WHAT IS HAPPENING? Genshin Impact Anniversary HUGE Backlash

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i REALLY hope they give us something soon.. i love this game and i want it and it's players/community to thrive and be happy. Please mihoyo...

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[Zyx]

I still cant believe there was a Forbes article written about this LMAO

back to my regular guides starting tomorrow btw, this situation is just so crazy that i had to talk about it

[levinbarth]

The issue with the anniversary is that it didn’t feel like a special occasion. Logging on 28th sept felt like any other day of playing genshin. I wish that this one day could’ve felt more festive, with surprise dialogs, unexpected character interactions, city decorations, temporary birthday hats as cosmetics, the login screen could’ve been changed for a day, characters as npcs all over the city celebrating, or any achievement/badge to give for players to show that they were there during genshin’s 1st year… (while the moonchase festival covers some of it), it isn’t very *anniversary-ish. I’ve played a lot of other games and it’s very clear and festive when the game is celebrating its anniversary.

[marvinnovilla]

Genshin managed to do something no other gacha has done. Unite the community lol.

[kowthr]

They could have made the genshin anniversary like "stellar reunion" with a twist. Instead of giving us the craftable 4 star, they could've added a weapon from a past event (like festering desire) and given us a new 4 star skin (like in golden apple archipelago). We would've had double rewards in domains and that would've been cool too. Idk why we get rewarded more for not playing (stellar reunion) than for the freaking anniversary. How lame.
They could've been creative with it, but they didn't even send us an anniversary mail. It isn't about it being just a 10 pull. It's seriously just about their lack of effort.

[gabg]

They could have been so creative to celebrate the anniversary with the community. Imagine a special wind glider, a 1 year anniversary cake like the ones we receive in our birthday, a special card... Literally anything. The theater was cute, they know what to do, it seems like they just don't bother to.

[ThishandlefeatureISdumb]

As bad as this whole thing is, imagining Zy0x being stuck as Kokomrade with “I l LOVE KOKOMI!” as his signature forever is goddam hilarious.

[es-pcre]

Honestly, to the extent that mhy's taking this I'm starting to think something seriously wrong with the executive team or the company or some kind of internal problem. Because this isn't even greed, this is just plain stupidity. Anniversary rewards are supposed to bring in new players, but MHY's only released a new promo video for that? They also didn't respond to complaints at all, and most of all-- there's not even a simple in-game mail saying like "congrats for one year of genshin" or anything. It's like they don't even want to acknowledge that the anniversary even exists, which is super weird for a game that advertises a lot to bring in new players.
I honestly thought they were going to bring out surprise rerun banners where you pick your own banner at the last minute so they could force players to spend while also making it like a gift, but they didn't even do that. I really doubt at this point that it's just greed, since they have to be aware of all the review bombing and shit that's going on but they aren't doing anything. Which is counterintuitive to making more money. There's gotta be some kind of other issue...right...
Either that or they're saving all the major anniversary stuff for the 2.2 livestream *inhales copium*

[artexius]

Mihoyo when giving 5 star: Goodluck getting 5 stars with that Drop rate

The genshin community on playstore: Yeah you too lol

[dedpenguin]

No matter which side is gonna win.. you gotta admit this is gonna be the most *memorable* Anniv for both Mihoyo and Genshin community lol

[kryzai]

Even if Mihoyo simply tweets out a "No", I'd be satisfied. At least this way, our existence will be aknowledged even when it's to deny us. Just give us anything Mihoyo, anything at all, reaching out to this company is like talking to a brick wall (۳ ಠಗಠ)۳

[marcusaurelius]

They kind of made this happen.

All they had to do was do a cute anniversary quest or two to interact with characters and have a little party, show a slide show with highlights and have the characters comment on them.

Give a name card and some teapot decorations. A glider and a traveler outfit. Things that show they appreciate us.

Then, if they don't want to do primos okay, just double the drops from domains, make the weekly bosses free for this week, and halve the cost of resin. Increase the cost of resin regen for the week and give like 20 purple books and 100k mora a day for the week.

Doesn't cost hardly anything for that.

[eru_barth]

I didn't even expect anything to begin with, but their silent, censor-happy way of dealing with players is a _huge_ turnoff for me.

[ojasdahal]

Genshin community: you milked away everything from us

Mihoyo: i dont even know who you are :LOL

[DarenYourIndoBuddy]

The power of friendship that this community hold is immaculate

[TouruZen]

One thing I thought they could do is a week of massively reduced resin cost. Or even a large chunk of Fragile resin with the idea being "This is the anniversary so play as much as you would like to during this event" I kind of would like that as I spent a month farming for a HP shimenawa's watch >.>

[celestial_planet]

Damn, it's gotten so bad that Zy0x is stuck as Kokomrade— 😂

[makiony]

tbh personally i'm past the anger phase at this point and i just find all of this very funny LMAO especially the fact we didn't even get an in-game mail wishing everyone a happy anniversary or something. that, coupled with mihoyo's silence, just makes it feel like the anniversary never existed in the first place :B

[Wyglafff]

The severe lack of communication from Mihoyo's part is most of the problem. First, they show us giveaways and contests and tell us those are the rewards (they obviously are not). Secondly, they completely ignore their players feedback (on every subjects, not just the anniversary rewards). Thirdly, they try to censor everyone. If the communication of the event was better, it would have had less backlash.
What should Mihoyo do? They should apologize for the lack of communication and explain what is to come to the game. They probably won't increase the amount of rewards we get.
What should the players do? STOP harassing voice actors and Mihoyo staff directly (nobody at Mihoyo is fully responsible for what's happening, even the CEO). Keep complaining about the lack of communication between the company and the players. Explain why as a player you think they should listen.

It's not OK to have to wait for leaks to know what's coming to the game. Players want a roadmap or at least clear expectations when it comes to purchasable content coming to the game. The players also want to make suggestions on how to improve the game quality and fun potential.

Every month or so we get the surveys but we almost never get any feedback on what the player base said and what Mihoyo took from it. The last time "we" (not really the whole player base, but only the Chinese player base) got some feedback was for the Zhongli buffs (or maybe "electro" buffs).

As a closing statement, never expect companies to be your friend or that they understand you. They don't even want to. Like every company in the world, they want to make money to pay their employees salaries and please investors (of course the people directly working on the game can be passionate but the sales department people just want more money). They do not seek to please the customer, they just want the customer to spend the most time and money on their products.
Even if sometimes a company does something that could be perceived as generous, it's just a PR move calculated to increase sales or attract new customers.
The deep ravine between a company actions and their customer's expectations happened with Riot Games, Blizzard and many more. Now it's happening with Mihoyo...

[perseption]

the saddest part of this whole thing isnt even the event rewards, which are pretty bad. its the fact that mihoyo is showing that they genuinely do not care about the community. even coming forward and saying this is it, no more rewards for the even, would be better than what is being done here. sad, im not spending another cent on the game until they show they deserve support

[Chromatomic]

There were so many ways for them to do the anniversary too: a furniture item, a pet, a trinket, an outfit, a glider, pick a 4* item, pick a 4* character, pick a standard banner 5*, primo gems (at least similar to patch downtime), shop discounts, star glitter, welkins, material bundles, mora (at least similar to what's earned in events) and even if it was the cheapest of these like the in-game items it's at least an acknowledgement and could have sated some people that they did something special for everyone supporting them and playing the game. Then they double down on it, stay silent, ban/censor complaints, etc. For as large a company as MHY is, it might be one of the worst responses to a community issue.