One of the things they definitely spent a lot of money on is the fucking music. These guys hired the London Orchestra team to make the music for the 'German region', the Shanghai Orchestra team to do 'Chinese region', etc. They also hired professionals who know how to play exotic instruments from Japan, India, the Middle-east etc. The production value is insane. Their composer is also very gifted (read that as 'probably expensive').
@@TheAzureGhost The EN cast is arguably higher status than the CN ones as they still include a lot MiHoYo devs in the CN version (Zhongli is voiced by the vocal director among other characters etc.) and more characters share actors. Though the EN cast probably gets paid the least, but that's more on the VA industry in the US being crap in terms of that (outside of commercials). But yeah, I imagine the JP cast is very expensive.
Music is the best part of this game after the world for me, what's insane is they made crazy tracks for time limited events that probably will never get a rerun, along with many other limited events we get they're throwing money like it's nothing.
@@timoyr2954 Misinformation , Zhongli VA is a director of a VA company , not mihoyo themselves. Mihoyo contracted the VA company to do voice acting for their characters , Zhongli is that company's director , together with Jean's CN VA too. CN VA is not on par with JP's VA in terms of statuses but its definitely higher than EN. As most CN and some SEA players prefer using CN dub over any other dub. And CN dub is indeed more superior in Genshin especially since the length of the dialogue is made with CN words in mind. Which is why sometimes you hear some characters speaks faster than they usually do during a scene or a cut scene. And the thing about EN cast got paid the least , I kinda doubt it. JP VA's pay is incomparable with other languages. But for CN and KR , probably around the same price.
Honestly, in comparison to other companies, Mihoyo is.. well, incomparable. - They built a school in a rural impoverished area. - They donate to autism support, legal support, education, animal preservation, and organization promoting art in children according to videos on their Bilibili page. - They donated a huge number of masks and surgical garments to hospitals and the red cross. Toys and pillows to children's hospitals. Food and other such things for employees. - They invested $65 million in nuclear fusion devices to contribute to Energy Singularity's Tokamak research to reduce carbon emissions. Nearly the same amount they spent on developing Genshin, used to revolutionize renewable energy for the world. - Working with hospitals on brain-computer technology development for depression. - Creating an industry defining VR world for a billion people by 2030. - Helping set up a VA agency in China for young VA artists through funding and opportunities. The founders of this agency, along with many of the young artists went on to get huge roles in Honkai Impact 3rd and Genshin Impact. - Buying hundreds/thousands of PS5s and other tech to give to their staff for free. - Offering some of the best working conditions in the tech and gaming industry: anti 336 work culture (crunch in the west), people bring cats/pets into office, high salary, flat organizational structure where the founders are literally working in the same open space as everybody else. Half of these things (VA agency, building a school, welfare for autism support, legal support, education, animal preservation, work conditions for employees) were already in place even before they became a billion dollar company with Genshin Impact. Their slogan from when they were just three university students in 2013 was “Tech Otakus save the world”, and they’ve proved their commitment to that phrase time and time again. It’s inspiring to say the least. Whether people like them or not, nobody can deny that they’re incomparable to any other game developer.
Mihoyo is way better than Trashzard/Antivision for treating their employees. Trashzard/Antivision have performed *cough* sexual harassment. Seems like people almost forgot Diablo Immortal exist
@@eliajshdjddj aaaand? As someone that has played honkai for 3 years now, i haven't spent a single penny on the game and i enjoy it just fine. You don't need to gacha to enjoy these types of games.
Honestly. the way Mihoyo was able to grow from 3 college graduates to making one of the most recognized games in the world in under a decade is just mindblowing. It's insane how popular Genshin is and how big Mihoyo became as a result of its popularity. Edit: Also akashoT is amazing, I'm so glad he's getting the recognition he deserves. A few other things to note: Mihoyo is actually one of Tencent's biggest competitors and is one of the few game devs in China that have no affiliation with Tencent whatsoever. Tencent attempted to buy MHY at one point IIRC and they refused, which is why Tencent allegedly has a grudge against MHY and funded development of Tower of Fantasy as a "Genshin killer". Obviously that didn't turn out too well for them. I also think Genshin is legitimately a step in the right direction when it comes to the mobile gaming industry. While many will argue that gacha is predatory by nature, the way Genshin (and many other asian gachas like Arknights or Azur Lane) do microtransactions is a lot healthier IMO. You don't see any ads or popups nagging you to spend, spending doesn't give you any competitive advantage, and everything in the game is easily completable as an F2P- in fact I'd argue the game is balanced around F2P investment and whaling essentially breaks the game balance. It's a far cry from the "nickle-and-dime" mobile games like Candy Crush or Zynga games that are essentially dressed-up cash cow machines that don't respect your time and money. Like Gigguk once said, "it's not pay to win, it's pay to waifu".
@@dev32 I love when people comment shit like this. Genshin is by far one of the best produced games out right now. The quality of the content, whether you like it or not, is some of the best in the industry right now. You never have to interact with Gacha if you want to experience the story. People just want their waifus and complain when they don't get them. The only time that your party comp actually matters is high end abyss farming, and that isn't story.
one post on NGA further explored this actually, tencent tried to buy Mihoyo again around Feb 2021 and of course that didnt go well remember the alternative outfits for jean, mona, rosaria and amber? in a deleted post, a women's activist group in CN actually complained to the censorship regulation board in China out of nowhere after tencent failed to buy mihoyo kinda fishy
I am so sad Honkai did not receive more footage. It should get at least half the screen time of genshin in that video. It had a rough starting point for such a popular game but thanks to genshin money, it’s popping the f off now.
29:34 If Zack's genuinely asking, if you want to know whatever the fuck the budget went, just look at advertising they did (Japan, South Korea, Europe, South East Asia) the music behind the game (they hired a bunch of orchestras around the world to do their music) the gigantic roster of voice actors they have to pay in four different languages and obviously your usual game development shenanigans (research, art design, programming etc)
Sadly none of this money was spent on creating content or improving core gameplay. Over 2.5 years and still not a single shred of content added. Only occasional combat event once in 2 months and most of them don't even allow you to use your characters. Honestly pathetic, less 5% of profits spent on the game and out of those almost every % is spent purely on advertising.
@@ashero2092 i guess building the world inside out and wasting their time on creating new content is free, there's a reason why tof failed. asmon said it before "the game's p2w" i wonder what went wrong in a game where the hardest combat gamemode that needed 3 SSR with no personality cause you would only use their weapon. A polished game would be more fun, cyberpunk proves it. Gacha company is still a gacha company but people should start realizing "quality over quantity"
@@longbread Considering they're investing literal pennies in developing the game? Yeah, that's pretty much free when their marketing budget is 10 time more then the entire development cost. Also, as you pointed out, they indeed waste their time creating an irrelevant content, 90% of which goes straight into garbage bin for the sole purpose of pressuring people with FOMO and scamming them out of their money. What's wrong with me wanting to play the game and use my characters? The whole game is about collecting characters, making them stronger, creating new teams and fighting against different enemies. 99% of all rewards in the game are things that either make your characters stronger or help you get a new ones. Their entire monetisation is built on this loop. And yet in 2.5 years they added literal 0 content to core gameplay. Why they can't spend 0.01% of their budget on adding some permanent core gameplay related content somewhere in-between vaporising an entire overworld and min-maxing abyss? But no, GI is a glorified cash cow to farm mobile crowd and fund all the future projects of the company. And mobile crowd hates playing games, all they want is paying "games"
Honkai is catered to weebs fetishizing wlw relationships going as far as to protest *any* playable male characters bc “they gon steal muh waifu and ruin my fantasy wah” and I’m okay with that. However it’s nowhere near as successful as Genshin is, so let’s not☠️
@@mysteriousastrolabe Just going off wikipedia HI3rd has made around 700 million, a few whales doesnt do that xD It's not 4 billion like Genshin but no one claim it was even close.
MiHoYo is a lot of thing, but wasting their profit into executive yatch is not one of them. They are a rare company that put majority of their profit back into growth of company, they keep growing because of that. Unlike a lot of companies that wasted their profit on executive bonus and corruption in general.
now they need to invest it more into their main source of revenue instead of using a small fraction on it, and the rest goes to either creating new games LOL or to make cool stuff in their other games instead of genshin
@@burakormanoglu6000 i hate gacha games but you got to admit genshin impact update are insane i remember playing couldnt even catch up to the content i didnt finish the old content and already new thing released
@@vandamq8 a whole dlc region that gets bigger every 3 month is fucking crazy, i dont even know how all the devs working there getting any sleep at all, feels like they are not getting any rest with this insane schedule, im genuinely worried about their health tbh
When it comes to the story, personally I felt the first part was very generic and childish even but it gets better. Especially on Sumeru (the 4th nation) you can really see the attention to detail. The lore is very interesting too if you dig deeper enough. Its lore is scattered everywhere in the world and they don't just shove it to your face(unlike the main quest sometimes).
That's normal far a Gacha, there is an explanation for it but I can't explain it well but there was a video explaining why Gacha games always have a mid beginning but always get better after some time.
personally I love the chasm - everything about it, the silence, the secrets, the story and events there. Yelan event was awesome, trapped in that weird spacetime with a grandiose ending. And the whole abyss connection, whee! I like the main stories with the archons/Fatui but when sibling/abyss/dainsleif quest is continued, that's when things get deep and spicy.
@@einsiedler6052 The Chasm was great! I really like places like those and maybe that's why I like Enkanomiya too. And I agree, I really like the story when it comes to Khaenri'ah/Abyss/Sibling lore. There's just so much to mysteries to uncover. And just when you thought you know it all, they just completely overturn what you know.
*Genshin Impact* is so bloody expensive to develop because they keep introducing per version all these _one-off_ events and fully-acted storyline quests and mini games with their own unique mechanics. If you weren't around back then to experience those, they're mostly gone forever (some might return due to popularity but with different flavour). It's just insane how much throw-away wastage this game has.
@@JayceCH. It's not only Mobile, if they keep everything the game would go way above 100GB only on its 3rd year - there's 5 more to go. We'd end at 250GB+ and there's no way any company wants to deal with that, it's a net loss of players.
You wonder why all of a sudden, every people online got ultra mad at mihoyo at 2020？ It's because of tencent. Very simple, although some other gaming companies would also love to make mihoyo look bad but It's mainly tencent who does the dirty work under the light, buying views, hiring people to talking shit about genshin impact.
Well I think it was mostly cuz Genshin Impact was initally ridiculed as "Chinese BotW rip off", and then once launched yeah its good game but many media like you said tried to make Mihoyo look bad by saying how some characters like noelle ripoff the same sword swinging animation from 2B, and how Mihoyo account many people phone number were leaked. But still many of those were legit concerns though. 2021 well we know it, the controversy was the anniversary controversy where people were upset on how lackluster awards there was, and also inazuma arc many argue it was mediocre compare to the past arcs.
@@Mario123007 Tencent was a huge factor back then. Tencent had completely different philosophy and strategy in the video game area. Which is take full advantage of It's dominant position on social terrain, whether on pc or on mobile, to make dogshit quality games, runs the project with the lowest amount of investment, and milk the most profit out of it. They don't care about making an enjoyable game, every video game development team within the comany has every team members, project managers, and everyone else KPI evaluate indicator, that certain profitability needs to be meet every year. Therefore tencent had this kind of enterprise culture of maximize tencent's monopoly market position, everything is secondary for the project, profit is a default primary goal for the project, and the easiest way to achieve kpi is to monopolize the specific area of the market that the project is targeting so that whatever shitty game that is made will always be profitable when it is publish. Tencent never makes video game that centers around the player's experience, nor a game with maximum quality of gameplay, music, story, graphic. Never.
@@pkmdz You can definitely still get into Genshin. The isse is Asmon won't have more than a week to play it before a new release comes out or he goes back to mindlessly playing WoW.
My favorite thing about Genshin specifically is how it reference cultures all around the world. I watch a video from them about how the Chinese composer work with Japanese musicians for the in game music for the Japan-inspired zone and it was really wholesome
@@poggers4392 Vaguely referencing a culture doesn't mean they must put nibers into the game just cause you feel like it. Not to mention egypt is mostly arab, and indians while having dark skin tone are not black either. And there is no south-african region in game yet.
17:26 "How did you spend so much money?" Because Mihoyo has a great development team, they improve the game engine, they publish articles, and they have so many technical patents. All of these cost money. By the way, in QS World University Rankings, Shanghai Jiaotong University is a top 100 Uni. In an interview, Liu Wei said "Unfortunately, I got a postgraduate recommendation". Cai Haoyu played computer games at the age of 5, won the second prize for animation at the age of 8, and was named one of the first 13 small academicians in China at the age of 12. All the founders are geniuses, that's why Mihoyo is successful.
Yes, Shanghai Jiaotong University is one of the top 5 universities in China only after Peking University and Tsinghua University. IF A Chinese wants to enter this university they need to maintain their exam scores at least in the top 0.1% students to get an undergraduate membership in most of the provinces
Mihoyo is successful because they ripp normies off with hardcore marketing strstegies. They could have made a great game out of genshin with their talent, but they just prefered to make more money at the cost of making a bad one. It's not their talent that made them successful. Talking about Genshin.
A big chunk of the $100 million probably went into salaries. 120 people worked on Genshin at the start of 2017. That number grew to 400 people by the end of the year., For comparison: The Witcher 3 cost ~$81 million dollars and it started with 150 employees which grew to 250. Yes The Witcher looks more techically impressive but we have to keep some things in mind. Genshin is a mobile game and optimizing this game for mobile devices probably took some recources and time. Another important thing to mention is Genshin's level if polish even on release. In 2 years of playing I have not experianced a single gamebreaking bug or heard of bugs being a problem for players. Worst bugs I have experianced is not being able to complete a minor side quest. Thats really impressive for a game that gets updated every 6 weeks. Edit: Also marketing is way more expensive than people realize and its obvious that they put alot of money into Marketing
not to mention - they are building schools. They are giving back to the community, to the country, that, while does questionable things at times, is still their home. That is admirable
It was pretty funny when people were freaking out about Genshin. As if Zelda invented stamina bars. They took some ideas but that is how the industry works. What is important is that games do enough to stand out as their own thing. Which Genshin does. As for where all that money went, they are currently making two new games while continuing to update Honkai and Genshin.
people disliked it because the assets were extremely similar AND it looked like a nasty gacha game, emphasis on the second part. Basically people liked the division between studios that can make high quality games, and studios that are incompetantly trying to grift people. It's like how not all scam mail is a ridiculous mispelled prince, now it's hard to distinguish it from a real shipment notification.
Bro, I bought like 5 iPhone games over my life time (because I’m still not into mobile gaming) and the Flyme2theMoon game was one of them. Played the shit out of that game. Never thought in a million years I’d see it mentioned randomly years later in a Asmongold react lol.
I remember the launch date of Honkai on the App Store. I was immediately drawn to the game. Prior to it, I obviously played Gun Girl Z, briefly. I will be honest, miHoYo is goated for a gacha game maker company. The amount of detail they had in Honkai alone as far as mobile games go was simply absurd. Even when fortnite mobile beta was available, there wasn't many games like Honkai Impact 3rd. The story, the voice acting, the cinematics, the characters... I'm talking about a story so good (with insane animated cinematics from a chinese company), you would question why you cried at FF14 story. I really enjoyed Genshin too but Honkai is a better experience than Genshin if you value multiplayer experience as well as challenging combat.
Yeah no kidding. Take the Time Runner skin for Flamescion Kiana for example. There's more lore references and implications in A SINGLE OPTIONAL SKIN than Triple AAY companies put in their entire games. Say what you will about mihoyo but Honkai is a damn fine product.
mihoyo takes "tech otakus save the world" very literally btw, its not JUST anime girls. search up all the stuff theyve invested in. a lot of the stuff they put money into also feel similar to Honkai. things like rocket ships, schools, something called energy fusion etc i think its pretty cool
You have a great point with the battle royale phase, every gaming company is looking at Genshin as a way for themselves to make money, we are going to see a LOT (both good and horribly bad) of these kinda of games coming up in the future. These poor otakus....
@@SanarySeggnete it doesn't need to steal the spotlight. Since it doesn't take too much resources or time to make a mobile game it just need to generate enough initial hype for people to buy into the game and dump the game then repeat. Maybe make a few updates to continue milking the whales. Look at diablo immortal it more than earns it's worth. It also works for pc games like FIFA. Though in FIFA case it's just a rehash which makes this possible. Same reason it does not require much resources or time to produce.
@@SanarySeggnete Umamusume, fate series, a more streamlined blue archive and a kc arcade for mobile can rival genshin easily even heaven BURNS red, also genshin piggyback on fate grand order as well since they are marketed as casual friendly game. As today blue archive, korean gacha lolibait game topped and erased touhou from Japan komiket this year. The future is bright my friend, the fact that you only knew genshin shows that you are a normies tbh.
@@myatthu7165 I mean tanaka already lobbying for kancolle 2 past 6 years, kancolle is a big ip that also sponsored officially by the government and tanaka wouldn't want to waste it potential.
Well one of the things that made them much money from the characters is the effort they give to their demos... Definitely should react to them chronologically before playing.
@@eliajshdjddj that is why there is a pity system that they implement so that they dont spend much/ fixed estimated amount of money (Spot someone ignorant to gacha games without saying they are ignorant to gacha games)
@@distritochristianangeloa.157 a pity system dosent mean anything lmao. People still spend hundreds for those characters. I don't know why your trying to defend gacha. People CLEARLY spend a lot for these characters it's a scam
@@JayceCH. pity system is just expensive way saying "you gonna got this character and don't spend money more cause you'll get (insert waifu name) eventually"
@@eliajshdjddj cause it make the game more fun or maybe mihoyo/hoyoverse should set a purchases where i could use an item to skip through the msq for 25 bucks
I've played both of the games a lot BoTW and Genshin (as an almost F2P, around 25-30$ spent at most in almost 2 years), and i have to say that people who consider both games similar are just blind and brainless. The only thing they have in common is the climbing mechanic, that they are open world games and use stamina metter for sprints(these last 2 not a BoTW invention). The type of quest, story, gameplay mechanics, weapons and items, and many other aspects can't be more different to one another. My experience with Genshin is the following, I got lucky in the beginning and got a decent 5* in the free pulls they give you (the very hard characters to get without paying) and it carried me through the game so i didn't feel tempted to spend money to get others and i have to say that if you are not a trend victim you get a fair ammount of gacha resources as a F2P (although you have to play a lot) so i have been able to get many other 5* without expending almost any money, but i had to be cool minded and save for the ones i wanted to get passing some others. Here i see the problem with more hot headed people or trend victims who need to have all that gets promoted because the only way is paying money and a lot of it and this can develop an addiction. Gameplay wise i think their combat system is very interesting and deep, all the characters are different from each other so the styles of the compositions play very differently with the different combinations with each character and the elements, i would describe it as easy to learn hard to master, and also most cheap characters (4*) are really really good anyways so haveing the expensive ones(5*) is more a luxury than a necessity most of the time because you can clear everything without expending money. The story is decent, the world is interesting to explore and the puzzles are ok to make you interact with the open world. Got into genshin bcs of the open world and BoTW comparissons so i'm satisfied in this aspect. It gets also many upgrades and events that add mini-games that some of them are fun to play. I'm mixed with this type of games because for a kid or a hot headed person this game can be a serious problem if they can't control themselves and start spending money they should not because the game constantly gets updated with new "shiny" and "awesome" things and encourages the desire of obtaining the new character or weapon released hence creating addiction in weak minded people. I consider the game as a whole to be objectively good despite the gatcha system but very dangerous for kids or weak minded people.
I'm actually dreading the start of the game. I saw the appeal of the game early on, but the game didn't really pick up for me until the end of Liyue. I was invested after the Golden House onwards.
Sad how he didn't cover about how Tencent tried buying mihoyo after they released Genshin Impact and was flat out rejected then Tencent got so salty they went on smear campaign for 2 years like paying journalist to write articles about Genshin painting it in bad light and encouraging their low level development studios to rip off in-game assets from mihoyo's game.
Honkai team: Makes one of the best stories in gaming Sends physical artbooks to your house on anniversary Gets you to sing in their concert along with the staff Refuses to elaborate Simply built different
I agree with the person above me, "one of the best stories in gaming" not even close, even genshin story is good at best, mediocre and corny at worst. but the lore, the Lore I would argue is one of the best in gaming, it's high up there with Dark souls and Elden ring. problem is people often mistake Lore and Story.
@@AlphaAceEX then it's a YOU problem. Not the story. From a story-writing standpoint (only 2 years experience but let me have this), Honkai has objectively better storytelling elements and developments than Genshin. It is, in fact, a good story-according to story-writing elements that we usually look at like plot, dramatic content, conflict, cohesion, etc. But is it the"best"? That's more subjective. Tho, the OP did say that "one of the best" so it could really be interpreted in so many ways.
I honestly wish a lot of that money went to the people who make the music for this game. Coz a lot of us criticize many parts of genshin, but everyone can agree - the music is just superior. Also looking forward to the Genshin playthrough, I genuienly wonder about his objective opinion on this game, too many people hate on it for no real reason and on the other side - too many people overhype it. It is a solid game, that is fun, but ain t gonna chang your life (well unless you stream it coz for streamer that genshin money is lifechanging).
Another great point, people "stealing" concepts is nothing new. Artistic and culturual appropriation has always been a core aspect of creating new art, IP, games, etc. Playstation guy might be upset, but the reality is that theres now a newer game that is similar to the one you love playing, that should be a win. There are plenty of google search suggestions that are something along the lines of "console/pc games similar to ______". I don't support greedy practices by these games, but I get excited to play games with familiar mechanics that I enjoy playing
Game design has always been iterative. It's only stolen if assets are actually ripped from another product or patents are violated, simple as that. If developers heavily borrows inspiration from other games, as long as it's transformative enough, done with care and has enough to make it distinct, it's not an issue. Genshin is definitely made with care and passion.
i still dont understand why ppls think mihoyo games are like diablo immortal, here the fact, i just use genshin since everyone know genshin compared to diablo immortal >no pop up asking you to buy stuff >no paywall, free characters can finish the story just fine >no pvp or competition or rank based so no pay to win >only pvp is card mini games and all the cards are free i just find it annoying ppls keep bashing it without even know anything about it and learn stuff from false misinformation echo chamber just because the game are made in china
I didn't even know where the gacha was at first, most gacha games make you pull during tutorial but I only knew where it was bc I remembered people were saying 'wishing' on twitter (I'm used to 'scouting')
The Zelda fangirls that were crying about Genshin being a clone with stolen assets, are on the same level of intelligence as the Dark Souls fangirls saying that every action rpg is a Souls-like. Two of the most toxic communities in gaming. And Genshin even in version 1.0 was better than BotW. Right now (3.4), BotW can't even be compared to Genshin, the later is worlds above the first at absolutely every single metric (story, writing, lore, characters, world & exploration, level design, gameplay, combat, soundtracks, visuals, content, and everything else).
I recommend doing a reaction video to honkai impact 3 animations and lore videos, besides loving watching them myself i don't think you'd be dissapointed, not only am i certain that it will we get a lot of views (even the smallest channels can get at least thousands of views by doing a simple reaction video) you will see that Honkai Impact 3rd is about so much more then just pretty anime waifus, the effort put in the story, lore and characters is simply amazing. The animations and music themselves are simply some of the best out there as well (in this category it actually outshines genshin in production value & quality even to this day). If by some chance you are interested in this please give me a chance to create the perfect playlist for you to watch the animations in a chronological way that makes sense (and with a JP dub which will make most of the watchers more comfortable :p).
As far as I know, mihoyo has at least four projects in development right now, and only two of them have been announced. And they have a bigger plan to develop using technologies such as deep learning AI for example. genshin is just the beginning for them.
They are using Genshin & Honkai Impact 3rd for testing ground for their next games while updating the games too, which is insane 5head in game development
I downloaded Genshin and have only played it like 3 or 4 times really, the game is not really for me, but the game is surprisingly smooth like there’s something about a smoothly running game that is very appealing imo because most games today don’t run smoothly.
The botw statements were probably based around the fact that in their first beta tests, designs were "obtained" from botw; though to be fair, it has long been since they changed them. Many of these claims at release probably weren't even made by people that played botw
"Where did all that money go?" Well currently they have multiple new games in development, 2 of which we already know, Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero. They also greatly improved Honkai 3rd. There's also stuff like Concerts and anime adaptations. Also, Honkai Impact 3rd has a game mode called APHO, which is basically Devil May Cry. And the thing is, that game mode is completely free. The main game has no effect on that game mode. Hell, you can't spend money for that game mode even if you wanted to. It's literally a literally an entire game mode which essentially could be it's own separate game, and miHoYo was like, "Here have this. This literally makes us no money but have it anyways and we'll be making more of it in the future." Rather than losing quality because it makes them no money, it actually even have higher quality in a lot of areas than the main game.
People just don't realize and appreciate what this company has done for its community. The game was made to create a unique open-world experience involving a protagonist to go on a journey to look for clues and track down an enemy god who took their sibling. Along the way, they are met with countless friendly people and a variety of cultures and landscapes that are based in real life. Each region has their own distinct national identity that were inspired by reality where players get to have a taste of its culture. Players for the longest time have been loving these cultures from every nation as well as the characters, the music, the story, and the gameplay. The gameplay is not as bad as some people make it out to be. It's rated among the best games in the world currently for a reason. It's just simply that good of a game, and one you should definitely try. Edit: Oh look! A crying loser replied!
"appreciate what this company has done for its community" absolute cringe. I've never seen a bigger and blinder whiteknight, and I've met a lot. Such a professional boot cleaning.
The most surprising thing is that Genshin would update its contents with quality every 42 days, which has never changed since its release. I have witnessed so many delays and bugs for the 3A games but mihoyo's project management is really impressive.
Is Genshin your first ever live service game, normie? XD do you know how these games work? A month and a half per update is actually slow, specially when they add nothing meaningful like endgame content or QoL improvements.
This is one of the rare cases where you can clearly see where all the money goes. Not just in the existing games, but all the stuff around as well as new projects.
"Where did that money go" I guess towards world design, big ass updates every 6 weeks, music made in some grand orchestras around the world. Oh, and probably mostly towards optimalization, because it runs flawless on 5 different platforms that can be seamlessly connected with each other. Finding a bug in this "indie gacha game" is harder than finding another AAA release WITHOUT bugs.
I wish Japanese had the balls and innovation to make some proper high budged uncensored anime content and not let it get cucked by western publishers. It feels like Japanese games nowadays are outdated and small budget.
@@rtyzxc what do you mean outdated,Japanese games are pretty good these days.Bayonetta,Breath of the wild,Fire Emblem,Yakuza,Final Fantasy 7 Remake,,Xenoblade,Dark Souls,Monster Hunter are all amazing games.
In the part where BOTW fans are hating on Genshin, I pretty much didn’t mind it. Simply because I didn’t have any access to BOTW, I ain’t rich enough to buy a Switch. Heck even my phones are just hand-me-downs. Point is, I like BOTW. Heck, I watched a lot of gameplays of it because I can’t play it so when Genshin came out and it is on mobile, consoles and even pc, I had to play it. It was simply because I have an easier access to it than BOTW
Sooooo Shift Up literally uses the same marketing strategy as Mihoyo for their success ... there's no way out of this bois, anime was born and is here to stay now forever with us
One of the reason why so much money been pour into the development of Genshin before it even released, was becasue Mihoyo had no experience design an open world game, the try and error phase cost them quite the fortune
I still remember playing Gun GirlZ on my old iPhone 4. Started playing to get that Miku Leek melee weapon, but never even realized there was a gacha system.
The culprit for all these toxicity on Genshin's release is believed to be Tencent since they had control over the social media and many of their actions proves it. They release their version of IGN review report just discriminating Genshin. When Genshin got the GoY award, Tencent host their own award ceremony and give all their games an award and Genshin is not even on their list. Recently, they made their own AI drawing software, any picture with Genshin element in there will be automatically be turn into BOTW related picture. This company spend so much money trying to kill Genshin but end up making Genshin more popular.
About the Zelda argument. As Max0r said "Breath of the wild was so good that i wanted breath f the wild with more anime puss" and i gotta agree the overall design of BotW is amazing and i wanted more games like that and genshin delivers
This is probably the first game where there has literally no problems with servers running simultaenously and is still smooth on top of that in all device platforms. I hardly remember genshin having a server failure. Probably majority of the budget went on that. Plus, the bugs are too minimal and the cheats are non-existent. There are a good 50% of games that are literally unplayable because of server traffic and games that are just full of exploits so genshin is far from bad tbh. I'm not gonna talk about stories, gameplays and such since it's subjective but from a dev perspective, the way the game was coded is closer to flawless. Maybe aside from security since it's not always going to be reliable given at how many viruses are invented everyday but every other games just suffer as much if not more anyways. About the BoTW argument, meh I can't say that games right now are even original. I'm pretty sure Elden Ring didn't invent horse mounts either. I'm just glad they took inspirations from it with the environment and mechanics since games now tend to lean on futuristic genre. It's safe to assume that this is pretty much a love letter to botw and it succeeded just how stardew valley was a love letter to harvest moon.
Wow, you are literally new in gaming. Genshin is not a mmorpg. It doesn't have server failures. The daily gameplay is forced to 15 daily minits per person, so nobody overstays ingame for long, which makes it more fluid for the servers. Most of their money goes to marketing and their other games.
@@evilmiyoho6742 lol where the hell did i say genshin is mmorpg? and there's no way you think shorter playtime is making the whole continent asia run smoother even on hundred thousands of simultaneous co-ops and massive logins after maintenances? Give me 10+ complaints everyday of people getting kicked out on co op despite running Genshin on a high end device compared to other ARPG coop (obviously not LAN) and you'll see the differences in server connection flaws.
- FlymetotheMoon (2011) - Gun Girl Zombie (2013) - Honkai Impact (2016) - Lumi N0va / N0va Dekstop (2020) - Genshin Impact (2020) - Tear of Themis (2021) (and there are still other games) - Honkai Star Rail - Zenless Zone Zero (Project 3N) - Project X (Because there are 3 games listed, one of them is, there is no official name yet) - Coming soon Project VR in 2030 Sorry if there are mistakes
Started playing genshin because my ex show me a video of amber shooting arrow to the sky and it looks like a shooting star. Still play genshin impact but where are those who share the memories.
There's a lot of story in Genshin Impact. Some of which are limited time events, so if you want everything explained you need to watch vids on the events for all the story.
@@nicholasjacobs6605 Magic survival named thingy in the playstore came then vampire vampire survivors then holocure and so on (including trash copy like vs games)
the game has a lot of production value, I'm not sure how much of that money goes back into the game but seeing all the stuff they make, it cant be a small part.
Jenshin was heavily marketed so most likely a huge chunk of that 100 Mil went into advertising and marketing the game, both in pre and post launch phase of the game...
Bro, Honkai Impact is fucking incredible. Just gonna say that now. Early game is slow, but they explain the world. After chapter 9, we start to really see it kick into gear. Then it punches you in the gut repeatedly to force the waterworks open. I mean tears, not piss.
This video is kinda outdated, by now they have moved their HQ to singapore as far as i know to escape chinese censorship. They also heavily reinvest the huge amounts of money they are making and you can really see it. free concerts with actual orchestras, theyre making an anime, working on like 5 new games, content flow in genshin like no other game has it. seriously, a huge patch every 6 weeks which they made EVEN faster recently and is now more like 4 to 5 weeks, and an actual "expansion" every year. genshin is on track to become the most expensive game in history, costing 200 million a year in development. all while they are still fucking degens and want to make some kind of swort art online weeb vr world, im sure they are working on that with the money genshin generates.
I was one of the gamgry BOTW fan when Genshin first announced. Few years later I came around, realized it’s like every genres came before it. The first game pops off so much everyone wants to be the next or a least be a part of it. DOOM for FPS, DayZ for BR, Escape from Tarkov for extractions From the players wallet.
This is also why a lot of dumb players see a new game and say "that game stole something from another game" when there's no barely any new game out there that's 100% unique or have direct similarities from previous released games. I bet there are a lot of dumb Genshin player out there that are gonna say "Blue Protocol is copying Genshin." when they see the gameplay and act as if Genshin was innocent in not copying a lot of its systems from previous released games from the beginning. I like and still play Genshin but you can't really ignore that they obviously copied A LOT of things which was obvious at launch so players shouldn't really yell on other games for it when the game they play themselves did it in the first place.
people are missing the biggest hidden cost of the 100million , when you go from 7staff to 400 staff you need a new build, new computers and pay all these people plus then the servers to run the game are also a huge cost. these are most likely the biggests costs
Just saw this video, I must say that Honkai has a story that I really love. It might be bias because of nostalgia, but I really could not find a better game in terms of story. I kinda stopped playing Genshin because of how the artifact system was so grindy, but I think that the same kind of love is there. Its just that Genshin is still in its early stages, compared to Honkai which is at the end of its first half. Only downside is the lack of male characters in Honkai but considering how the fanbase reacted to the previous male character that was only available in a side game mode, I understand their hesitation.
I hope, he will like the Game tbh xD. And also that he watches more Character Intro Animations or Trailers, just to see his Reaction. Genshin Impact is not only a Waifu Game, it now has Husbandos too. It gave me just from some Atmosphere and Music a big rollercoaster of emotions and i hope he will play it until the good shit starts. 10/10 Game rly happy they made this Game.
I have newfound appreciation for Kiana, she's now my favorite lesbian. Oh Kiana, how far you've come. Also, they didn't bet on there being so many losers in the world, gacha and anime games have been super popular and successful long before Mihoyo came into the picture. The game Monster Strike is old AF, still makes about a billions a year to this day.
theya re chad for being honest about their simple dreams, and i love mihoyo, being honkai veteran and genshin players now, theya re awesome team, as honkai veterans would tell anyone, came in for cute anime girls stay for the great story and character progressions
One of the things they definitely spent a lot of money on is the fucking music. These guys hired the London Orchestra team to make the music for the 'German region', the Shanghai Orchestra team to do 'Chinese region', etc. They also hired professionals who know how to play exotic instruments from Japan, India, the Middle-east etc. The production value is insane. Their composer is also very gifted (read that as 'probably expensive').
@@TheAzureGhost The EN cast is arguably higher status than the CN ones as they still include a lot MiHoYo devs in the CN version (Zhongli is voiced by the vocal director among other characters etc.) and more characters share actors.
Though the EN cast probably gets paid the least, but that's more on the VA industry in the US being crap in terms of that (outside of commercials).
But yeah, I imagine the JP cast is very expensive.
Music is the best part of this game after the world for me, what's insane is they made crazy tracks for time limited events that probably will never get a rerun, along with many other limited events we get they're throwing money like it's nothing.
@@timoyr2954 Misinformation , Zhongli VA is a director of a VA company , not mihoyo themselves. Mihoyo contracted the VA company to do voice acting for their characters , Zhongli is that company's director , together with Jean's CN VA too. CN VA is not on par with JP's VA in terms of statuses but its definitely higher than EN. As most CN and some SEA players prefer using CN dub over any other dub. And CN dub is indeed more superior in Genshin especially since the length of the dialogue is made with CN words in mind. Which is why sometimes you hear some characters speaks faster than they usually do during a scene or a cut scene.
And the thing about EN cast got paid the least , I kinda doubt it. JP VA's pay is incomparable with other languages. But for CN and KR , probably around the same price.
@@is4954 yeah like Fischl theme, is sooo good
Also the honkai and genshin concerts
Honestly, in comparison to other companies, Mihoyo is.. well, incomparable.
- They built a school in a rural impoverished area.
- They donate to autism support, legal support, education, animal preservation, and organization promoting art in children according to videos on their Bilibili page.
- They donated a huge number of masks and surgical garments to hospitals and the red cross. Toys and pillows to children's hospitals. Food and other such things for employees.
- They invested $65 million in nuclear fusion devices to contribute to Energy Singularity's Tokamak research to reduce carbon emissions. Nearly the same amount they spent on developing Genshin, used to revolutionize renewable energy for the world.
- Working with hospitals on brain-computer technology development for depression.
- Creating an industry defining VR world for a billion people by 2030.
- Helping set up a VA agency in China for young VA artists through funding and opportunities. The founders of this agency, along with many of the young artists went on to get huge roles in Honkai Impact 3rd and Genshin Impact.
- Buying hundreds/thousands of PS5s and other tech to give to their staff for free.
- Offering some of the best working conditions in the tech and gaming industry: anti 336 work culture (crunch in the west), people bring cats/pets into office, high salary, flat organizational structure where the founders are literally working in the same open space as everybody else.
Half of these things (VA agency, building a school, welfare for autism support, legal support, education, animal preservation, work conditions for employees) were already in place even before they became a billion dollar company with Genshin Impact. Their slogan from when they were just three university students in 2013 was “Tech Otakus save the world”, and they’ve proved their commitment to that phrase time and time again.
It’s inspiring to say the least. Whether people like them or not, nobody can deny that they’re incomparable to any other game developer.
Mihoyo is way better than Trashzard/Antivision for treating their employees. Trashzard/Antivision have performed *cough* sexual harassment. Seems like people almost forgot Diablo Immortal exist
Only Chairman ( a cat ) have a persenal office
Let's not forget the honkai concert which shows their bond with their employees and also the entire player base
Damn... Tech Otaku reall does save the world I guess
Some people post like like genshin but not Mihoyo as if like Mihoyo is the scum of the earth lol when people hardly know anything
Huge respect to Mihoyo, I can't believe they went from Honkai Gakuen to Honkai Impact 3rd to Genshin in the same decade
I think mhy is one the company that knows how anime games should be made
@@darthchilde8880 no they don't it's a gacha game
@@eliajshdjddj your life sure is sad.
@@eliajshdjddj aaaand? As someone that has played honkai for 3 years now, i haven't spent a single penny on the game and i enjoy it just fine. You don't need to gacha to enjoy these types of games.
@@blazenwhiper and? What about the millions that are giving m
The company money
Honestly. the way Mihoyo was able to grow from 3 college graduates to making one of the most recognized games in the world in under a decade is just mindblowing. It's insane how popular Genshin is and how big Mihoyo became as a result of its popularity.
Edit: Also akashoT is amazing, I'm so glad he's getting the recognition he deserves.
A few other things to note: Mihoyo is actually one of Tencent's biggest competitors and is one of the few game devs in China that have no affiliation with Tencent whatsoever. Tencent attempted to buy MHY at one point IIRC and they refused, which is why Tencent allegedly has a grudge against MHY and funded development of Tower of Fantasy as a "Genshin killer". Obviously that didn't turn out too well for them.
I also think Genshin is legitimately a step in the right direction when it comes to the mobile gaming industry. While many will argue that gacha is predatory by nature, the way Genshin (and many other asian gachas like Arknights or Azur Lane) do microtransactions is a lot healthier IMO. You don't see any ads or popups nagging you to spend, spending doesn't give you any competitive advantage, and everything in the game is easily completable as an F2P- in fact I'd argue the game is balanced around F2P investment and whaling essentially breaks the game balance. It's a far cry from the "nickle-and-dime" mobile games like Candy Crush or Zynga games that are essentially dressed-up cash cow machines that don't respect your time and money.
Like Gigguk once said, "it's not pay to win, it's pay to waifu".
Amazing what corruption, theft, and sweatshop wages for assets can do for bottom line.
@@d0tline468 Hoyoverse isn't Tencent
@@dev32 I love when people comment shit like this. Genshin is by far one of the best produced games out right now. The quality of the content, whether you like it or not, is some of the best in the industry right now. You never have to interact with Gacha if you want to experience the story. People just want their waifus and complain when they don't get them. The only time that your party comp actually matters is high end abyss farming, and that isn't story.
one post on NGA further explored this actually, tencent tried to buy Mihoyo again around Feb 2021 and of course that didnt go well
remember the alternative outfits for jean, mona, rosaria and amber?
in a deleted post, a women's activist group in CN actually complained to the censorship regulation board in China out of nowhere after tencent failed to buy mihoyo
kinda fishy
I am so sad Honkai did not receive more footage. It should get at least half the screen time of genshin in that video. It had a rough starting point for such a popular game but thanks to genshin money, it’s popping the f off now.
29:34 If Zack's genuinely asking, if you want to know whatever the fuck the budget went, just look at advertising they did (Japan, South Korea, Europe, South East Asia) the music behind the game (they hired a bunch of orchestras around the world to do their music) the gigantic roster of voice actors they have to pay in four different languages and obviously your usual game development shenanigans (research, art design, programming etc)
Also the budget for the anime from ufotable
and.... making the new games xD that's the power of a good game
Sadly none of this money was spent on creating content or improving core gameplay. Over 2.5 years and still not a single shred of content added. Only occasional combat event once in 2 months and most of them don't even allow you to use your characters. Honestly pathetic, less 5% of profits spent on the game and out of those almost every % is spent purely on advertising.
@@ashero2092 i guess building the world inside out and wasting their time on creating new content is free,
there's a reason why tof failed. asmon said it before "the game's p2w" i wonder what went wrong in a game where the hardest combat gamemode that needed 3 SSR with no personality cause you would only use their weapon. A polished game would be more fun, cyberpunk proves it. Gacha company is still a gacha company but people should start realizing "quality over quantity"
@@longbread Considering they're investing literal pennies in developing the game? Yeah, that's pretty much free when their marketing budget is 10 time more then the entire development cost.
Also, as you pointed out, they indeed waste their time creating an irrelevant content, 90% of which goes straight into garbage bin for the sole purpose of pressuring people with FOMO and scamming them out of their money.
What's wrong with me wanting to play the game and use my characters? The whole game is about collecting characters, making them stronger, creating new teams and fighting against different enemies. 99% of all rewards in the game are things that either make your characters stronger or help you get a new ones. Their entire monetisation is built on this loop. And yet in 2.5 years they added literal 0 content to core gameplay.
Why they can't spend 0.01% of their budget on adding some permanent core gameplay related content somewhere in-between vaporising an entire overworld and min-maxing abyss?
But no, GI is a glorified cash cow to farm mobile crowd and fund all the future projects of the company. And mobile crowd hates playing games, all they want is paying "games"
Kinda rough that about 50% of his video is about Genshin. I personally think that Honkai also derserves a part since it's mihoyo's 2nd biggest game.
Honkai is catered to weebs fetishizing wlw relationships going as far as to protest *any* playable male characters bc “they gon steal muh waifu and ruin my fantasy wah” and I’m okay with that. However it’s nowhere near as successful as Genshin is, so let’s not☠️
Genshin is the game that made them famous worldwide though. Before Genshin i didnt even know what a gacha game was and never heard of Mihoyo
@@GiesbertsN They fr be thinking a niche game that is thriving off a few whales is worth a shoutout😭💀
@@veliona8920 also w/o flyme2themoon there will be no honkai
@@mysteriousastrolabe Just going off wikipedia HI3rd has made around 700 million, a few whales doesnt do that xD It's not 4 billion like Genshin but no one claim it was even close.
MiHoYo is a lot of thing, but wasting their profit into executive yatch is not one of them. They are a rare company that put majority of their profit back into growth of company, they keep growing because of that. Unlike a lot of companies that wasted their profit on executive bonus and corruption in general.
That why most often then not we only get a 5star a patch which we have to wait 5-6 weeks for. They sure are fueling their developer engine
All going to the sweet sweet honkai animation team
They got their priorities right
now they need to invest it more into their main source of revenue instead of using a small fraction on it, and the rest goes to either creating new games LOL or to make cool stuff in their other games instead of genshin
@@burakormanoglu6000 i hate gacha games but you got to admit genshin impact update are insane i remember playing couldnt even catch up to the content i didnt finish the old content and already new thing released
@@vandamq8 a whole dlc region that gets bigger every 3 month is fucking crazy, i dont even know how all the devs working there getting any sleep at all, feels like they are not getting any rest with this insane schedule, im genuinely worried about their health tbh
When it comes to the story, personally I felt the first part was very generic and childish even but it gets better. Especially on Sumeru (the 4th nation) you can really see the attention to detail. The lore is very interesting too if you dig deeper enough. Its lore is scattered everywhere in the world and they don't just shove it to your face(unlike the main quest sometimes).
That's normal far a Gacha, there is an explanation for it but I can't explain it well but there was a video explaining why Gacha games always have a mid beginning but always get better after some time.
personally I love the chasm - everything about it, the silence, the secrets, the story and events there. Yelan event was awesome, trapped in that weird spacetime with a grandiose ending. And the whole abyss connection, whee! I like the main stories with the archons/Fatui but when sibling/abyss/dainsleif quest is continued, that's when things get deep and spicy.
@@einsiedler6052 The Chasm was great! I really like places like those and maybe that's why I like Enkanomiya too. And I agree, I really like the story when it comes to Khaenri'ah/Abyss/Sibling lore. There's just so much to mysteries to uncover. And just when you thought you know it all, they just completely overturn what you know.
copium
@@ich3730 it was mid
*Genshin Impact* is so bloody expensive to develop because they keep introducing per version all these _one-off_ events and fully-acted storyline quests and mini games with their own unique mechanics. If you weren't around back then to experience those, they're mostly gone forever (some might return due to popularity but with different flavour). It's just insane how much throw-away wastage this game has.
This infuriates me. Especially since they dared to lie directly and upfront at their 2nd anniversary about it.
That's not even much when they make around 3 billion a year, (or probably more than that since it was last years number).
@@Prinzherbert it's a generic boring anime game
@@eliajshdjddj sad..
@@JayceCH. It's not only Mobile, if they keep everything the game would go way above 100GB only on its 3rd year - there's 5 more to go. We'd end at 250GB+ and there's no way any company wants to deal with that, it's a net loss of players.
You wonder why all of a sudden, every people online got ultra mad at mihoyo at 2020？ It's because of tencent. Very simple, although some other gaming companies would also love to make mihoyo look bad but It's mainly tencent who does the dirty work under the light, buying views, hiring people to talking shit about genshin impact.
Well I think it was mostly cuz Genshin Impact was initally ridiculed as "Chinese BotW rip off", and then once launched yeah its good game but many media like you said tried to make Mihoyo look bad by saying how some characters like noelle ripoff the same sword swinging animation from 2B, and how Mihoyo account many people phone number were leaked. But still many of those were legit concerns though. 2021 well we know it, the controversy was the anniversary controversy where people were upset on how lackluster awards there was, and also inazuma arc many argue it was mediocre compare to the past arcs.
@@Mario123007 Tencent was a huge factor back then. Tencent had completely different philosophy and strategy in the video game area. Which is take full advantage of It's dominant position on social terrain, whether on pc or on mobile, to make dogshit quality games, runs the project with the lowest amount of investment, and milk the most profit out of it. They don't care about making an enjoyable game, every video game development team within the comany has every team members, project managers, and everyone else KPI evaluate indicator, that certain profitability needs to be meet every year. Therefore tencent had this kind of enterprise culture of maximize tencent's monopoly market position, everything is secondary for the project, profit is a default primary goal for the project, and the easiest way to achieve kpi is to monopolize the specific area of the market that the project is targeting so that whatever shitty game that is made will always be profitable when it is publish. Tencent never makes video game that centers around the player's experience, nor a game with maximum quality of gameplay, music, story, graphic. Never.
Nice to know that Tencent is losing value now.
There's no chance in hell Asmon would complete the story of Genshin. That shit is already like a hundred hours long and it isn't even complete.
With a lot of it being world quest thats not voiced and most voiced quest not lip synced if not in chinese, yea I highly doubt as well.
Right? I can't imagine a new player getting into it anymore there is so much damn content... but then again it's Asmon so he could
@@pkmdz You can definitely still get into Genshin. The isse is Asmon won't have more than a week to play it before a new release comes out or he goes back to mindlessly playing WoW.
He'll
He played ToF for a month, idk he could probably last for 1-2 months on genshin
My favorite thing about Genshin specifically is how it reference cultures all around the world. I watch a video from them about how the Chinese composer work with Japanese musicians for the in game music for the Japan-inspired zone and it was really wholesome
But have black culture yet no black characters
@@poggers4392 Now that I think about it, hearing hip hop black rap music or smthg in Genshin is funny. Would like to see it sometime in the future.
@@poggers4392 Vaguely referencing a culture doesn't mean they must put nibers into the game just cause you feel like it. Not to mention egypt is mostly arab, and indians while having dark skin tone are not black either. And there is no south-african region in game yet.
@@poggers4392 it might come in natlan patch
@@poggers4392 I do not recall an African inspired region has been added to genshin yet. A middle eastern and Indian one sure.
17:26 "How did you spend so much money?" Because Mihoyo has a great development team, they improve the game engine, they publish articles, and they have so many technical patents.
All of these cost money.
By the way, in QS World University Rankings, Shanghai Jiaotong University is a top 100 Uni. In an interview, Liu Wei said "Unfortunately, I got a postgraduate recommendation". Cai Haoyu played computer games at the age of 5, won the second prize for animation at the age of 8, and was named one of the first 13 small academicians in China at the age of 12. All the founders are geniuses, that's why Mihoyo is successful.
Yes, Shanghai Jiaotong University is one of the top 5 universities in China only after Peking University and Tsinghua University. IF A Chinese wants to enter this university they need to maintain their exam scores at least in the top 0.1% students to get an undergraduate membership in most of the provinces
Mihoyo is successful because they ripp normies off with hardcore marketing strstegies. They could have made a great game out of genshin with their talent, but they just prefered to make more money at the cost of making a bad one. It's not their talent that made them successful. Talking about Genshin.
A big chunk of the $100 million probably went into salaries. 120 people worked on Genshin at the start of 2017. That number grew to 400 people by the end of the year.,
For comparison:
The Witcher 3 cost ~$81 million dollars and it started with 150 employees which grew to 250.
Yes The Witcher looks more techically impressive but we have to keep some things in mind. Genshin is a mobile game and optimizing this game for mobile devices probably took some recources and time. Another important thing to mention is Genshin's level if polish even on release. In 2 years of playing I have not experianced a single gamebreaking bug or heard of bugs being a problem for players. Worst bugs I have experianced is not being able to complete a minor side quest. Thats really impressive for a game that gets updated every 6 weeks.
Edit: Also marketing is way more expensive than people realize and its obvious that they put alot of money into Marketing
Take in mind that Genshin always fast to fix bug after every version update
Genshin always fix bug a few hours to few days after it get reported, If they cannot do that, they will move a specific bug in Version Update
Their Bug Fixer probably working like hell every time version update XD
Funny how we only knew there were bugs from primogems compensation.
not to mention - they are building schools. They are giving back to the community, to the country, that, while does questionable things at times, is still their home. That is admirable
Just the fact they can rival Lasengle's Fate Grand Order is impressive, in that short of time specifically
It was pretty funny when people were freaking out about Genshin. As if Zelda invented stamina bars. They took some ideas but that is how the industry works. What is important is that games do enough to stand out as their own thing. Which Genshin does. As for where all that money went, they are currently making two new games while continuing to update Honkai and Genshin.
people disliked it because the assets were extremely similar AND it looked like a nasty gacha game, emphasis on the second part. Basically people liked the division between studios that can make high quality games, and studios that are incompetantly trying to grift people. It's like how not all scam mail is a ridiculous mispelled prince, now it's hard to distinguish it from a real shipment notification.
@@CaptainWumbo but hoyoverse did not while every mobile games in the market before genshin is just straight ass
Also, we r getting an official anime from ufotable
They literally pulled assets and mihoyo is known for doing this
@@eliajshdjddj they are known for it? Proof? Haven't heard that before except for the baseless accusations, yours is one
Bro, I bought like 5 iPhone games over my life time (because I’m still not into mobile gaming) and the Flyme2theMoon game was one of them. Played the shit out of that game. Never thought in a million years I’d see it mentioned randomly years later in a Asmongold react lol.
well, turns out the people who made that game are now recognized worldwide, so its not that surprising now, haha
Was it better than angry birds tho?
@@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065 you're one of those Rovio guys
@@Shadow38PL angry birds will always have a place in my heart tbh
I remember the launch date of Honkai on the App Store. I was immediately drawn to the game. Prior to it, I obviously played Gun Girl Z, briefly. I will be honest, miHoYo is goated for a gacha game maker company. The amount of detail they had in Honkai alone as far as mobile games go was simply absurd. Even when fortnite mobile beta was available, there wasn't many games like Honkai Impact 3rd. The story, the voice acting, the cinematics, the characters... I'm talking about a story so good (with insane animated cinematics from a chinese company), you would question why you cried at FF14 story. I really enjoyed Genshin too but Honkai is a better experience than Genshin if you value multiplayer experience as well as challenging combat.
Yeah no kidding. Take the Time Runner skin for Flamescion Kiana for example. There's more lore references and implications in A SINGLE OPTIONAL SKIN than Triple AAY companies put in their entire games. Say what you will about mihoyo but Honkai is a damn fine product.
mihoyo takes "tech otakus save the world" very literally btw, its not JUST anime girls. search up all the stuff theyve invested in. a lot of the stuff they put money into also feel similar to Honkai. things like rocket ships, schools, something called energy fusion etc
i think its pretty cool
You have a great point with the battle royale phase, every gaming company is looking at Genshin as a way for themselves to make money, we are going to see a LOT (both good and horribly bad) of these kinda of games coming up in the future. These poor otakus....
@@SanarySeggnete it doesn't need to steal the spotlight. Since it doesn't take too much resources or time to make a mobile game it just need to generate enough initial hype for people to buy into the game and dump the game then repeat. Maybe make a few updates to continue milking the whales. Look at diablo immortal it more than earns it's worth. It also works for pc games like FIFA. Though in FIFA case it's just a rehash which makes this possible. Same reason it does not require much resources or time to produce.
@@SanarySeggnete Umamusume, fate series, a more streamlined blue archive and a kc arcade for mobile can rival genshin easily even heaven BURNS red, also genshin piggyback on fate grand order as well since they are marketed as casual friendly game.
As today blue archive, korean gacha lolibait game topped and erased touhou from Japan komiket this year.
The future is bright my friend, the fact that you only knew genshin shows that you are a normies tbh.
@@r3zaful Why did touhou even involved in gacha game talk?
@@r3zaful "KC arcade"
Like that will ever happen.
@@myatthu7165 I mean tanaka already lobbying for kancolle 2 past 6 years, kancolle is a big ip that also sponsored officially by the government and tanaka wouldn't want to waste it potential.
25:08
"What's inside his mind?
Nothing, bro. It's like a bird cage and the bird's dead inside the brain."
Lost my shit right here
Well one of the things that made them much money from the characters is the effort they give to their demos... Definitely should react to them chronologically before playing.
The video unfortunately skipped alot about the honkai impact game. It is insane. Animation and story wise. Even the music is top tier
nah
@@Mathster_live well its also a mihoyo game
@@Ghalion666 without honkai success there would be no more of mihoyo
@@Mathster_live just say he made this video just for easy clicks.
@@Mathster_live who care if it is hourly longer ?
My respect for Mihoyo increased greatly
Gigchad anime fans making a game for anime fans
Not really gigachad when it's a gacha lmao literally making money off of gambling
@@eliajshdjddj that is why there is a pity system that they implement so that they dont spend much/ fixed estimated amount of money
(Spot someone ignorant to gacha games without saying they are ignorant to gacha games)
@@distritochristianangeloa.157 a pity system dosent mean anything lmao. People still spend hundreds for those characters. I don't know why your trying to defend gacha.
People CLEARLY spend a lot for these characters it's a scam
@@JayceCH. pity system is just expensive way saying "you gonna got this character and don't spend money more cause you'll get (insert waifu name) eventually"
@@eliajshdjddj cause it make the game more fun or maybe mihoyo/hoyoverse should set a purchases where i could use an item to skip through the msq for 25 bucks
I just want him to react to all the character demos already!
Looking forward to the genshin streams now 👌 Glad you watched this vid, didn't really know who MiHoYo were uptil now 😅
He played it already
Nevermind I’m mistaking it for another anime game
Do you know when he gonna start playing it ? I wanna watch it live
@@mohammadrezamirzadeh4589 next year
@@GastNdorf ya these anime games kinda blend
Anime is peak stylized graphics, it will never get old at this point so it's here to stay.
Also, a lot of people played ToT. Shockingly.
I've played both of the games a lot BoTW and Genshin (as an almost F2P, around 25-30$ spent at most in almost 2 years), and i have to say that people who consider both games similar are just blind and brainless.
The only thing they have in common is the climbing mechanic, that they are open world games and use stamina metter for sprints(these last 2 not a BoTW invention).
The type of quest, story, gameplay mechanics, weapons and items, and many other aspects can't be more different to one another.
My experience with Genshin is the following,
I got lucky in the beginning and got a decent 5* in the free pulls they give you (the very hard characters to get without paying) and it carried me through the game so i didn't feel tempted to spend money to get others and i have to say that if you are not a trend victim you get a fair ammount of gacha resources as a F2P (although you have to play a lot) so i have been able to get many other 5* without expending almost any money, but i had to be cool minded and save for the ones i wanted to get passing some others. Here i see the problem with more hot headed people or trend victims who need to have all that gets promoted because the only way is paying money and a lot of it and this can develop an addiction.
Gameplay wise i think their combat system is very interesting and deep, all the characters are different from each other so the styles of the compositions play very differently with the different combinations with each character and the elements, i would describe it as easy to learn hard to master, and also most cheap characters (4*) are really really good anyways so haveing the expensive ones(5*) is more a luxury than a necessity most of the time because you can clear everything without expending money.
The story is decent, the world is interesting to explore and the puzzles are ok to make you interact with the open world. Got into genshin bcs of the open world and BoTW comparissons so i'm satisfied in this aspect.
It gets also many upgrades and events that add mini-games that some of them are fun to play.
I'm mixed with this type of games because for a kid or a hot headed person this game can be a serious problem if they can't control themselves and start spending money they should not because the game constantly gets updated with new "shiny" and "awesome" things and encourages the desire of obtaining the new character or weapon released hence creating addiction in weak minded people.
I consider the game as a whole to be objectively good despite the gatcha system but very dangerous for kids or weak minded people.
People are fucking dumb anyways. They can’t tell between a copy/clone and inspiration
I can speak English and Spanish and I read this as "Exploring my hole".
My as someone who speaks English, Spanish and Swedish and just woke up 15 sec ago you must be blind my friend.
🤣🤣
@@vanitas9837 if you know spanish, how didn't you get the joke?
@@juanparrales7311True
Ya no es mi joyo ahora es el culoverso 😂
I'm actually dreading the start of the game. I saw the appeal of the game early on, but the game didn't really pick up for me until the end of Liyue. I was invested after the Golden House onwards.
^ this guy is down 2k on Genshin just like me
@@apachers2807 I wish I had that much disposable income.
@@apachers2807 After Liyue... Genshin 100% took off for me. I'm definitely down like 5k since 2021
@@peterbabicki8252 I think he meant time not money lol
@@p2pselfpuppet796 Haha. Time? I've sank a lot of hours. Easily at least 2,000.
Cost 100 million to make, then makes it back in just two weeks... that's insane.
I played both Botw and Genshin, pretty much the only thing they copied from BTW was the glider and being able to climb almost any surface.
@@ich3730 XD
@@ich3730 Still Waiting for that promised switch port. Maby it'll come out when Nintendo makes a switch pro or switch 2 XD
And the whole open world concept lmao
@@ich3730 that's a console issue botw is still far better and not a gacha
@@eliajshdjddj ah yes, botw, the first ever open world game
Sad how he didn't cover about how Tencent tried buying mihoyo after they released Genshin Impact and was flat out rejected then Tencent got so salty they went on smear campaign for 2 years like paying journalist to write articles about Genshin painting it in bad light and encouraging their low level development studios to rip off in-game assets from mihoyo's game.
Honkai team:
Makes one of the best stories in gaming
Sends physical artbooks to your house on anniversary
Gets you to sing in their concert along with the staff
Refuses to elaborate
Simply built different
Eh doubt its "one of the best stories in gaming" its decent thats for sure
I agree with the person above me, "one of the best stories in gaming" not even close, even genshin story is good at best, mediocre and corny at worst.
but the lore, the Lore I would argue is one of the best in gaming, it's high up there with Dark souls and Elden ring.
problem is people often mistake Lore and Story.
@@justmoody5797 im a day one player and already cleared all chapters and read the manga
@@_anlim309 eh about lore id argue genshin is far deeper than honkai despite its only released more recently
@@AlphaAceEX then it's a YOU problem. Not the story.
From a story-writing standpoint (only 2 years experience but let me have this), Honkai has objectively better storytelling elements and developments than Genshin. It is, in fact, a good story-according to story-writing elements that we usually look at like plot, dramatic content, conflict, cohesion, etc.
But is it the"best"? That's more subjective. Tho, the OP did say that "one of the best" so it could really be interpreted in so many ways.
He doesn’t even realized what he’s about to do to himself - he’s gonna be like when squidward ate krabby Pattie’s for the first time
I honestly wish a lot of that money went to the people who make the music for this game. Coz a lot of us criticize many parts of genshin, but everyone can agree - the music is just superior.
Also looking forward to the Genshin playthrough, I genuienly wonder about his objective opinion on this game, too many people hate on it for no real reason and on the other side - too many people overhype it. It is a solid game, that is fun, but ain t gonna chang your life (well unless you stream it coz for streamer that genshin money is lifechanging).
asmon needs to react to the character demos first
ez 5 hours of reaction content even without pausing
They aren't impressive lmao bare bones movesets just play devil may cry
@@eliajshdjddj its not about being impressive though, its about the amount of content he'll get
@@eliajshdjddj don't compare Vergil to them
@@eliajshdjddj Music thats good and fit into the characters, mixed traditional music + Edm.
Another great point, people "stealing" concepts is nothing new. Artistic and culturual appropriation has always been a core aspect of creating new art, IP, games, etc. Playstation guy might be upset, but the reality is that theres now a newer game that is similar to the one you love playing, that should be a win. There are plenty of google search suggestions that are something along the lines of "console/pc games similar to ______". I don't support greedy practices by these games, but I get excited to play games with familiar mechanics that I enjoy playing
Game design has always been iterative. It's only stolen if assets are actually ripped from another product or patents are violated, simple as that.
If developers heavily borrows inspiration from other games, as long as it's transformative enough, done with care and has enough to make it distinct, it's not an issue. Genshin is definitely made with care and passion.
yeah, its called inspiration
I love that time in Genshin Impact when they say "It's Genshin Time!"
i still dont understand why ppls think mihoyo games are like diablo immortal,
here the fact, i just use genshin since everyone know genshin compared to diablo immortal
>no pop up asking you to buy stuff
>no paywall, free characters can finish the story just fine
>no pvp or competition or rank based so no pay to win
>only pvp is card mini games and all the cards are free
i just find it annoying ppls keep bashing it without even know anything about it and learn stuff from false misinformation echo chamber just because the game are made in china
I didn't even know where the gacha was at first, most gacha games make you pull during tutorial but I only knew where it was bc I remembered people were saying 'wishing' on twitter (I'm used to 'scouting')
The Zelda fangirls that were crying about Genshin being a clone with stolen assets, are on the same level of intelligence as the Dark Souls fangirls saying that every action rpg is a Souls-like. Two of the most toxic communities in gaming.
And Genshin even in version 1.0 was better than BotW. Right now (3.4), BotW can't even be compared to Genshin, the later is worlds above the first at absolutely every single metric (story, writing, lore, characters, world & exploration, level design, gameplay, combat, soundtracks, visuals, content, and everything else).
As a Honkai and Genshin player I don't think you will regret going through the Genshin story.
That is a lot of content to catch up on
I recommend doing a reaction video to honkai impact 3 animations and lore videos, besides loving watching them myself i don't think you'd be dissapointed, not only am i certain that it will we get a lot of views (even the smallest channels can get at least thousands of views by doing a simple reaction video) you will see that Honkai Impact 3rd is about so much more then just pretty anime waifus, the effort put in the story, lore and characters is simply amazing. The animations and music themselves are simply some of the best out there as well (in this category it actually outshines genshin in production value & quality even to this day). If by some chance you are interested in this please give me a chance to create the perfect playlist for you to watch the animations in a chronological way that makes sense (and with a JP dub which will make most of the watchers more comfortable :p).
As far as I know, mihoyo has at least four projects in development right now, and only two of them have been announced. And they have a bigger plan to develop using technologies such as deep learning AI for example. genshin is just the beginning for them.
They are using Genshin & Honkai Impact 3rd for testing ground for their next games while updating the games too, which is insane 5head in game development
As you can see, every games they had are different gameplay wise & features in it
I downloaded Genshin and have only played it like 3 or 4 times really, the game is not really for me, but the game is surprisingly smooth like there’s something about a smoothly running game that is very appealing imo because most games today don’t run smoothly.
Its animated by hand. Thats probably why
i can never get into it because the combat
@@Tissuestrash whats with the combat? Watch 'genshin spiral abyss' to see how end-game combat looks like
@@edishasora5200 I watched and it looks mediocre. Might as well play bayonetta or devil may cry or hell even nier
@@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065 you forgot to explore and do side quests?
When he reacts to Zhongli and Raiden Shogun demo...that'll be the best
The botw statements were probably based around the fact that in their first beta tests, designs were "obtained" from botw; though to be fair, it has long been since they changed them. Many of these claims at release probably weren't even made by people that played botw
"Where did all that money go?"
Well currently they have multiple new games in development, 2 of which we already know, Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero. They also greatly improved Honkai 3rd. There's also stuff like Concerts and anime adaptations.
Also, Honkai Impact 3rd has a game mode called APHO, which is basically Devil May Cry. And the thing is, that game mode is completely free. The main game has no effect on that game mode. Hell, you can't spend money for that game mode even if you wanted to. It's literally a literally an entire game mode which essentially could be it's own separate game, and miHoYo was like, "Here have this. This literally makes us no money but have it anyways and we'll be making more of it in the future." Rather than losing quality because it makes them no money, it actually even have higher quality in a lot of areas than the main game.
"when i try genshin ill play the story" hes gonna drop it just as hard as he dropped FF14 lol
Where the hell does all the 100m development money go? Quality... Quality Graphics, Quality Soundtrack, Quality Anime Tiddies.
they also spent millions on dragonspine, enkanomiya and chasm
and had the gall to refuse to add content in those areas
Also lit music concerts
What tiddies? Those have less physics as time passes, lol
If they sold albums or vinyl collectibles of their soundtracks they could probably earn a lot cause the quality of those tracks were top tier
People just don't realize and appreciate what this company has done for its community. The game was made to create a unique open-world experience involving a protagonist to go on a journey to look for clues and track down an enemy god who took their sibling. Along the way, they are met with countless friendly people and a variety of cultures and landscapes that are based in real life. Each region has their own distinct national identity that were inspired by reality where players get to have a taste of its culture. Players for the longest time have been loving these cultures from every nation as well as the characters, the music, the story, and the gameplay. The gameplay is not as bad as some people make it out to be. It's rated among the best games in the world currently for a reason. It's just simply that good of a game, and one you should definitely try.
Edit: Oh look! A crying loser replied!
"appreciate what this company has done for its community" absolute cringe.
I've never seen a bigger and blinder whiteknight, and I've met a lot. Such a professional boot cleaning.
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@@evilmiyoho6742 you literally have their name in your username
@@super-manny5648 Read again
as a DOS3 fan, I hate people saying Genshin is a BOTW clone, it's just feels like they never play any other game
The most surprising thing is that Genshin would update its contents with quality every 42 days, which has never changed since its release. I have witnessed so many delays and bugs for the 3A games but mihoyo's project management is really impressive.
A new patch every 6 weeks and a big patch every 10 patches is the standard for all miHoYo games now.
Is Genshin your first ever live service game, normie? XD do you know how these games work? A month and a half per update is actually slow, specially when they add nothing meaningful like endgame content or QoL improvements.
1:42 finally, the correct way to say "liyue" (sort of)
This is one of the rare cases where you can clearly see where all the money goes. Not just in the existing games, but all the stuff around as well as new projects.
Back in the day,Mihoyo got blamed by Tencent for "Copying Honkai Impact 3rd for Genshin"
I am actually so happy asmongold has watched log horizon
"Where did that money go"
I guess towards world design, big ass updates every 6 weeks, music made in some grand orchestras around the world.
Oh, and probably mostly towards optimalization, because it runs flawless on 5 different platforms that can be seamlessly connected with each other. Finding a bug in this "indie gacha game" is harder than finding another AAA release WITHOUT bugs.
Devs like these make the world a better and more cultured place.
Looking forward to their future games.
I wish Japanese had the balls and innovation to make some proper high budged uncensored anime content and not let it get cucked by western publishers. It feels like Japanese games nowadays are outdated and small budget.
@@rtyzxc what do you mean outdated,Japanese games are pretty good these days.Bayonetta,Breath of the wild,Fire Emblem,Yakuza,Final Fantasy 7 Remake,,Xenoblade,Dark Souls,Monster Hunter are all amazing games.
I notice a third comment that's invisible. Swearing detected?!
@@v.emiltheii-nd.8094 Not mine, but it's normal on youtube, not reliable discussion platform.
@@rtyzxc I think they got censored for swearing and YT reacts to that by making them invisible.
So I know it's not yours.
In the part where BOTW fans are hating on Genshin, I pretty much didn’t mind it. Simply because I didn’t have any access to BOTW, I ain’t rich enough to buy a Switch. Heck even my phones are just hand-me-downs.
Point is, I like BOTW. Heck, I watched a lot of gameplays of it because I can’t play it so when Genshin came out and it is on mobile, consoles and even pc, I had to play it. It was simply because I have an easier access to it than BOTW
Sooooo Shift Up literally uses the same marketing strategy as Mihoyo for their success ... there's no way out of this bois, anime was born and is here to stay now forever with us
One of the reason why so much money been pour into the development of Genshin before it even released, was becasue Mihoyo had no experience design an open world game, the try and error phase cost them quite the fortune
They did that even in their new games coming out. They even mention about SAO/Deep Dive VR Stuff LOL
They are looking to the future
@@HapPawhere if i remember that sao project thingy made by mihoyo is for 2030. Cant wait to see it.
"So yes we will play Genshin Impact..." - Asmon 2022
I still remember playing Gun GirlZ on my old iPhone 4. Started playing to get that Miku Leek melee weapon, but never even realized there was a gacha system.
The culprit for all these toxicity on Genshin's release is believed to be Tencent since they had control over the social media and many of their actions proves it. They release their version of IGN review report just discriminating Genshin. When Genshin got the GoY award, Tencent host their own award ceremony and give all their games an award and Genshin is not even on their list. Recently, they made their own AI drawing software, any picture with Genshin element in there will be automatically be turn into BOTW related picture. This company spend so much money trying to kill Genshin but end up making Genshin more popular.
About the Zelda argument. As Max0r said "Breath of the wild was so good that i wanted breath f the wild with more anime puss" and i gotta agree the overall design of BotW is amazing and i wanted more games like that and genshin delivers
This is probably the first game where there has literally no problems with servers running simultaenously and is still smooth on top of that in all device platforms. I hardly remember genshin having a server failure. Probably majority of the budget went on that. Plus, the bugs are too minimal and the cheats are non-existent. There are a good 50% of games that are literally unplayable because of server traffic and games that are just full of exploits so genshin is far from bad tbh. I'm not gonna talk about stories, gameplays and such since it's subjective but from a dev perspective, the way the game was coded is closer to flawless. Maybe aside from security since it's not always going to be reliable given at how many viruses are invented everyday but every other games just suffer as much if not more anyways.
About the BoTW argument, meh I can't say that games right now are even original. I'm pretty sure Elden Ring didn't invent horse mounts either. I'm just glad they took inspirations from it with the environment and mechanics since games now tend to lean on futuristic genre. It's safe to assume that this is pretty much a love letter to botw and it succeeded just how stardew valley was a love letter to harvest moon.
Wow, you are literally new in gaming. Genshin is not a mmorpg. It doesn't have server failures. The daily gameplay is forced to 15 daily minits per person, so nobody overstays ingame for long, which makes it more fluid for the servers. Most of their money goes to marketing and their other games.
@@evilmiyoho6742 lol where the hell did i say genshin is mmorpg? and there's no way you think shorter playtime is making the whole continent asia run smoother even on hundred thousands of simultaneous co-ops and massive logins after maintenances? Give me 10+ complaints everyday of people getting kicked out on co op despite running Genshin on a high end device compared to other ARPG coop (obviously not LAN) and you'll see the differences in server connection flaws.
- FlymetotheMoon (2011)
- Gun Girl Zombie (2013)
- Honkai Impact (2016)
- Lumi N0va / N0va Dekstop (2020)
- Genshin Impact (2020)
- Tear of Themis (2021) (and there are still other games)
- Honkai Star Rail
- Zenless Zone Zero (Project 3N)
- Project X (Because there are 3 games listed, one of them is, there is no official name yet)
- Coming soon Project VR in 2030
Sorry if there are mistakes
Didn't project x got abandoned ?
We won boys, we got him to play Genshin.
Let's F ing GOOOOO!!!! POGGIES
Twitch addict
@@eliajshdjddj using memes doesnt mean person is a twitch addict, touch some grass
Started playing genshin because my ex show me a video of amber shooting arrow to the sky and it looks like a shooting star.
Still play genshin impact but where are those who share the memories.
I just want to see Asmon react to all the Honkai Impact 3 cinematics....
Would be nice but doubt itll ever happen
@@Christiangcar73 he won't unless he was life threatening xd 😆
29:59 The quote that describes a generation. Will forever be marked in history.
i have to say, as a spanish speaker this video title made me chuckle xD
"exploring my hole"
First few lines must’ve been funny
“This time we need to go deeper.”
Asmon: “Oh good.”
Hahaha that's so funny. Just used Google Translate after seeing this comment
There's a lot of story in Genshin Impact. Some of which are limited time events, so if you want everything explained you need to watch vids on the events for all the story.
I'm interested to see if Asmon enjoys Genshin
anime is not a game type it's a style, you can basically have any game type in the style of anime, that's why it won't fall for long long time
Funny that asmon doesn’t think the anime girl gacha vampire survivors doesn’t already exist
Isn't there HoloCure which is just Vampire Survivor with Hololive characters?
Yeah, like Holocure, Sexy Mystic Survivors and Great Senka etc
@@nicholasjacobs6605 Magic survival named thingy in the playstore came then vampire vampire survivors then holocure and so on (including trash copy like vs games)
the game has a lot of production value, I'm not sure how much of that money goes back into the game but seeing all the stuff they make, it cant be a small part.
Jenshin was heavily marketed so most likely a huge chunk of that 100 Mil went into advertising and marketing the game, both in pre and post launch phase of the game...
They hire world most famous orchestras to record the soundtracks, so this probably played a part too
Bro, Honkai Impact is fucking incredible. Just gonna say that now. Early game is slow, but they explain the world. After chapter 9, we start to really see it kick into gear. Then it punches you in the gut repeatedly to force the waterworks open. I mean tears, not piss.
This video is kinda outdated, by now they have moved their HQ to singapore as far as i know to escape chinese censorship.
They also heavily reinvest the huge amounts of money they are making and you can really see it.
free concerts with actual orchestras, theyre making an anime, working on like 5 new games, content flow in genshin like no other game has it. seriously, a huge patch every 6 weeks which they made EVEN faster recently and is now more like 4 to 5 weeks, and an actual "expansion" every year. genshin is on track to become the most expensive game in history, costing 200 million a year in development.
all while they are still fucking degens and want to make some kind of swort art online weeb vr world, im sure they are working on that with the money genshin generates.
I was one of the gamgry BOTW fan when Genshin first announced.
Few years later I came around, realized it’s like every genres came before it. The first game pops off so much everyone wants to be the next or a least be a part of it. DOOM for FPS, DayZ for BR, Escape from Tarkov for extractions
From the players wallet.
This is also why a lot of dumb players see a new game and say "that game stole something from another game" when there's no barely any new game out there that's 100% unique or have direct similarities from previous released games. I bet there are a lot of dumb Genshin player out there that are gonna say "Blue Protocol is copying Genshin." when they see the gameplay and act as if Genshin was innocent in not copying a lot of its systems from previous released games from the beginning.
I like and still play Genshin but you can't really ignore that they obviously copied A LOT of things which was obvious at launch so players shouldn't really yell on other games for it when the game they play themselves did it in the first place.
people are missing the biggest hidden cost of the 100million , when you go from 7staff to 400 staff you need a new build, new computers and pay all these people plus then the servers to run the game are also a huge cost. these are most likely the biggests costs
Asmon needs to get into the gacha business with "Bald Impact" series.
The vampire survivors comment is really funny now that hes playing holocure
Yo my man Asmon should react to some of the genshin character trailers just for the bangers is worth
Just saw this video, I must say that Honkai has a story that I really love. It might be bias because of nostalgia, but I really could not find a better game in terms of story. I kinda stopped playing Genshin because of how the artifact system was so grindy, but I think that the same kind of love is there. Its just that Genshin is still in its early stages, compared to Honkai which is at the end of its first half. Only downside is the lack of male characters in Honkai but considering how the fanbase reacted to the previous male character that was only available in a side game mode, I understand their hesitation.
I hope, he will like the Game tbh xD.
And also that he watches more Character Intro Animations or Trailers, just to see his Reaction.
Genshin Impact is not only a Waifu Game, it now has Husbandos too.
It gave me just from some Atmosphere and Music a big rollercoaster of emotions and i hope he will play it until the good shit starts.
10/10 Game rly happy they made this Game.
Mihoyo : getting attacked from all direction
Also Mihoyo : here comes the money..... Here we go.... Herecomes the money... Money money money......
Oh Asmon you are underestimating the female otaku scene for the Tears of Themis playerbase... They are thirsty. THRISTY
2022 top grossing mobile games:
1) Honor of Kings - by Tencent - 2.2B
2) PUBG Mobile - by Tencent - 1.7B
3) Genshin Impact - by Mihoyo - 1.56B
Most of the budget probably went on music and voice acting.
Meanwhile you can’t even call genshin a Zelda copy anymore, today the game turned out to be unique
I have newfound appreciation for Kiana, she's now my favorite lesbian. Oh Kiana, how far you've come.
Also, they didn't bet on there being so many losers in the world, gacha and anime games have been super popular and successful long before Mihoyo came into the picture. The game Monster Strike is old AF, still makes about a billions a year to this day.
Gacha is East Asia & South East Asia Culture. Looking at Japan Gacha Industry Real Life or Games XD
Awesome video asmon, I have a feeling noelle will be your favorite character to play as.
Ah yes, a free game being expensive.
I guess I just have a lot of self control.
theya re chad for being honest about their simple dreams, and i love mihoyo, being honkai veteran and genshin players now, theya re awesome team, as honkai veterans would tell anyone, came in for cute anime girls stay for the great story and character progressions
ASMON REALLY NEEDS TO PLAY THIS GAME FOR A WHILE...
I really appreciate with your take “Everything is stolen” and being fair instead of being super biased unlike certain content creators