HOYO FIRED THEIR WRITERS AND USED AI INSTEAD | Genshin Impact

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SO, Hoyo have been giving some major layoffs recently..

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Genshin Impact takes place in the fantasy world of Teyvat, home to seven nations, each of which is tied to a different element and ruled by a different god (archon). The story follows the Traveler, an interstellar adventurer who, at the start of the game, is separated from their twin sibling after the two land in Teyvat. Thereafter, the Traveler journeys across the nations of Teyvat in search of the lost sibling, accompanied by their guide, Paimon. Along the way, the two befriend myriad individuals, become involved in the affairs of its nations, and begin to unravel the mysteries of the land.

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  3. I don't know genshin's characters always strike me as if they we weren't written by real humans and their dialogues just seemed off, there is sense of connection when you hear a real human talk and listen to the words said by a human but hoyo characters always sounded so machine like, we all use chat gpt for research and in my case for brainstorming to come up with new graphic design ideas but we all know how GPT lacks that human element, with how bad the content quality has been in genshin it could mean that Hoyo has been using A.I for quite a while now, they sure love their billions of dollars and don't want lose a dime so they cheaping out. #Dawae's crocodile tears will always make me laugh, Pathetic

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  5. Fun fact hoyo hasn't made a billion $ since year 2 of genshin, they haven't even broken a 100mill a patch in over 2 years, ZZZ did get close at a 92mill launch patch but the game crashed and hasn't come close since.

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  6. If you actually believe that Natlan and Sumeru were controversial and racist, you know fck all about the actual regions these nations are based off, that said, it's a fictional game, who tf actually cares except for the woketards and cancel pigs on twitter. That said, the writing was ass and the game is ass.

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  7. lemme tell you, despite i hate boring unskippable wall text in genshin, the english translation from chinese source and script by these editors and writers are pretty good. i assume the english writers in genshin doesnt make the story for the game quests because all off those are sourced from chinese by the game developer.
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    its on point with the story and connects with us players. however it doesnt help that the dev director mostly dont want to use illustrations/ animation to tell the long story, instead using npc body movements in wall text yapping.
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    from the looks of the confessions, if they are true, i think hoyoverse has problem about cash flow inside the company. what reason? idk. indications? their unannounced layoffs for overseas staffs, trying to use AI, and all of these happens after 5.3 comes out. i think genshin as a branch game dev is asked to deposit some amount of income to HQ acc in mainland and the amount is something too big for the dev team to make any expense for genshin new contents

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  8. Можно я вам про очень гротескный и сказочный конфликт в gacha индустрии раскажу?

    У меня даже специальный саундтрек к этой истории есть… И не один…

    ( Yostar , Youngshi и Aether Gazer. )

    Смешного там мало и там много пугающих моментов, так что извините – юмор нужен чтобы вы дочитали кометарий и люди этот конфликт заметили

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  9. Can I tell you about a very grotesque and fairy-tale conflict in the gacha industry? I even have a special soundtrack for this story… And not just one… (Yostar, Youngshi and Aether Gazer.) There is little funny there and there are many scary moments, so sorry – humor is needed so that you read the comments and people notice this conflict

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  10. Who cares, like seriously? Hoyoverse and gacha aside..every, single big company in the world has lots of messed up things hanging on their belts and a tiny community like this constantly cries how evil a little gacha company is..its crazy to me. What about all the suffering our phones, PCs, clothes and basically any other commodity we use in the 1st world cause? If you wanna complain about something, maybe complain about the companies responsible for literally millions upon millions of deaths globally every month, indirectly and directly. I cant take something like this serious anymore. Keep it within the boundaries of the games, thats fine..but complaining about the company practices as a whole? Better not, only gonna make you look foolish.

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  12. So this very same report has been pushed year after freakin year. That people have been fired and AI is being used for the game. I've found no credible sources to corroborate these reports. If anyone has any reports to corroborate this, feel free to help me understand this. Else I would be extremely skeptical about this "news".

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  15. Sorry to ruin the fun guys, but the OP in reddit has already made a clarification. And since its not shown in the video, I will just copy it here

    "This has begun to reach Twitter drama accounts and will probably soon reach content creators, so I just wanted to take a minute to clarify some stuff. I hope that any content creators who cover this will do further research, reach out to those affected (if they're open to talking), and have some journalistic integrity in any coverage.

    I first wanted to touch on why I posted this – and no, it was not to hate on HoYoverse or hurt the company (sorry to those who were hoping for that). I posted this because I had seen nobody else talking about it. For the past two years we've seen nearly every prominent game company announce layoffs, and HoYo recruiters were always present to direct those who lost their jobs to HoYo's current openings. It was disheartening to see that they themselves were now affected, and I wanted to start a dialogue to try to determine why. I also wanted to give a voice to those who lost their jobs, potentially their dream jobs, so that their story wouldn't be forgotten. In case you don't know, HoYo actively hires fans and their recruiters will even go as far as to say that playing their games prior is a requirement. People do not get hired by HoYo on accident.

    Why?
    So, why is this happening? We've had a few different educated guesses discussed here, so I'll quickly talk about them.

    1: The first theory (and the one that I personally like) is that this was part of a bigger reorganization of the globalization department of HoYoverse.

    Many of you brought up bad localizations, the lack of VA, etc – I do not believe those were the reason, or at least, not the primary one. The lack of VA is completely unrelated and due to the English VA strike.

    If you look at Glassdoor reviews of working at HoYoverse, you will quickly learn about the many issues facing the globalization department. From internal cliques and politics to extreme mismanagement and disorder. It is possible that HoYoverse is reorganizing to address these issues and (ideally) fix them. Regardless, jobs were lost, and that's a shame for everyone.

    2: The second theory has to do with Cai Houyu's AI company. To those not in the loop, Cai Houyu is one of the founders of MiHoYo, and he recently stepped down as the chair (Da Wei has since taken that position). While still involved with MiHoYo as far as I can tell, there have been rumors that Cai has moved to North America to focus on his AI company which has recently hired some prominent tech names.

    An important thing to remember is that up to this point, HoYo has not used AI generation in their projects and there is zero indication they will start. I know that AI generation is the current Boogeyman (and rightfully so), but it is important that we do not jump to conclusions here. AI technology is used for a lot of other, more ethical aspects of game design (such as lip syncing, development shortcuts, enemy intelligence, etc). Furthermore, MiHoYo/HoYoverse is a tech company in addition to making video games. They have projects outside of gaming and we cannot reasonably assume that these things are related.

    Please aim your pitchforks at the companies that actively use and promote AI generation like Activision, or at least hold them for the time if and when HoYo actually uses it themselves.

    With all that said, none of us are HoYo and know for sure. There has been talk that gacha revenue is down across the board and that the Chinese economy has been struggling as of late. I can't speak to the validity of these claims.

    The Layoffs
    Before I continue, I want to touch on the layoffs for a moment. I did not work for HoYo and I'm not one of the people affected. There is someone in the comments claiming to be the writer of the Glassdoor review pictured in my post, and after speaking to them privately, I do believe they are legit.

    There is some misunderstanding with my title about the layoffs being unannounced. What I meant by this is that HoYo did not publicize the layoffs to us, the public. They are under no legal obligation to do so! Many studios over the past two years have, but that is likely because many of them were subject to SEC filing as they were American studios.

    In the Glassdoor review, I believe the writer was referring to the fact that the layoffs happened in waves, and nobody knew if they'd be next. It is my understanding that HoYo did give warning and time to the affected employees to find new work once their layoff was determined.

    Layoffs are always a disappointing thing to have to do, and whether or not the layoffs were justified can be up for debate. However, from everything I have seen, I am under the impression that HoYo handled the negative situation the best they possibly could and most employees left on good terms, happy with their time at the company.

    Q&A
    Now that we discussed the why, I do want to quickly answer some questions and comments that I keep seeing both here and on Twitter.

    Will this affect HSR, HI3rd, ZZZ, or Tears of Themis?"

    No. All employees that I have personally seen laid off have been specifically working on Genshin Impact. HoYo's different games are worked on by different teams.

    Is this why (enter your least favorite region or character here) sucks?

    No. The people laid off are 1: part of the global branch, which is separate from the development studio MiHoYo and 2: are mostly marketing staff, recruiters, and lore writers.

    HoYo EoS when?!

    Probably not even in your dreams if we're being honest. They're actively hiring and developing new games according to other LinkedIn posts I've seen – just not in the US and not for Genshin Impact. Genshin Impact still appears to be performing perfectly fine compared to their other titles and the wider industry. I'm sorry to disappoint you!

    Does OP hate HoYoverse?

    On the contrary, I love them! They're one of my favorite studios, I play all of their games, and have been to multiple IRL events like the Genshin concert and the HSR collab with Pelicana Chicken. In fact, some of the responses and dialogues that have happened here made me love and appreciate HoYo even more!

    The reason that I even have connections with these recruiters and knew they were laid off is due to my own desires to work at HoYoverse.

    I'm aware that this post brought HoYo bad publicity, and I know some of you are mad at me for that. I get it, I do. But some of the people who make our favorite games were affected by this, and they deserve our support too. Giving fuel to the drama accounts and gacha warfare was not my intent."

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  17. rumor has it that genshin lost 60% of there China revenue… them cutting out global just to replace it all with ai is…………………………………….. pretty f**king bad for the English side of things.

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  18. I know that writing is easy but y'all hating on Hoyo so hard, you seem just plain unpleasant to be around, and also taking this at full face value. (comments)
    I find it odd that most of the posts are in English, clearly not translated.
    Nothing mentions the actual Chinese writers being laid off, either. So these 'writers' are most likely translators/localizers. AI won't write the actual story, just translate it.
    I played through the Natlan archon quest, not the resent, and there were plenty of issues.

    I've also seen vids of how some of these ppl mistranslate and how many manga and anime studios are also going for AI.

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  19. Hoyoverse see how people reacting to Natlan and they say.
    Hoyoverse: If they didnt say anything aganst this shitty plot we just fire our writters and let IA do anything.
    ppl literally not complaying for the worst archon quest in the game.
    Hoyoverse: is time.

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  20. I think a lot of this may be a misunderstanding. The writers being fired is probably, simply, because Natlan's story wasn't received well. The generative AI thing might be linked with the new user generated content that they're intending to ship out.

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  22. Another day another deeply dishonest video with widespread assumptions about things going on in a game WuWa CC's don't even play knowing 95% of the people that watch their content will never call them out on it. Ho hum….

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  23. I mean, the main story is most just a mix of shonen anime tropes with a shit main character anyway.
    They also keep forgetting for years on end about stuff they set up on certain parts of the story. They also tend to forget about characters, specially if playable characters who's banners didn't sell well.

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  24. Was Natlan story really bad? Answer is yes.
    Well to me as an old player who played this shit game since got released, I really wish this game died already, the game is so horrible but survived cause of dumb Wales.

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  34. ah yes, people will see the title and assume they will use AI for writing the genshin's story when in fact thats not the case.
    it's just the western localizers/translator made a bad translation. and the AI stuff is completely unrelated with genshin nor any hoyo games

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