'Wuthering Waves Is Copying Genshin Impact'

genshin impact players are going around accusing wuthering waves of copying genshin. Gacha smack weighs in on this perspective.

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[theRaika]

I'm a proud Mint Picker for 3 years, and even I can't understand why Genshin players can't accept another game for what the game is without having to belittle or doom post.

Also this isn't a Genshin community only thing, you will find this attitude in many if not every game, movie, music whatever community out there.

Ignorant Toxic People will be that no matter where they are.

[TheOneRei]

Im a veteran genshin player who's been upset about the direction genshin took and longed for something, that something happened to be WUWA and it went above and beyond my expectation

[ForTheViolence]

Ain’t Genshin impact already a copy of breath of the wild 💀

[baidorii]

"Wuthering waves isn't a genshin copy but it's genshin inspired." I absolute love this. Same thing applies to "genshin isn't a breath of the wild copy but it's heavily breath of the wild inspired". The reason is because by saying this, you are giving credit to breath of the wild for being a game with a concept so good it inspired other games. And simultaneously you're looking at genshin/wuthering waves in these instances as games that are taking a good concepts and expanding upon it. We all know how important wording is, one word changes everything. Thanks for sharing your perspective.

[adept]

Simply put, genshin players pumped so much money into the game that they can't handle the fact that a new game could be better or an alternative to genshin because it would basically show them that they were milked by a company and fell victim to a predatory act of making them brainless bots who don't care of being fed shit because there isn't a better game, so they have to endure. But now with an upcoming competitor, they refuse to accept its existence because it would mean they were cocked for all these years for nothing.

[Prahalad]

Wuthering waves is copying genshin is like saying I am a copy of my neighbour coz we got hands and legs.

[VxVFiction]

oh naah smack has pulled up to the conversation! LET'S GOOO

[notmoroku]

I think the worse part is that this whole "talking point" is not even brought up solely by heated genshin impact players, but also by a bunch of content creators from genshin impact. Not only do they think it's a clone/copy&paste of genshin impact, they are VERY critical of it. I sure wish they could use that same energy to be critical of their own game instead of constantly advertising and shilling for hoyo's newest characters and not saying anything critical about the game in a single one of their videos. Maybe if all these content creators actually stood as one and didn't just dogpile other competitors so much; the community could get things done.

[someone]

So effectively, the genshin cry babies have gone from laughing at the zelda fan smashing his ps4 at the genshin booth to becoming the genshin fans smashing their pc at the wuthering waves booth 😂

[joshuawilliams]

When you realize Dragon Ball is a rip off of Journey to the West 😱

[lazyfx]

One of the thing I see people yap about the most is the UI. And if you ask them why the UI is bad, they'll say "it's too similar to Genshin", but if you ask them is Genshin's UI bad, they'll say no. So if the UI isn't bad then why shouldn't other games adapt it? Genshin didn't invented that kind of UI either, you can find the similar UI is so many other mobile rpg, map on the top left, icons on the top right, HP Bar at the bottom mid and enemy HP bar to the top mid. You see many mobile rpg use this kind of UI because it just works very well for those type of mobile game. Why change it when it works the best.

It's the same with shooter genre, when the first shooter game came out, it's the first of it's kind, any shooter game that release during that time afterward like Doom adapted that UI. As time goes on and more shooter release, the UI also evolve to what we have now. Every shooter game these days pretty much adapted the same UI formula because it just works very well for that genre. If it's not broken then why change it ?

[kreftl]

The genshin stans saw the ui similarities of wuwa with genshin and started accusing kuro for copying. At least that's the only explanation I see online 😂

[johnhallow]

FINALLY! It's wild listening to Genshin Stans who refuse to accept that Genshin just yoinked 80% of BotW. Half the people arguing about it never even played the game, so they don't know. If that's "inspiration", they can't say jack 🤣

[andrewsmusic]

There are 6000+ known languages known to man, but Smack always chooses to speak facts. People need to wake up and realize that this whole "copying" argument is completely stupid because everyone uses some sort of "copied" product- ripped off from an original idea. This is called capitalism in a nut shell: Step 1- copy and take a good idea, Step 2- make it better, Step 3- wait for it to get traction and over take their competitors. Competition breeds excellence. Great videos as always Smack.

[MIDO]

arguing with genshin stans over this is like speaking to a wall, I prefer mocking them instead

[Lowthiel]

If Wuthering Waves was really like Genshin it would die on arrival, but the reality is WW is *cooking* what players begged Hoyo for all these years

[mikereyes]

But that’s what I want Genshin like game with a more mature artstyle, better combat mechanics and an actual endgame. Thank you Kuro Games.

[rottuce]

its because most of genshin stans never play a game, genshin was their first game
that is why they dont know anything about game, and just said straight out copy.

[ringthenoise]

Genshin community [not everyone] continues to complain about a new game copying Genshin.. and they fail to realize that being inspired by other video games is a common thing since the 90s. Just like in Mortdog's video, he shows evidence that fighting games have been inspiring each other for so long. The same can be said with action games. The sad reality is, this will not be the first, or second time this happens.. and it will not be the last.

[nikontruth]

I think WuWa should be taken for what it is, a new game. I get everything will be compared to Genshin, but man it gets old. All games will take inspiration from something that works or is successful in a sense