Genshin Impact developer MiHoYo demolished a player whining about racism and colorism by reminding him that the game is fictional.
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I'm not a fan of MiHoYo games, but god bless them for not falling into DEI crap.
People tend to care more about the color of pixels than worry about racism and colorism irl. Many get racially abused and stereotyped on a daily basis irl and most of these people complaining about the pixels would probably remain silent or even engage in this. Culture isn't about skin-tones or making edits showing a character in darker tones, its also about the cuisine, the architecture, the language, the history, the sports, the scenery and the politics to name a few. If those are also misrepresented, then its a huge problem.
But hey at least leave e genshin alone since it's fictional… But focus on fate grand order since over 90%of the characters are all based on real people in real history
The 'its fictional' defense is so funny and stupid. oh I guess GTA doesn't take place in the USA now, because its Vice City, Liberty City, San Andreas, totally fictional places haha nothing to do with the real world at all.
Why all these people think that they are the centre of the community ! It's a Chinese game ; Chinese company. The mejority of the audience and those whales comes from Asian countries.
As an Afro American i dont give a crap what colors or themes they are inspired by. I just dont want the community to attrack me for cosplaying my favorites characters just because my skin isn't the same shade as theirs. I enjoy hoyoverse games just as much as the community does.
Those people complain about skin color, while im here asking since vanilla, Why cant those fatui pyro agents cant do some of thay Ukemi chiz when they look so badass, when Barbara can do that?
This drama is just exhausting.
im canadian chinese…pretty sure i got some relatives in china that are farmers that probably got darker skin from the hot sun. not sure about Xinyan's lore if she is a native of liyue. i literally don't care about characters im not interested in but people really try to color her darker and try to make her into an african? i honestly find it funny. because darker skin chinese do exist.
white wash? they meant yellow washed? i thought we were considered yellow not white.
Tell me if I'm dumb, but why are you asking the nation based on Mexico to be black skin characters? Mualani, Iansan, leopard mommy, tainted color is exactly what represents Mexico, are you all right? Also, this is fiction, suck my belly 😁you are not Natlanians, you are from the real world brothers, chill the f out
"colorism" my god they don't quit with the ist/ism crap.
THAT IS THE FACKING POINT U WOKE PPL!!! The creator can do whatever they like…then its UP TO THE players to like or not the COSMETICS AND SKINS …not based everything on REALITY and GENEAOLOGY!!! We play games based on how the game story takes on inspiration taken from the real world and made it a FANTASY FICTION….GET IT?? For example in some games they mix other cultural lores like Norse and Greek mythology related to CREATE a NEW FICTIONAL ONE that can exist in our DREAMS or PARALLEL UNIVERSES…get it?? Are you saying that those games that mix both Norse and Greek mythology have to choose ONE or EITHER and NOT BOTH??? Go have ur minds examine…geez, might as well I can accuse u woke ppl of COLORISM.
Its actually a pretty common complaint in the genshin community, not r because the game is supposed to accurately reflect real races… but colorism suspicion is based on the fact that there ARE a few darker characters but seem to pretty consistently poor performers.
Dehya, Xinyan, Candace, Kaya, these are mid at best, half are literally the worst in their scalings in their role.
But its possible the new hydro DPS in 5.0 will be a competitive performer and she's darker. So that might break the trend.
But the appropriation complaints are just… unfounded and absurd.
all the world is required to feel guilt for USA's history of slavery and racism.
This is so stupid…then I might just go Woke Realism complaining about all those animes and mangas and all cartoonish games for NOT REALISTIC….yesssss, it has to be REALISTIC!!! Its an abomination these animes and mangas do not depict the REAL ppl looks but has big eyes, UNREALISTIC movements that defies real world logic!!! COME NOW lets do some Realism Cult!!!
Exactly! There is a BIG difference btw creating a FICTION STORY out of IMAGINATION and CREATIVITY and a DOCUMENTARY DEPICTING A REAL TRUE STORY.
Natlan inspire by Pokemon what kinda of racial dinosaur to complain about 😂.
I dont think you realise genshin is erasing culture when you search up Al-haitham and Kinich (who are dark skinned) Instead of getting them you get the same old pasty white anime boy
My biggest complaint these asshats injecting real life into my damned escapism
Life must suck being too woke…its a fictional fantasy game with made up ppl from mashing of cultures 😂 dunno why ppl cant enjoy things as they are and suspend their beliefs for immersion? Plus theres no malice, no bigotry in the story even?
"fictional" yeah? Then why bring real cutures? Making that a excuse is so fcking idiotic. Taking the culture, but the actual people, is just wrong
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I've learned that there's a second half to this tourist complaint – that the dark-skinned characters the game does get, are never S/SS tier
It's funny when a alphabet friend says "professionalism", they are pure emotional knee-jerking Neanderthals. They wouldn't know what professionalism was if it walked up and poked them in the eye.
The same people saying it's just fiction and stop being buttnurt are the same ones who complain when netflix backwash a white historic figure.
For every "boycott" over representation, a whale gets a new wallet to spend on the gacha, not even caring if the characters are white or black.
Plus, they'll just go back to playing Genshin once the boycott blows over because it's no longer trendy.
It happened with Cookie Run, it happened with Genshin when Sumeru came out, it'll happen again here.