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Still shocked at how many people still play Genshin without actually reading story/lore, like exploration.. Like what is left for them at this point. If I don't like story and exploration, I would have quit the game a while back.
I love genshin lore, so much that it is ironically also the reason why I burnt out from the game. I just can't find that rewarding feeling from piecing up those lore crumbs together after hours of reading. Because no matter how good the lore is, it's not relevant to the main story and will never be talk again once the related world quest finished. You have all this amazing lore about mysterious ruin of old city and kingdom from pre-historic era that you explore along in the world quest. But then you have this main story called archon quest that just mid at best with exception like climax and cutscenes with super bloating dialog. At the top of that you also have all this filler called character quest, hang out, and events because most event just us attending festival in different region anyway. The fact that they voiced all these stories that not even nearly as interesting as the actual lore but left the world quest unvoiced is enough to tell me how much the game itself (un)care about it. Signora out of nowhere revelation as the crimson witch is one of the example why reading lore in genshin is just not worth it.
I read lore, but more seriously only after Enkanomiya and Chasm was released. Their stories were rather grim and mysterious, so I get more interested to know what happened in between through items description and NPCs dialogue. The starting regions of course was interesting in its own right. But back then with so many random characters helping you throughout the archon quest, I had the expectation they will spoonfeed me the rest of the lore.
And my main reason watching lore videos? I have a hard time grasping texts written like academy papers or poems, so I need someone else to decipher the meaning.
Nope, that's why I enjoy your vids bc I know there will be a "in a nut shell" type vid of the "reading" lore. Keep this up bc it's a big market if you know info others dont
Excuse me while i share this with my statistics teacher
Not really that surprised people have high trust in secondary lore. Generally the two most likely misunderstandings are from context or injecting too much of a personalized input. The cost vs gain of actively decieving someone in lore is generally unfavorable, and MOST of the time someone can play to verify another's statement. I for one certainly never heard of any malicious deceptions related to the lore.
The only thing that doesn't make sense are the shippers and flirty people, that is if you are like me and you've embraced many friends, called them brother or love, sworn vows to stand by them, etc. But thankfully I've never seen them delude newbies with misrepresented information.
It was fun to participate in the survey and see the results and your presentation. You did a really impressive job, thank you!
I am here to listen to your voice 😀
Nope but I prefer to get it from YouTubers
We also need to consider that mos likely 90%+ of the ppl that did the survey are your viewers, so clearly there can be some bias towards secondary resources
I think the way Genshin delivers it's lore is very boring and awkward the dialog dynamics and recycled animations are uninspiring and the way we are forced to watch just makes them events that I'm not looking forward to experience in the game, personaly, I love the gameplay and world exploration and as a long therm player of open world games with exploration I like to know everything that is going on, I love to play Assassins creed, The Witcher, Shadow of Mordor/war, Ghost of Tsushima, all those games are a joy to play and experience the lore, but with Genshin, I prefer to go to the TLDR right after I spiked all the tedious dialogues.
I love data!
Glad I've been able to take part in this 🙂
Was an interesting journey.
I started playing Genshin in September 2023. Before that, I just watched playthroughs of the game on YouTube for about 2 years. So I’m familiar with the general lore and history. I am also familiar with some lore hypotheses, analysis of texts, locations, esotericism – which is the foundation of the game (and even then not completely). However, I cannot build a single coherent version of what is happening. There is little concrete information, there is a lot of water in the story, and the developers themselves give little specifics.
we dont read, we depend on you Aster for it 😂
The thing about trustworthyness is that getting 50% right in a structured lore video is still 100% better than having absolutely no clue about what the game was trying to say through random books and scattered item descriptions.
I think the reason why I'm mostly good with series and franchises with complex and large lore is thanks to both Digimon and BlazBlue.
Digimon because there's a huge amount of sources that become outdated quickly and other times are lost, but when there's something discovered it kinds of contradicts many things.
BlazBlue is because they love to introduce new concepts and terms in such a short amount of time, and then you have Nine and her sister's lore explained through a visual novel that seems to not connect with BlazBlue at all until we were shown Nine's design.
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I even use the character and archon story in my thesis essay when get into postgraduate school.. And i got accepted because of that
I follow the archon quests closely, I care about watching lore cc, however… I can't follow the world quests and dig around books etc in the game
I honestly would love to read more about the world building and lore if it weren't for the laggy book archives screen on my phone.
As someone who sometimes discusses with friends and never discusses on online forums and platforms, it’s simply because I never post online. I mostly just consume content and talk about it with my irl friends.
I really enjoyed doing this survey and seeing the results! We should do this more often
people use to speculate that lore community is a lot smaller than combat community when all i see general video with the abyss clearance has thrice smaller numbers than general video on lore content. im talking about the unknown accounts i see recommended to me so that's really not a survey yet i won't blindly believe to what people say to underrate lore fans in genshin impact the game with one of the strongest lore universes ever
I participated in this survey lol and I want to see more content like this. Super interesting when actual players are the data lol
Props to you, Aster. I could never hahaha 😭😭😭 Research torments my brain and here you are doing this for fun lmao.
i would personally love to see how people interpret the lore given to them in game! loved participating in this and seeing the results
Since I didn't get to participate in the survey, I'm going to answer these questions for myself here:
AR60
2021
One Hour to Four Hours
Archon Quests: Always
Character Voice Lines: Occasionally
Character Stories and Profile Stories: Occasionally
Character Story Quests: Always
World Quests: Always
Limited Time Events: Always
In-Game Storybooks: Never
Artifact Lore: Never
Weapon Lore: Never
Monster Lore: Never
(For the nevers, I have read like once or twice but I wouldn't consider it enough to count as Occasionally)
Other Lore Items: Often
Web Event Lore: Occasionally
Event Livestreams: Always
Other Supplementary Online Material: Sometimes
Online Discussion: Occasionally
Short Form: Often
Long Form: Always
Face to Face: Never (My friends don't care about lore ;-;)
How trustworthy are secondary sources?: Neutrally Trustworthy
Seven Sovereigns: Somewhat Knowledgeable
Mare Jiveri: Somewhat Knowledgeable
Sun Children Somewhat Knowledgeable
Kindom of Remuria: Somewhat Knowledgeable
Fatui Harbingers: Very Knowledgeable
Perceived Knowledge: Knowledgeable
Perceived Knowledge Confidence: Strongly Agree
"Genshin lore is easily-understood:" Disagree
"Genshin lore beyond the archon quest is required to enjoy the game:" Strongly Disagree
"I am interested in learning about Genshin Impact's lore beyond the primary quests and limited time events:" Strongly Agree
'There are certain lore topics that I want to know more of, and others that I will disregard:" Strongly Agree
"I am interested in staying updated with lore updates:" Strongly Agree
"I am satisfied with only reading lore from primary voiced content, such as AQs, event story quests, and character quests:" Strongly Disagree
Discussed with immediate friends and colleagues regarding Genshin lore: Never (I wish I could but no one I know cares)
Discussed in online forums and platforms: Occasionally
Created fan content in regards to Genshin lore: Never
Posted videos of any kind regarding Genshin lore: Occasionally
Created theories and speculation about Genshin Impact lore: Sometimes
One of the surveys of all time for sure.
I'm most interested in lore regarding Khaenri'ah, The Travelers, The Abyss Order, Celestia, The Three Realms, Unified Civilization, Gods, Wars, basically anything large in scale and powerful. I'm not too interested in character specific lore and relatively small interactions between ordinary humans.
For example Gurabad didn't really interest me as it is pretty small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things. But I was interested in anything regarding Forbidden Knowledge.
The canva presentation 😂
I read things hear and there about the lore
One thing you missed out for this is including genshin's cultural ties in its lore or ties to it in other hoyo game sbut i guess thats more of a theory thing
Damn. Ngl. I'm being turned on by this type of nerdy Aster 👀
I wana asked to all lore people a question
What is the difference between the vishaps and the dragon and the soveraigns .
3:17 this is normal for most gacha games. If anything Genshin was alr not normal that it has that "high" of entry rate so late, although it's also sort of cut by the negativity going around the community.
Plus yeah, people who might see your survey are prob people who bothered to hang around the community. You said it yourself with quantitative study.
If you want better accuracy, you should come to streamers that like to badmouth Genshin instead (so maybe people like Tectone and Mtashed). See how much it changes.
i think character/profile stories are low because you need to have the character first to read them.
Tbh, accusations of "Not reading lore" most of the time are actually just "You did not interpret the lore the same as I do, so you must have not actually read the lore"
Can you release the raw data, Aster? I want to play around the data 😅, like cluster analysis to group genshin players, or Factor Analysis to make silly genshin "personality tests"
Dang I didn't even get to participate 😔