#rhythm games + gacha games are my WEAKNESS dude

[holytrickster]

catch me getting nothing done now actually because they made ???? LLSIF 2??? i downloaded it earlier god I hope it's good 😭 I never touched SIF for YEARS after high school but then I was really disappointed over it being shut down that game was my SHIT and I never liked how lives worked in all stars so I was just like ok guess no more silly love live mobile game for me

[jinkookiest]

Hey i want to say something in regards with mihoyo and the anniversary fiasco. English isn't my first language so. Sorry about that.

I'm seeing people on social media trying to defend mihoyo. The first type are the ones who say "gachas are gachas, you're the ones to blame for having expectations!" To which I say: just because you got used to something bad, doesn't mean it stopped being bad. Yes. I've played many, many gacha games in the past (Been an avid fan of rhythm games since I was a kid) but I've never defended the system. If people want to critique something bad, don't blame them. Specially if you know they're right but just “too weak to accept it.”

But these people,,, they don't bother me as much as the bootlickers. The people defending mihoyo saying we are at fault for being greedy. What those people are forgetting is that this isn't only about the rewards: this is about handling everything bad and then hiding behind the curtain until people eventually forget about it.

(mild spoilers for Inazuma here) First, there was Ei's quest problem and how they butchered a character for money's sake. Which. Not too much of a problem. Okay. I'm sure a lot of people liked the quest and loved Ei and that's cool. But there was a fuss, and mhy hide behind the curtain.

But then, there she comes. Kokomi. Now, let me be clear as the water that comes down from the mountains: I don't give one single shit about meta. The problems I find in her character are more related to general characterization than to her kit. I don't care. This isn't me defending the "meta slaves" or whatever, but pointing out that even if her baner is the worst seller in the game's history (don't know if worse than Keqing), they still haven't adressed it, and don't plan to "fix" the character any time soon.

And finally, the anniversary rewards. Which didn't start about the rewards at all but in the means mihoyo was using to give those rewards. Which is basically: you work for us and give us your money and time and maybe you'll have a chance to win something. I kindly remind you that content creators in fandoms already give a lot of things for free. They are the BACKBONE of any fandom. Treating your general player base wrong is one thing (a bad one) but also treating bad the creators who give you millions by free promotion with their work is just plain stupid.

And after all that, when people FINALLY start complaining seriously you not only hide behind the curtain but also censored all ways for those people to be able to express their frustrations. That's just evil, if you mind me.

Because we're not talking about an indie low budget company. We're talking about a billionaire company. There is a team of rich dudes behind Paimon's voice who made the conscientious choice of doing this shit because companies keep getting away with it (the contests, the unpaid labor) all the time.

Do you really think bad ratings in android have made them break a sweat???? No! They're fine! I can assure you you don't have to worry about millionaires. Instead, why don't you stop calling genshin's playerbase greedy and support creators who spend time, money and work into giving us content constantly? Stop trying to gaslight people into thinking that we asked too much from the beginning, because what we asked for it's nothing in comparison of what we give.

(by the way, this isn't an excuse for people to be disgustingly racist at mhy and its devs. Nothing is an excuse to be fucking racist. Stop behaving like assholes and focus on the real problem.)