lmfao if you think “I don’t understand, here’s evidence and why I think that” is fallacious, I think we’re done here. I responded to two of your comments, not wrote “for an audience.”

I wouldn’t even say “arguably” for the better, haha; I think it’s straight up better to have more designs than just water-balloon-chested women. I’ll have to take a look at the later Honkai designs and see what I think!

I’ll have to look more closely at the character designs! Honestly, I’m a little wary of future male character designs after China passed that law about effeminate male characters; the new male character they announced for Genshin after that mandate does nothing for me lol. I’m hoping they still manage to make diverse…

Look, there’s plenty of awful shit that people spread about Kotaku, and not all of the criticism (here and elsewhere) has been good faith, that’s for certain. And I think the response to the article is disproportionate, as tends to be the case with gamers.

Uh, I’m sorry to come across as rude, but I don’t follow your logic at all. It sounds like you’re saying:

I mean, something being a “failed IP” has nothing to do with its quality. It’s about how it sold. BK did well (3.6mil units), and BT did a little worse but still well (3mil units), but Nuts and Bolts was the issue: there aren’t any reliable metrics that I can find about it, but it made it to Platinum Hits, which means…

Look, y’all, I hope from having commented here for years that it’s clear I’m approaching this in good faith, but that edit? “We regret that interpretation” and talking about how your readers are independent adults isn’t an apology. It reads very much “we’re sorry you feel that way.”

Color me interested after Genshin! I hope that it’s not as boobtastic as Honkai Impact, though. I always was interested in that game, but it was just too much sexualized women for me.

I LOVE Beidou and Ningguang as a potential couple, oh man. They’re so cute.

I really enjoy Sisi’s perspective from what articles I’ve seen from them, but I’m of super mixed opinions on this. It’s true that the game is pretty ambiguous about straight romances (seeing as romance isn’t much of a thing in Genshin so far), making it less important to have explicitly queer relationships portrayed…

Thank you for letting me know!

Have they added Wiccan or Hulkling to this one yet? I dabbled in Future Fight for a while ‘cuz I could play as Wiccan, but it didn’t end up holding my attention. Wonder if this might.

The problem is, they’re not just review-bombing Genshin. I have mixed feelings on review-bombing as a practice of protest when a dev does something stupid, but some of the playerbase is going and bombing totally unrelated games.

Uh, what event are you talking about? The web events and in-game events don’t require any QR code usage. Do you need to scan a QR code to link a PSN account to a MiHoYo account in order to participate in the contests they’re holding?

Er, when you say “starting out years after the game’s release,” are you referring to players that will start in the future? The game’s only been out to the public for a year.

Maybe we’ll just disagree on this, but I don’t think they’ve been lazy with their events as a whole. Some of them are repetitive, absolutely, but whether they were well-received or not, MiHoYo’s tried to switch it up. Tower defense games, hide-and-seek, an entire new area to explore (Golden Apple Archipelago), hangout…

I think it’s fair to be disappointed at what the anniversary rewards are, given how gacha games usually work; Genshin has a lot more to it than the typical 2D gacha games, but it’s also much more stingy with the freebies. I didn’t have a problem with it at all until I dabbled a tiny bit in some other gacha games, and…

Going to church doesn’t mean that. A celebrity with a huge platform that goes to Hillsong, a church specifically known for homophobia and abuse, is not just “going to church.”

I saw you posted about pansexuals in a different comment in this thread, but I was responding to “Why are undecided people lumped in with a whole bunch of people who have decided?”. I didn’t see anything about pansexual people in the post you were responding to, hence the confusion. Sorry about that! 

Oh yeah, for sure. I’d like to elaborate a little bit—I realized I wasn’t completely clear with what I was referring to re:TERFs. I apologize if you’re already aware of what I’m talking about!