This Is How Genshin Started!? Exploring miHoYo, The Past and Present

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[@asdqwertyonly09]

Whoever made that call from Sky Mobi to invest in Hoyo made a godly call. They must have made more than 10x by now

[@ArchonKujo]

I honestly don't know much about their other works, but really they must be cultured enough to go through the research and experience that game before making this Hoyo growth 📈📈📈 legends

[@hangqiu]

most likely 1000x only if they can hold until now though

[@snowpools8498]

10x??? Try thousands 💀💀 If they still have that share, they literally set themselves and generations of their family for life. It's crazy to me that they actually saw THAT much potential in mihoyo lol, literally being only a 6 person team

[@JimRaynor2001]

The one and only investor. He’s really insightful and lucky

[@deathtrigger6965]

1 billion in 6 week from mobile only......... Only 10x more bruh

[@ArchonKujo]

We can agree that MiHoYo have improved their work around where Honkai Impact 3 released, and ever since Genshin Impact was a thing and then it was released, this was it, they become so well known by the gaming community.

[@adrianmartinez1587]

As a flyme2themoon enjoyer i enjoy seeing captains/travellers/trailblazers find out about hoyo's roots

[@index4926]

A shame it's almost impossible to play nowadays. No IOS emulator and the game only runs on old iphones from around 2012 😔 wish they'd make a remake as a commemorative event or something

[@liamw2983]

Hi Bran, I'm a Genshin player from China who's been following you for a long time, I don't know if you'll see this comment but I'd like to say something anyway, of course it's only my personal opinion, so I apologise in advance if it's controversial🥺. I'm glad you watched this video about the development of mihoyo, a Chinese gaming company. I was playing Genshin because of the music, and what attracted me to the game at the time was that I heard traditional Chinese folk music tunes in this game, which is very rare because actually the term ACG mostly refers to Japanese anime and games. At a time when Japanese anime culture was spreading all over the world, Genshin used the anime style in the "Liyue" area to promote and spread some traditional Chinese culture and music to the world, which I think is not easy. I didn't know much about Japanese anime, and I didn't know about The Legend of Zelda at the time, but I just thought that mihoyo's use of anime, which is the mainstay of Japanese culture, to spread our culture was something I was very proud of. So at the time, even after I saw the comments that said Genshin copied the Legend of Zelda, it didn't affect my mood to keep playing. This feeling peaked when I came to the UK to study, and was still very homesick in my first year in the UK, when Genshin released "Lantern Rite" and "The Divine Damsel of Devastation", it was the first time I had ever spent Chinese New Year in a foreign country, so I was very, very impressed that mihoyo could do that. And of course it was even stronger when I saw that you foreign players were also touched by these traditional Chinese stories. So I'm really thankful that mihoyo can bring this kind of game to the world, and I'm really thankful for all the support from foreign players like you. Sorry this review is a bit too long, I hope you will continue to enjoy Genshin, including Star Rail!🫡

[@coins_png]

that's such a wholesome comment

[@hipunpun]

❤

[@lynnxia7668]

Hoyo is crazy with timing their date on a bunch of things, it's insane From Scaramouche and Queen, to March 7th and Star Rail's release date

[@MrGshinobi]

I think most people who see the history of hoyoverse games know that genshin exists because of honkai impact 3rd, but i want to elaborate a bit more on that. Honkai 3rd was originally an action game played in stages, the story would have open areas that you could fight in, but they were small and not very complex, however sometime in 2017 they added the Sakura samsara open world to honkai 3rd (featuring yae sakura), which was an open world map different to the rest of the game since it had a fully explotable area for players to experience, this single feature is why genshin exists, it's because players responded really well to sakura samsara and the devs liked it too, so from that feedback they started to develop a game focused entirely on open world exploration.

[@Nameless422-]

Yeah I think that was mentioned in a magazine article if i recall correctly? I remember reading about that before (the part about the Sakura Samsara map giving them the idea to make Genshin)

[@Kaimax61]

so the thing with the game awards: The finalists were : Sonic Frontiers, Genshin Impact, Stray, GoW Ragnarok and Elden Ring Early on, Sonic frontiers was leading, genshin wasn't even close to winning... BUT, Sonic fans decided to be dickheads, and started taunting genshin impact. One of the most notable thing that happened, was someone drew an illustration of Lumine getting Beaten to hell, by Sonic, Kratos, and the other nominees, it wasn't a meme format, IT WAS A NEW ILLUSTRATION. this started to get attention on the chinese side of genshin, which they didn't even know there was an awards, so they started voting IN SPITE. at the end Genshin Won by a landslide, and to makes thing more humiliating there were vote botting, but turns out most of the bots was voting for Sonic, which all got removed by Geoff (genshin has some, but not as much as sonic bot votes) And then the slander came when they said, Hoyoverse bribed players with gems, but actually, Hoyoverse didn't promise anything and only gave some gems (800 lmao, some toxic genshin fans were mad at this) AFTER the awards has ended.

[@Diarrhea8]

Lumine is my second main, why they gotta do her like that😭

[@FrenchDinosaur]

Even funnier is that Genshin did the least amount of marketing for the award. Hoyo did not even bother to ask their players to vote in that specific award. A good majority of the players did not even know Genshin was nominated, let alone losing. Hopefully, that teaches sonic fans not to poke at communities much much much larger than them. Though I'm very skeptical that they learned anything.

[@sarahtelles1931]

Too bad I wasn't able to play during that time. 5 free pulls sounds kind of nice. Also yes I definitely heard that bribery rumor. Apparently didn't stop me from trying the game as soon as I could

[@penpil_]

It was so funny at "the end of the world". By the way, I live in a completely different country and not even an English-speaking one, and everything was EXACTLY the same at our school. We went on a school field trip on the bus that day and counted the minutes until the end of the world, and then shouted that the end of the world had come. It's so unusual, I didn't think it was the same in other countries

[@racool911]

8 year old me was terrified lmao

[@MrGshinobi]

I think it's really cute how much hoyoverse loves kiana, she's basically been their mascot since the start of their career making games, they love her so much that they add her to ALL of her games as a protagonist or a really important character to the plot, hence why she's one of the first characters you see in genshin as the unknown god! i'm really confident that the unknown god is meant to be genshin's version of kiana kaslana (i mean they have the same VAs lol) and i'm so hyped for when we get to meet her again.

[@iosis9324]

Where is Kiana in hsr? And I haven't seen Kiana in zzz or Tears of Themis either, apparently now they don't like Kiana that much, or they just don't add her to all the games anymore. In fact, they have added Kiana so far only to genshin.

[@FERRYMAN_GAMING]

​@@iosis9324Kiana will probably be also in HSR since people said there will be a Raiden Mei in HSR She will also probably have a counterpart there

[@iosis9324]

@@FERRYMAN_GAMING What does Raiden have to do with it? I didn't quite understand why you brought her, like because they're usually together? But in genshin, they literally don't know each other and not connected to each other. Or do you think that if there is a Raiden, then there should be a Kiana? There is no need for this, and this is not the rule. And who said that Raiden will appear in hsr? Like it's clear that most likely she will appear, but this is not confirmed information by anyone, and she may also not appear.

[@skyronartz9593]

Personally the unknown god is not kiana but more of a sirin kiana aka herrscher of the void kiana which isnt kiana but is sirin in kiana

[@iosis9324]

@@skyronartz9593 Nothing prevents her from being exactly an alternative Kiana. She behaved too calmly for Sirin, she even respectfully answered the travelers' question and fully introduced herself, although she said that the arbitrariness of humanity had come to an end, but at that time she most likely believed that sibling came from Khaenri'ah, so it was rather said to a godless nation that let the monsters from the abyss into the world. I bet it's Kiana, not Sirin, although nothing prevents her from being Sirin.

[@denjishisui1642]

As a BOTW fan and a Genshin fan, I can say, I thought it was good for games to take inspiration from others. (Also, with me loving BOTW I already knew I was gonna love Genshin)

[@sarahtelles1931]

I don't have a Switch so I am unable to play the two new Legend of Zelda games. I'm glad I can get a similar experience from Genshin

[@di8085]

something strange about BOTW fan that hate other game take the inspiration, because when other dev making Soulslike Games is fine not even create a drama like that lol

[@poixon_asherzzz]

​@di8085 I am a legend of zelda fan and i also love genshin as well XD, I exist!! I can assure you that I'm nice i don't bite anyone

[@aetonazniel70]

maybe its just me but i think visually, genshin looked loads better than breath of the wild. sure they took inspiration from it with a lot of the mechanics on exploration, but i think they overtook it quite fast and set their own identity immediately. The overworld alone looks much more alive and actually populated while botw had a lot of empty spaces

[@pontoancora]

Totally agree.

[@obitouchiha417]

I don’t even see the similarities ppl talk about

[@ilikedinosaurs392]

@@obitouchiha417 the colours ig and that it's anime-esque animated

[@JimRaynor2001]

Totally agree. The color scheme is way more vibrant than BotW and character models are way more appealing. Not to mention it has total different combat mechanics

[@TrueMechTech]

The Switch release is delayed because of lackluster hardware. They literally called the platform outdated potato trash.

[@vincentaguilar7011]

big respect for Mihoyo's favorite first born child Kiana for carrying them to it's success as an Asian this is like an Asian parents saying to it's child " you are our future " or in short, you owe us your life now make us rich.

[@northstar67]

Excited for more kiana on mihoyo's games, it all started with her and it will end with her.

[@dohuuhailong8352]

yeah but for some reason she stills not appear in HSR yet.

[@itsarin2166]

​@@dohuuhailong8352 to be fair, everytime Kiana is involved she became a key character related to the end of the story. So im going to assume they will be introducing all of the other Honkai Gakuen / Impact counterparts first such as Seele, Bronya and recently Mei with Acheron. After that when the story is about to reach some sort of climax or a conflict about to start they will then introduce Kiana into HSR. The Kiana we get will either be a counterpart or Kiana from HI3rd (apparently Finality power allowed her to freely travel through the imaginary tree).

[@cocoma6871]

I actually started play Mihoyo games back in 2013, I remember it being Honkai impact (gakuen) 2nd and I loved it (I was wondering why there wasn’t a 1st and was told it got exploited and ppl can get millions gems for free and that when mihoyo up’ed their security system) and by the time Honkai impact 3rd came out I downloaded it and it just blew my mind. The combat was just so much better than the other games I played before and I wasn’t able to find any other game that had that level of combat experience. It just felt real. I just loved how each character fight with different moves. And by the time I was still young and I didn’t even understand “grinding” or “farming” I just played the game casually on and off just for the combat. Until one day, I saw the beta for Genshin. That was the time I was obsessed with Breath of the wild and I was sooooo excited for a free version of Zelda (no offense). And before I know it, I became a day one Genshin player. It’s been wild to look back at how Mihoyo really just kept me around as a long term customer and how far they’ve gone from a company with only 3 ppl. The fact that the CN community were somehow more furious than the global was fuelled by other Chinese gaming company behind the scene (it was conspiracy theory but some of it was proven by evidence.) Although Breath of the wild was a awesome game, it did not have a huge player base in the CN community, well, before Genshin’s release announcement. Millions of them seemed to come out of nowhere right after Mihoyo’s announcement. To this date CN ppl are still very meticulous about mentioning to their friends that they play Genshin bc they are afraid they will be ostracized and called “weeb” because of the all the hatred that other gaming companies are spreading. My personal experience for almost 3 years ngl. There’s still a dedicated Tieba page (reddit equivalent) for ppl to find “evidence” that Genshin took inspiration from any other game and making a big fuss about it. (Yes inspiration not even “copying”). Also Genshin makes a lot of culturalized content, like Liyue, Liyue’s lantern rite, Yunjin’s performance etc., don’t get me wrong they are FANTASTIC and the global audience likes it, but imo hyv was under pressure to make those content to shut those toxic ppl up and prevent them from getting shutdown for “favouring Japanese culture”. It’s sad to see those awesome content can be a product of toxicity and hatred.

[@lampyrid_garden]

Lmao. I remember zombiegal kawaii. I played it when I was in highschool. I thought it was pretty fun. When I heard the name mihoyo once i checked out genshin impact, i recognized them. I was amazed when I saw the progress tbh. Going from a simple shooting game to one of the most popular games.

[@shadowzero3673]

As someone who loves Nintendo and Mihoyo, i dont get the hate.... Genshin and Zelda are both great

[@noejrs]

True fan would love both. . as if, i'm a fan of FF turn-based. .i'll love HSR. .

[@justsomedude6666]

I believe Geo-Polictics between China and Japan can add a small part to the hate, unfortunately.

[@shadowzero3673]

@@justsomedude6666 never thought of that, but incredibly good point

[@al103]

Mihoyo is not perfect. But they reinvested like billion in Genshin (so essentially 10 times initial investment), while throwing money back at Honkai and investing heavily in Star Rail. That's why they continue being successful.

[@kuyarence]

Kiana literally best girl for carrying MiHoYo and still carrying the company to prosper their gaming development. We can criticize all we want from their games (I have a lot of those criticisms mostly from Genshin and some bits from HI3 & HSR) but I still appreciate on how they still stand even in the recent year. Still waiting for ZZZ to come out. And yep, *Venti is indeed hot!* (some players even thought he's a girl during 1.0)

[@RandomPerson-cf3gt]

Especially when Wendy his lookalike is a girl

[@dokidokidango1896]

"HSR grossed $128 million as of June" - The month of May alone they were estimated to have made over $500 million globally off of HSR alone

[@jnliewmichael4235]

The mainland China hate of Genshin was so fucking massive at the time. It got wrapped into the label of "Chinese Knockoff/ counterfeit/IP theft". It was so loud, that months later, I would be watching Accented Cinema's video "The most shameless Chinese knockoff" talking about some movies, and near the end of the vid, Genshin gets a dishonourable mention. On one hand, I get it, when your national stereotype is producing knockoffs, seeing what you perceive as a BOTW knockoff game being on one of the largest platforms in the world (Sony), I get the anger. The issue is that that perception is just incorrect, thus that anger becomes meaningless and cruel. Apparently some local and even national news stations reported Genshin as a BOTW knockoff as well. That was how big of a sentiment it was.

[@Kaimax61]

Yeah, that was one moment where I LOST some respect for Accented Cinema.

[@jnliewmichael4235]

@@Kaimax61 He hasn't mentioned it anymore since, so honestly he's fine, probably... He probably just got swept up by the momentum and never really looked into it. (Me trying to be as charitable as possible)

[@Certifiedprecog27809]

There also tencent payed hater, they actually pissed that mihoyo decilne their takeover multiple time before genshin released. Hoyo fan in china called them 5cent army and they go full power during anniversary drama

[@jnliewmichael4235]

​@@Certifiedprecog27809 Imma be real, most of the time, the "5cent armies" aren't even paid by anyone, there are enough people online who just love to make everyone else's days worse. From my understanding, the 5cent army has become a broader term that's just used to refer to mainland chinese acting as mobs, whether paid or on their own volition.

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

​@@Certifiedprecog27809which anniversary???

[@Phapchamp]

Small fun facts about mihoyo: 1- Liu wei had to convince a friend of his to draw sprite work for GGZ with a beer because he lacked the money to actually hire an artist 2- Liu wei couldnt pay for VAs for insert songs in ggz initially so all the songs were voiced by hatsune miku and teto 3- One of the employment conditions in mihoyo was "playing devil may cry" (this was revealed around APHO1 times) 4- Well because of this mihoyo went through plagiarism claims by DMC fans because of movesets in APHO1

[@Tohkaaa]

I would love for Bran to reexplore Honkai Impact, play it again and watch the other amazing short animations

[@kayak4773]

29:44 150 million was for GGZ only, according to app magic honkai 3rd already made 800-900 million for mobile only in its lifetime. They might already hit 1 billion if mihoyo ever released the actual revenue since genshin in appmagic made only 2 bill where in mihoyo report they made more than 4 billions usd

[@spiele_maus]

From 3 young Otakus to one of the most profitable game companies and all that within just about 10 years, I must say that’s truly impressive.

[@pr0nota644]

Back when Mihoyo just released Guns Girl Z,Da Wei was also working as a customer service.Many phrases that he used is like "uWu" or some kind of things.

[@airstyles1989]

He was the customer service lady... Like him behind a cute anime girl avatar.

[@iewad8761]

Fun fact: In a recent speech (idk what event it was at, but the footage can be found on youtube) Dawei aka. Mr. CEO himself talked about the success of Hoyoverse in recent years. Despite acknowledging Genshins success, he confirmed that Honkai Impact is his favourite child, and that he will make sure to keep the Honkai franchise going till the end

[@Revliss]

Its on honkai impact fest, 2 week ago its the one he cry on stage

[@JimRaynor2001]

And Genshin is in fact a part of Honkai-verse

[@Defi4nc3s1]

I strongly believe, Genshin was supposed to be the way to wide Honkai's lore - as it's in fact, Bubble universe inside Sea of Quanta. They wanted to make money, to fund Honkai Impact 3rd and if i'm not mistaken was little after the Oddysey Open World. It was so hyped as it brought complete free move sets and had Devil May Cry vibes. Honkai Impact 3rd is slowly optimized to run smoothly with new battle suits on mobiles, but sadly you need moderately to new phone of the series. (Remember, when Herrscher of the Void Kiana came in co-op? Well that's a salt experience xD)

[@iosis9324]

​@@Defi4nc3s1Genshin is NOT A Buble universe. This is a parallel universe that is next door neighbor to the honkai universe. «《HI 3》All New S Rita [fallen rosemary] Character Preview Translation of the Interview (starting at 00:25) QuoteWriter: This [Fallen Rosemary] and the Rita in the main story line are two completely different characters. Similar to what Yase Kasumi is to Yae Sakura, or Starlit Astrologos to Theresa Apocalypse. But in terms of concept, [Fallen Rosemary] is also somewhat different from the concept of Yase Kasumi and Starlit Astrologos. In the previous game version, at the end of Chapter 17 in the main story line, *our Archbishop Otto detected and observed other parallel worlds through The Imaginary Tree. Among one of which, is their next door neighbor, The continent of Teyvat's Stormterror Dragon [Dvalin].* While the other one, is actually our current newest character [Fallen Rosemary]. So speaking from a world setting perspective, compared to Yase Kasumi and Starlit Astrologos who are just characters that came out of World Bubbles, [Fallen Rosemary] is an existence of a higher degree compared to those two. In the past 1 year, through series stories such as the Honkai Kingdoms, as well as unit stories such as the Sanka Saga, we have in fact, finished the initial establishment of a fundamental concept - The Captain is able to command [Hyperion] and go on a journey within the Sea of Quantum. But as we all know, you will never be the only wanderer who is travailing on a journey. Thus, the appearance of characters such as [Fallen Rosemary], officially represents that our [Captain's Bizarre Adventure] now enters its next stage. End Quote (Stop at 1:25)»

[@iosis9324]

That's not what Da Wei said. He said direct quote "Honkai is our dream game". Genshin and all their other games are parts of honkai. And this is not a presentation of the success of hoyoverse, this is a presentation of the Event in Hi3rd. Why would Da Wei even talk about other games at honkai's presentation, they have never talked about their other games at the presentations of their games. Or do you think that since genshin brought them success, they now have to talk about it every second in every place? CN Honkai fans will literally tear them alive if they do. CN honkai player went to the Mihoyo building to kill the founders of the company because they didn't add a bunny costume to the game. It's dangerous to talk to such fans about something that might not please them.

[@jotana_ch]

hmmm I have to say he skipped like a lot, but yes. Also best controversi was honkai copied genshin fr fr. btw do you watch the new honkai concert on saturday? There will benew songs that are just amaizing. I can garenty that.

[@agentbluegaming7709]

God, 2012 was so long ago. I remember one day during 2012, in a car with, I think just my mom, and remembering seeing a trailer for that 2012 movie (don't remember when it came out, but it sorta stuck out in my mind at the time I guess.) and thinking "Oh yeah, wasn't the world supposed to end this year?" And I can't remember if I asked my mom about it, but If I did then she also dismissed it quickly. What a calm day that was.

[@dáinsleif_the_bough_keeper]

In Chinese Community, we always say MiHoYo is a gambler when they create a new game😂 If they win, they win. If they don't then bye. And we can see they won the gambling game everytime

[@Kaimax61]

play roullete and choose Black or Red everytime XD

[@itsarin2166]

Except for Zombiegal Kawaii that was a flop, for the most part their games are a big hit in the time of their release.

[@yorunohoshimiya6669]

That feeling when I got invested in Mihoyo because of a stupid ass Chinese anime mobile shooter and a few years later it turns out that the devs were insane geniuses… 😂😂😂

[@MarkYu23]

Damn! I didn't know I had been connected to Mihoyo longer than I thought. Girl GunZ was the mobile game I enjoyed playing before. Before, when I didn't have the opportunity to play PC, PS, and online games. Genshin made my pandemic days not so depressing.

[@ArchonKujo]

I am a big fan of the cinematic animations from Honkai Impact 3, it really does remind me of the animations and graphics of Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball FighterZ.

[@recentmap7268]

Genshin to Sonic Frontier You copy BOTW, you become the best Sonic game. I do it, i become hated by everyone. That doesn't seem fair.

[@LenaBloom-bv2zc]

Honestly I'm not one of those people who were so mad about the sonic vs genshin I love both of them

[@sarahtelles1931]

Anyone think that the definitive edition version of the Xenoblade Chronicles characters would look adorable in the Genshin Impact style

[@XenoGenerator]

I do. Even better, I think making Young Rex with Bennett's model could be really cool if they ever manage to make a collab

[@hayond656]

18:42 The first 3 Gacha games I played had Global versions that were behind than their original counterparts also because of this lol some of them are behind a few whole years tho I heard one of those is slowly catching up to the JP version

[@lhomez]

played HI3 first SEA release. had fun. stopped because they killed fu hua (not yet reaching himeko's death). felt salty. uninstall. saw Silverwing N-EX promotion. got hard. redownload. play all the story. felt satisfied with the ending n li'l' bit tears (altho did not get HoTR to complete the trio). Uninstalled with satisfaction for the game. looks at GI & it's community. Haha, NO.

[@pontoancora]

The easiest thing is to ignore any games community

[@nottgacha]

Mihoyo founders are just built different

[@nikolaikondratenko2165]

Has Bran finished playing Honkai Impact's story? I've seen that Bran played at least till chapter 9. Would love to see more 😁

[@mileniumshadowvn6652]

I dont think so, I remember he playing till ch9 and no more

[@Nameless422-]

He continued after 9 on his twitch streams I think?? he was at chapter 11?? (I might be mixing him up with other streamers I'm watching though) but not sure since I can't see his VODs far back enough anymore

[@mileniumshadowvn6652]

@@Nameless422- Thats one of the things I dont like from twitch, many videos are erased or you cant see them anymore after some time

[@Nameless422-]

@@mileniumshadowvn6652 yeah it's a bummer because I follow a few different streamers and not all of them have their VODs from a really long time ago. sometimes I want to go watch their full VODs for past events/quest to rewatch but can't since it's not available past a few months back :( watching edited versions aren't quite the same because I like to listen to the banter that goes on in the full streams or if i'm looking back at chat comments 'cause sometimes there's interesting discussions going on

[@moxie6293]

Akashot is hilarious LMAO

[@Crowned_Hearts]

Rockstar's thing is that they take long to make games but their games are always quality shit. When you buy a Rockstar game you know it is gonna be worth your money and time. GTA 5 and RDR2 are literally benchmarks for open world games nowadays. There hasnt been any urban open world game better than GTA 5

[@Oclur]

That's also why I'm not bothered by not having a GTA VI. It's better if they don't rush

[@Crowned_Hearts]

@@Oclur exactly

[@Repetends]

Yeah haha, I’m a “zoomer” and my average KZbin experience is like 3 hour video essays. You could blame that on my lack of social media other than KZbin though…

[@DannyJ3636]

Oh damn Honkai... when did Bran last played it again?

[@2xYuW]

I actually lost it at the "weaker hardware" part lowkey roasting the Switch 😂

[@aegis____]

me when i see the xenoblade chronicles 2 mythra body pillow at 3:22 :i need that

[@Nameless422-]

...to be honest, I totally forgot about the whole "2012 the mayan calendar is ending! the world is ending!" that happened back then. I do remember wondering why people were freaking out about it that much though ahah I remember trying out GGZ back in 2015 when I wasn't aware of Mihoyo (I didn't stick with it long though; came back to it later but couldn't catch up since I got back into it just a month before global server shutdown). Then when I started playing Honkai Impact 3rd in 2018, I thought "HUH these three characters (Kiana, Mei, Bronya) look familiar". Realized soon after that GGZ was also from Mihoyo when Honkai veterans were trying to explain the whole zombiegal kawaii/Houkai Gakuen/GGZ stuff to some of us newbies in the Honkai Impact 3rd reddit xD The reddit was also where I learned the mihoyo history so some of the stuff in this video I was like "oh hey, I remember reading about this"

[@santukishan12]

Everyone else: if I go back in time, I'll buy Bitcoin Me: if I go back in time, I'll buy mihoyo's stock...

[@amyjamisenhi3949]

When your someone who play zelda games and genshin impact (i love both games) and someone asks you what side your on My brain: ( if i say im a zelda fan zelda will just shove it in genshins face- but if i say genshin than both will try to get me on their side.. if i say both though 😅) My heart: *stops* Me: *dies in aroace fasion*

[@hub1986]

When western companies copy stuff it's alright but eastern oh no (Wow DF mount from GW 2 comes to mind)

[@Lordmaster316]

i am Playing Genshin (2+ years player) and Star Rail every day waiting for Zenless Zone Zero Mihoyo/Hoyoverse somehow know what kind of Graphics, Anime style, Character design that i like i dropped a lot of Turn base games even Epic Seven and others in just a week of playing but somehow i play Star rail every day now (started before 1.1 patch) and already spend $100 and willing to spend another $100 for Fu Xuan lightcone (after getting I.Lunae guaranteed with only 20 pulls needed then i have enough Jades for Fuxuan 50/50 and even if i lose 50/50 still have enough for guaranteed but no more jades for her Lightcone) I WILL gIVE FU XUAN EVERYTHiNG SHE NEEDS Zenless Zone Zero 1st trailer already made me so interested on the game it made me feel i want these characters even Punishing Gray Raven, TOF and other anime waifu gatcha games i didn't feel anything after watching their game trailers and character trailers only games outside Hoyoverse is Girls Frontline 2 and Snow break that i got interested/i want to pull for the charcters Waiting for Girls Frontline 2 and currently playing Snow break since the release Hoyoverse is not a perfect company but they make games that i want so i'll probably play more games of Hoyoverse in the future just Upgraded my Gaming laptop to 1 Terabyte so no problem with Storage

[@HenSt-gz7qj]

Ah... the end of the world... when everyone is panicking or praying, I was in my room playing FF9 on my ps1

[@Syiepherze]

24:45 As a Genshin AND Sonic fan, both sides got unnecessarily toxic man. It was kinda painful to watch lol. I think I ended up voting for Sonic Frontiers because not only was it a new release but it was a true return to form for the series. But I wasn't expecting it to win obvs, cuz Genshin just has that big of a playerbase

[@mirilys]

I've never been this early, but I do know this video and it's a very good one!

[@aldyzero6676]

From 3 person to more than 4000 employees and from nothing to something.

[@casualboysirius]

I don't know why i keep coming back to this video, its just enjoyable to rewatch lol.

[@tigermk3554]

I think Honkai Star Rail release date was also March 7th in Lunar Calendar.

[@mileniumshadowvn6652]

Yep it was, many denied it because they used the normal calendar, but using the Lunar it was March 7

[@randinator5597]

As a Nintendo fan, I remember being gaslit into thinking genshin was like a chinese ripoff of botw and i resented the game for years... until i actually played it and it became one of my favorite games

[@DScott-nk1lo]

Breath of the Wild is my favorite game ever and Genshin is my third favorite. They just look kinda similar, and have a few mechanics that are like each other, they're two completely different feeling games

[@jiro7990]

Wait I did not notice the figure in that shot if the diluc concept artist. Great Motivation.

[@robertmelconde8151]

another quite fact that mica team the creator girls frontline gave influence of high quality content of mihoyo genshin game(other gacha games too)

[@ELDEN_69]

Mihoyo is a good in my books cuz they actually care and put thoughts inyo their game unlike Bethesda with Fallout 76

[@18_moch.januarakbar17]

And they treat their employees unlike that supposedly "AAA" gamedev

[@drunktransdragon]

They really took that price reveiw to heart

[@hayond656]

These Akashot video reactions are Great

[@eldurakopr]

Tbh I was excited to get another game like breath of the wild when it came out

[@far4955]

ZOmbiegal Kawaii was my first Mihoyo game, my mom's old iPhone 4 still has it installed (and I've played their successive games ever since) XD

[@matthewsarson6934]

I honestly don't get the people who bitch about Mihoyo. After they made their money they reinvested a lot of it back into Genshin. Which is why we have so much new content. Compare that to a company like Blizzard that made money with overwatch then fired a lot of their staff so the CEO could jack up his own pay while they stopped releasing content for years.

[@camapdien]

I actually played Mihoyo games before but didn't realize it Back then, anime games is very rare, I didn't play flyme2themoon because I'm still a student and dont have money, but I played all other games It was this video that remind me they all mihoyo games lol

[@wenWeng9231]

as a wise commenter once said: "Thou's horniness shall never be forgotten" 🤣

[@paquetdemouchoir]

A crazy success story but unfortunately very lacking on security almost to the embarrassing point.. 🚫

[@adpfgaming7472]

30:52. sadly prob won't be able to watch it live but i'm excited

[@chibisukuna9784]

Yo! They released genshin and fm2tm in my birthday? That's so cool I didn't know that 😮 (flyme2themoon is my first mobile game)

[@prastagus3]

Honkai Impact 3rd still a massive success in China and the money they made help them created Genshin Impact.

[@krashProduction]

Rockstar is like the best developers just cuz like they so kany platinum tittles and ig gta series is the most succesful open world game ever

[@sarahtelles1931]

I want to share this. I got lucky last night with pulls in Genshin. On both servers I play on.

[@Nil_Sama]

Sometimes I feel bad about being f2p on a game so beloved by its creators and fans, but then I remember their profit, and I immediately feel stupid for even thinking that lmao

[@pochiche6398]

hey i don't know if you'll see that but have you ever want to make a video ranking genshin locations and sharing thoughts on what you liked navigating and experiencing the most 👀

[@jdg7327]

The game that basically cemented miHoYo is Honkai Impact 3rd. One cannot overstate how much HI3 pushed the boundary of the mobile gaming industry. Back then the state of mobile gaming if not shitty 2D gatcha or side-scrolling trash. I remember the end days of GGZ days pushing through above the story telling, but what should be regarded as a mobile game was raised by HI3.

[@honeybadger2163]

Does anyone actually remember the one child policy that was made into law by China. So many families would only keep the boys that were born. Because back then parents decided that a son could support them better in their old age. But now look at their society full of adult men with a SEVERE lack of females available. Thank goodness that one child policy is no longer in force.

[@wellwelly8595]

the funniest part that kiana really flies to the moon on honkai impact and stay there 🤣 😂 🤧

[@ekaterinakuznetsova]

I never played pokemon go why? I didn't have a phone in 6th grade ☹️ do you know the FOMO I FELT!? And once I did get a phone nobody played the game anymore 😃

[@Alucard0815]

I had debated downloading Hobkai Impact 3rd, but my internet was too shitty

[@venomm4563]

Let's not forget that Zenless Zone Zero is an upcoming hoyo game

[@McDonalds_kuki]

I swear one of the comments said” I WAS IN SCHOOL SHITTING MY PANTS”

[@kaiseejustcant]

The 2012 made me cry

[@TheCapitanoPlan]

High school of the dead they made an anime of the game

[@achnologiadragon]

mindblowing… as an anime fan I enjoyed Gun girlz Z few yrs ago… didnt realize they are the same devs who made genshin and hsr… they really match my taste

[@itsarin2166]

Yeah GGZ was pretty much their blueprint for future games, especially the Honkai franchise. Many recurring characters in the future games after GGZ such as Kiana (obviously), Mei, Bronya, Seele, etc. Heck, they even reused GGZ character design in Genshin such as Raiden Ei(Mei) or Yae Miko(Yae Sakura). Though sadly some chars are still stuck on GGZ that I wish Mihoyo would bring back such as Houraiji Kyuusyou (Chuunibyou girl with pretty cool jacket / coat).

[@whitedragon6080]

I wonder if the reason why it was called honkai impact 3rd because they can third place in the comparison that started they company?

[@ismadel4115]

Me who was under 3 yo at the start of mihoyo (the pain maker)

[@JojoplayAB]

6:39 the original angry birds is NOT free. The sequel is, idk his chat is agreeing that is free lol.

[@Azanitt]

I don't have a long attention span, Bran, I need content right from the start or else I will... Do nothing! 😠

[@fili7476]

30:42 as someone who loves both genshin and pokemon I'd love to see that!

[@ChromaLuke]

People who have never played Pokemon? I'm one of them. Yeah, I may have watched an episode or two of the first season of Pokemon, but that was before it and everything Nintendo was banned from my country and they stayed banned until the release of the Nintendo Switch when it was finally lifted. So yeah, we pretty much never had any Nintendo in our culture. Where the moms would refer to any game console as a Nintendo, here moms refer to any game console(and in some cases, computers) as a Playstation. At best we maybe had one of those games that are basically 1000+ old NES games compiled into a CD with bad English translations, but we wouldn't know that they came from Nintendo.

[@brendansmk]

Huge inspiration to others ❤😆

[@juanmanuelsantamaria2223]

I can proudly say I celebrate my birthday celebrating the anniversary of every mihoyo game ever

[@ShirouBrando]

Thank you, Small Jetpack Kiana

[@Keeby.]

most of the players are on mobile for genshin but most of the whales are on pc

[@Ririalith]

Early Gang | V

[@martimbrites7572]

this video looks like a scuffed internethistorian one.

[@jasonong252]

The very 1st game I play is Honkai Gakuen 2 or Gungirl Z, but I only play like a few week and then getting tired of playing it and also because of my potato phone running out of storage at that time. And back to like 2016 or 2017, my brother drag me into Honkai Impact 3rd and playing it on CN server using Bilibili account, at that time I didn't play HI3 continuosly like play for a year then stop for a year, and then the time when i start playing back HI3 is during the story of HOV got release. And I'm still quite enjoying HI3 by now even though its on CN server.

[@saddocatto9245]

I love the Internet Historian Influence here...

[@fuyutsukirai]

BRO THAT 150K INVESTMENT 😭