I knew all this as far as 3.0, but i kept going in the hope that the developers might change their minds someday, that maybe, just maybe, they'd try something different, more to my liking. that never happened. natlan was different, but it wasn't different in the ways that mattered, and everyone complained about it anyways. nod-krai is a return to form... which means I resent it even more. when I saw that teaser, and realized that I didn't care in the slightest about even a single one of these characters that hadn't been previously revealed, I knew that it was over. I was done. I wasn't going to wait for a half-hearted storyline to give these characters a basic foundation that would never receive any serious development for years, I wasn't going to wait for any designs I cared about to turn out to be 4* or not even be playable in 6.x at all, and certainly I was not going to wait for the disappointment of experiencing gameplay woes. as the great scott the woz once put it: I'm not going to wait to be disappointed, this is not a pregnancy. how many times have I told myself "this time it'll be good for sure", waited patiently, and been met with disappointment? why would I think that this time, it would be any different? at this point, the problem is me.
so, yeah, there's no point. genshin will never change into the kind of game I want it to be. interacting with the fans isn't worth it, if anything it's made my life worse.
so i put the game to rest in the last area i truly and sincerely enjoyed with all my heart. there were ones added after that I also enjoyed, but with th ecaveat that I was always thinking "I'm playing genshin instead of anything else right now" I stayed up all night to complete enkanomiya, compile all the lore, and post about it online, because I cared so much.


I'll be playing umamusume or something. it's not ideal, but it's closer to what I want out of a gacha game than this.