Genshin Impact Is PREDATORY

some people are more susceptible than others to falling in addiction and let me assure you that they have very little to say in the matter i know that this fact is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable nobody wants to believe that our own behavior doesn't depend 100 percent on us but that's the truth gentian impact is an extremely well monetized game almost a predatory monetized game it uses every psychological trick in the book to hook you in and then slowly charge you meanwhile those with gambling problems or shopping addictions are all too easily written off as idiots who can't handle their money correctly non-chemical addiction is no less destructive than drug addiction by every definition of the word gotcha games are gambling it doesn't matter that it's free not in the casino or that it's on the app store so let's treat it for what it really is gambling they don't think about the prey they don't think about the people these companies are preying on they only see them as whales dehumanized whales and that misunderstanding has to stop they're not rich kids with enough money to spare they're not goddamn sea mammals they're people with vulnerabilities that this game industry is exploiting knowingly gladly greedily you know in the previous script i wrote i spoke super formally i was polite even but i think it's time to cut this [ __ ] anything less than a no [ __ ] matter of fact attitude will go ignored so i'm gonna be [ __ ] on genshin impact and the way it manipulates the people who play it the community and the casino in the game so if you think this is gonna offend you or challenge your view of the game being perfect make sure to stick around so i can make it worse and rub it in your face if you decide to leave however never forget there is nothing and i mean nothing you can do to stop me when you grow a [ __ ] pair and decide you don't want to be exploited anymore make sure to come back so you can process what i'm saying with a new mindset so why am i making this video i'm sick and [ __ ] tired of games like gentian impact that use predatory gambling mechanics to make money off of not only complete [ __ ] idiots but vulnerable people that may or may not be in the right state of mind i'm also extremely worried of the president this game's monetization can set for free to play games in the future so for anyone that thinks i'm being cynical i actually believe i'm underselling how bad something like this is and for those that think gacha isn't really a big deal or that nothing bad can come of it take a look at the things that have happened when we let garbage like this get out of hand if you think something like that will never happen again that i honestly don't know what to tell you at the end of the day if i can prevent even one person from falling for this game's predatory mechanics or even help someone who has already fallen for these things then i've done my job gentian impact is a good game there's no other way to put it the characters the world the music the combat it's all top notch this game gives me hope that there are still passionate developers out there willing to put in the time and effort required to create a high quality product however there are many issues with the way mihoyo has decided to monetize it and the way its community has decided to defend seducer monetization to no end without properly understanding what type of systems they're getting behind before i begin i wanted to properly convey two very important things number one i've been playing since october of 2020 so i've been with this game since practically the very beginning i'm level 57 at the time of recording this and i have a sizeable amount of time played as well as a lot of experience with the systems that i'm going to talk about i also spent five dollars one time to buy the welcome moon so i am not free to play i bought it two days before the reveal of the anniversary and its rewards which were practically nothing and i regretted doing so ever since number two i love the game that love is the reason why phrases like don't like it don't play it just aren't gonna work for me so no matter how harsh i may sound when talking about the game just know that i love it and i want it to be the best it can be the community i don't like as much but we'll get to that i know this is a long video so if you're looking for a specific topic check out the chapters and choose at your leisure with that being said let's begin character and weapon gotcha banners gotcha is the backbone of the game obviously you want a new character gamble for it you want a shiny four star even a five-star weapon gamble for it the game does its very best to pressure you into pulling for those sweet new characters and weapons with very manipulative wording plastered on the banner like probability increased rate up event exclusive character and a giant timer that tells you the amount of time left until the banner runs out in order to make you feel a sense of urgency and scare you into pulling not only is the gacha system just glorified gambling i have no idea why people avoid the word gambling like the plague when referring to gotcha but even after you gamble your primary gyms away most of the time it'll be between 11 to 13k at least in my case it has been you have a 50 chance to not get the 5 star character you're after even with all the probability increased [ __ ] something that's happened to me a few times is i'll end up wishing on the banner of a character i like i'll lose that 50 50 and end up having to spend a lot more of what i had initially saved up effectively killing my prima gem savings on the raiden shogun banner i lost the 50 50 after spending 12 000 primo gems and i couldn't afford to pull again so i missed out on the character entirely as a very low spender that feels like [ __ ] and it very quickly stops feeling like a 50 50. the wording used in these banners is very specific because they're trying to appeal to your fear of missing out your fomo and manipulate you into acting on your emotions and using your primo gems hastily for many everything i just said sounded very cynical and pretty crazy but seriously think about it for a second these companies that use gambling as a way to bring money in just like ea do with fifa hire psychologists for the sole purpose of manipulating you with all these little things that eventually stack up and persuade you to spend money on a glorified slot machine don't ever not even for a second believe that these companies don't know what they're doing resin the bane of any gentian player's existence and what artificially holds back our progress for the sake of making things frustrating as well as strong arms into spending money let me elaborate you need xp books to level up a character because normal combat xp is absolutely non-existent for whatever reason spend some resin on a leyline need some mora in order to upgrade anything in the game spend some resin on a lay line need artifacts for your character spend some resin on a myriad of different artifacts that you're never gonna use because the rates are abysmal need to find weapon bullets so you can craft one of the many shitty weapons into smithy because you don't want to gamble on the banners for a weapon spend some resin on a boss that will drop one every 30 years it has a 15 drop rate but since you can only try and obtain these bullets once a week it feels worse plus there are five types of billets so you're more than likely not gonna get the type of build you're looking for in other words everything that you need in order to properly build your character's kit requires you to spend resin from artifacts to ascension materials not only for your character and their skills but for the weapon you're using on them as well everything that you need is locked behind a resin and quite frankly there's not enough resin to properly do all these things in a timely fashion you either wait an entire day to store a minuscule amount of resin that will more than likely drop nothing of value or you can just buy the xp cards and the mora and some fragile resin for a few bucks not pity one at all no way the artifact system this part of the game is so absolutely miserable that i had no choice but to make it to its own segment the artifacts are crucial to every single character in the game and you have no choice but to partake in this system if you want to build your characters at anything above a bottom of the barrel level it's unavoidable quick summary of the system you go into a domain where you kill a couple of enemies and after doing so you can claim a randomized amount of artifacts by using either 20 original resin or one condensed resin which is equivalent to for the original resin something important to note is that condensed resin increases your chances of getting five-star artifacts so most people just use that this system sounds somewhat acceptable until you realize that when farming for artifacts you can't choose what specific artifact set you are getting or the specific piece that you need a pale flame goblet for example so the artifact set is randomized the rarity of the artifact is randomized and to make it even worse the main set of the artifact is randomized as well as the three to four subsets that come with it so you can get the right set piece but get the wrong main stat and or awful substance or you can get the wrong set piece with the main set you need and or awful substance after all that even if you get the right piece from the right set you still have to upgrade it and this is where everything gets even worse once you start upgrading artifacts you can't choose what subset you upgrade the game will randomly choose one of the substance the artifact came with and all you can do is hope and pray that the right substance get chosen if they don't and you end up rolling all the upgrades into flight hp or something you have to start the entire process all over again and remember this was an example of a player that would only need one piece now imagine your average player that needs four to five pieces [ __ ] yikes as a personal example i spent a month or more farming the pill flame set in preparation for the eula rerun and that time i didn't get a single usable piece and i was forced to skip her there are an infinite amount of examples of the atrocious rng that you as the player will have to endure if you want to properly build your characters but that would honestly take too damn long to list this shouldn't need to be said but common sense seems to be well extinct there is too much rng in the system and you get too little for the sheer amount of resin and time you're gonna have to spend in order to get the pieces you need to make things even worse yes it in fact can get worse this dog [ __ ] quote-unquote gameplay loop is the only thing you have to do besides the spiral abyss when you reach the end game you're wondering why don't they just make a domain that contains only one set so players don't feel as miserable when grinding to make you spend more resin they wouldn't want the player to get their desired artifacts because then they might not feel as inclined to spend money and desperation to refill said resin paying to get an advantage or for convenience this pisses me the [ __ ] off and knowing that a majority of the community are okay with this pisses me off even more one of these advantages that you can pay for is the battle pass it triples your mora xp books and enhancement tours from the free pass it gives you 680 primo gems plus four intertwined fates for a total of 1320 primo gems it also gives you a lot of talent level up materials and a four-star weapon oh and by the way the four-star weapons you can get from the battle pass are significantly better than the majority of the weapons you can craft go figure and it also gives you five fragile resin some people are gonna say well this system is meant to help you avoid the annoying grind for all these resources there's nothing wrong with it they're just helping you first off never assume that the billion dollar company using gambling mechanics has your best interest in mind because they don't instead of asking yourself do i want to spend ten dollars to avoid the annoying grind ask yourself why is the grind annoying and monotonous and surprisingly you'll reach a weird and wacky answer mihoyo doesn't want you to grind they want you to pay and they will starve you of as many resources as necessary to get that money things like these are a very clear example of mihoyo selling you the solution to problems they've created but people just ignore it you know what let's add on to that the entire gift shop tab in the shop is even more [ __ ] obvious in here you can buy many of the things that are important for progression like mora fragile resin enhancement tours and xp books so for a price you can just buy the things you need without having to go out into the world and farming for them it's important to point out that you can only buy these packs once a week however this doesn't change the fact that you shouldn't be able to buy them at all and you would never feel the need to if the game was designed well and didn't treat its player base like a wallet with arms and legs as a quick side note even if you do end up buying these packs you're getting [ __ ] value because the prices of these things are insanely high in relation to what you're getting in case you're more [ __ ] stupid than your average redditor or twitter user mihoyo starves you of all of these different resources on purpose including primo gems in order to push you to spend money out of desperation irritation or whatever it may be that you're feeling at the time it's a scummy and predatory but very effective tactic that they've employed and for whatever reason people let it slide companies like ea get dragged for this type of [ __ ] all the time but not me hoyo which brings me to my next point blatantly pay to win make no mistake gen shin impact is pay to win if you spend money on the game you will have a significantly easier time while playing than any free-to-play player many if not all of the best weapons and characters in the game are locked behind the gacha system or the battle pass so gamble and or pay you choose every single one of the five star weapons and characters from the gacha are objectively better than whatever you can get for free by playing the game one of the best polars in the game the staff of homa is locked behind a limited time weapon banner and if you know anything about the weapon banners then you know anyone that doesn't spend copious amounts of money just shouldn't pull on it because the rates are beyond awful and you're more than likely going to run out of primal gems before you get said weapon unless you put some money in and buy some primo gems because when you get to staphylocoma your time playing this game becomes a million times easier the weapon is beyond broken for characters a good example is who tell she has one of if not the highest single target dps output in the game and her first constellation makes it so her main source of damage her charge attacks consume no stamina that is blatantly [ __ ] broken and it just so happens that constellations aren't viable for people who don't spend money on the game it's almost like it's pay to win but there's no way mihoya would never right ganyu and zhang li are other examples of blatantly broken characters that are locked behind the gacha system and limited time banners ganyu is one of the best dps units in the game without a doubt in zhang li makes you borderline immortal with a shield in case i haven't made it clear yet the characters that you get for free are worthless when compared to the gacha characters that's not to say that all the free characters are bad because they aren't xiang ling for example is one of the best pyro characters in the game you just need very good artifact luck and i'm sure i don't need to explain why that makes things significantly worse for the free characters that need more investment put into them in order to make them good the fact of the matter is genji impact is pay to win and we would have never reached this point if the community wasn't so complacent and accepting of these practices important nitpicks it's an oxymoron i know silent protagonist i get that mihoyo wants people to self-insert using the traveler but an uncustomizable silent protagonist with a pre-established backstory and identity was not the way to go it's counterintuitive there's clearly a character somewhere in there but they're never shown for the sake of having some [ __ ] loser feel like hot [ __ ] after defeating a few enemies why the [ __ ] does paimon the [ __ ] sidekick have more lines than the protagonist not to mention that she even speaks for that protagonist 99 of the time even when the protagonist reunites with their sibling which is hands down one of the most irritating things i've ever witnessed at the very least commit to the silent protagonist instead of having them talk in some instances and go mute in others how the [ __ ] do you expect me to give a [ __ ] about a protagonist that has the same personality as a pothole here's a crazy idea if you want me to actually care about the main character how about you [ __ ] voice them they have voice actors i heard them at some point during the story so how about you give them lines in other words have the voice actors voice act if there is any character in the game that deserves and needs to be voice acted it's the traveler you gotta use those billions for something right battle pass why the [ __ ] do you have to buy the battle pass again every single time the previous one ends letting players earn back the currency they spent to buy the battle pass is a standard set by other free-to-play games you know what [ __ ] standards i know mihoy doesn't give a [ __ ] about those and the white knights certainly don't seem to have any either letting players earn back the currency they spent is a great way to keep them coming back and consistently playing the game not only that but it'll more than likely encourage even more people to buy the battle pass i don't get how this is hard to understand welcome moon in the shop you can buy the welcome moon for 4.99 you have to spend money to get this so why the [ __ ] does it not automatically claim the primo gems you were promised on days you don't log in i know it says 2700 primo gems over the course of 30 or so days and obviously it's to keep it coming back but seriously for a game that makes most of not all of its money from gambling and exploiting people you would at the very least expect to get what you paid for no the worst thing is i've seen people defend this dog [ __ ] system as if getting what you paid for and i may not have the chance to log in every day are hard concepts to understand i didn't make my point here very clear what i meant was there is so much rng and emotional manipulation in practically every part of the game that i would at the very least expect something that people pay money for to be exempt from set manipulation because you know people are spending money but the welcome moon is just another way mihoya tries to get you hooked on the game and consistently playing or what people call addicted like i mentioned before i i do see a lot of people defending this for whatever reason and even suggesting that the person making the complaint by the 3k crystal bundle which is 50 bucks it's [ __ ] ridiculous these people even exist and others are saying just log in bro law what a lot of these people fail to realize is that there is a thing called life that people have to live and the world doesn't stop for gention so just give me and others what they paid money for tldw the welcome moon should save the primo gems when you don't log in and give them to you when you do or it should automatically claim them they would also be very helpful if they put a disclaimer next to the purchase button they can just copy and paste the paragraph that's in their little question mark at the bottom left while i was editing the video i realized that there are a lot of things that i just didn't even mention so i'll put them in a little quick fire around right here the traveler needs a new artifact set every time you switch element you have to fast travel to a specific statute to get a specific element and the traveler also has to be in the team to change the element the traveler doesn't carry over their talent levels when changing elements enemies create invisible walls in front of themselves when charging attacks specifically the rift towns enemies like the rift town can float out of the arena in the spiral abyss it wastes a lot of time specters yeah that's it enemies with long invincibility phases in the spiral abyss auto targeting does not track the intended target ninguang's shards still track like [ __ ] the little robot spider looking things with the small yellow shield block attacks that are hitting behind them even though they're facing the opposite direction mona and ayaka dash still get stuck on terrain even when there's nothing there using burst or elemental abilities on certain characters can make your screen zoom in all the way some commissions are needed to complete achievements in world quests when they're completely random large amounts of unnecessary text during dialogue when everything can be delivered in two sentences artifacts are more likely to roll bad stats due to rng manipulation on mijoyo's part enemy shields both wooden and elemental are super tanky unless you have a very specific element on your team at all times there is a load limit in the teapot that stops you from placing more furniture and instead of raising the cap or removing the limit mihoyo keeps introducing more furniture inability to skip dialogue and move on with quests in co-op you can't claim rewards for commissions and you can't give npcs the items you need to complete certain quests bare bones multiplayer with nothing to do and lots of desync you can get afflicted with elemental debuffs even though you're using a shield the blue wish thingies are the same price as the rainbow ones i i forgot the name but the blue ones can only be used on a shitty banner the standard banner is shitty torta be whatever the [ __ ] his name is doesn't have a plunge attack when using his blades you get a meaningless amount of xp for combat in the open world the overload reaction does nothing but inconvenience the player no reliable way to get constellations for the main free roster of characters enemies can stack corrosion on you when you're using your burst enemies are immune to attacks when using a character of the same element but you can still take damage from them fish respawn times are ridiculously long barbara elemental skill applies hydra to yourself ass blaster or whatever his name is is very annoying to fight unless you have a very tanky shield like zhang lee bokker just get stuck on terrain when holding your shot like the ayaka and mona dash xinyan's e is still very inconsistent lack of communication from the developers i swear they answer their own questions on their developer discussion or their letter or whatever this next one is more of a personal gripe but the community completely forgets about existing problems in the game when mihoyo throws free [ __ ] at them without fixing the problem this happened with the anniversary people just kind of poof they just forgot about everything that happened oh and before i forget i kind of have an issue with the shipping that goes on in the game this isn't to say that shipping is inherently wrong because it's not it's just people having fun but especially in this community i've seen this like feral like just like people are [ __ ] animals if you don't ship the same two characters as this other person they [ __ ] they flip their [ __ ] lid it is disgustingly [ __ ] sad just because somebody doesn't ship the same two characters as you doesn't mean you have to go out of your way to be a complete [ __ ] [ __ ] like i myself ship like uh beto ninguang jin lisa raiden yai or like gan yuka chang right i do ship characters myself but it doesn't mean that i go out of my way to like harass or bother people that don't ship the same characters that i do that's just on some degenerate level [ __ ] and that's it god i want to play tarkov now let's move on to common things people of the community say you are ungrateful the game is free just appreciate what you have the game being free doesn't make it immune to criticism and it sure as [ __ ] doesn't make it immune to [ __ ] game design the game is first and foremost a product mihoyo didn't release the game for free out of the kindness of their hearts they made it free because some big fish in the company realized that by making it so they can lure more people into gambling mihoyo aren't your friends they don't give a [ __ ] about you only your money yes gen shin impact is a good game but it's still a product that people actively give money to and as consumers of this product no matter if you're a free-to-play player or a whale you have the right to criticize it seeing things like these do nothing but hurt the consumer these companies are constantly looking for opportunities to take advantage of you and here people are defending them if you give them an inch they'll take a mile remember you are not obligated to give these people your money it is not your responsibility to fund the game it is a choice if you like eating dog [ __ ] keep eating but don't expect others to bring themselves down to your level free-to-play players or what these people call freeloaders have no right to criticize the game because they aren't contributing monetarily yes this is a thing i've heard said many times especially during the anniversary [ __ ] show a while back to many normal people this may sound like a very [ __ ] stupid thing to say that's because it's a very [ __ ] stupid thing to say you shouldn't devalue a majority of your player base just because they don't spend money on a game that is advertised as free to play and actively makes free to play its main way to draw players into their casino let's not disregard the things these freeloaders do outside of the game like advertising the game by word of mouth to their friends and family maybe even strangers you didn't really think that the game got big off of solely advertisements on the internet and recommendations by wales did you gentian impact just won mobile game of the year do you think that all the people that voted for the game were whales absolutely [ __ ] not i guarantee you that the majority of the votes for genshin came from people who have never spent a dime on the game free to play players make up the majority of the community do you really think that all the fan art the websites and overall content came from only whales no many of these people have never spent money on the game they just have a lot of love for it without the large community made up of mostly free-to-play players and word-of-mouth advertising this game wouldn't be in its current position winning these awards and making so much money in case i haven't made it abundantly clear free to play players are just as important to the overall health of the game and community as everyone else regardless of whether they've spent money or not spending money on a free-to-play game is optional not mandatory and many people would decide to spend money more often if the game wasn't stingy and treated them well players are too focused on meta characters and min maxing i'm gonna put this as simply as i can players don't have the luxury of leveling up and arming whoever they want because the game is extremely stingy with the distribution of its resources you can't blame players for wanting to optimize and micromanage the way they spend said resources when the game gives them no other choice there is nothing wrong with paying to gain an advantage because all the things you can buy in the shop and battle pass are obtainable through gameplay whether it's xp books maura or fragile resin the game does its very best to make obtaining these things as time and resource consuming as possible xp books and mora have their own individual ley lines that you have to spend resin on and if you paid any attention to the resin part of the video then i shouldn't have to explain why it's such a piece of [ __ ] to go through if you still need more clarification consider this one resin takes 8 minutes to replenish you can hold a maximum of 160 resin at any given time no more no less it would take roughly 21 hours and 20 minutes to replenish your resin to the maximum but for the sake of this comparison let's round the time to 20 hours flat yeah i'm well aware this gives genji an edge but you'll see that it doesn't make a difference if you buy the battle pass or a pack use the fragile resin it gives you and get 60 original resin out of it that would effectively cut the time you spend waiting for a recharge by 37.5 or 7 hours in 30 minutes now that you've seen the math i want you to ask yourself why does fully recharging your resin for free take so disgustingly long why are more index speed books in different ley lines if you've been paying even the most bare minimum of attention to the video then you'll know that things are this way to push you into spending money long story short even if the things that are in the battle pass and sharp are obtainable through gameplay they take such an abominable amount of time and resources that it starts to push you into buying these things for the sake of convenience i like to call this awful and predatory game design but many players defend the system claiming this game is meant for casuals so these systems are fine if you genuinely believe this i want you to do two things one feel around and find your head two pull your head out of your ass you [ __ ] [ __ ] in what world is the artifact system with its layers upon layers of rng that require you to invest hours upon hours in order to get the piece you want considered casual in what world is the gambling oh sorry i mean gotcha with its abysmal rating character banners and weapon banners with such unfathomably deplorable rates that i'm pretty sure humanity hasn't created a word that can describe them properly yet considered casual in what [ __ ] world is it casual to potentially spend 400 plus dollars to get the character you want from a banner i can only imagine how much money it would take to get the weapon you want from a weapon banner many of the main systems in the game aren't meant for casuals so stop saying that this casuals argument only works under the assumption that said casual players are never going to want to do anything besides run around and kill small hordes of enemies in the open world are never going to upgrade their characters to anything above a bottom of the barrel level are never going to want to do any of the late game ever and are never going to want to play with any of the new characters the systems that are currently in place may be holding a sizeable amount of people for now but how long until it all falls apart how long until a new game steps in and potentially takes a chunk of players out of genshin because of its complacent and poor game design mark my words unless this game makes significant changes to its core gameplay systems it will dive faster than it realistically should and i don't want that genshin impact's identity crisis genshin wants to be three things one a character collection like other gacha games but it's extremely stingy with the currency used to summon the rates are beyond awful and the systems put in place actively prevent the players from reaching the maximum potential of the characters they gambled for by hindering their progression through layers and layers of rng 2. an rpg that requires hours and hours spent in order to reach the maximum tier of equipment like leveling up characters artifacts and weapons but the game constantly puts systems in place to prevent the player from making any sort of progress and even after they reach the end game there is absolutely nothing to do in the end it feels like the game punishes you the more you play which is weird considering they wanted to go the rpg way and the community claims time and time again that the game is for casuals when there is clearly a necessity for large amounts of time to be spent and finally an open world adventure game admittedly they do this very well the world is huge it's super fun to explore and it looks great so at the very least i can say that it does in fact succeed at being an open world adventure game because of certain decisions that were made during the development of the game the rpg and character collection aspects of it suffer a lot you want me to collect the characters but you don't give me enough primitives to get the characters i want without skipping a banner or two and or spending money so that quickly goes down the [ __ ] you want me to spend lots of time playing your game but when i get to the end there's nothing to do not to mention that once at the end you have absolutely no ways to regularly get primo gems besides the spiral abyss and events which ties back into the issue of character collection the rng also heavily hurts this part of the game because even after a thousand resin and lots of time spent you feel like you've made no progress i hope that one day mijo takes a look at what they have in place and make the appropriate changes but i'm not holding my breath i'm sure they're perfectly content helping people part with their money with what i believe to be all my points out of the way it's time for some tough love i don't give a [ __ ] whether you want to hear this or not i don't give a [ __ ] if this hurts your feelings this part of the video is specifically for those people that think mihoyo can do no wrong do you like being taken advantage of if not then why do you defend this company with every fiber of your being how far are you willing to let this company go if you're willing to let them go further then how far is too far people that white knight games and companies always make things worse and then those same people turn around and complain when they're up shit's creek with no paddle blaming other people for the mess they created people like yourself that suck up to these companies without properly evaluating what they're doing are slowly destroying the industry why do you think game companies like ea and activision blizzard keep getting away with releasing unpolished garbage because of blind fanboys like yourself with no sense of critical thought remember this and remember it well the real privilege in this consumer producer relationship is not being able to play their game for free it's them getting your money have some self-respect now that we're at the end i want you to do yourself a favor and educate yourself even further on the tactics these companies use to exploit you and the people around you i recommend you watch these videos by jim sterling and atriox that go more in depth about the lengths these companies go to in order to milk their players for money if you really want to get pissed off watch this presentation by scumfuck ceo whatever the [ __ ] his name is called let's go wailing which will open your eyes to how predatory and disgusting these companies and people are take care of yourselves ladies and gentlemen have a good one

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Published: Sun Jan 23 2022