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@ahiijny it's the genshin anniversary right now and a large portion (probably a majority if not most) think the rewards are really bad
these complaints have been around for a long time and so the issue has become mihoyo ignoring its playerbase more so than the actual rewards itself
and so you have people spamming the discord, spamming reviews which is why the genshin rating dropped by over two full stars in like a day or two, the subreddit is basically totally flooded with anniversary discussion / complaints right now, etc
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i forgot what was the title. i just read like less than 8 chapter. i wanna know what manga it was. so, it start with mc go to game center/shop to update/make his profile for online game. there, he met with woman/girl whom had been updated her profile befor mc. after that, when mc try to log in, h...
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@Memor-X even as marketing, what is better? "Start playing during anniversary and get a free 5* char!" or "yay! Klee tag on twitter will have a little emoji for the next week!!! And we spent ONE MILLION $ for this one..... AND THERE ARE MORE THAN 20 OF THEM!"
@hyper-neutrino not just reddit. Reddit has REVIEW MODE activated so new post have to be reviewed. Discord is on slow mode and has banned multiple well known Youtuber for being "toxic" (saw someone who was banned and insulted in the process. They told him "See you NEVER"). Hoyolab is distributing free bans and removing posts. Multiple chinese forums are in censorship mode with banned words and such....
@hyper-neutrino that said, yep, the problem is not the entitled group that just want free stuff. The players were already angry for the total lack of acknowledgement of any issue in the last patch cycle.
Furthermore, more are quite angry not for the poor rewards but for the exploitative media campaigns.
Fan art contest to win 2$ worths of gems. Cosplay contest with pathetic prizes. The web event that asks you to get other people to play the game to receive minor rewards.....
As for the review bombing, expected. And to be fair, it doesn't worry me much nor seems that bad. In the end, it shows that your userbase is angry so... the fact that a bombing is possible is a review by itself - we are not talking about a "0.000001% minority that uses Meta", a far larger % or the players must be angry to make that thing happen.
Seems oddly similar to something that happened with a big company that runs a Question&Answers site and one of their mods...
> Shut up! Don't explain! Don't show any weakness! They are the users! They have to obey! Show them who is the boss.
And... if one REALLY want to be dastardly, I could also easily point at some very precise coincidences in all of this that could even prove ill-will.
The Raiden/Beidou incident is still an open wound for many, but it is very suspicious. The broken synergy is very specific (and consider that Raiden E works on KLEE BOMBS) and used to work during Beta.
A) Giving out Beidou for free just before Raiden. Why wasn't the free 4* gift saved for anni if they didn't had anything else? Why waste a reward when no one was expecting it??
B) change in the skill text only a few hours after Raiden got live, almost like they were already expecting it.
C) no feedback for the TONS of enquirers they got about the issue.
D) that was the time they started the "Leakers Hunting Decree"
B) change in the skill text only a few hours after Raiden got live, almost like they were already expecting it.
C) no feedback for the TONS of enquirers they got about the issue.
D) that was the time they started the "Leakers Hunting Decree"
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@Memor-X I don't think so. They have multiple well known whales (streamers ones) quitting. Not sure that they weighted the results.
option a) something changed high up in the company, new management is running around like a chicken with no head.
option b) self boycott/moles. Not impossible since apparently (can't confirm this info) it was discovered recently that Tecent paid people for defamatory campaign against Genshin and yet little ago they opened up they store to the game....
option c) the recent China "Effeminate man in media ban/ No more than 3 hours/week gaming" is actually huge impact there and they are desperate to "fly low"
option C may seem quite odd, but could make sense. Trying to avoid drawing attention with big rewards but causing the opposite effect than hoped
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yeah unfortunately some people are really stupid and don't realize that the VAs have nothing to do with this
IIRC the english VA for diluc has completely cut himself off from the community because he was harassed so much he just stopped engaging altogether
Either you refuse the idea of the review bombing or you accept that the bombing is trying to damage the company, not the specific game.
The "entitled children" part is clearly true, people just use the anni thing to pretend they are owned big free stuff.
Yet, there is also a little logic in that - by which I mean that the sequence of events with the game have caused a crescendo of anger that just exploded
They are closed to communication to the point it is stupid right now, and those you see are partially consequences of that.
The few "rotten apples" gain traction if the whole player base is feed up with the company and feels like they have no way to be heard
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