u/CarefulClaim9275

So it's not much of a suprise that the community has always gone up and down with a reasonable degrees of crash out over the years. I've been lurking here from time to time and I like to observe such things. I'm also not one to shy away from starting inflammatory discussions. So here is my two cents on what I observed so far regarding the recent drama:

I feel like this is actually just a symptom of a much larger issue, which has presented as a lot of disjointed suggestions and demands on the part of the playerbase. However, if we took all of them and put them into one idea, it would be a desire to "modernize" Genshin. The reason why I think this is actually what unconsciously drives these suggestions is their uniformity in regards to genshin's competition.

The demands on the part of playerbase that want more pulls, is both reasonable and unreasonable. There are many who demand outright delusional increase in amount of pulls such as 120 - 140 guaranteed. Frankly, these are not serious individuals, so focusing on them is pointless. However, the vast majority from what I observed want between 80 - 100 somewhere within that space, which is exactly the amount Wuwa, ZZZ, Enfield, and HSR give per patch on average.

The other mosr reaccuring suggestions that I've observed are the skip button, which is present in all afromentioned games. On top of that, people also want an actual artifact loadout (a real one this time), also present in some of these games. In addition, perhaps a way for a better banner managment on part of the company so players don't have to wait who knows how long for whatever character to return, this game has around 6 years now and the character roster is quite substantial. I've seen quite a lot of desire to see old limited characters to be added to the new limited banners as an option to lose your 50/50 to, I don't know how viable that would be.

There also seems to be a degree of discontent about how the events are handled, their quality, and rewards. I think this is the most valid, since the upcoming skin is so beyond lazy I won't even pertend that this is something anyone can defend or argue againts.

So what do you think? Post your hot takes, we riot tonight.

More leaks from the internal server have been discovered, it's looking pretty grim:

It has been a glorious decade-plus of "educational research." Together, we have successfully proven that a 20-year-old expansion can be kept alive indefinitely through the sheer power of Russian hosting, questionable "queue-skipping" donations, and a player base that refuses to acknowledge any expansion released after 2010.

However, it seems our friends at Blizzard Entertainment have finally finished counting their Dragonflight money and noticed a small, multi-million dollar smudge on their quarterly earnings report. After seeing what happened to our neighbors at Turtle WoW, we realized that "poking the bear" is only fun until the bear hires a $2,000-per-hour legal team to transmog our servers into a "Cease and Desist" letter.

Effective immediately, our realms (Lordaeron, Icecrown, and Onyxia) will be entering a permanent state of "Scheduled Maintenance." This maintenance is expected to conclude roughly around the same time Blizzard releases a bug-free expansion—so, never.

For those of you who spent your hard-earned donations on a legendary orange axe, we have good news! While we cannot offer refunds (as our treasurer has recently moved to a non-extradition country with no internet), we encourage you to print a screenshot of your character and show it to a Blizzard GM. They probably won't give you the item on Retail, but the laughter you'll receive is a reward in itself.

We’ve had a good run. We survived the Molten-to-Warmane transition, we survived the "fake" population numbers allegations, and we survived years of forum meltdowns. But we cannot survive a legal injunction that is written in a font larger than our actual server capacity.

"It is better to have loved and lost a Shadowmourne than to have never paid 150 Euros to skip a queue at all." — Anonymous Warmane Admin (currently packing a suitcase)

IT'S OVER GUYS! WE'RE DONE!

Give me your best shot.

Warmane is getting shut down. This time for real.