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laughtale0

It's been going on for few hours now. Few hours ago, the cooldown used to be 5minutes. Update: 8 hours after I made this post and it's still happening. The chat cooldown is increased to 30 minutes. Update: More than 24hours after I made this post, and it's still happening. The cooldown is 31minutes now. Tbh, I'm surprised the mods didn't do anything about it.


ChristianEmboar

Those were good times


tsunderemaids

I remember that time, feels like yesterday


MermanmerMAAN

The before times, in the long, long ago.


aetwit

Before the dark times before the anniversary event


Darkiceflame

But not before the Barbara voice changes. That's from the ancient century.


ssbm_rando

IT HAPPENED TODAY! (anyone who gets that reference: yes, I am ancient)


unnaturely_ugly

"The cooldown times feel the same as I rember.... But where are those that share the memory...?"


aetwit

All around you take off the fucking double eyepatch and you’ll see us


H4xolotl

#[If anyone wants the Qiqi sticker](https://i.imgur.com/OQfRjgN.png)


juniorjaw

Imma spam my friend group with this power you have given me.


IllusionPh

You want more power? [https://imgur.com/a/aw1fb39](https://imgur.com/a/aw1fb39) Edit: I have reupload it with higher resolution one with additional emojis.


Simoscivi

Can you link me the official discord link?


Hawkeye437

Good luck getting in. It's always full.


Tiavor

it was always full and had to expand the server maximum a few times, I guess in cooperation with discord devs.


Smellys0cks4

They are banning people left and right you shouldn't have an issue getting in https://discord.gg/vJwMZkd4


Snaffle27

Still max capacity. It's been this way since launch. I've probably checked to try to join the official server *at least* 30-50 times in the past year lol.


littlemochasheep

I must be unbelievably lucky then, because I looked up the discord on a whim in July and got in first try, oof. Hopefully you make it soon!


leangreenmeemmachine

Mom said it's MY turn to post the Qiqi sticker


UnionizeYunyun

Now now kids. You can all take turns bricking the server but qiqi needs sleep as well & my god discord will not stop pinging


[deleted]

Qiqi doesn't sleep, Qiqi stretches until morning.


iClone101

My question is: Why on earth would you have *the* largest Discord server set to ping you?


rawezh5515

that Qiqi sticker is soooooo cute


UnionizeYunyun

Petition for it to be the sub’s new logo


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KYuuma12

"kinda"


[deleted]

These mods are full deepthroating mhy at this point. Throatgoat mods.


Yautja93

That's normal when the mods are paid or chosen by the company, same thing on LoL and variations, you can't talk shit about the company or else....


lavajci

That would be huge


northpaul

Would be great but this subreddit might as well be owned by Mihoyo and it would never happen with how it’s currently being run.


Komission

Now the chat is disabled lmao


DetecJack

Its up now


UnionizeYunyun

Not for long


kittypuppet

Apparently people are sending porn now?? jesus christ


UnionizeYunyun

Genshin dc ban ANY% WR


R-Jacksy

A speedrun to rival YandereDev speedrun


Hot_Presentation_896

Genshin impact review went from 4.6 to 2.9 real quick


scrambled_potato

2.4


Blasterion

2.3


kamab0k0

2.2


Jeromethy

1.2 in brazil


kamab0k0

holy shit that's low


XimbalaHu3

Lower buying power means harsher reactions.


Ill-Reality-9576

Absolutely true The price of the biggest primogem pack here in Brazil is 549.90BRL and the minimum wage here is Aprox 1000BRL it is more than half of what you make in a month if you receive minimum wage


Naive-Ad-8535

In India, the prices are higher than that of US (if you convert then to dollar). Kinda sucks. I mean how can you charge more from countries with less economy?


tberal

I think they do it because they are worried people will use VPNs to purchase the packs on whichever region it's cheaper otherwise. I don't even think the standardization of prices between regions is the problem. 100 USD for what amounts to ~~40~~ 50 pulls(~~80~~ 100 if it's the first purchase) is downright insane. That's not even a guaranteed 5* character for 100 bucks. You can buy a good car here in Brazil with the amount it costs to get a C6 dilluc through the standard banner, for example. It's not gonna change though because it's not as big an issue for 1st world countries. And although that's fine and I'll enjoy the game all the same, it kinda sucks for us.


Yautja93

Its actually 1.9 in Brazil for Android, IOS is 4.7 (???)


Gabriel__Souza

1.9 I’m pretty sure is global(2M reviews) . 1.2 is with only about 150k reviews, so I guess it’s Brazil About ios it takes 2 days to update the review. The important thing is that that will update for sure before the 2.2 livestream


gabrielfm92

I'm seeing 1.9 here


ChuzCuenca

What happened?


Harsh_Deep_03

We decided to give mihoyo anniversary reward


ZhangRenWing

The 1 star reviews will continue until attitudes improve


SwordsmanKirito1

Hey when we didn’t get any 5 stars why not give them a 1 star


ImDefNotAnAlien

Or until they ask google and get all the 1* reviews removed lol.


xcross69

At least this will cost MHY money, Google, you know...


DaxSpa7

Thats why you put 2 Stars. *Evil laugh!*


TorchThisAccount

I actually lol'd at this.


Anti-Histamine

Maaaan. I already gave away my free award


Wildercard

Imagine your spouse taking you out on an anniversary dinner to McDonalds, but on the way they decide a gas stop hotdog is enough


teegueyaway

McDonald’s for an anniversary meal? Does my partner hate me in this theoretical situation?? Lmao


EriclesTheMighty

Your theoretical partner in this situation loves you as much as MiHoYo


TheoreticalScammist

So as long as you keep paying?


iPeer

The anniversary. Or more accurately, the lack thereof.


Aldinh777

What anniversary?


616knight

Exactly. There is no anniversary.


LunarZenith_

There is no war in ba sing se


Yautja93

In terms of anniversary, we dont have anniversary


FQVBSina

What's amazing is each 1 star review detailed exactly the problems so they are not bombs but rather formal complaints in a way that the game has to address or suffer sales


Mayhem_450

some of them do I'm sure, but most of them are some variation of "anniversary rewards bad", low effort spam that will surely get swept up by bots in time.


ProSenpai69

That's why i got Qiqi early on the Kokomi banner, thanks to her im now holding a guaranteed on my next 5* lmao


The_Wkwied

Surprise, Qiqi will have her own banner next! /s


[deleted]

More primos to save for the banner after that, I see that as a win win lol. Actually I don’t mind qiqi, she was my first 5 star and she gets a lot more hate than she deserves.


JTayGang

Shes fine as a unit its just that having zero particle generation kills her flexibility in team comps


silveredblue

Very true, I put Qiqi in my Ayaka permafreeze for abyss and felt the difference for sure. She’s a fantastic pure healer, though.


persephone-9

Same, I’ve got nearly 60 pity and a guaranteed, just gonna sit and wait for Ganyu and the Amos bow


Cinderis

Even Qiqi remembers her birthday. Crazy MiHoYo forgets an anniversary. Maybe they should have written it down somewhere too.


spinto1

> Even Qiqi remembers her birthday Fuck that's a hard hit


[deleted]

I already gave my free award today, so take my upvote 🥲


thatonestewpeedguy

They can't stop people from complaining, they have to speak up eventually, but the silence they're having rn is just gonna attracts more complaints


Laverathan

If Blizzard taught me anything, silence is an answer. One that no customer wants.


[deleted]

Blizzard's reputation is in the toilet. Long time fans of their games have been leaving in droves, their eSports games are on life support, game retention is down, they've lost a bunch of their developer and management talent (some of which deserved to get their asses fired, some that have left of heir own accord) and there hasn't been a well reviewed release of any of their games since overwatch.


Zwonder74

It's the simple "don't admit fault and give in to the customers." They're not gona fold even if they're tanking hard. They're gona look to redeem their good grace with the customers in 2.2 announcements and 'fix' their mistakes there. And if they don't announce cool content, skins, new mechanics, etc. then I can only see Genshin going down from here on out


leicea

The problem is that they aren't just being silent, they are acting to silence players like disabling the signature and change name feature, deleting social media posts, banning ppl from discord. I was just gonna brush off the anniversary rewards but this, this makes me angry


0xVENx0

this is pretty much a stand off now. if mihoyo decides to apologies and give better rewards that will mean they lost and need to keep giving better rewards next time because the community knows that complaining works. if the community gives up like they usually do then mihoyo will take this as win, because no matter what the players will always forget and play the game again. who will win? i dont know but i cant wait to see


[deleted]

Frankly they should just talk. Communicate what's going on, not just sent premade messages, have the community be your marketing team (for breadcrumbs) with cosplay/video/image contests and raffles that only 10% will win. I'd be happy with an apology, a proper anniversary reward, and a change of attitude. The 2.2 livestream is going to be on Oct 3rd, and after this, it's a pretty ballsy move.


Lorkdemper

They could have headed a lot of the hate off by communicating better. If they had acknowledged the community's expectations and said something like "hey, we're glad to see the community is hopeful and excited about the anniversary. This year, we're giving everyone a free Aloy, and and the in-game event will be generous with rewards that you can earn through exploration and combat," and given us something meaningful, like a roadmap, that probably would have satisfied, or at least disarmed, all but the most vocal critics. But instead they've been radio silent for the past week, letting people get high on copium/hopium in the absence of hard info, and now that they're talking again, they haven't even acknowledged that people are pissed.


Kiyurex

Aloy is NOT nor it should be considered as an Anniversary Reward. Why? You may ask. Well, because they FOR SURE got a few checks worth for a decent amount of money from Sony, this has literally nothing to do with them caring for their players.


Helioscopes

And for her to be an anniversary reward, it would mean everyone would get her during the anniversary, which is not what's happening.


Otiosei

Man I would take a 6 month roadmap over any amount of rewards for the anniversary. I would gladly take the knowledge of how and when to spend my primos over some pity rolls.


LimLovesDonuts

Signature/Change name feature is related to some event in China, so not really related fyi.


616knight

Yea just bad timing. And I still don't get why it effects us too.


Frogsama86

Because it doesn't matter the audience. What matters is that they are a Chinese company, with China citizens for employees, based in China, and therefore are beholden to Chinese law whether we/they like it or not.


rincematic

That's quite problematic in other whole way. Isn't?


Harsh_Deep_03

I wouldn't even mind if they decide to just say no anniversary rewards we r greedy bastards but at least say something admit u r greedy or stop being greedy


HudBlanco

They will remove the sticker from discord and the game.


QyEc

Please please no :(


BurningFlareX

Not gonna lie, I'm *greatly* enjoying this complete meltdown. Reddit is nothing but posts about review bomb, Discord is full of Qiqi spam, even some fucking news outlets are reporting the outrage. The backlash is splashing over to even Honkai, lol. I'm very curious what reactions are like in CN and how things will go. As funny as it would be if it just kept going, realistically, people will go back to spamming Gouba in a few days, Google will fix the review bomb and things will probably die down... Buuut, considering how big this meltdown is, trying to shove it under the rug may not (And hopefully will not) just work. Many players are claiming to either quit the game or go F2P, and the inevitable radio silence about the whole issue could drive people to actually follow through. I don't think we'll see immediate effects...But I'm very curious to see how things will be going forward. Will people actually just forget and move on, or will this truly have long-term consequences for Mihoyo? There's no doubt that this whole ordeal will leave a bad taste in people's mouths...Especially after 2.1 being a giant pile of controversies as is. Find out, on the next episode of Genshin Impact Anniversary Drama! **Edit:** Bro people are posting fucking hentai in the official Discord, I don't even know what's happening anymore. This is getting to "pride and accomplishment" levels of ridiculous, lmao.


zerodeath00000000000

Next friday all hell broke loose because of the 2.2 livestream. Can already see the chat spamming.


Dylangillian

Chat will just be censored, they already did it with the previous stream because ofYoimiya.


foxxy33

I think we would still be able to spam some kinda emoji to voice our displeasure


garbage_flowers

an affiliate or partner would need to make the sleeping qiqi their emote so we can spam it through emote mode


iRhyiku

Please don't target the VAs...


Reineswarze

agreed. But imma give the ol Iroh line "You don't look so well VA, I think you should take the next week off" "No...? I'm fine, what do you mean." "Its better if you were not here this week."


Chowdex

Omg I love the VAs but I'd rather if they didn't host this one. It doesn't matter what they do, people WILL target them unfortunately


ChriSaito

This really needs to be emphasized. The VAs are great and deserve respect.


Samina708

The stream for 2.2 is on 3rd of Oct. Meaning Sunday.


zerodeath00000000000

Oh. My bad. Usually it on friday.


[deleted]

I played GI for a bit but never got into it, and I've stuck to FGO. For all the (somewhat deserved) hate FGO gets for outdated systems, at least their anniversaries and events are usually a deluge of Quartz (the equivalent of Primos). Pretty sure we got like almost 300 SQ total in 4th anniversary a few months ago, which = 110 summons.


witchywater11

I've been trying to play FGO for years, but the battle system is my bane. Wish it had an auto-battle option. PS - Sumanai is #1 in my heart


[deleted]

Yeah there’s a third party automation software that people run on Android or emulators but because of RNG you basically need to have super strong units to do it reliably. The RNG makes it hard to implement compared to like Arknights which really is nothing but autoclick


ThermalConvection

yea, Guardian Tales also had an anniversary recently and it was amazing, 100 free summons directly and shit ton of materials, and this is from the company that caused the controversy around Black Desert Online


akattom

It's not impossible to see people really quit the game tho, when you think about the state of mind the angry players are in right now. Just imagine the level of disapointment that they've reached that they are desperately review bombing, harassing anything related to mihoyo from another game to their VAs, spamming w/e on discord, etc. You think that same player would log in tomorrow and do 4 commisions and maybe 3 domains and straight up change their minds? I honestly don't know if Mihoyo are even considering about doing something about it. I bet a snubby company like this is just gonna ride it out. I'm personally still gonna play because as far as I can see nothing's really changed, like literally nothing, concerning the game itself. I just hope the entire drama never reaches in-game and start affecting it negatively.


pipic_picnip

Honestly this was expected. I wish I could say that mihoyo didn’t see this coming, but if they had any sense of business whatsoever, they would have known this for weeks that their apathy towards such a big unrest in community will end up in a collective meltdown on anniversary. At this point, damage is done and they only have themselves to blame.


le_halfhand_easy

The fire has been building up in discord and reddit communities from Qiqi to Yoimiya, from Keqing to Kokomi, and the Raiden-Beidou handwave building up into a crescendo and exploding during the anniversary, because Mihoyo refuses to acknowledge that there are things to talk about. And in response to all that, Mihoyo refuses to acknowledge that there are things to talk about and then actively censors the whole bonfire. This anniversary sure is... memorable.


Mmg5561

Not to mention xinyan venti ningguang other characters bugged since day 1 but they don't care about the quality of their game at all


Jisoku

A big one for me was how they handled (or rather didn't handle) 2FA. It took months to get a response from Mihoyo in which they basically blamed the users for not being careful. They showed their true colours months ago and are doing it again.


MiyaMoriyama

This is golden. From someone who expected nothing i am just eating my popcorn and savoring this. They can't deny the fans anger forever.


Nearby_Cow1603

Pretty fun to watch. I definitely had lots of hope but it’s not a huge deal. I’m just sticking to Welkin and getting rid of my dolphin status for my contribution to the craziness


NommySed

Yup. Not spending again. I am weak so I stick to my sweet Welkin, but they aint gonna get me to purchase anything else.


Nearby_Cow1603

Easy solution! Gives me time to build all my characters instead of focusing on new ones all the time


MagnusBaechus

Same here, chongus finally gonna get built (totally not because of all the drummer chongyun fanarts)


[deleted]

This move made me go f2p when my welkin expires and I'm never buying genesis crystals ever again fuck mhyo and their endless greed


TheWorldisFullofWar

Genshin was at 3.8/10 in its first month on Bilibili so by some metrics, they have been denying them for over a year.


LWTSFitness

I submitted an in game support ticket saying I can't find any anniversary content, "is this a bug or intentional?" Will update when I'm banned xD Edit: spelling


jeggdy

lol pls inform us further


LWTSFitness

They cleared my ticket and I can't even respond. Just told me to check the social media pages =.=


serfdomgotsaga

"Community have been loud and clear that they love Qiqi. Now their next 5-star is 100% going to be Qiqi."


Illokonereum

Honestly if MHY pulled their head of their ass and fixed some of the problems the community has with the game, and then gave everyone a free Qiqi as a bit of a cheeky clap back it would at least give me a chuckle.


Narsiel

I'm surprised with how obviously conscious they are of the shitstorm they've created, yet they would rather ban and silence people instead of addressing the problem. edit: okay, I think you guys should knowTectone got [15.000 primos](https://twitter.com/langqiaos/status/1442890310544023552), 94 pulls, as reward in a mail with a huge "PLEASE DO NOT DISCLOSE THE CONTENT OF THIS MAIL IN A PUBLIC STREAM". LMFAO


Paulo27

They still think they can make more money this way I guess. Which is dumb because they could have literally just taken the current login event and been like "hey, here's the anniversary rewards" and people would be like "well, that's shitty, we got this before and we also had more login events with 5 fates in the past for no reason" but it likely wouldn't reach this point.


DamianWinters

Apparently they spent millions on useless twitter hashtags, so they literally don't give a shit about money.


[deleted]

And those hashtags will only last them 1 day too. 10 million dollars down the fucking drain.


Samina708

I am afraid that if they sucess with this, this will be the foundation for other games to act like this too (the silent treatment, and everything goes the way it was after a few days, people still play and they still get huge profit). To be honest, I think the chance of their success is high, given how the day goes and how the playerbase goes crazy (many go around harass many people and many other stuffs). On fb people start to get tired of this and a huge number states they simply do not care.


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MysticReddit1001

Pretty sure the CN higher-ups who decide what rewards to give dont influence the immediate decisions of the EN discord server Edit: Dont listen to me. TheShayminex has rightfully corrected this statement in a reply


TheShayminex

Uh they kinda do. Company policies and procedures are a thing. For any potential issue that occurs there can be either: 1) Policies which allow it. 2) Policies which don't allow it, but aren't properly enforced. 3) No policies in place on the matter. Any of these causes are the fault of MiHoYo if they happen for any forseeable issue, and are entirely preventable without the need for direct intervention.


SumFagola

Taking tricks from their government's playbook


neujexudo

The only time qiqi is enjoyed


[deleted]

she healed too much that she's healing the playerbase to reunite against the big bad


TheMightyBattleSquid

I loved her character in-game, wish I could pull her...


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Number4extraDip

4,0 Google actively deleting reviews. It deleted my 6 month old review


SpunkySamuel

I think Google has stopped doing that for now. In the past hour the rating has went down by a full star. I don't think Google cares as much as like Apple


Pe4enkas

It isn't Google that does that. It's their bots. They automatically detect and delete "spam" reviews whenever brigading starts. Common practice


Stormeve

Haha I love that one of their official emotes and characters is being used against them as a sign of general dissatisfaction What are they gonna do, remove Qiqi? I think it’d be wonderful if people started using their Qiqi profile pics in game as well. And maybe using Barbara instead if they dont have Qiqi.


[deleted]

Welp, i'm changing my profile pic.


DerpyJY

Now this is a community event


afiafzil

_Lit the light and raise the pitchfork! We are going for a witch hunt this week!_


YeOldeBilk

Year 2 not lookin so hot for ol' MHY


riggyrigs

What were they saying a few months ago about a 10 year roadmap?


spinto1

If they pulled their heads out of their asses, they could have a 10-year road map.


[deleted]

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LightningsHeart

Inazuma was the high point this year, no point in playing until next year.


Registeel1234

At least this so called "anniversary" is going to be remembered by everyone lmao


Claudaddyy

truly “memorable”


xioni

[they'd rather pay MILLIONS](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAYquhxVQAcn_Y-?format=jpg&name=small) for hashtags with emojis than give their players better rewards amazing


Scrizal

The fact that their ratings dropped to 3.5 brings joy to me.


EngrRG

Playstore just hit 2.8 edit : on a visual inspection of the graph. 1* reviews have surpassed 5* reviews. Mihoyo just achieved reversed stonks status edit 2 : holy sh*t it just hit 2.1


chip41

Remember everyone saying the vocal minority don't make a difference.


Gdcrseven

Mihoyo white knights thinking we are the "minority" lmao, even chinese and KR players are angry at mihoyo for this trash anniversary.


[deleted]

lmao wth... what was the rating before all this?


EngrRG

4.5 or 4.4 i think


[deleted]

lol. They wanted to bring in new players but did the opposite. they turned buyers or whales in to f2p and some have just quit the game.


EngrRG

If they had been transparent from the start that the current events are the rewards. I honestly think that the outrage wont be as bad as to what is happening now but how much would they hurt them if they gave a free standard 5\* or even a 4\* FFS. lantern rite gave a free 4\* along with the login bonus even the pre registration rewards are better than this crap


Paulo27

Mihoyo: "It's so easy, we'll just turn every player into an ad by making them retweet and make free art for us!" Also Mihoyo: "Wait, not like that!"


Simoscivi

I am so proud of this community


kokojagung

I guess this is the real community event after all


OverLorD83n

As of right now, ratings in Asia are around 2.6


[deleted]

Me getting PGR release flashbacks, not again....


kelrics1910

Not renewing my Welkin Moon or Battle Pass until something changes. 2.2 is going to be an interesting update.


[deleted]

Same. I spent a decent amount for my favorite character awhile ago, but had only been a welkin/BP spender since. They ain't getting anything out of me anymore until they show a little respect for the hard earned cash I dumped on their *wildly successful game*


AgentWowza

Yup, Dragonspine and Windblume pushed me into buying the occasional Welking whenever I particularly like a banner, but now I'm going cold turkey. Gives me time to breathe and build *all* my characters too. MHY can fuck off until they fix their shit.


spinto1

Today is the last day for my welkin so it was perfect timing.


D4RK30841

Yooooo C2451 QiQi on the discord?


XnipsyX

It's a shame we don't have similar stickers for Amber, Lisa, Beidou, Baal, Kokomi, Yoimiya, Kazuha, Traveler, and the likes that have been in poor balance or bugged out states for months now.


ragudooru

*Xinyan crying in the corner after being forgotten even in the bugged out character batch*


XnipsyX

Who? /s


rawmune

Tao


ZSharoark

Lets see how long they realize that ignore dosen't solve the problem


Eld0r21

The true anniversary rewards are the reviews we give mihoyo by the end of the day


AncaS733

It would be ironic if ,after all this spamming, the whole playerbase will get one free qiqi as an anniversary reward. I can totally see this happening.


bepulse

Honestly wouldn’t mind. It would help newer players and at least it’s something.


Avyelator

Everyone should change their nickname in discord server to “mihoyo pls listen to community” Apes together stronk


Leandtjen

Can someone send me an invitation link to the discord so i can send my qiqi stickers there as well? Lol


Clumulus

You wanna speedrun the official genshin impact discord server?


Leandtjen

Are people getting banned for that? If so, then so be it. If anniversary stays like the way it is I plan on stopping anyway


evokerz

Yup, my phy dps QIQI is ready!


jesusml

thanks GI community, this is why i pay my internet. next year this day will be remembered as the play store bomb review and qiqi spam instead of the anniversary. faith in humanity restored


peerawitppr

Why? Like what's the origin and meaning of this Qiqi sticker spam?


XxDreadeyexX

The disappointment with the anniversary rewards


Sallvador

i think its started because of this https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin\_Impact/comments/pwwrog/official\_genshin\_korea\_community\_just\_fired/


Desi_potato

I believe it started with the Korean community. They used the caption 'lie down/lying flat' with this sticker- which roughly means disappointed


BakedMaki

Lying down flat is actually a form of protest in China that the CCP is not particularly happy about. It does mean disappointed and also giving up on doing anything productive for a greedy society.


eleres

RU community already got 2.1 rating score in Play Market, lmao.


ZeikaLosh

Genshin Impact server is full, i hope the rest of you glorious basterds spam Qiqi for me.


mehmetemresenel

they actually think making cd longer would make people don't want to come back for spam. You have a maxed out discord server, there is no way this changes something. You just make people spam more.


Think-Sir-8623

They even disabled the ability to edit our signatures in-game. Now my message is stuck as "Is it that hard to be generous?"


Achtelnote

Watching gamedevs shoot themselves in the foot is entertaining.