1: Authenticity
It's well known that News needs to be true, accurate, traceable,
Due to the complexity of the matter, unfortunately I can't do it all . Administrators can delete it if they feel it's inappropriate, and i have mark this as
"Leaks - Unconfirmed"
My purpose is just to let some foreign players who don't have access to information about CN know what's going on. There are some things that can't be falsified, and because of the variety of sources, I can't give the source links for all the claims.
Part of the story comes from anonymous insiders employee, The information which they have leaked from the beginning to the present is 100% accurate ( for example, in version 4.1,the contents of 4.4-4.8 were predicted). I can add pictures of their predicted if you want.
But I swear by my faith that what I say is what I know, and not for any Money reasons .
I was thinking about Posting on some other forum,
But I didn't think they would allow me to post something like Negative information, so I went back to this old place and revealed a little bit about the event
If you only want to see the content of Nilou and Dehya, search and flip to ''Tulaytullah's Remembrance''
2. really so much？
This is a conflict between the player and the official team, In my personal opinion, the fault is entirely on the official
https://www.miyoushe.com/ys/article/55221094
On July 26, 2024, The protest posts reached 300,000, and because the administrators kept deleting them, they were down to less than 4,000 at 1 a.m.
After 1 a.m., the administrator went off duty to sleep
1万 = 10,000 ; 49万 = 490 ,000
On the second day 8 am , it returned to 500,000,
By 11 am., 570,000 had been reached
By 12 am., 620,000 reached
As administrators continued to delete, the total number of posts posted by players exceeded 1 million, according to the estimates of live-streamers
Some veteran players came to the event specifically to scold mihoyo and regard the ban as a Medal of honor
https://preview.redd.it/cz9vfzn2v7f...bp&s=cea20998c6b0fba2fd66bb9878582be3028b0c81
After that, a large number of administrators began to delete posts on a large scale, while protesting that players kept Posting new posts,
The number of posts hovered between 600,000 and 610,000.
The whole process was livestreamed by players on the live streaming platform. You can confirm that number from the live steam recording.
Eventually, that night, the administrators blocked the post, and no one was allowed to post anything.
If you go to this link now
https://www.miyoushe.com/ys/article/55221094, where you'll still see the number on the left, 582,000 posts , which "万"= 10,000
By Two days earlier, the entire CN hoyolab Genshin section had been blocked and no one was allowed to post. This post was the only able commented on because it was an official topic post.
On the Late evening of July 27, an official announcement was made,
https://preview.redd.it/9m53o2y7x7f...bp&s=d0b30933bb80a2af41fd6e9bb99052806ad1d240
https://www.miyoushe.com/ys/article/55816748
Officials blamed the comment section on a small number of people using multiple devices to post malicious comments.
But did not respond to any player suggestions or requests.
The official accusation: 4800 overactive accounts + 100 devices with more than 100 login accounts recomment. they Posting more than 10 post
a random comment man
However, CN hoyolab can directly
check the player's game progress. The comments section has a large number of players with
over 1000 days of play, level 60, lots of characters, and high exploration rate , Veteran players.
If all of these people are trolls,
That still means over 10,000 other Veteran players ‘s account was sold to someone else, or it was stolen , as a account for attacking ,
If only those 4800 people send 10+ post ,
and from the official means over 10,000 other Veteran player send less than 10 post ,
Even if we assume that 4,800 people sent 30 messages each, that multiplines to 144,000, but there are more than 600,000 post, so who sent the remaining more than 450,000+?
This is not the first time officials have dealt with issues this way. I don't know much about how mihoyo treats foreign servers, but in CN, this is the norm . Refusal to communicate and apathy lead to greater anger .
3.The course of events
You should know that a lot of meaning is lost in translation, and the original story of the game is written in Chinese.
Secondly, as a professional writer, a writer should have know what some words are sensitive and can cause serious controversy and ambiguity.
Linguistically, Chinese, as a pictograph, has a large number of homonyms and traditional idioms.
https://preview.redd.it/0xdc6lx738f...bp&s=f7182775108f510fb649e0e4519681bc3c7b44d8
https://preview.redd.it/u9a3dex738f...bp&s=1b1516ba020257d1de648d380fdbc3d8a68a7029
There were actually a lot more images, I couldn't find them all at once, and only placed a few that were easy to find
- In the 4.8 version of the story, the Production team gave the "Wanderer" a main protagonist treatment, and the player charactor became a "camera", and did nothing
Players have long been dissatisfied with the story, saying it is of low quality and has not been improved ,
The quality of writing for some characters and activities is much worse than it used to be
https://preview.redd.it/a6t6jtrd78f...bp&s=1d2764614e8df6ed0aff0fc8064a229abf1a146d
- In the 4.8 version of the story, the Production team once again added some "vicious" metaphors to many sentences, and I will list some examples below. Some of these metaphors represent direct abuse.
Others metaphors imply that the player is cuckold.
I will also list them later.
and If you have any friends who speak Chinese, you can ask them to verify it
https://preview.redd.it/c2y3kllmu8f...bp&s=aa75acfca5570b97e6dbec2fd99894e714453b30
3.On a number of other issues, the "actual" official and "civilian cooperation" partners , livestreamer , Video producer (who can get a lot of money from cooperation, i don't know what is that Noun in English) speak with one voice,
Treat all players who make suggestions as "problematic enemies,"
even if some of them have spent more than $30,000, was Insult as "
malicious pay-er."
Many people agree that they act a bit like religious believers rather than gamers
https://preview.redd.it/wbty472o78f...bp&s=d0996a76bbf01ea57c6743a3f7ebcacac74130a8
https://preview.redd.it/8dz0z72o78f...bp&s=c4531ad75f3b67ff60a154134f985ac71ee2ecc6
(If necessary, I can immediately find the videos and articles of these cooperator and put up their links, if you can read Chinese)
And continued to spend a lot of money on advertising,
Some problems in the earlier, such as the
https://www.miyoushe.com/ys/article/55283456
In the recent
Neuvillette scandal Event and Clorinde scandal Event,
There's been a lot of anger built up. At least 100,000 posts were deleted in these event.
This led to a gradual loss of trust. player think This represents the official attitude, they think they are fine and refuse all communication .
they both adopted a similar "shut your mouth and don't allow speak" strategy
4.The 4.8 story , "camera" , "cuckold" , linguistic homophone , and mistakenly involved Nilou, the used Goddess of Flowers Reincarnate , "Deleted" Arama and Dehya Story
https://preview.redd.it/ykpt2n2898f...bp&s=954391d1a0862b93adb12fd43e01df826222ecaa
https://preview.redd.it/k6g41n2898f...bp&s=0fb1f35c26f74c41c13cbf610a3943ecd308d510
https://preview.redd.it/zizfxn2898f...bp&s=df8583e3b5c3781390ef04fdbef0bf678378eb41
https://preview.redd.it/evfrtgcqc8f...bp&s=d1cb12fead7342c3b3c4afb437f6121784912b6a
My statement again, You can ask anyone who knows Chinese to interpret the text, Please note: a considerable proportion of people in these communities (Zhihu, Weibo, Bilibili) are extremely fanatic mihoyo supporters, and if you seek their opinions, you will probably not get a correct reply, because they are either a part of it or they are afraid to speak out for fear of online violence.
It is a well-known fact that if you post something against mihouo on these sites, you will be harassed by phone calls, text messages, and fanatics will spread your personal information and graffiti. ——You can confirm this to anyone
A large number of other communities are neutral or opposed.
The views of individual extremist opponents are also not to be trusted, because they are also extremists
1.
The players came to the place where the story took place, after busy for most of the day, they suddenly learned that they were not actually a "hero/brave", but just a witness, and the real hero is a role called "Wanderer" that is hated by many players.
At the same time, the protagonist with the power of the five elements, while everyone else is conscious, only him/herself passes out .Finally, the plot ends with the protagonist of Wanderer .the player is told that he/she is merely a witness , some player feels like they are just a camera (derogatoryly).
At the end of the story, the Wanderer stands in the middle of the line instead of the main character, while the Nilou's new skin is named "沙邦之息", implying
"Wanderer 's Bride/wife" in same homophone.
There are several NPCs in the new map, and their positions and colors are also very different, red and blue NPCS suggest that the ''brave'' and the ''heroine'' stand side by side, while the ''yellow'' NPC represented by the player is secretly watching from a distance.
This represents passive cuckolding in Chinese cyberspace,
In another scene, the yellow represented by the player needs to push behind the red and blue, which
represents active cuckolding in Chinese cyberspace,
On the new skin of Nilou's head, underwear, and belt: the symbol of the "Wanderer" weapon bell, which the player takes as a form of cuckold (which it's actually not, as explained later).
Again, there are a lot of these homophonic metaphors in the previous version .Please note that any fully educated Chinese can read ancient Chinese literature and ancient Chinese idioms. In the game, a large number of idioms are "newly created" by writers and have nothing to do with ancient idioms.
This, in itself, may be an unintended part of the "fairy tale" of the "young soap opera", but whether it is intentional or not, it has been amplified by players who no longer trust it
(There are differences between cultures , and I understand that some cultures may not see this as an important thing)
https://preview.redd.it/bn5r4l8cd8f...bp&s=21afd31f9d56c63e97feb32b538a7570e13be664
Let's look at some examples:
久世浮倾 (banner) The world has been floating for a long time . A new idiom that has never been invented before , Neither ancient nor modern people use it this way
Homonym: I am/He is your father
(This is an Serious insult in Chinese, you can understand it as
an insult to a dwarf in Warhammer //or the Lord of the Rings , saying the dwarf is a Bastard
without Ancestors)
暮起遥思 (banner) At night I began to think far away. A new idiom that has never been invented before
Homonym: (Your) mother is dying
益生纯律 The law of wholesome purity . A new idiom that has never been invented before
Homonym: Your whole life and body are green (green means Cuckold). also a Serious insult.
丝切铗 (story) This is a "Japanese-style" Chinese, and no such grammatical rules ever apply in philology . A new idiom that has never been invented before
Homonym: your whole family is dead
i can find many similar homonyms for ancestral curses, Chinese culture or religion is very much a culture of ancestor worship, so you can casually see Chinese players swear in a lot of online games, all of which are cursing each other's ancestors
莎邦之息 (new skin) shabang 's breath. A new idiom that has never been invented before
Homonym: Wanderer's wife
https://preview.redd.it/qazygxw6e8f...bp&s=835a277ddb117ca5e1ed37cc9e2c809169217127
I could easily find out much, much more, When there are too many coincidences, it's not a coincidence .
This kind of thing never happens in other online games (because most of these games use accurate and standard ancient Chinese idioms or modern languages).
This was seen by many players as an act of revenge against the player for their revile to the production team.
Of course, zealots Mihoyo defenders will do their best to explain mihoyo. saying this have no meaning of that.
Saying these words "new creation" means blessing. Only a dirty person would mistake them for a curse.
And here's the irony (the picture above) :
When players are on hoyolab or other official communities, use these in-game words to "bless" forum admins ,
Administrators immediately banned them for "personal assault." and Ask them to comply with the community etiquette
You can call me a paranoid person, but when 600K+ comments In the local language say the same thing, do you think it might be true?
2.Nilou, '' the Goddess of Flowers ''
Long story short, this is a leak from a departing employee, Of course, you never know if that's true, but everything this employee has predicted is mostly accurate
https://preview.redd.it/8cgp2qyij8f...bp&s=2888563dd08d6232d1746ff869210cd3ba7c8c5d
Bells
(Tulaytullah's Remembrance)
It was the ''Origin'' Goddess of Flowers 's Weapon.
The new story team has drastically revamped the main story , following the resign of 2.x's version , the original lead writer (, who is now at a small mobile game company 失乐星图 ).
the New team cut the story , The main leader of the new team loves the Wanderer, but hate Nilou and Dehya.
To save cost and time, bells were used on the Wanderers.
In the original story, Nilou and Dehya and Nahida and Alhaitham have a quest about the life and Reincarnate of the gods, Nilou is the Goddess of Flowers .
Aranara (the small green creature fairies) and Nilou and Nahida have the other main story ,
and that's thy many people will wonder why
Aranara and Nahida
don't have any interaction at all,
https://preview.redd.it/49d8nezmq8f...bp&s=f65ad09db86aa37f633e2026ba35433e0c046746
This is because a lot of the story is edit to make the "wanderer" who died in the origin story , to become the new main story character. In the new story, the Wanderer will remain at the center of the story until the end of game.
Why did Nilou have so many "Tulaytullah's Remembrance" symbols on her,
This is because this skin was originally Goddess of Flowers's skin, and this weapon was her weapon.
The average player sees this as a form of cuckolding, Players who went looking for the informant knew it was because
the new production team had forgotten the source of the weapon after a year and a half year
There are tons of rumors and some leaked road maps about their changes to the story, but I don't have much information
This series of dramatic maneuvering, coupled with the malicious intent of the original production team, inadvertently superimposed,
Beyond the players's tolerance limit ,
The players's anger exploded, Although these players have different demands, And the movement is disorganized, It was quickly suppressed by the administrators,
From other sources, there have been some questionable Abandoned Goddess of Flowers Story Quest line , the authenticity is not clear, If it's good, I will confirm the credibility of these things, and then tell the story
3.Result
The split between the players, the split between the players and the authorities is even greater
zealot:
Backed by official announcements
https://www.miyoushe.com/ys/article/55816748, they dug further into the information,
https://preview.redd.it/mf7q5qiar8f...bp&s=863ac516bb7f998513681385fe915fa6d5fa2ee6
several Hoyo civic leaders released new videos yesterday at same time , that has over a million views, define the post comments in CN hoyolab as hackers , robot ,and people from other game companies.
and Point out, In these picture above , CN hoyolab had a large number of sudden download curves . This claim was soon discredited by their opponents, as the curves were raised by automatic software updates On the exact same date .
"zealot" called for more payments to miyoho, as well as more recruits for hoyo games, and blocked comments from opponents ,while The opponents say the opposite
Bigger hidden bombs:
The story of the Wanderer is designed to "change historical records", which is a very, very politically incorrect thing in China (if you want to go into details, it needs to be related to World War II Nazi Massacre, I don't know if it is allowed to talk about history here).
To call a criminal "noble and good" who has no actual atonement. It violates many CN players' sense of "fairness". while "fairness" is another politically correctness (Because there are so many unfair things in the real world) ——Explain that again , Some translations, when translated into English or Japanese, completely lose their meaning in Chinese.
The Official:
have increased spending on domestic advertising (my picture above shows foreign advertising), Hope to add more new players
I also have a picture that shows three mihoyo games, ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd in terms of money spent on advertising
Public:
Not everyone cares about the news .The "silent majority", it's unknow how many people learned about this brief 3-day event
www.qimai.cn
Market daily ranking:
Zenless Zone Zero : 8
Honkai: Star Rail : 112
Genshin Impact : 84
Genshin Impact's ranking, in the Chinese internal market, is one of the worst periods, Also the end of the large version, before it had not tried to fall outside the top 50 of this internal market ranking , 2023-2024 saw a very serious loss of players
- Me as an ordinary player , My personal opinion to Open world
The open world should be about freedom and interaction.
If most of the content in an open world is "empty", then the open world is just a walking simulator.
The genshin project team has more than 3,000 people. They have the money, could recurit the best people in market , New technology, and the time to do it, and should do it better than a lot of single player games that lack of those.
In a fantasy city, every building should be able to enter, every character can interact, and as the plot progresses there will be their changing views, they have their own schedule, everything the main protagonist does is meaningful, you can also do different interactions with the gacha character in the spare time, in different scenes.
This does not require an "intelligent super AI" to do it, only a ''text team'' can enrich and animate the entire city.
That is, "pile up" the number of words and stack "non-repetitive" materials. A small text based game with 20MB of text and 100MB of images, Probably a lot more fun than a big game with 20GB graphics and 0.1MB of text
If an NPC has only 1 repeated sentence, he/she is just a dead decoration, if he/she has 10 sentences, that can constitute a short time vivid character. If he/she has 100 words and behavior, he/she is "alive" in this world.
An open world should have a lot of meaningful things or people that can interact with it .
As for how to show the romance, wonder, infinity of the magical world, the small size of the big world and the greatness of Humanity, that is the greater task.
