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Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail Fans Are at War | Push Square
20.03.2024 - 01:24 / pushsquare.com / Honkai
There’s been drama brewing in the HoYoverse fandom for some time, but it may have reached boiling point following the announcement of Honkai: Star Rail’s latest update, Into the Yawning Chasm. As the game celebrates its first anniversary, the gacha game developer announced rewards of up to 1,600 Stellar Jade and up to 20 Star Rail Special Passes. For the uninitiated, this represents 30 free pulls on a character or weapon banner.
Genshin Impact, meanwhile, offered just 13 free pulls for its Latern Rite Festival update, and fans are getting increasingly frustrated that Honkai: Star Rail players are getting a better deal. This anger has been compounded by the fact that players of HoYoverse’s turn-based RPG recently received five-star character Dr. Ratio at no cost, while many feel crucial quality of life improvements have been coming quicker to the developer’s newer title.
It's all resulting in an aggressive undercurrent running throughout the community, as Genshin Impact fans feel they’re being short changed. This author plays both games and there’s no question the rewards are better in Honkai: Star Rail right now, although things could potentially change once Zenless Zone Zero releases later in the year, and HoYoverse puts in the extra effort to establish that tile instead.
It’ll be interesting to see whether all this pressure encourages the Chinese developer to throw Genshin Impact players a bone, or whether it ultimately knows its enthusiast community is going to cough up for characters regardless – no matter how much it complains online. Either way, things are getting toxic among the communities of both games, and it presents an interesting challenge for HoYoverse to overcome as it attempts to please the audiences of two extremely popular but ultimately quite similar titles.
As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.
Both games are popular… But Genshin is vastly more so. And that's the reason why the devs sweeten the deal for jumping into Honkai.
I play both the games from time to time and both are providing a lot of entertainment. I just think Honkai players can celebrate that their game is the best, and let their Honkai peers try to catch up.
The devs don't play favourites, they play budget goals and how to reach them.
Let’s get that Ginseng impact, honky rail star team death match underway then.
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