About The Hoyoverse Racism...

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[SmithOfGear]

This whole situation is a testament to Hoyoverse's laziness. Aside from their poor implimentation of systems, Genshin Impact's character design is cookie cutter at its core. There are close to ninety characters in the game? *Wrong;* there are only five. Adult Male, Adult Female, Short Male, Short Female and Loli. That's all. The same five characters, recolored with slightly different accessories and hairstyles tacked on. Same goes for NPCs; they're all just textures painted onto meshes that are wrapped around the same few bases. I know that's done to cut costs and possibly not hinder in-engine performance, but good lord does it look bad after years of seeing it.

My point is that giving characters varied complexions indicative of region could be a super easy fix; you have your basic skin tones down. Now all you need to do is adjust the saturation and brightness, saving multiple swatches for future use. That way the complexions can reflect both culture and region, in proximity to Teyvat's equator and Teyvat's poles and you wouldn't have to break the game to do it.

... but alas, this is Hoyoverse we're talking about. They won't fix it, and even if they wanted to, they probably can't for fear of the Chinese government hassling them. Not to mention in most parts across the Far East and even SEA-- the playerbases catered to the most, they tend to prefer fair skin and Hoyoverse doesn't want to upset their bottom line.

[Trujones]

Damn shame they dont have legitimate darkers skin tones. Imagine an african type land with africa themed characters. Or even india!

[angeloguerra]

The Dehya situation killed all the hype i had for the game since then. She was my most anticipated character from sumeru and for the first time ever, i began to actively look up for leaks just to have an idea of her kit and how to build her... and it was a fucking nightmare. Every update there was a nerf or another restriction, lowered multipliers, etc, so, no, i refuse to get excited or hyped for this game ever again

[grax]

Glad people are talking about this, thx thx thx for posting! 😔😔

[sweetsbwrry]

Literally, I do not understand making something inspired by and based on different real cultures and then refusing to actually create characters inspired by the people IN those cultures. No one forced Hoyo to make regions based on Africans and Latin/South Americans. No one held them at gunpoint to make a character based on the Kandake. So WHY, if you're so scared of the color brown, are you using inspiration from predominately brown nations?! Damn, at this point you should've just stuck to Northeast Asia and Europe.

[hazelmaple]

If Dehyas kit was good she likely would have been one of the best selling banners ever, even if they put her on standard after. Look at how many people donated to a real charity just because Dehya inspired them to? Instead she has arguably the worse five star kit in the entire game. When this happened in Sumeru I already knew with how nonexistent representation there was in the desert characters that natlan would be the same.

Anytime they release a character with melanin in them their kits often are pretty terrible. Then they wonder why they don’t sell well. Let your voices be heard. Sign the petition. Don’t back down guys

[Anika]

Lmao some people are like "i am from africa, i dont care about skin color."
That is so funny.
I am from south asia and already got my expectations dead during sumeru :v

[lorddrakkon]

I'm willing to bet that despite all this and hoyo not listening during all these characters banners they are still gonna sell well and they are gonna still make tens or even hundreds of millions.

This is the same issue that happened during the anniversary people complain and then proceed to still give them money COMPANIES care about one thing and thats money

[guiscardaddams]

I'm a person of color too, middle eastern. And I'm happy when games take inspiration from my culture! Really! But when they leave the skin color out of the equation, it sounds like "oh nice culture you got there! Nice music, nice etymology, nice customs, nice architecture. All of it is very inspiring. We'll use it all, except the way you look because it's ugly and not fitting"

[queendee]

I went to hoyo game subreddits just to see what fans think about their favs constant controversies and they could honestly care less. They chalk up any and all criticism as “twitters snowflakes who get mad at everything” instead of sitting back and realizing there’s more than pale people who inhabit earth. Mini rant over, they have their fan base and I doubt that they’ll change much because of it unfortunately…

[c.c.anubis]

This is something I've only seen mentioned by a single youtuber discussing this so far, but, I don't think it's Hoyo specifically, but the CCP breathing down their necks. We've seen how they treated pretty much everything where characters weren't white, such as the Black Panther or Star Wars poster, etc. Now, I'm not saying Hoyo is innocent, they done goofed up a hella lot, what I'm saying is, that even if Hoyo might want to give some hints of representation, there might be issues with big daddy government.

[甜金]

Even if a million players decided not to play for weeks, Hoyo would not care or change anything. They’ll still be earning millions regardless. Be it from Genshin, or the fact they have a ton of other titles making millions as well. And even if there’s that chance they do actually decide to add more characters representative of the real life culture they took “inspiration” from, it’ll not be genuine whatsoever since their hand was forced and no matter what, Natlan and the game/company itself will leave a bad taste in peoples mouths.

People (colorist idiots that think they’re above it all) who say that “They’re a CN company so-“ No. Stopping you right there. Look at Reverse:1999. A game published by a CN company (Bluepoch, which is based in MAINLAND CHINA) that has multiple cultures, has taken real life inspiration and respected everything from its characters to its storytelling. Even down to the ENG voice acting which is phenomenal.

Hoyo has been global and worldwide for a while now (and they’re completely and fully aware), yet continue to ignore and pretend the complaints outside of CN are nonexistent (which, there has actually been CN players expressing disdain and how “unnatural” the characters feel, even if it’s a minority which is surprising tbh). It still baffles me that people support this company with its endless list of controversies, and, to put it simply, not giving a single fuck about their playerbase. I get sunk cost fallacy is real, but my god has Hoyo drained these people’s time, money, and mental health for that matter as well.

I was a day 1 Genshin player. Dropped midway through Sumeru. My issues were rooted on the lack of QoL and the slight red flags about the cast of Sumeru. Thank god my rose tinted glasses soon shattered because genuinely, in my opinion, nothing will change. I loved Genshin, and I would constantly hope and wish for it to get better. But my hope for this game and even company has lost a long time ago. All Hoyo wants is more money to make more games from different genres and monetize them instead of actually making a AAA standalone game. But then again, Hoyo is a scum company, willing to bot their follows back up to normal after that whole 3 wish debacle. So why even trust anything they say anymore if they’re willing to somehow stoop even lower lmao. Honestly, fire the Genshin director. He’s the true Genshin killer, player and dev relationship wise.

[passwordyeah]

Thank you so much for the petition link!!

[sumitbiswal]

The real problem is hoyoverse ignorance towards fans, like they didn't respond towards the backlash during lantern rite from the Chinese fandom ..so what we can expect

[RolagLondevert]

I feel the same. I hate how a lot of people in the Genshin "community" refuse to consider that other people's opinions can have merit. Thanks for talking about this it's annoyed me since Sumeru.

[alexoceanmeow]

I still play Xinyan since 2021. Shes been my favorite pyro up until Arlecchino and even now shes my preferred claymore. ❤️

[ChallengerBanX]

I wouldn't worry about it too much. These issues usually resolve themselves when another company comes along with a better product that people want more.

A good competitor will inevitably arise which will have characters of all skin colours, and Hoyoverse will be on the backfoot going to great expense trying to get their customer base back. Companies like this always create the demand for their own competition. Once McDonald's creates the need for a Burger King, it's impossible to make it go away and they just have to deal with the loss of market share permanently.

[beelzebussy]

Thank you for making this video. Its so draining to see so many racist genshin fans

[ninjakiwigames]

Honestly so sad that almost no playable characters have darker skin tones, as they specifically reserved that for the NPCs. Like what are you hinting at Hoyo? Honestly a boycot sounds like a nice idea, but it would have to be properly coordinated.

[oterogalvis]

I was a legacy player, I stopped playing cuz of this, I'm a Latino