<story><title>Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any other game</title><url>https://gamerant.com/genshin-impact-made-more-money-in-its-first-year-than-any-other-game/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>I like playing gacha games when they&amp;#x27;re F2P friendly. It&amp;#x27;s a neat game mechanic. The resource conservation and gambling aspect is fun. But people who spend money on these games... are just so strange to me. The value of money spent is incredibly low. Genshin is one of the stingiest games. Yet on its recent first anniversary, people were surprised that they were, yet again, very stingy. The lack of self awareness of what they&amp;#x27;re playing on the gacha communities is so odd to me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not super familiar with genshin specifically, but in a lot of these games, players don&amp;#x27;t really play the game. Like, they&amp;#x27;ll just lookup pre made team setups that allow them to win with no skill or input. This is the strangest thing to me. Why do people like just following along a game if they&amp;#x27;re not going to take any accountability. It&amp;#x27;s like the MMORPG grind of enjoying the numbers going up from yesteryear, but somehow, even one step further removed than before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitsunesoba</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s like the MMORPG grind of enjoying the numbers going up from yesteryear, but somehow, even one step further removed than before.&lt;p&gt;Speaking of MMORPGs, the mentality has spread there too. Lots of players don’t ever experiment with different builds for their character or just play the way they like, instead following an online guide for achieving hyperoptimization. Even questioning that way of playing gets you marked as a bad player.&lt;p&gt;It’s also become much more normal to pay significant sums of money for in-game currency that is then used to buy high end competitive content runs from other well geared players for gear and achievements. This especially seems entirely pointless to me… what good is the gear obtained this way? It’s not being used for anything that calls for it so at best it’s a trophy for your character to wear that you didn’t even earn yourself.&lt;p&gt;It’s so far divorced from the seemingly endless font of exploration, discovery, and character progression that defined seamless open world MMORPGs back in the early-mid 2000s.</text></comment>
<story><title>Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any other game</title><url>https://gamerant.com/genshin-impact-made-more-money-in-its-first-year-than-any-other-game/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>I like playing gacha games when they&amp;#x27;re F2P friendly. It&amp;#x27;s a neat game mechanic. The resource conservation and gambling aspect is fun. But people who spend money on these games... are just so strange to me. The value of money spent is incredibly low. Genshin is one of the stingiest games. Yet on its recent first anniversary, people were surprised that they were, yet again, very stingy. The lack of self awareness of what they&amp;#x27;re playing on the gacha communities is so odd to me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not super familiar with genshin specifically, but in a lot of these games, players don&amp;#x27;t really play the game. Like, they&amp;#x27;ll just lookup pre made team setups that allow them to win with no skill or input. This is the strangest thing to me. Why do people like just following along a game if they&amp;#x27;re not going to take any accountability. It&amp;#x27;s like the MMORPG grind of enjoying the numbers going up from yesteryear, but somehow, even one step further removed than before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eunos</author><text>As a non player (potato PC+phone -_-) I&amp;#x27;m still happy they released free and excellent OSTs and orchestra.</text></comment>