Obviously, Genshin Impact has a knack for embarrassing itself, around the time of its birthday. This time, it was not the amount of rewards offered at the moment of blowing out the candle that angered the players, but rather a statement from the publisher, shortly after the event.
In an interview with GamespotHoyoverse has indeed declared to turn its back on the contents end game additional on Genshin Impact. And this turnaround did not go unnoticed within the community, and sparked a lot of drama around the RPG.
Abyss and that’s it?
Hoyoverse felt that the Abyss is more than enough to allow players “hardcore” to measure the effectiveness of their teams, in a content late game reserved for the elite. In the interview, the publisher argues this controversial choice by explaining that more endgame content “could create a surplus of anxiety among players“.
And it is precisely this little sentence that set fire to the powder on social networks. Many players and streamers then wondered how additional (but optional) “hardcore” content could stress players more, on a title that already relies on the oh so frustrating mechanics of the gatcha game.
An entire category of players put on a diet
The problem is that the most assiduous players have been asking for more content for a long time. end game to test their limits. They are the ones who stepped up to the plate following this statement from Hoyoverse. The problem is that from the publisher’s point of view, this category of players is in the minority.
Very recently, a redditor brilliantly summed up the problem.
He explains in his post that associating rewards provided with the completion of content end game could be badly experienced by the vast majority of players. On paper, Hoyoverse is not wrong, since reserving rewards for a category of players who have a lot of characters and artifacts could lead to frustration among others.
But here, nothing obliges Hoyoverse to complete these completions end game by kilos of primogems. The success of endgame content could very well result in a few anecdotal cosmetics, or a handful of artifacts. Everyone would find something there. And fans uninterested in the laborious combat wouldn’t feel frustrated.
With its radical response, Hoyoverse gives the impression of frankly turning its back on a whole section of its community. And the publisher thus offers himself a controversy that he could very well have avoided. To close a birthday party that had succeeded in satisfying everyone, it’s not crazy.
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