Today we talk about the latest Hoyoverse drama regarding the new region of Natlan and the accused whitewashing of the characters within Genshin Impact.
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It's too much to ask players to completely boycott and stop playing the game. I would argue it would be more effective if players just didn't pull the new whitewashed characters. I bet that would get hoyos attention.
Honestly, the thing that I think is most likely to cause a change is if the recently teased Stoneheart in Star Rail that has dark skin actually sells well (assuming they're a 5-star + they don't lighten them between the teaser -> release), since it'll show MiHoYo that there's a market for dark skinned characters and it won't lose them money.
Y'all seriously think people can boycott genshin when a new damn region comes out they couldn't even do shit to boycott during dead patches like 4.5-4.8
Tbh boycotting genshin won’t do anything
In the beginning I watched a lot of YouTube content but after they b come annoying trying to tell me who I should be angry at zi officially join yhe silent community that only plays the game because is chill game that bring happiness to my life, I'm not delusional enough to try the change the wirld or even think that I am with the koral high ground to push my agenda to the world and force diversity from my freaking chair in my house.
Hey guys, I just got in contact with Biden, and he agreed to contact the Chinese government and have them change every character in this one game to be black. You’re welcome guys!
ain't nobody complain about bridgerton casting half the people black in british regency society. "drop mic"
hate to break it to you, china ain't woke, and they don't care.
I know I can’t be a voice for an entire culture, but I don’t really mind 🙂 I just think it’s nice we get Hispanic representation in the game!
I can smell Sweet Baby
my perspective, is probably because people wear makeup to mostly make them self more whiter.
The boycott has been dead since day 1. It didn't work during Sumeru season and wont work this time either.
Well… I got Australia vibes. One of the buildings looks like the Sydney Opera house. If you rewatch one of the natlan previews you can hear a derigidoo. The one character legit gives me kangaroo/Koala vibes. And there are lots of white people living in Australia. Also! Even if it is Africa, South Africa has a LOT of white people living in it… just saying. Although, it would be strange to not include people of color in the character design. But is it really Africa? It looks and feels SO much like Australia to me. The one girl is a shark surfer gal. Like…..???
People seem to forget that China is not even hiding that they don't like people of color. Remember the movie poster shenanigans? They covered black panther face and resized the black guy in star wars poster to be really small so he's hardly noticeable. You really think 35k boycott tags on twitter gonna move a needle as opposed to hundreds of millions of people from China which is their main priority?
why speak for a company, they aren’t sorry for anything that’s weird af
Man i hate genshin but The community of this game proves day after day that they are just children, like who cares about the skin color of a fictional character in the game to this degree?
Most of the Western audience is really stupid ngl
Now analyzing the two parties, it is racism on the part of both, one for being white and the other for being black, I mean maybe from my perspective because I am from Latin America that there are more tones for both characters from Fontaine, Inazuma, etc. be it different shades of white or black but not darken a good either – since in Latin haha we also have different skin tones, also touching on the topic of hoyoverse specifies it is just fiction if it was inspired by a culture the skin is not the only thing it represents to a culture also clothing and clothing that is used as they did only took inspiration from certain cultures
No need to boycott, just leave and we all will be happy 😃😃😃
I mean once you quit you don't have to be stress with these things anymore, right?
Also, hoyo doesn't have any competitor so they can just ignore everything. But now? With wuwa, if they still choose to ignore whatever everyone boycotting about, it will definitely be a downfall for hoyo. Not only kuro games have excellent care to player's problem n suggestions but they also reply it very fast. While hoyo, especially genshin, never actually listen and once they do they only listen to ONE problem (mainly resin cap) and that's it
I stop immediately after i pulled clorinde because Fontaine is the last straw for me because the game is just boring for me. Not even natlan hype or whatever can bring me back, it's just that burnt out i am with this game
Genshin have a community of 70 million + users and only 5% are doing this drama, the other 95% doesn't care cause they know Natlan is in Teyvat and it isn't representing any cultures.
To people who don’t understand why this is happening.. this has nothing to do with video games it’s how China is. Now I’m not saying Chinese people who live in other places in the world, but specifically people from China.. as races as it sounds beauty is lighter in their culture they do not like dark skinned people as racist as it is. And there’s a lot of obvious reasons, but that goes into different territories.. but they would lose tons of money as a business if they made darker skin characters and they’re based in China. The truth sucks, but it’s the culture.
Will people understand that this is a GACHA game, it is a unique name for all Chinese games and there is no more melanin on the characters anywhere. If someone doesn't like it, stop playing, Americans are the first to complain about this because they don't know that this is a gacha game because it's a global success.
the god one is kinda messed up tho 🙁 imagine seeing ur deity becoming a literally anime furry dude
Mihoyo's CEO has survived an assassination attempt do these people think that he's afraid of Twitter?