[EN sub] Wei and miHoYo back in 2011

This is the video of Wei when he participated in the 2011 Entrepreneurship Competition, fully translated to English

[@annejia5382]

People in the comment section were thinking they're laughing at him mockingly 🤦‍♀️ did we watch the same video? They were laughing because of the atmosphere, he's very straightforward and kept on adding humor whenever he speaks. He actually crowd managed the judges so well. They were so fond of him. You can literally hear in the end laughing cry noises in the background. This is so normal in high schools and universities for research-related settings.

[@shutup1037]

People on youtube comments can be stupid😊

[@MeguminZaychik]

Faxx

[@klesta]

maybe you got mixed up with Snowflake comment kekw

[@ZoeCuiM]

I think it's "polite chuckles"?

[@elit1541]

@@klestaSTOP 💀

[@HaraldinChina]

This is actually a historic document in the gaming industry. Interesting how few people have discovered it

[@unicorn_kitty2246]

Oh thanks for the information

[@sttgl]

“Historic document in the gaming industry”🤣

[@andikaDumDum]

@@sttgl welp🤣. as a person who play all their games golden era, this true is nostalgic. Sir Wei and team sure are passionate with their work. back on early MiHoyo, their main selling is fan service Moe or Pan*su. i find it hillarious how cultured they are XD

[@quocphuphan1998]

@sttgl what's wrong with it :) Back in the 90s, Blizzard or any other game company started from scratch and how they changed the game industry with their game made them legendary :) Mihoyo did it, they did it with the release of Genshin Impact, the game that changed people's minds about how great a mobile game can be, and yes, how much an otaku is willing to pay for a waifu or their husband too :)

[@harfi212]

​@@sttglif not for honkai3rd, mobile game still stuck with low quality 2d chibi game. Especially in china. These guy making something unlike you staring all day at your phone.

[@mikep1831]

Mohoyo won 3rd place awarded 30000 yuan, the first place went to a high tech poultry farm which went bankcrupt.

[@luissaumeth8000]

skill issue

[@Bos_Meong]

if the poultry farm incoporate waifus, they wont go bankrupt

[@Unknown-es3ce]

Ahaha skill issue

[@kalodawg8297]

poultry farm should've included more cat girls

[@mofumofu3699]

Tech otaku's save the world

[@Blazekun06]

Dawei 2011 : we build simple game for an otaku Dawei now : "may all the beauty be blessed"

[@bonkjour7340]

May you the beauty of this world always shine ❤

[@Rea_me]

@@bonkjour7340 NOOOOO KIANAAAAAA

[@sh4pp31]

tf this is dawei???

[@coffeelatte141]

@@sh4pp31 yes this is liu wei

[@piplupempoleon4225]

Fight for all beautiful on this world better

[@bongky18]

He was a gamer/anime lover and he could emphatise with most gamers/anime lovers around the world. He created a game exclusively for them.

[@LegitGuy45]

Yeah… we can definitely tell on the “exclusively for them” part alright.

[@iosis9324]

It's a pity that he doesn't care about all gamers/anime fans right now, and now he cares and does everything only for honkai 3rd, he doesn't care about the rest of his games and fans.

[@fussia2568]

@@iosis9324 he doesn't care about honkai 3rd too. recent story is rushed af.

[@iosis9324]

@@fussia2568 Look at his new interview where he came on stage burst into tears and said something like: "Honkai Impact 3rd is our dream game, I'm sorry we couldn't make it as good as we wanted, but now that we have the money we will spend it all on HI3rd, thank you Captains, it's all thanks to you (what? Is it not because of them? It doesn't matter), now the whole Mihoyo will work for the sake of HI3rd." And he reboots honkai 3rd, and switches to a better engine.

[@bloddrinkeraka]

@@iosis9324 I mean, it doesn't really matter whether he cares about Genshin or not. He doesn't work on it. The teams that work on Genshin care about it.

[@rapi-rapi]

Damn he really calls it as it is and made it happen

[@keane4464]

tech otakus save the world

[@MoskusMoskiferus1611]

He really saves the world

[@idagonchannel5681]

Yep, he meant it when he said "otaku".

[@Mazda-kf2ji]

@@keane4464 but now this slogan is no longer there in their latest games

[@Aeterin]

@@Mazda-kf2ji because cognosphere and not hyv limited

[@zillowzest5199]

I’m impressed by how seriously all the judges took him, even the old ones

[@NyancoreNekogriefer]

This is the life of being an investor. As an investor, you look for brilliant ideas and concepts that have a market to be filled. No matter how absurd the idea might sound at first, they will try to evaluate if it'll succeed or not. Their money depends on it after all

[@cloudchaser21]

This guy legit didnt care, he know what he wants to do and faced it directly, at that time the anime market was still small and to convince these people about the potential is very challenging, now its huge and overly saturated.

[@kumoOH]

True 😅

[@randomf4ke]

it's still small right now and obviously mihoyo is not satisfied with only anime market. they are abandoning it and moving to a bigger market.

[@cloudchaser21]

@@randomf4ke Well their game are all still anime rooted, including upcoming ZZZ, although Genshin became so huge it even attracts alot of "normies" who are not familliar with otaku culture and fanservice at all, so over time they started to change how they design character to appease these people, I think u can see the change starting in the middle of 2.x when Shenhe was released.

[@randomf4ke]

@@cloudchaser21 otakus will move onto next game from another company that appeals exclusively to otaku cultures while mihoyo continues to put out characters limited within the boundaries that normies can accept. mihoyo thinks they can generate more revenue by appealing to the normies, but I doubt it because at first when genshin was still a small community (like late 2019 to mid-2020) it was the otakus sticking to the game without enough contents and gave genshin a chance to grow in the later days. Genshin was never this big right from the start, it faced a lot of hate due to plagiarism (botw, divinity: original sin 2) at least that was what I experienced in china. when genshin abandon its most loyal fans, it faces serious challenge and the company needs more effort on adaptation than what they are showing right now.

[@kagemarudono]

they laughted at him, but now he can buy every single person in that room

[@Zarozian]

He can buy the US if he wanted to now.

[@lucituci97]

So true

[@yoyozent]

You are wrong, today, Dawei has to give money to those people.

[@ZoeCuiM]

Slavery is illegal

[@AetherSphere]

@@yoyozent Naw naw man those investors better be pulling on da new Herrscher units or else..

[@sophiaxu6127]

They have a very clear goal and are determined to achieve it. They also know their market very well. A team like that can succeed in any industry.

[@BiscuitPlays1998]

For a Gatcha game, it doesn't feel gatcha as much.

[@i-osho]

@@BiscuitPlays1998 true its like a optional gatcha game, you can spend if you want, but you will be fine without spending also

[@craigzheng4889]

A very humble beginning of a very successful business, and DaWei stay true to his words for all these years!

[@Saberdud]

I guess you can say, DaWei knows da way ... I'll see myself out

[@LucyKosaki]

I mean, he wanted to make games where people idolize and interact with their characters, yet due to the change in western society, Hoyo keeps removing things like touch and other interacting features and censoring characters that were already only very mildly showing skin. Games like Genshin are very different and tame/safe in comparison and also try to cater to non-otakus. The only games that still do the straight up idolizing/interacting with the player filling their emotional needs are houkai gakuen for male players, which got shut down in the west, and tears of themis for female players, which currently has its second anniversary in the west.

[@eulalawrence9018]

​@@LucyKosakiGlad SEA server still has touch features 😳

[@LucyKosaki]

@@eulalawrence9018 Which game are you talking about? For honkai impact, only the OG characters still have that, they aren't doing this for newer characters since a couple years now, it's been phased out over time. Once we get the big engine update next year, they might not even carry it over.

[@eulalawrence9018]

@@LucyKosaki I know, the features got removed in CN and other servers, only JP and SEA servers that still have the touch affection on OG valkyries.

[@tortilla7221]

holy shit their experiences as childrens are enough to fill up your CV!!!

[@yuujii682]

And here, I'm just staring at my phone doing nothing

[@rottenfanger]

Typical asian children, their parents ate proud of them

[@asmrslol848]

WHAT?!

[@giaphucnguyenhuynh2015]

the mythological asian people in the stories :*D

[@yangjensen3221]

This is where the legend began

[@Shinobi_road]

You mean trash

[@faltiny]

true, dude

[@wellingtonk884]

Wei and Mihoyo are an example of overcoming obstacles, today they are the biggest company in the world to make anime-style games and their games are loved by millions of people around the world!

[@DucFlip]

He is confident, in the middle of the lecture is always accompanied by humor, I like the way he speaks. I love Mihoyo.

[@stuffzluvverz_7665]

I've always wondered how the Honkai games have many genuinely funny moments and events despite being really depressing, it really good to know that Dawei has a great sense of humor.

[@s4juno693]

Black sense of humor...

[@liandoaethend2403]

Teriteri and fierworks...

[@HoshikoBeat]

@@liandoaethend2403 This is the perfect example of dark humour

[@crowsguard]

within the first minute he just exposed all anime watchers 💀

[@ZenWistalia]

Fr lmfao

[@VentiIsBest]

9 years later, the most popular game has released..........

[@megumi_0]

as an otaku you know exactly how to hit the right spot. he knew his target audience because he was exactly one of them. great business man. extremely predatory.

[@walteranurantha5014]

More like great business man. Extremely predatory. With the most game of all time.

[@r3zaful]

He is still a weeb, literally put up maid uniform on work for no reason.

[@knopfir]

well, if you consider catering to a demographic "predatory" then yea sure

[@myfault.5735]

“Predatory” Bro knows nothing about economics

[@emperorqianlong527]

@@knopfirthough its catering to a demographic, one suffering through various social problems, and enhancing that by creating an ideal social experience in a virtual world. And then profiting off them. I would have agree its immoral, but for genshin specifically atleast (whos fundimental core values lies beyond selling hot women to socially-deprived perverts) i see it as a byproduct of a larger operation that appeals to all.

[@cirmothe9]

Man in 2011, the iphone was only on it's 2nd iteration and samsung had just released the very first samsung galaxy smartphone. This guy was forward thinking.

[@jcdenton2819]

Smartphones existed before crapple turd take over the minds of ignorant people in USA, so ofc Wei knew what was coming, with or without crapple stuff on the table.

[@luissaumeth8000]

is like that guy who made the first sport streaming platform like 3 months after PC was being affordable for the everyday person and internet was in diapers, and now is a millionaire who doesn't work at all

[@CupoChinoMusic]

@@luissaumeth8000 or jeff bezos

[@yuzzo92]

I don't necessarily *like* mobile gaming, but let's take things into perspective: in 2013, the average phone could barely run Angry birds-like games. In general, mobile games were considered utter trash, the domain of "games for boomers wasting their time while on public transport". fast forward 10 years, it's now almost the 3rd anniversary of Genshin. The phones that initially could run genshin quite well now make it run quite bad... but the newer devices run it like breeze. Imagine another 10 years from now what it will be. Maybe the devices themselves will come to a stop in terms of raw power, but the (game) industry itself is not stopping there anytime soon.

[@2BAMaster9]

@@yuzzo92 Gacha, stamina systems, and mobile monetization models will always hold back mobile gaming. I honestly don’t expect much more from mobile games. Genshin showed what could be done, but unfortunately with all its potential to be more the games monetization system holds it back

[@wyspreegamings6380]

The Otaku energy was strong in this one.

[@linthurein7661]

Now when ppl say hoyoverse is a music company making game i can show them this. Hoyo is vitural idol company

[@cyc20976]

This is basically the Apple Steve Jobs, Jack Ma Alibaba origin story, but this time it's Dawei, the mastermind behind Genshin!

[@Bos_Meong]

the mastermind behind hole in my pocket!

[@cyc20976]

@@Bos_Meong Plot twist: The mastermind behind the hole in your pocket is...,YOU! 😂

[@TheRealNightShot]

The master behind GGZ and Hi3rd, stupid kid. THOSE are the masterpieces. Genshin and Star rail are sidekicks. He isn’t great because of those.

[@monikasthighs7587]

yikes talking in front, probably investors about otaku and moe girls is something i never knew i needed

[@NeginoSora]

holy shit, that is legit incredible presentation , also the question from judges and the answer from mrWei

[@chinpoon1377]

最让人感动的是，他当年所说的正是他现在任然在做的，并且做的很成功

[@darianstarfrog]

​@Revied Alex yes, obviously! 😂😂😂

[@user-cy8cf3xz9c]

轻松愉快: 指深渊和某些逆天挑战😂

[@user-mg9dz7ox4t]

只要你不执着那些，还是很轻松的

[@user-zz5xs3nl7w]

现在已经变了

[@user-mg9dz7ox4t]

@@user-zz5xs3nl7w 没啥变化，只要你跟着b站攻略走，不执着深渊那点原石也能玩得很开心。实在想玩，买个号就行

[@senimanbahadur6811]

This person did not create his product the way the world want to see it. But he's one hell of a man being able to sell his product the way he see it best!

[@cyd1570]

I didn't expect he we was one who started this "Tech Otaku, Save the world" thing. Glad he push through the hardship making our lives less depressing on the games he made

[@ingijuana7323]

我在2010年英国留学时的一篇产业分析论文就写了二次元和宅男经济，做presentation时的羞耻感还是让我毕业后完全放弃了这些想法，很羡慕同时期的他们把这片天壮大了

[@justnotchilling5075]

i'm writing about genshin for my dissertation in UK so i get u fr

[@Bos_Meong]

@@justnotchilling5075 um thsts very cringe ngl 🤓

[@justnotchilling5075]

@@Bos_Meong i got the top band of marks :)

[@tristanmanalo6252]

​​@@Bos_Meongsays by the guy who watch genshin videos in yt 💀💀💀

[@daneegee8146]

@@tristanmanalo6252 He/She probably dropped out of school at 14

[@Logixal4311]

36 years old and still kicking. Most people would have lost that fire once they start their first career (happens a lot). Da Wei able to produce games 11 years later is a lesson to all

[@imnewtothis]

All the different products and content they now have were already in their vision from the start huh.

[@smugbedo2986]

It’s always nice to know that the creator of MiHoYo and me share a habit of saying ‘然后‘, hesitating and gesturing weirdly when we present.

[@sonicfraisheya4028]

when the judges started asking about "moe' i knew they were taking him seriously, all of them asked valid questions

[@user-kk6ec4mj4g]

Yes! I noticed that, make me suprised that all the questions all so hit in the point.

[@AngelosPhotography]

I am so happy that this man, along with his team, has created Honkai Impact 3rd, Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail and other future games. He has provided millions of people in this world great games to play until now.

[@mastermitser5693]

Τhis man gave a super villain speech

[@Cariifica]

In 16:10 the man mationed miHoYo need a distribution channel, like 4399. So later miHoYo worked with BiliBili to promotion their new game: houkai gakuen 2. BiliBili is the biggest otaku community in China, so miHoYo successed got the first pot of gold.

[@williamwu6127]

So never underestimate a young person's opinion. They know who the future customers are. Ask where the hell is this 4399. They are gone forever in China, no one heard of them now. Although I admit these judges helped Wei understand the marketing better.

[@Hue_Sam]

4399 back then was relatively unknown, now it’s known as one of the most notorious ripoff companies within China

[@ichizomi23]

for he who controls anime controls the youth and whoever controls youth controls the world -q

[@yoyozent]

Gun better

[@xjbdbsjsjs]

​haha

[@icingzhuang1527]

大伟哥成功不是没有原因的，在十多年前就已经很明确的认知与预测并剖析了未来十年的发展趋势，走上了正确的方向走对了正确的路并且坚持多年。

[@PennervonHBF]

He was already ahead of his time, what an genius

[@Gekkko]

i don't know why I'm tearing up watching him on half video, it just reminds me of something about struggle and the passion one has to his hobbies, it resonate so much with me because i want to have a job in gaming industry as an art designer/concept artist this video are something❤

[@gc-uk7jb]

He was really brave and brilliant and made his dream come true

[@reveriesend4668]

"giving players a unique game experience, and the emotion expression" yeah, right.

[@wow_tilin]

He knows their community, and me 😔

[@NaraYing]

It had a humorous vibe but in the end it made me feel sad. Like the investers said, though Wei had a great passion for and a deep understanding in Otaku games yet this market is so cruel that figures like downloads and incoming often give a big slap on our faces. Anyway, I am really glad to see they've finally made it today.

[@iTheShirt]

The sheer psychological understanding and grasp on his market would have sold me as an investor back then.

[@enchi7846]

Luckily they added some male characters into the game, bcuz there's also girl otakus, means expanding the market of targeted customers.

[@racool911]

Big lesson learned on their part

[@luissaumeth8000]

when girls started simping over welt, otto, and kevin they realized the potential

[@juampisito]

Tears of Themis is for people atracted to males and is from them too, there are only husbands there if you are interested. That Game does not even have battles, It is an otome game.

[@reao4901]

在亚洲国家，尤其是中国，日本，韩国，女性的消费能力真的比男性强太多了。当米哈游做了一个乙女向游戏 未定事件簿（Tears of Themis） 之后，米哈游了解到了女玩家花钱的能力真的很牛逼

[@shinjiikari0290]

thank you man. you give me light in times of quarantine.

[@PixelGM]

It's gonna be on everyone's reccomended.

[@destoc5661]

Thank you big zai-nan(s)! 12years later now we have Kirara. Thanks for sharing this vid.

[@rizalzalaludin261]

The man had a vision

[@gilangignasraharjo6138]

This tech otaku really did save the world

[@Meyos1990]

i found a hidden gem kinda video

[@inspirit77]

bruh he did not just roast the entire otaku community in the first few seconds XD

[@nurusds3]

Hopefully people not taking it seriously. He's an otaku himself, so in this scene he's just making some light jokes.

[@HrisZ]

1:19 that's why hoyoverse made every single character is husbandable/waifuable in their game

[@MoskusMoskiferus1611]

True

[@quocphuphan1998]

Back in the 90s, Blizzard or any other game company started from scratch and how they changed the game industry with their game made them legendary :) Mihoyo did it, they did it with the release of Genshin Impact, or even before it with Honkai series, the game that changed people's minds about how great a mobile game can be, and yes, also how much an otaku is willing to pay for a waifu or their husbando :)

[@souryou0313]

前不久 崩三周年直播大伟哥哭着说出宅男拯救世界真的很酷这句话时，深深被打动了，看了这段影片，感觉到这十余年来，他们确实在坚持当初的梦想，并且开创了一片宏伟的蓝图，把市场越做越大，不禁心生佩服。

[@Tofu3435]

And 9 year later they created a game what have 2 times more successful launch year than gta5. (GTA5 gets 2billion income in the first year, genshin gets 3.7 billion)

[@stonechen6231]

No need to compare them. They are totally different

[@Tofu3435]

@@stonechen6231 gta5 are the highest budget top income open world game from west Genshin impact is the highest budget top income open world game from China. Yes the style and gameplay are different, because different style needed in Asia/West, also because of Asia they needed to be free2play and needed to add mobile version, things makes them even more different.

[@phai44]

From where you got those genshin revenue? They did not reveal it and it is all speculations for some platforms.

[@jevs1555]

Garbage comparison

[@z123zocker2]

Yea no shot genshin got more then gta

[@popoask1]

感謝大偉哥，讓我們有這麼好的遊戲玩

[@monclon530]

弯友不怕文化侵略洗脑吗？

[@mamamia9923]

I'm admire for what he did in the game with full of passionate and never give up, Even there's a lot of negative advice and comment, but he still keep going until its succeed, Really impressive, Not to mention his motive is purely just to contribute to the society not just money.

[@NeginoSora]

F.. . . im downloading this . thnk you for sharing the whole presentation complete with QA segment . with SUBS too

[@stewie_]

They really got far huh. Good for them. I hope they'll continue to deliver great content.

[@snek6769]

This Wei guy is going to go places

[@1lapmagic]

I'm so proud of you Wei

[@SIlent5130]

12 years huh glad to see the passion they put into their game pays off

[@lawranced7000]

This video should go viral.

[@shshamono2241]

I hate how everything he says about otakus are painfully accurate 😂🫥

[@JinFX]

He is confident but he still repeats his sentences and rush his words. It's amazing how many games they made before they started their company. He was talking about Hoyoverse in 2011. Judges' questions are pretty cookie cutter but still very relevant.

[@clorinde69]

Damn mans like a billionaire now respect

[@NeuronCstate]

哈哈哈绷不住了，我自己一个人看他说的话我都害羞到想找个地缝钻进去，他是怎么面带微笑毫无波澜的把这些话说出来的。

[@huipito244]

同感哈哈哈

[@AW-ci9yn]

14:30 "but I believe a 30 yo would have liked a 16 - 18 loli girl better" Yup.

[@pewpewpew1834]

oh lord he really did say that 😂

[@yume6532]

Based

[@sachikos7078]

I'll use this to twitter users😂

[@user-ix7ds1nb6z]

Age of consent in China is lower so for them it is normal xd. If it was 18 he'd have been booted out of there lol

[@yume6532]

@@user-ix7ds1nb6z Age of consent in the US is around 16.

[@azami666]

thankyou for this

[@patrickreinaldo1434]

Bro rlly know what demand means and made one of the most live impact game for my live. This is huge news. And also i love orchestra.

[@riderofriders7342]

Imagine being that dedicated to push through with the things you like. o7

[@cy4n_knight_q8]

Man aimed for the moon, reached the stars

[@SimonOwO]

11:45 good question, judges are not just stupid

[@juanjuantoday]

Fuxxxxxxxxk, this man really fly kiana 2 the moon in Da Capo, as a graduation trip. 10 years! He used 10 years to do a ONE thing! Salute!

[@sofiagracenadela6458]

Our lord is very blunt AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA "Kind, good yet poor people" real talk about otakus

[@nairzD]

It's very motivational and all, but then again, there would also be people with similar attitude to face their challenges and etc, but yet wouldn't be as lucky to get certain opportunities that would help them. We only get to see the bright side from those that made it, but we don't realize there are many that failed.

[@doniherald7745]

consistency is the key

[@KHfan0011]

People are shocked and offended by this meanwhile me, someone who did business in college for 2 years, is not at all shocked.

[@Kamaboko2815]

Exactly, he is just straightforward about it.

[@mickbotcast]

Right I absolutely love this session, remind me of the time I got murder during Thesis defense. it actually exciting experience and we have to go all out to make our idea "sold". The brutal advice is actually very useful opinion on our work with no bias, so every second is a life experience.

[@maxchu92]

One of the investor judge actually have some point and tech background as he explained that Android and iOS have their hardware limitations, and lack of market in China, but little did they know the smartphone market soared greatly in the past decade.

[@demonslayer4951]

He got my money.

[@3loyxleb769]

Now he is a developer of honkaiverse which is legendary

[@splitatorium]

Proof that he knows Da Wei

[@DiamondsBrainz]

Well people shouldn't even try to underestimate each other

[@blaze_burn]

Big Wei truly a legend

[@keepcalm8612]

He made it

[@OtakuGamingEdits]

The beginning of a dynasty

[@ain4364]

Whats different da wei and us? Yeap...mentality, consistently and dedication... Applause👏👏

[@epicboss6767]

Epicboss67 8 seconds ago (edited) Damn he really called his entire fanbase losers, poor, antisocial people and then told them to get addicted to his game and obsess over the characters. Worst part is, he was right.

[@r3zaful]

Look, even Pokémon official artists draw blue archive characters.

[@NeginoSora]

yup, thats pretty much correct. " anime are trash and so are we " - gigguk

[@PossessedbyPhoenix]

Otaku are the true winners of the world!

[@MoskusMoskiferus1611]

*Asocial

[@highdry6646]

This is why we saw the text , "Tech Otaku Save The World" in the opening of Genshin Impact. Genshin Impact literally make a huge history in the game industry.

[@won528]

not only genshin bruh☠️

[@yeyinhtetkyaw7902]

​@@won528but Genshin is the game that make them known for globally not only in their own country

[@yeyinhtetkyaw7902]

​@@won528 and the one that become billionaires

[@Rin-XII]

I can say, Wei is very brave.

[@jeanosorio9620]

Excelente presentación y lucha por sus sueños 👍

[@newbie4789]

They weren't lying when they said "Tech Otakus saves the world"

[@dohuuhailong8352]

so it's now confirmed that Mihoyo is a virtual idol company

[@bennyho5972]

he is legend now become top game company make 2billion dollar.

[@ryanryan4223]

he's really an evangelion fan through and through

[@user-uh9oz7ib4v]

now he is winner

[@ryanizanami4866]

Brilliant Wei

[@fiftynineteennutnovember7678]

TH with their laugh.. When me on position dawei i cant continue for the meeting bruh.. That so hurts in my heart.. 🥺

[@WeiYinChan]

He’s making jokes, they are just laughing at his jokes. He would be sweating if it’s dead silence after cracking jokes in front of a bunch of people lol