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Yes you sound like you are way overacting.
For me this is what happens to Contra returns, the developers do not reply and only seem to care for those who pay, making all free-to-play player meat bags for the PTW players. There was a pre-survey in which they asked people who wanted to participate in a survey for feedback, and they asked what was your VIP level, which can be raised only by paying (99% of the time). How can they expect real feedback if it seems they only want to hear those who pay more?
I did read it; it sounds like an overreaction.. the article mentions games are getting review bombed that have nothing to do with Genshin. I can't imagine the threads they deleted from their official forums were anything particularly constructive.
This is pretty much exactly what happened, and clearly people noticed and complained.
I did read your post.. literally all of it, and it's a big bunch of nothing to me. From deleted threads to streamers not mentioning things when they are paid to promote the game, it's just not something I see worth getting bent out of shape over.
Personally, I've never been happier to feel worthless.
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that just kind of proves my point that you guys think it's some conspiracy to give Streamers in-game currency kickbacks is a huge overreaction. They are essentially marketers.. streamers play games because they are paid to play them, they get paid to play them because a streamer playing a game makes them a ton of money by essentially advertising it. The in-game currency is a form of that, encourages them to play the game, makes it easier for them to unlock content, which they want the Streamers to be able to do so they can show off the content that other people can buy.
I think the issue is that the streamers themselves are instructed to keep it a secret, and at no point in their videos do they have a disclaimer of "I'm a paid marketer for miHoYo, so take everything I say with that in mind". They do clickbait bulilshit like "OMG (New Character) CHANGES EVERYTHING/BREAKS THE GAME" and then they formulate it like it's their honest opinion. If they're getting paid to say that kind of shit, you don't find that more than a little dishonest?
Why in the world does any of that upset you?
Why in the world does any of that upset you?
It's secretive for sure, objectively. I find it dishonest for sure. But they aren't paid to say something specific, that's the reason they don't have to disclose it, and why companies can ask them to not disclose it. If you are actually outright paid to advertise, meaning paid to only say positive things, then it's actually in the US an FCC violation to not disclose it as an advertisement.
It's called an opinion.. this is a discussion forum, it's OK if you disagree.
I think that's exactly what's going on but they're being paid in primogems (a game currency which has zero real world value), so they can dodge the FCC rules.
Game made 2 Billion in 1 year. And MiHoYo celebrates it with bonuses that any other F2P Gacha will give you just for logins lol
It's all very "nudge nudge wink wink we won't give you more if you bash the game".. but honestly so are game previews... ever read a game preview that bashed the game? I can count on one hand in my 30 years of reading gaming magazines/web sites how many previews said anything remotely negative. It's "we invite you to our office to look at something, we buy you lunch, maybe give you a swag bag" shit.. now with online sites it's "ooohh I got early access to a demo code!"
Totally agree, but you have to keep in mind that large populations of this game are extreme casuals and a surprisingly high number of children/young teens. They have no real world experience or wisdom to be able to figure out that "this youtuber is a shill and I should make my own decisions", they just laugh at the memes and say "if (Streamer X) says the new character is Meta and a must have, I gotta get it!"
This is actually I think against the law in some countries as well.
