I know, I know... Genshin wasn't very popular in the beginning. We all remember how genshin really struggled in obscurity as the indie company had to make do with potato chips and a couple of dollars before genshin finally was discovered and hit it big. Damn, there wasn't any marketing at all and fat xiao then was just starving xiao. That's why I don't blame you for not being a year one player. How could you even have heard about genshin that early? Right? Genshin never became popular in the west afterall. We can only dream about what would have happened if genshin ever became a cultural phenomenon. I'm just glad you are here now.