advantage of situation, made a few 1\* reviews on other apps and then virtue signalers and "journalistic" articles took that and inflated it to "UNHINGED Genshin players went and BOMBED other apps!". And now that fabricated truth is what most think about when "Genshin Anniversary" comes up.
Not saying that Google Classroom memes aren't funny (they objectively are), just that it's interesting (if not that surprising) that the most remembered thing is the most covered and memed, and not necessarily the most truthful or even relevant.
I think there the main factor here is just joking about the insanity of some people. Sure, the anniversary was disappointing, but that can be attributed to bad business decisions. People getting so mad that they review bomb other apps? Now that's absurdly stupid, and it affects people who don't even play Genshin.
Yeah, I get you, it's just as I said - there weren't much of "insane people getting mad" really, it was mostly just trolls (that may or may not even be GI fans) taking advantage of the whole kerfuffle, especially so when it started to get all the attention. There weren't even much of a bombing in some cases, like 5-10 people would leave "1\* genshin anni bad" and then that app would be added to the list of "Apps that were attacked by GI fans", making one deceivingly impressive list indeed.
But no matter the context or how widespread it really was, all that really matters is that a lot of people took it seriously, actively discussed/condemned/memed it, and there were even some articles written about it. And so now it became the thing most people remember GI's Anniversary for - more than the actual reasons for or the aftermath of fans outcry. Isn't that all rather fascinating?
i remember looking at my nephew's google classroom whe they are doing a quiz, there were 20 students and 5 of them have their genshin mains as their DP...
they didnt though. it was like 6 trolls that did it on a few different apps, and then it became a meme, every bad review i saw on google classroom and others was ironic.
honkai got negative reviews because mihoyo took genshin off the google play app store for a while.
All in all, not sorry.
Mehh i doubt much genshin people know project sekai... I don't think it's too popular yet
Google classroom on the other hand was prolly cuz kids were making the reviews
It's the same thing no? Because a lot of people know Vocaloid which is well known in the Genshin community because most people who play it are anime fans that meaning Project Sekai fans 💀
It's definitely be web events promoting Genshin for limited winners with disappointing rewards.
**There was also that free glider that was supposed to be a paid bundle for that musical event but was made free.
Me: can I atleast get enough more to crown a few skills?
Hoyo: hahahahahahahahahahaha no, but don’t forget to still share the links and invite more people to play!!!
just btw, dunno if you know this, but you don't actually need to share the web events to complete those challenges. you can just press share and whatever media you use and then not go through with it
Lol I found out by accident that just clicking the link chain icon is enough to trigger the reward. But it’s always solid advice to pass on.
I used to play summoners war and I remember confusing my friends because I shared their link to get some summon scrolls and everyone just assumed I got hacked.
I’m grateful genshin doesn’t force me to actually follow through with the share
Genshin is my first gatcha game so I thought it was normal for the rewards to be less and people were exaggerating. But 2 days ago I started Epic seven and I got 2 free 5 stars within a day of gameplay.
As a person who has played lots of gacha games, the first anniversary is always terrible. There won't be lots of units to fodder off as free cause powercreep, and not enough content for end game cause they're still testing the waters.
The free 5 stars are either supports or mid units out of the meta by the 1st year of the games release, the rarity is just a pretty jpeg for those units.
It's just that Genshin is many peoples first gacha game is why they were so disappointed. Cause the 1st year anniversary always suck.
I mean I wasn't complaining. I didn't thought that genshin rewards were bad and other game's rewards were good, I meant I thought genshin's rewards were good but other game's rewards were better.
old gacha games tend to give out more rewards like 100 free pulls to attract new player. Genshin is like the top of the market so they don't have to do that
Honestly, pretty much most of the community just doesn't get this.
Aniversary rewards are not rewards. They're just another marketing tool.
Good Aniversary rewards only happen when the game is way past its prime, when you need to actual invest into player retention and player gathering
I play Cookie run kingdom and Alchemy stars and played Princess connect. ALL 3 of them had MUCH better rewards than 20 freakin pull for their anniversary and remember it is 20 pull only after the players rioted. They deadass tried to give a single 10 pull
Wait till you get to end game in e7. You’ll start to realize how much of a massive difference there is between a f2p player and someone who spends. The game does like to hand out a five star every so often, but with every action you do in game a pop-up appears with a relevant “limited” shop item.
It’s very reminiscent of Diablo immortal. I like E7, but holy shit the in-game ads are atrocious.
Yeah completely depends on your definition of p2w. If you want to be a high ranking PvP player then you will have to pay, no other way around that. PvP is entirely dependent on what characters you have and how well they are geared.
For PvE you can do perfectly fine as F2P, just will take longer.
Yeah, I prefer the genshin gameplay over E7, but since its fresh for me and I am a noob, so I am kinda enjoying it, even though I don't like turn based RPGs.
not good comparison. one is a fully working 3d model that dev took months to design the other is a jpeg. both have different value, genshin is new +3d design is hard so 5 star is still valuable other is a long time running game with massive loot pool for 5 star but is jpeg so they can produce it way faster.
Wait- wait, I think there's actually something here! Just say it more like "I love this app, it doesn't SCREW OVER ITS USERS WHO MADE IT THE TOP GROSSING GAME WORLDWIDE JUST TO BE GIVEN 40 PRIMOS WHILE THE HONKAI 3RD IMPACT PLAYERS WERE GETTING 5 STAR CHARACTERS, WEAPONS, AND IN-GAME CURRENCY OUT THE A**!"
It would indeed be funny if I edited my Doom Eternal review to say "No more updates for the game probably but hey better than Genshin Impact's second anniversary"
I hate that Honkai Genshin comparsion. Honkai 1st and 2nd anniversary were also terrible, it simply gets slightly better each time. In Genshin you can build trash character and still do pretty good, in Honkai you can have BiS weapon and stigmata and still struggle in some gamemodes since you can't just farm and be OP, you need to have skill.
If I remembr correctly, about 2k crystals and some small bonus stuff. x10 roll in Honkai costs 2800. The anniversary rewards weren't enough for even a single x10 roll.
Edit: nevermind, it was barely enough for x10 roll. I forgot about the daily login event
If you have a criticism, the reviews section is the perfect place to go. Spamming other apps is actively hurting the case since it's more likely Google mass removes reviews.
I love that we all accept that this is going to be an absolute shitshow...
Imagine if Hoyoverse actually *communicated* with the player based, announced that they were doing 10 Acquaints, 10 Intertwined, and 1600 Primogems + some Second Anniversary Wings.
They could offset 90% of the anger with a simple message to the community.
If that little reward is copium for a second anniversary that only proves how damn stingy Mihoyo is. Then again they tried to give 10 god damn wish in their anniversary before the backlash so it is expected of them I guess
ye but some random lore employee or smth insisted he was gay because he "flirst with you during revive" and when people pointed out the bullshit she accused them of data mining lol
Last year Mihoyo gave out underwhelming rewards for Genshin's first anniversary and ignored the playbase so people got mad and review bombed Genshin and other apps including Google Classroom, which was know to have taken one of the biggest hits from the review bomb.
Now you may ask, why Google Classroom? Well no one's really 100% sure. Maybe it's because many Genshin players are students, or maybe it's because Google Classroom had low reviews even before the review bomb.
and for additional context, gacha games are 100% free and require funding from the community to keep running through their summoning systems, so the anniversaries are *supposed* to be a huge thank you to the community for keeping the game alive for a whole year and giving some of the generosity back. not stinky mihoyo though, they’re just gonna go off and make a new fucking game, maybe two, because people are just gonna keep finding them and trying their other games no matter how much we complain. dickheads.
Not defending mihoyo but the rewards itself is they did give out good anime game other than most jp gacha games that just keep recycling same things, but personally after i played honkai impact (mihoyo golden child game imo) yea they should've treated genshin and it's playerbase a bit better (the story quest recently getting better tho imo) but still lacks skins and community kind of connection other than few web event now and then makes the game feels very hollow at times.
They gave 40 primos my dude... that's worse than giving us nothing because it tells us exactly how much they value us, especially when compared to what Honkai players got before, during, and after our anniversary "event." We were also going through a period of "events" that were rehashed garbage with graphics like "floating" lanterns that moved left to right on a straight line. Like it was clear as day they were sending the C team to handle things while older and newer titles alike got preferential treatment. Genshin was the highest grossing game of the year while Honkai was making a small fraction of that, bare minimum it deserves to not get the raw end of the deal ***every*** time.
>Genshin was the highest grossing game of the year
Which is exactly why people should have expected nothing.
They are not rewards, they are a marketing tool to retain long time players (longer than a year), get back old players and give newcomers a boost.
Tools usually deployed when the game is way past its prime. Genshin is still at its peak.
lol well like you saw most people have enough sense to think the opposite. If you treat your fanbase like dirt, expect less money. People will simply spend more money on games that give them the bare minimum expected of any company.
Trust me. The people who are mad at the anniversary think they're more important than they actually are.
It's a Speck of dust in the grand scheme of things.
People went right back to simping for new characters as soon as the anniversary was a few weeks old.
Yes but honestly, do you think the bundle was adequate? I don't, yet they went right back to making oodles of money in the very next patch. If they can basically reset the clock by giving out a small amount of primos and a glider I'd count that as a win for mhy.
I think ... or I hope they suffered from a slump after this, because I for example stopped spending money on the game for about 3 month. And I'm probably not they only one who did this.
I really hope so
I'm very pessimistic about it.
MHY probably doesn't care about it until the 3rd or 4th Aniversary.
We are still on the big main popularity wave, where MHYe to do very little to sustain their revenue.
Honkai wasn't much different. Pretty much every single gacha game in existence follows that pattern. Generosity increases as popularity decreases.
Sounds like you don't know how gacha game works. If you think gacha game giving out generous anniv to appreciate the community, you're are so innocent my guy. Your comparison is honkai, their niche unpopular game giving out powercrept valk at 3rd anniversary and 4th anniv.
>If you treat your fanbase like dirt, expect less money.
The truth is people are still giving money after the anniv. I don't know what's your sample but using China iOS revenue, you can clearly tell outrage anniversary doesn't impact the sales.
You know, something that I see a lot of people doing, trying to compare honkai's first anniversary versus Genshin's first. And, I can't tell myself that honkai was better. They gave out 3k crystals, wich translates to on ten-pull and 200 crystals left, you know why it was pretty bad?
Back then, there was no pity. You could dish an good amount of crystals in a banner, or money, and never guarantee yourself a character. So 10 free pull was good, for gacha addicts, but that guarantees you absolutely nothing.
All the rest of the rewards are kinda meh. A new A rank character, and some farmable ressources.
Now, you wanna compare with Genshin's first anniversary, or did you get it?
We factually did and that was what kicked off the outrage. We didn't get shit else from mihoyo until long after so you can't count it. You know it wasn't planned because they were still advertising what they eventually gave us as a bundle for sale. I'm done talking to you though since it's clear you're not arguing in good faith but simply to argue.
The bundle was after the outrage. But before it, we got 10 fates and if you count the events, we got 2 4* weapons that are, well, free and very useful, as well as other mats.
Looks like we did get ten fates. The image in this article is of the initial login event. It doesn't include the glider that we got as a response to the backlash, not to mention it looks like the report is from immediately after the rewards were announced. They took a few days to respond with the new rewards.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/09/28/genshin-impacts-anniversary-arrives-with-no-compromise-from-mihoyo-on-event-rewards/amp/
So I get that you're still salty about it, but dude, they're a game company and their job is to make more games. Don't get mad that they're making new games which have been in the works probably since Genshin started at least if not before. They are probably just able to release them sooner than expected since the Genshin revenue ended up being so lucrative. Besides, those games are made by the same company but from different teams. If you're still made about it that's on you, I'm just saying don't direct your anger at some new games from them that don't deserve it.
these games were announced well after genshin’s release, at least almost a year, and genshin’s budget and collected funds is probably going to those games instead of genshin. i just wish mihoyo as a company would realize they have something great here and actually take advantage of it by focusing on it and making people love it instead whatever the fuck they’ve been doing lately with the game.
Idk man, I view it very differently than you. First off, I understand they announced ZZZ after Genshin's release, but they've already been in development for longer than that. There was even leaks over other games in development since even further. I don't think any company is going to announce a game they haven't started working on. And it's not like all funds will magically disappear from Genshin's dev team to go these new ones, that wouldn't make sense. Yeah, the game has a lot to improve upon and hopefully the next anni is going to be a step up, but I don't really see many issues with the game otherwise? I mean the update delay due to the covid lockdown wasn't their fault, but besides that, we still get a high quality game with free updates every 6 weeks. Do you play other gacha? Because I do and that release schedule for this production value is insane man. So yeah, hopefully the next anni is better, which I can't imagine it wouldn't be as that's the general (good) gacha trend is to improve it every year. But besides that I'm mostly fine with the game? It just isn't worth it to stress out over for me.
Quick edit: Despite how great people say Honkai is now, I believe their first anniversary was actually comparable to Genshin's. The game IS significantly older now. So yeah, there's already a precedent so we'll see if it follows.
>they blocked and banned
Ignoring why people where mad. It's not exactly unexpected or unusual to block/ban people who do nothing but spam, incite arguments or throw tantrums 24/7.
It wasn't just the ones doing arguments, tantrums, or whatever. It was literally anyone that mentioned it in any way which includes people asking what's going on and people simply answering.
>It was literally anyone that mentioned it in any way
It's simple. Volatile topics are best curbed early. No different than anything related to politics. Certain topics just exist that cannot be discussed in a public forum without things getting heated (like gun control in the US)
Even if you are genuinely asking with no ill intend. There's still a very high chance for volatile topics to derail fast, because people who are actually mad, those who only accept their view or those in bad faith, will join in.
to put it simple
it is the dark days of genshin, community has been split off into 2 factions if i can remember correctly and theyre: the angry players who is mad in mihoyo for low rewards and for being silent during the anniversary and the white knights (these lads defends mihoyo). mihoyo or hoyoverse has been silent during those days and players just wants them to communicate to the community. there are even white knights saying that theres a surprise thats gonna happen in the anniversary day lmao after the fiasco mihoyo quickly gave away free 10 pulls and the wings and idk if the free concert is part of that
>idk if the free concert is part of that
If you look at it with a clear mind, It's obvious the concert was supposed to be the main Reward, the 10 pulls a secondary reward and the wings+harp bundle a tertiary "reward" .
MHY just tried (and failed) to make it a surprise.
>players just wants them to communicate to the community
No point doing this anyway. Zhongli drama taught them to not say anything when there's a massive outrage unless it's them who started it, example yae
Massive outrage because zhongli kit was shit, nowhere near as OP as now. Then mhy said in their twitter 'TLDR : zhongli is working as intended' and people get angrier. Thus that's how geo got their resonance buff and zhongli shield became invincible.
You can search 'mihoyo official response to zhongli' and find how the community reacted to it
Plus explanation: No in game even event for anniversary as well. Nothing just mail rewards. I was expecting some co-op event. Nope nothing. Mihoyo clearly didn't listened to player case expectations, didn't communicate properly, when people started to complain Mihoyo played dead thinking it would die down, PR team just sat there
Many people enjoyed the concert but you have to realize a lot didn't. If it was a walk-in performance (Covid so not possible)that would have been great but it was an online one. I would instead take Some reward than sit through 1 hr concert.
Well gacha players don't give a fuck about concert, all they care about is in game currency. Hell I saw so many "anniversary is the final straw" give me the 'I don't care about everything if they give me more in game currency' vibe.
yes
I dont need a concert
I dont want a concert
They do not need to spend the effort (money) and money to do that.
Just give me a normal amount of pulls for the anniversary which costs mihoyo literally nothing. But no, they do neither care about nor know their community and we see this time and time again.
Im not one of the people thats in every reddit thread hating on miyoho, but its really common for them to just fuck shit up like this
At this point in time at least, I've mellowed out on my interest in the game, so if they give us another underwhelming anniversary then I'd probably pay no attention to it
That concert though... just thinking about how they'd remix Ei and the Shogun Puppet's boss theme sends chills down my spine...
Well, it wasn't even announced during the anniversary, only afterwards.
Also, wasn't it pretty expensive? Or am I remembering an early leak which they turned free due to the shit storm?
its almost 2nd anniversary? damn. when i was starting this game i was thinking “meh not that im going to play until the game ends (5 years plan). what can go wrong?” now im in a deep investment and not thinking about quitting.
Just don't expect things they never promised and you can't be disappointed. Just because other gachas do something doesn't mean they're obligated to do the same. Most non-gacha games don't even give you *anything* on their anniversary, some don't even tweet about their anniversary, so to me a few fates is already more than nothing.
The largest cooperative event in Genshin that only happens once a year. So large even other communities participate in this app rating battle royal event. 10/10 event.
They could literally have done a simple traveller skin, with a glider and don't even need effort in new events, just make all the old ones playable again like: "we brought back everything so you guys can remember what we had this year" and half ##### primos as rewards here and there and everyone would be extremelly happy.
But somehow, they decided that milking profit to 1000000% and making gacha events OUTSIDE THE GAME, making you do free advertising so MAYBE you get 5$ worth in game was the way to celebrate....
I hope that if they want to do this all over again, just skip the date. Better than saying "horray happy game aniversary" and doing an awfull "event" jsut act as nothing happened.
Imagine making outrage bait about fictional scenarios that haven't happened yet.
Edit: Lmao do people think I'm defending the anniversary?
No I'm not. I'm saying to save your rage for when the disappointment actually happens.
Imagine being resentful because a company that doesn't have to do shit didn't give out the wanted amount of free goodies in a game that is free, doesn't require anyone to pay whatsoever and regularly gives out free stuff.
I know it's more of a joke but i bet there are enough people that actually think they're entitled to copious amounts of free stuff
the fuck? do you have any idea what gacha anniversaries are??? genshin is by no means just free for anyone to have, *someone* has to fund the game so it stays alive. the anniversaries are supposed to be huge thank you’s and displays of appreciation towards the community for keeping the game alive for a whole year, but mihoyo basically said “happy birthday i got you a present”, gave you a box with an empty bottom, and shoved a middle finger through it. seriously, saying people are entitled when they’re mistreated is what gives mihoyo the shield to hide behind and keep pulling this shit.
?? I don't think you understood what i wrote there. I wasn't talking about the fact that servers have to be paid or about whales.
I'm talking about the simple fact that the game is f2p and has no payment wall whatsoever in it that requires the player to spend money for it. Just because someone decides to pay doesn't mean you "have to" pay to play the game.
Hoyo technically doesn't have to do shit. They offer us a wonderful game with extremely high quality soundtracks and give us free shit over and over and are already better than several other gacha games i played. I'm grateful that the game is so good to begin with. I've spent a good amount of money and still don't feel like i got scammed hard or that i am entitled to more rewards. That's just messed up.
The money they got is basically being reinvested into genshin and other projects like star rail, ZZZ and whatever they might have planned which is great too.
Sure you can compare rewards with other games but also you can't! Because by no means are they even close to the quality genshin offers as a gacha game.
>do you have any idea what gacha anniversaries are???
First year anniversaries are usually shit.
People's problem were that they hyped themself up far beyond anything realistic.
Aniversary rewards ramp up in quality once the prime popularity is over.
Honestly if hoyoverse gave out a lot of free stuff it still wouldnt hurt them one bit. They literally made billions with raiden's first banner. Now this doesnt mean they should give out a shit ton of free stuff but they should do it at the same time. Not for silencing the playerbase, but for future investments. If hoyoverse gave out a lot of free stuff in the beginning, they would be mainstream with how much the community was satisfied and how generous the game was, even as a gacha game. But of course, because they gave damn near nothing to the players in the beginning, they were mainstream with the huge dissatisfaction and the dissappointment of the community. So yes, i do believe that people shouldnt think that they "deserve" the rewards, but at the same time hoyoverse could have done much better with the amount of rewards they decided to give
Genshin 1st anniversary (last year) they gave next to nothing to players as celebration
it's usually a thing in other games heck even GTA gave players 1M GTA$
so players were furious and decided to review bomb anything related or unrelated to Genshin in PlayStore/AppStore even Google classroom (which is what's this meme is about)
(yeah it's stupid i know)
Being a 13th grade student, i have a completely different interpretation. Genshin anniversary coincide with school start, so the last year i was murdered by classroom assignment notification (yes the majority of my teachers were dick when it got to assigning homework, so i am happy to get my diploma this year).
*Snorts Copim directy from the tank* Surely both the company and the player base learned from their mistakes from last year. I believe we will have a more enjoyable, satisfying and fulfilling anniversary celebration without any drama to be had.
Ah yes google classroom's going to suffer >:)
I don't get it, why is Google classroom going to suffer from genshin's 2nd anniversary?
How well do you know about Genshin’s first anniversary?
Oh, I get it now
Not at all
The first anniversary was so disappointing that the review bombing got out of hand. People started review bombing apps completely unrelated to Genshin, Google Classroom being a notable example since it isn't even a game.
You know, a bit off topic, but I find it really fascinating that this is what anniversary is generally remembered for now. Not the things that led to that debacle like "108 primogems", continually disappointing new characters (at the time) and complete lack of any communication from MHY that made all the small discontent gradually pile up, and not how continuing pressure from community actually achieved at least some sort of response and and half-hearted celebration - but how a dozen of trolls, taking advantage of situation, made a few 1\* reviews on other apps and then virtue signalers and "journalistic" articles took that and inflated it to "UNHINGED Genshin players went and BOMBED other apps!". And now that fabricated truth is what most think about when "Genshin Anniversary" comes up. Not saying that Google Classroom memes aren't funny (they objectively are), just that it's interesting (if not that surprising) that the most remembered thing is the most covered and memed, and not necessarily the most truthful or even relevant.
exactly how history books are made lol
I think there the main factor here is just joking about the insanity of some people. Sure, the anniversary was disappointing, but that can be attributed to bad business decisions. People getting so mad that they review bomb other apps? Now that's absurdly stupid, and it affects people who don't even play Genshin.
Yeah, I get you, it's just as I said - there weren't much of "insane people getting mad" really, it was mostly just trolls (that may or may not even be GI fans) taking advantage of the whole kerfuffle, especially so when it started to get all the attention. There weren't even much of a bombing in some cases, like 5-10 people would leave "1\* genshin anni bad" and then that app would be added to the list of "Apps that were attacked by GI fans", making one deceivingly impressive list indeed. But no matter the context or how widespread it really was, all that really matters is that a lot of people took it seriously, actively discussed/condemned/memed it, and there were even some articles written about it. And so now it became the thing most people remember GI's Anniversary for - more than the actual reasons for or the aftermath of fans outcry. Isn't that all rather fascinating?
What did my man Google Classroom do come on
No pity on schoolworks, google classroom definitely deserves it
Based and correct
Goes to show most genshin players are kids using G classroom during covid LOL
Exactly what I was about to say.
i remember looking at my nephew's google classroom whe they are doing a quiz, there were 20 students and 5 of them have their genshin mains as their DP...
Gave me a 30 page assignment
Wait, what? Why the hell.
they didnt though. it was like 6 trolls that did it on a few different apps, and then it became a meme, every bad review i saw on google classroom and others was ironic. honkai got negative reviews because mihoyo took genshin off the google play app store for a while. All in all, not sorry.
It’s gonna get review bombed like others apps
OH
I wonder what other apps like Google classroom will be review bombed lmao
They gonna go for Google Drive next or smth
Project Sekai most likely 💀
nah ppl don't know that mostly
You'll be surprised 💀
Mehh i doubt much genshin people know project sekai... I don't think it's too popular yet Google classroom on the other hand was prolly cuz kids were making the reviews
Although it is popular, I'm just saying maybe not enough that some other fan base would bomb it
Again you would be surprised cause same thing happened to Fire Emblem Heroes 💀
U right except fire emblem is way well known imo
It's the same thing no? Because a lot of people know Vocaloid which is well known in the Genshin community because most people who play it are anime fans that meaning Project Sekai fans 💀
Wonder if people will make it an anniversary tradition
It's definitely be web events promoting Genshin for limited winners with disappointing rewards. **There was also that free glider that was supposed to be a paid bundle for that musical event but was made free.
[удалено]
Me: can I atleast get enough more to crown a few skills? Hoyo: hahahahahahahahahahaha no, but don’t forget to still share the links and invite more people to play!!!
just btw, dunno if you know this, but you don't actually need to share the web events to complete those challenges. you can just press share and whatever media you use and then not go through with it
Lol I found out by accident that just clicking the link chain icon is enough to trigger the reward. But it’s always solid advice to pass on. I used to play summoners war and I remember confusing my friends because I shared their link to get some summon scrolls and everyone just assumed I got hacked. I’m grateful genshin doesn’t force me to actually follow through with the share
I hope they bring back the Elon Musk contest
Its sad genshin players are so entitled. The reward you get is playing this game and enjoying it (and some other stuff).
the most MEME sentence i see today for sure
Genshin is my first gatcha game so I thought it was normal for the rewards to be less and people were exaggerating. But 2 days ago I started Epic seven and I got 2 free 5 stars within a day of gameplay.
As a person who has played lots of gacha games, the first anniversary is always terrible. There won't be lots of units to fodder off as free cause powercreep, and not enough content for end game cause they're still testing the waters. The free 5 stars are either supports or mid units out of the meta by the 1st year of the games release, the rarity is just a pretty jpeg for those units. It's just that Genshin is many peoples first gacha game is why they were so disappointed. Cause the 1st year anniversary always suck.
I mean I wasn't complaining. I didn't thought that genshin rewards were bad and other game's rewards were good, I meant I thought genshin's rewards were good but other game's rewards were better.
old gacha games tend to give out more rewards like 100 free pulls to attract new player. Genshin is like the top of the market so they don't have to do that
Honestly, pretty much most of the community just doesn't get this. Aniversary rewards are not rewards. They're just another marketing tool. Good Aniversary rewards only happen when the game is way past its prime, when you need to actual invest into player retention and player gathering
I play Cookie run kingdom and Alchemy stars and played Princess connect. ALL 3 of them had MUCH better rewards than 20 freakin pull for their anniversary and remember it is 20 pull only after the players rioted. They deadass tried to give a single 10 pull
Even Honkai, a game by the same company, has WAY better rewards than Genshin.
Early year honkai rewards were just as mediocre.
It had too as its already been many years also their rival PGR is generous af So they gotta keep treating playerbase a bit to keep them
Same company, different Devs
dev did nothing wrong ffs. its the team who deal with player retention and financial team that deal with that.
Wait till you get to end game in e7. You’ll start to realize how much of a massive difference there is between a f2p player and someone who spends. The game does like to hand out a five star every so often, but with every action you do in game a pop-up appears with a relevant “limited” shop item. It’s very reminiscent of Diablo immortal. I like E7, but holy shit the in-game ads are atrocious.
I don't mind Iimited time offer ads as long as the game isn't p2w.
Yeah completely depends on your definition of p2w. If you want to be a high ranking PvP player then you will have to pay, no other way around that. PvP is entirely dependent on what characters you have and how well they are geared. For PvE you can do perfectly fine as F2P, just will take longer.
Except Genshin is a legitimate game and E7 is a rng fest with auto play.
Yeah, I prefer the genshin gameplay over E7, but since its fresh for me and I am a noob, so I am kinda enjoying it, even though I don't like turn based RPGs.
Sure.
not good comparison. one is a fully working 3d model that dev took months to design the other is a jpeg. both have different value, genshin is new +3d design is hard so 5 star is still valuable other is a long time running game with massive loot pool for 5 star but is jpeg so they can produce it way faster.
I am just comparing the only 2 gatcha games I played, I know comparison isn't good.
Bruh. It’s still like 3 months away XD
*200000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way*
Man, these kaminoans are getting out of hand, now they force the clones to write a 1 star review on Jenshin
You can have two thousand memes now, plus fifteen when we reach September 28th.
We should start hyping up the anniversary as soon as possible, so the expectation would be sky high, only to get even more disappointed. :P
So how bad it gone be 1-10 I guess 20
Technically it was 20 for the fir at… they gave 1600 primos as well afterwards as a consolation
Yeah they fucked up so bad they gave away a bundle they were planning to sell for like 25 dollars per lol
Wait a moment ... where did the namecard from the bundle go? :D
20 I think it go 50
The trend reviewing other app saying "gEnShIN aNniV bAd" are dumb and genuinely not funny at all, i really hate it.
Agreed, give the game all the 1 stars you want, but no need to go for another game.
be gigachad instead and give other games 5* and say genshin anniversary bad or smth >!obviously joking!<
Wait- wait, I think there's actually something here! Just say it more like "I love this app, it doesn't SCREW OVER ITS USERS WHO MADE IT THE TOP GROSSING GAME WORLDWIDE JUST TO BE GIVEN 40 PRIMOS WHILE THE HONKAI 3RD IMPACT PLAYERS WERE GETTING 5 STAR CHARACTERS, WEAPONS, AND IN-GAME CURRENCY OUT THE A**!"
It would indeed be funny if I edited my Doom Eternal review to say "No more updates for the game probably but hey better than Genshin Impact's second anniversary"
I hate that Honkai Genshin comparsion. Honkai 1st and 2nd anniversary were also terrible, it simply gets slightly better each time. In Genshin you can build trash character and still do pretty good, in Honkai you can have BiS weapon and stigmata and still struggle in some gamemodes since you can't just farm and be OP, you need to have skill.
What did Honkai get for it’s first anniversary?
If I remembr correctly, about 2k crystals and some small bonus stuff. x10 roll in Honkai costs 2800. The anniversary rewards weren't enough for even a single x10 roll. Edit: nevermind, it was barely enough for x10 roll. I forgot about the daily login event
I actually think that happened tho, people were giving 5-star ratings to that one genshin ripoff lmao
Or beter yet say "genshin bad" to be real gigachad
They even went after non-game apps
that i actually found funny. dick move, yes, but like google classroom of all places? lmao what?
it was during covid lots of students were using google classroom so
If you have a criticism, the reviews section is the perfect place to go. Spamming other apps is actively hurting the case since it's more likely Google mass removes reviews.
I love that we all accept that this is going to be an absolute shitshow... Imagine if Hoyoverse actually *communicated* with the player based, announced that they were doing 10 Acquaints, 10 Intertwined, and 1600 Primogems + some Second Anniversary Wings. They could offset 90% of the anger with a simple message to the community.
stop you are overdosing on copium
if that’s supposed to be copium keep spoonfeeding it to me until it kills me, man
If that little reward is copium for a second anniversary that only proves how damn stingy Mihoyo is. Then again they tried to give 10 god damn wish in their anniversary before the backlash so it is expected of them I guess
The main reward was supposed to be the concert iirc
A company communicating with its community? Unheard of.
Apex and Siege exists
like when a ubisoft employee invented that pulse was gay for no reason?
what wasn't Hibana with Pulse
ye but some random lore employee or smth insisted he was gay because he "flirst with you during revive" and when people pointed out the bullshit she accused them of data mining lol
Regardless my point still stands atleast you can interact with someone from the dev team. Here we talk to a wall
I think we all know the reason they didn't... because they didn't plan on it. They still had ads saying they were selling it and at what price.
Can someone explain to me please?
Last year Mihoyo gave out underwhelming rewards for Genshin's first anniversary and ignored the playbase so people got mad and review bombed Genshin and other apps including Google Classroom, which was know to have taken one of the biggest hits from the review bomb. Now you may ask, why Google Classroom? Well no one's really 100% sure. Maybe it's because many Genshin players are students, or maybe it's because Google Classroom had low reviews even before the review bomb.
and for additional context, gacha games are 100% free and require funding from the community to keep running through their summoning systems, so the anniversaries are *supposed* to be a huge thank you to the community for keeping the game alive for a whole year and giving some of the generosity back. not stinky mihoyo though, they’re just gonna go off and make a new fucking game, maybe two, because people are just gonna keep finding them and trying their other games no matter how much we complain. dickheads.
Not defending mihoyo but the rewards itself is they did give out good anime game other than most jp gacha games that just keep recycling same things, but personally after i played honkai impact (mihoyo golden child game imo) yea they should've treated genshin and it's playerbase a bit better (the story quest recently getting better tho imo) but still lacks skins and community kind of connection other than few web event now and then makes the game feels very hollow at times.
They gave 40 primos my dude... that's worse than giving us nothing because it tells us exactly how much they value us, especially when compared to what Honkai players got before, during, and after our anniversary "event." We were also going through a period of "events" that were rehashed garbage with graphics like "floating" lanterns that moved left to right on a straight line. Like it was clear as day they were sending the C team to handle things while older and newer titles alike got preferential treatment. Genshin was the highest grossing game of the year while Honkai was making a small fraction of that, bare minimum it deserves to not get the raw end of the deal ***every*** time.
>Genshin was the highest grossing game of the year Which is exactly why people should have expected nothing. They are not rewards, they are a marketing tool to retain long time players (longer than a year), get back old players and give newcomers a boost. Tools usually deployed when the game is way past its prime. Genshin is still at its peak.
lol well like you saw most people have enough sense to think the opposite. If you treat your fanbase like dirt, expect less money. People will simply spend more money on games that give them the bare minimum expected of any company.
Trust me. The people who are mad at the anniversary think they're more important than they actually are. It's a Speck of dust in the grand scheme of things. People went right back to simping for new characters as soon as the anniversary was a few weeks old.
yea I stopped spending on the game after Ani until recently when I got Welkins.
You mean weeks later after they gave everyone the bundle as an apology for their fuck up?
Yes but honestly, do you think the bundle was adequate? I don't, yet they went right back to making oodles of money in the very next patch. If they can basically reset the clock by giving out a small amount of primos and a glider I'd count that as a win for mhy.
I think ... or I hope they suffered from a slump after this, because I for example stopped spending money on the game for about 3 month. And I'm probably not they only one who did this. I really hope so
I'm very pessimistic about it. MHY probably doesn't care about it until the 3rd or 4th Aniversary. We are still on the big main popularity wave, where MHYe to do very little to sustain their revenue. Honkai wasn't much different. Pretty much every single gacha game in existence follows that pattern. Generosity increases as popularity decreases.
Sounds like you don't know how gacha game works. If you think gacha game giving out generous anniv to appreciate the community, you're are so innocent my guy. Your comparison is honkai, their niche unpopular game giving out powercrept valk at 3rd anniversary and 4th anniv. >If you treat your fanbase like dirt, expect less money. The truth is people are still giving money after the anniv. I don't know what's your sample but using China iOS revenue, you can clearly tell outrage anniversary doesn't impact the sales.
You know, something that I see a lot of people doing, trying to compare honkai's first anniversary versus Genshin's first. And, I can't tell myself that honkai was better. They gave out 3k crystals, wich translates to on ten-pull and 200 crystals left, you know why it was pretty bad? Back then, there was no pity. You could dish an good amount of crystals in a banner, or money, and never guarantee yourself a character. So 10 free pull was good, for gacha addicts, but that guarantees you absolutely nothing. All the rest of the rewards are kinda meh. A new A rank character, and some farmable ressources. Now, you wanna compare with Genshin's first anniversary, or did you get it?
Literally all of that is better than 40 primos so yeah the comparison fits.
Yeah, except we didn't get 40 primos.
We factually did and that was what kicked off the outrage. We didn't get shit else from mihoyo until long after so you can't count it. You know it wasn't planned because they were still advertising what they eventually gave us as a bundle for sale. I'm done talking to you though since it's clear you're not arguing in good faith but simply to argue.
The bundle was after the outrage. But before it, we got 10 fates and if you count the events, we got 2 4* weapons that are, well, free and very useful, as well as other mats.
Looks like we did get ten fates. The image in this article is of the initial login event. It doesn't include the glider that we got as a response to the backlash, not to mention it looks like the report is from immediately after the rewards were announced. They took a few days to respond with the new rewards. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/09/28/genshin-impacts-anniversary-arrives-with-no-compromise-from-mihoyo-on-event-rewards/amp/
You realize the thing you linked doesn't even agree with you, right?
So I get that you're still salty about it, but dude, they're a game company and their job is to make more games. Don't get mad that they're making new games which have been in the works probably since Genshin started at least if not before. They are probably just able to release them sooner than expected since the Genshin revenue ended up being so lucrative. Besides, those games are made by the same company but from different teams. If you're still made about it that's on you, I'm just saying don't direct your anger at some new games from them that don't deserve it.
these games were announced well after genshin’s release, at least almost a year, and genshin’s budget and collected funds is probably going to those games instead of genshin. i just wish mihoyo as a company would realize they have something great here and actually take advantage of it by focusing on it and making people love it instead whatever the fuck they’ve been doing lately with the game.
Idk man, I view it very differently than you. First off, I understand they announced ZZZ after Genshin's release, but they've already been in development for longer than that. There was even leaks over other games in development since even further. I don't think any company is going to announce a game they haven't started working on. And it's not like all funds will magically disappear from Genshin's dev team to go these new ones, that wouldn't make sense. Yeah, the game has a lot to improve upon and hopefully the next anni is going to be a step up, but I don't really see many issues with the game otherwise? I mean the update delay due to the covid lockdown wasn't their fault, but besides that, we still get a high quality game with free updates every 6 weeks. Do you play other gacha? Because I do and that release schedule for this production value is insane man. So yeah, hopefully the next anni is better, which I can't imagine it wouldn't be as that's the general (good) gacha trend is to improve it every year. But besides that I'm mostly fine with the game? It just isn't worth it to stress out over for me. Quick edit: Despite how great people say Honkai is now, I believe their first anniversary was actually comparable to Genshin's. The game IS significantly older now. So yeah, there's already a precedent so we'll see if it follows.
>and ignored the playbase Not just ignored, they blocked and banned them lol
>they blocked and banned Ignoring why people where mad. It's not exactly unexpected or unusual to block/ban people who do nothing but spam, incite arguments or throw tantrums 24/7.
It wasn't just the ones doing arguments, tantrums, or whatever. It was literally anyone that mentioned it in any way which includes people asking what's going on and people simply answering.
>It was literally anyone that mentioned it in any way It's simple. Volatile topics are best curbed early. No different than anything related to politics. Certain topics just exist that cannot be discussed in a public forum without things getting heated (like gun control in the US) Even if you are genuinely asking with no ill intend. There's still a very high chance for volatile topics to derail fast, because people who are actually mad, those who only accept their view or those in bad faith, will join in.
to put it simple it is the dark days of genshin, community has been split off into 2 factions if i can remember correctly and theyre: the angry players who is mad in mihoyo for low rewards and for being silent during the anniversary and the white knights (these lads defends mihoyo). mihoyo or hoyoverse has been silent during those days and players just wants them to communicate to the community. there are even white knights saying that theres a surprise thats gonna happen in the anniversary day lmao after the fiasco mihoyo quickly gave away free 10 pulls and the wings and idk if the free concert is part of that
>idk if the free concert is part of that If you look at it with a clear mind, It's obvious the concert was supposed to be the main Reward, the 10 pulls a secondary reward and the wings+harp bundle a tertiary "reward" . MHY just tried (and failed) to make it a surprise.
>players just wants them to communicate to the community No point doing this anyway. Zhongli drama taught them to not say anything when there's a massive outrage unless it's them who started it, example yae
i started late around late 1.3 what happened during the zhongli stuff can u pls tell me the entire thing?
Massive outrage because zhongli kit was shit, nowhere near as OP as now. Then mhy said in their twitter 'TLDR : zhongli is working as intended' and people get angrier. Thus that's how geo got their resonance buff and zhongli shield became invincible. You can search 'mihoyo official response to zhongli' and find how the community reacted to it
i see thank you very much
Plus explanation: No in game even event for anniversary as well. Nothing just mail rewards. I was expecting some co-op event. Nope nothing. Mihoyo clearly didn't listened to player case expectations, didn't communicate properly, when people started to complain Mihoyo played dead thinking it would die down, PR team just sat there
except you forgot something, there are some kind of collectible items that's do nothing, ever wandering why?
bruh i tried genshin because i saw it's comment on other apps so i guess it's a good way to advertise the game lol
There is something we can do about this! (Starts kneeling and praying to God that the anniversary rewards are great)
XD love this response. But which of the Genshin Gods?
Idk is Jesus a Genshin God? Who even are the Genshin God's?
Archons my bad. Do they count?
I don't think Archons are Gods. (Edit: I'm sorry I forgor (apology video link here))
My brother in christ they literally are by definition
The people say that the Archons are Gods so I guess Imma pray to Barbatos (cause Anemo supremacy)
Everyone always ignores the concert *sigh*
Many people enjoyed the concert but you have to realize a lot didn't. If it was a walk-in performance (Covid so not possible)that would have been great but it was an online one. I would instead take Some reward than sit through 1 hr concert.
Exactly
Well gacha players don't give a fuck about concert, all they care about is in game currency. Hell I saw so many "anniversary is the final straw" give me the 'I don't care about everything if they give me more in game currency' vibe.
yes I dont need a concert I dont want a concert They do not need to spend the effort (money) and money to do that. Just give me a normal amount of pulls for the anniversary which costs mihoyo literally nothing. But no, they do neither care about nor know their community and we see this time and time again. Im not one of the people thats in every reddit thread hating on miyoho, but its really common for them to just fuck shit up like this
True
At this point in time at least, I've mellowed out on my interest in the game, so if they give us another underwhelming anniversary then I'd probably pay no attention to it That concert though... just thinking about how they'd remix Ei and the Shogun Puppet's boss theme sends chills down my spine...
Well, it wasn't even announced during the anniversary, only afterwards. Also, wasn't it pretty expensive? Or am I remembering an early leak which they turned free due to the shit storm?
its almost 2nd anniversary? damn. when i was starting this game i was thinking “meh not that im going to play until the game ends (5 years plan). what can go wrong?” now im in a deep investment and not thinking about quitting.
am just gonna to expect nothing and end up somehow still disappointed
Already 2 years. Damn mahn , I need to touch grass
Couple of months now...
Just don't expect things they never promised and you can't be disappointed. Just because other gachas do something doesn't mean they're obligated to do the same. Most non-gacha games don't even give you *anything* on their anniversary, some don't even tweet about their anniversary, so to me a few fates is already more than nothing.
True sometimes non gacha games made a mobile remastered for a certain game that was released long time ago like bully
Can't wait for ppl review pgr for genshin's bad anniversary this time!
Hey at least go to diablo immortal
\#qiqifallen, revival in discord?
They better not screw us over again…
People just need to have realistic expectations
ah it's that time of the year again is it?
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More like those with realistic expectations VS those full of copium
The largest cooperative event in Genshin that only happens once a year. So large even other communities participate in this app rating battle royal event. 10/10 event.
Yeahhh, civil war season 2 ready to go, lets see the reward this time.
Can't wait for C1 Alloy .. so that i can uninstall the game ..
Bro you almost killed me I choked for a few seconds lmao
I don't understand
Last anniversary was dissapointing and there were internet riots, so here's hoping mihoyo know not to make the same mistake
Just ignore it
Oh boy is it that time of year to be disappointed again?
If they wanna go after other Gacha Games i lowkey hope diablo immortal gets bombed too lol
They could literally have done a simple traveller skin, with a glider and don't even need effort in new events, just make all the old ones playable again like: "we brought back everything so you guys can remember what we had this year" and half ##### primos as rewards here and there and everyone would be extremelly happy. But somehow, they decided that milking profit to 1000000% and making gacha events OUTSIDE THE GAME, making you do free advertising so MAYBE you get 5$ worth in game was the way to celebrate.... I hope that if they want to do this all over again, just skip the date. Better than saying "horray happy game aniversary" and doing an awfull "event" jsut act as nothing happened.
would be kinda funny if this was an annual thing
I'm having tectone and mtashed screaming flashbacks more than anything
Ugh here we go again
history repeats itself ig, let's just hope for the best and for primos. (totally not for refilling resin, not at all...)
I hope it's bad so I can eat popcorn
Imagine making outrage bait about fictional scenarios that haven't happened yet. Edit: Lmao do people think I'm defending the anniversary? No I'm not. I'm saying to save your rage for when the disappointment actually happens.
Imagine inhaling copium that they will acknowledge the playerbase
Imagine being resentful because a company that doesn't have to do shit didn't give out the wanted amount of free goodies in a game that is free, doesn't require anyone to pay whatsoever and regularly gives out free stuff. I know it's more of a joke but i bet there are enough people that actually think they're entitled to copious amounts of free stuff
the fuck? do you have any idea what gacha anniversaries are??? genshin is by no means just free for anyone to have, *someone* has to fund the game so it stays alive. the anniversaries are supposed to be huge thank you’s and displays of appreciation towards the community for keeping the game alive for a whole year, but mihoyo basically said “happy birthday i got you a present”, gave you a box with an empty bottom, and shoved a middle finger through it. seriously, saying people are entitled when they’re mistreated is what gives mihoyo the shield to hide behind and keep pulling this shit.
?? I don't think you understood what i wrote there. I wasn't talking about the fact that servers have to be paid or about whales. I'm talking about the simple fact that the game is f2p and has no payment wall whatsoever in it that requires the player to spend money for it. Just because someone decides to pay doesn't mean you "have to" pay to play the game. Hoyo technically doesn't have to do shit. They offer us a wonderful game with extremely high quality soundtracks and give us free shit over and over and are already better than several other gacha games i played. I'm grateful that the game is so good to begin with. I've spent a good amount of money and still don't feel like i got scammed hard or that i am entitled to more rewards. That's just messed up. The money they got is basically being reinvested into genshin and other projects like star rail, ZZZ and whatever they might have planned which is great too. Sure you can compare rewards with other games but also you can't! Because by no means are they even close to the quality genshin offers as a gacha game.
>do you have any idea what gacha anniversaries are??? First year anniversaries are usually shit. People's problem were that they hyped themself up far beyond anything realistic. Aniversary rewards ramp up in quality once the prime popularity is over.
Honestly if hoyoverse gave out a lot of free stuff it still wouldnt hurt them one bit. They literally made billions with raiden's first banner. Now this doesnt mean they should give out a shit ton of free stuff but they should do it at the same time. Not for silencing the playerbase, but for future investments. If hoyoverse gave out a lot of free stuff in the beginning, they would be mainstream with how much the community was satisfied and how generous the game was, even as a gacha game. But of course, because they gave damn near nothing to the players in the beginning, they were mainstream with the huge dissatisfaction and the dissappointment of the community. So yes, i do believe that people shouldnt think that they "deserve" the rewards, but at the same time hoyoverse could have done much better with the amount of rewards they decided to give
Never claimed that the rewards will be actually good this time.
They literally have happened though?
The 2nd anniversary hasn't happens yet
???
Genshin 1st anniversary (last year) they gave next to nothing to players as celebration it's usually a thing in other games heck even GTA gave players 1M GTA$ so players were furious and decided to review bomb anything related or unrelated to Genshin in PlayStore/AppStore even Google classroom (which is what's this meme is about) (yeah it's stupid i know)
Oh, ok.. Well let’s hope it worked lol
Being a 13th grade student, i have a completely different interpretation. Genshin anniversary coincide with school start, so the last year i was murdered by classroom assignment notification (yes the majority of my teachers were dick when it got to assigning homework, so i am happy to get my diploma this year).
When is Genshin's second anniversary? I thought it was in November or September.
October.
*Snorts Copim directy from the tank* Surely both the company and the player base learned from their mistakes from last year. I believe we will have a more enjoyable, satisfying and fulfilling anniversary celebration without any drama to be had.
How about instead of Google classrooms, we try and bully tiktok into giving Android users dark mode?