Genshin Impact Team Feeling ‘Lost’ and ‘Useless’ With Recent Player Comments

Following the developers’ latest livestream, HoYoverse CEO Liu Wei made a surprise appearance to address negative comments from Genshin Impact fans that has permeated since the Lunar New Year in 2024. Although Genshin Impact Although a strained relationship between players and their development team has occasionally been seen, many believe that controversy has never been as widespread as it was in version 4.4 and later.

The controversy over the lantern rite in Genshin Impact It emerged as a combination of several factors. Genshin Impact Players were increasingly bitter about the generosity shown in other HoYoverse games, such as the free character Dr. Ratio in Honkai: star laneand many saw the anniversary rewards in Genshin Impact as poor in comparison. The Chronic Banner in Version 4.5 also attracted the ire of the community, with its unfavorable gacha mechanics compared to Event Banners. Genshin Impact. Lastly, Natlan’s overall direction received widespread criticism from disgruntled players, who felt that the developers were “whitewashing” characters inspired by real-life cultures based in Latin America, West Africa, and Oceania.

According to HoYoverse President Liu Wei, these comments had a profound impact on the development team. As a result, Liu Wei made an appearance at the Genshin FES event in Shanghai to personally address fans, with his speech recorded and translated by the SentientBamboo YouTube channel. The apology was emotionally charged, as Liu Wei described that his team had experienced a lot of anxiety and confusion over the “really sharp” comments he received from the community during recent updates on Genshin Impact.

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“Some people felt that our project team was very arrogant and said they didn’t listen to anything. But it’s like [the presenter] He said: actually we are the same as everyone, we are also players. “We all feel things that other people feel too,” Wei said. The CEO went on to say that the development team felt lost and useless during the release of version 4.4 in Genshin Impactand traveled around the world to talk to players about how they felt about the game. “After returning, I had many meetings with the team and after many meetings we came to a consensus: the only thing that cannot be changed genshin It is the journey we will live with our Travelers. Everything else can be changed.”

Liu Wei explained that the quality of life features that are coming Genshin Impact in Version 5.0 are a direct result of those meetings, as the team believes that any changes are on the table if they make the players happy. To address the shortcomings of your anniversary rewards, Genshin Impact will now allow players to select a free 5-star character from the standard banner on each anniversary going forward. Its gacha system will also favor the player more directly, as weapon banners will only require one destination point to guarantee the personified path. Additionally, any 50:50 pull on event posters will instead have 55:45 odds of summoning the promotional character.

“I know that in the future we may still be missing some things. I also know that even today we cannot meet everyone’s expectations. But after the anxiety and confusion that the team and I experienced over the past year, I feel that also received a lot of courage and trust from the Travelers,” Wei concluded. While he doesn’t mention it directly, it’s entirely possible that Liu Wei was speaking about the criticism leveled against Natlan, although it remains to be seen if HoYoverse will address the topic in the coming months.

Genshin Impact

role play

Action

Adventure

gacha

Released

September 28, 2020

Multiplayer

Online multiplayer

Engine

Unit

JERS

T for Teens: Fantasy violence, alcohol reference

Steam Deck Compatibility

Yeah

X|S improved

Yeah

PS Plus availability

N/A

Cross Save

Yeah

Cross-platform play

Mobile, PC, PS4 and PS5

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