Why you're burned out of Genshin Impact

October 23 2020. back when I only had like 2 000 hours in Souls legs I remember seeing the advertisements for this new gacha game Mona and jangling would spam my YouTube feed relentlessly and out of sure spite I decided to download this silly little anime game I remember when I first entered the game World walking along this beach while the annoying little fairy creature would explain the game's first quest one of the very first prompts that appeared on my screen was to input my birthday because maybe when that day came I would get a little something special I remember audibly chuckling at that because my birthday would be in March and there's no way that I would be playing this silly little game for even more than a month oh my God [Music] before we get started with this discussion here's a video of me touching grass okay if you click this video there's a good chance that you fit on either one of these three categories you're either burned out on gentian you think that burning out on a gunshin is a possibility or you're one of my five alt accounts that I use to boost my views either way I'm willing to assume that you've had your time with Kenshin and it was a good time where do I even begin with Genji dude this game gave me some of the fondest gaming memories I have I remember when I got my first 5 star ever I had just finished the monster quest and it was on my way to leeway and I was in this exact bridge when I tried to put me on one of the Batters I don't remember if it was child or cleat but I remember getting kaching and I literally screamed from excitement I put her in my party immediately and I attacked with her and her moveset went so hard I remember talking to some friends in college when I mentioned genjun in passing and we all realized in delightful surprise that we all played the game from then on we made a Discord server and almost every week almost every day we will log into yenshin and play together I was the most experience of the bunch so they would come to me asking what were the best artifacts for a character or advice for who they should pull for and we just had such a blast playing it that was the first time I had ever played together with friends on a Discord call and that was back on the patch before the launch of Inazuma I remember being on a call sitting at this table in months at me as Albedo and my other buddy as venti and we did a little summoning ritual for our third friend to get her first 5 star ever kazua and it worked and then there was this time when we were on this island and I said I feel like Vibes and my venti friend got her in the next bowl and also remember like a time when it was like 6 a.m of a Wednesday and I was going to have classes at 7 30 and I woke up just to pull for Raiden during her debut I had to contain my joy not to wake up my family and I immediately posted on our group chat that I had gotten her only to find out that my other friend had done the exact same thing and gotten her too A lot of people talk trash about the Inazuma Arkin Quest but Jesus Christ when I saw that photo cut I achieved levels of hype the likes of which I thought were only possible through the use of heavy narcotics those times at the height of the pandemic were some of the fondest gaming memories I've ever had this game dude this game is beautiful it's fun it's exciting it's repetitive it's monotonous what happened to record the footage that you're seeing right now I am coming back from one of the many hiatuses I've had with this game and what pisses me off specifically is that I always stop playing right before there's an event that involves one of my favorite characters but this time thankfully I just got back in time to see two of my favorite characters Eula and kokomi me when I see Fish women but every time I come back from one of these hiatuses doesn't matter if there's a new nation a new area a cool new event I always find myself having less and less patience to go through all the process that genshin puts his players through where did all the magic go what made it so that my response to accidentally triggering your cutscene is no longer sucrose my beloved but instead this so I thought about it for a little bit and my first theory was the following remember that background the first time I had Hiatus from genjin it was a little after the shanghai's debut patch that patch was from January 5th to maybe February 15th I'm not entirely sure all I know is that I remember that the chasm was about to come out and I couldn't give less of a at that point I was a bit burned out but I couldn't really pinpoint the reason why oh I forgot about that okay but that was my reason what about all the other people who burned out and aren't interested in Elden ring a few months back I saw a video that doesn't exactly answer that but it illustrates my second theory very well it was this video and it showed 99 problems genjin had for an entire year and how many of them were fixed out of the total 99 Problems 11 were fixed 78 were left untouched and nine were made worse the math doesn't add up because the last problem were people not being subscribed to his channel but of course not they should be subscribed to mine watching that video made me realize and somewhat understand the reason behind this feeling of burnout that the game gave me and the feeling that I have is that mihoyo oh I'm sorry ahoyo verse doesn't care about his players even if that isn't necessarily true over these past two years one thing that I've seen a lot of players consistently complain about is the lack of end game content and that is true the only piece of in-game content there is is the abyss there's also the card game but I'm not touching that with like a 10 foot pole the last thing I need in my life is Anime gwent the abyss is nothing more than a ridiculous and unfairly timed DPS check my account is good I have good characters and they're quite well minimaxed and I did spend a few dollars on this game somewhere between 200 and too many yet for this entire time I've only been able to fully 3630 Abyss like three or four times you might hear me say this and come to the conclusion that I have a skill issue to which I say why don't you come 1v1 me in a better game no it's not about skill look at this I haven't even opened genshin as of the recording of this part of the script but I already know that there's going to be something stupid on floor 12. you can't hit the enemy for half the time you're forced to wait as they dig around or run away or activate some stupid iframe exactly when I'm about to use my Eula nuke but that's just the abyss and frankly it's only a part of the problem with genshin let's say that you just begin the game and you happen to post karamosha on your first 10 pulls congratulations I am not jealous let's see what you need to level him oh this this isn't good to upgrade a character skill pass level 6 you need the weekly boss materials scatter mush needs materials from a boss that is all the way in sumero the fourth Nation you'll visit and that's a minimum of 40 hours of gameplay away and no you can't just go there in the beginning of the game because that boss is locked behind a very long story Quest that only unlocks after you've done everything related to the main quest in all the other three nations and in sumeru you might look at me and say okay but that's why beginner players should be pulling on the permanent Banner since those characters are my brother in Christ Dia is on the permanent banner and she uses those same late game materials to level her skills if you go there with the hopes of getting Dilo crocheting you might get by Iron Jesus after he gives you the fire cat girl instead you'll be left stuck with her at a low level having wasted a chance to get a character that could actually carry your team and even if you're pulling on an event Banner that has a character from the beginning of the game like hotel or child they still put all the characters from the permanent Banner as a 50 50 chance on the event banners so there is a chance that you might fall in event planner with the hopes of getting a good character and RNG just you again and gives you dear this progression system is not a problem just with the materials a lot of the times the events involve characters that were most recently released and if you haven't reached a certain point in the story yet you can't participate in the event because it's locked behind several hours of story quests and there is also the times where you can start a quest because a certain character is busy doing something else oh and if you can't begin or complete an event in time you will miss out on lore and Primo gems and materials forever because they don't rerun the system that they're doing for the banners and leveling and Quest progression is just stupid there's no other way to put it I'm not here to find a solution I'm just here to complain and don't even get me started on the weapon Banner every single new weapon released is tailor-made for a specific character and the problem with that is that a lot of the times for the other characters they are about as good as a 4 star weapon and at worst they're just completely useless they have these long and hyper-specific subscriptions that are made to work very carefully and deliberately with one character and the rest get to enjoy the benefits if they're lucky but that's not all the weapon Banner also has this stupid pity system that is better than nothing but it's bad it doesn't guarantee you unless you fail to get the weapon you wanted twice and it doesn't translate between banners this means that if you are being particularly unlucky you will get the weapon of your choice after 240 volts and seeing how generous the game is with giving you the gacha currency if you're completely free to play player pulling on the weapon Banner is just a complete and utter waste of your resources it's not like getting the weapon will make you completely abyss and even if you do what you're going to do with the 600 Primos that you get as a reward I'll tell you what you're gonna do you're gonna get to the Bay clubs and a Tomah okay sorry for the rent all those things are mentioned are just problems with the way the game works and it's not the end of the world more importantly they're not the reason why you and I might be feeling burned out they are just annoying the reason is most likely what I said a few minutes back ancient doesn't have Diversified and dynamic end game content they will not make Diversified and dynamic end game content because they don't have to as far as I know genjin only has one competitor one other game that is a gotcha breath of the wild clone with Elemental Magic and Net game is Tower of fantasy there might be other games like it but since I've never heard of them they don't exist and even if they do exist they are not big enough to compete directly with Genji even Tower of fantasy isn't pulling numbers as big as genjin is and essentially what that means is that the engine has no reason to innovate their current Formula works and it's already hugely successful and trying something new and risky might break their careful and affluent balance that they have already established and that's why you'll keep having the same Quest format the same combat the same event over and over and over again because it's stable because it works for them I stopped a bit after the shinhei debut and I came back on the island that I kept playing for a while stopped and came back on the archipelago rerun and then kept playing until the nilo banner me when I see Nino clones I got her so that she only worked well with dendro and then I left the game again only to come back on naida's rerun I got her late for a little and leveled her nilo then I stopped for a while and came back to record this video it's not that I miss the way things were because as we've discussed jack has changed but I miss the way that this game made me feel I had tons of fun playing in single player in terms of fun playing in multiplayer but now that feeling of magic and wonder knowing that I could Escape that is beautiful and colorful world it's gone I 100 at most of the regions but right now I can't even be bothered to open that chest right over there I barely touched Tomatoes especially in the desert and to be perfectly honest I haven't the slightest intention of doing so and the likelihood is that I will no longer be playing this game by the time Fontaine comes out I might try to log back to pull the hydroarcon or this hot dude but anyway to see that my passion for this game is gone okay so while I was editing this video I found out that there's going to be a Scaramouche rerun on this patch so I might stick around just to try to get him but after that I promise it's over me when twinks with abandonment issues [Music] [Music]

Channel: Haedal

Views: 481,540

Keywords: Genshin Impact, Anime, Burnout, Video Essay

Id: UtfxvPj3hR4

Length: 12min 9sec (729 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 19 2023