Why is there backlash for Miliastra Wonderland?

I made my long needed return to Genshin Impact after three years, and there's a lot of content I need to catch up on. One new gameplay that was added was Miliastra Wonderland, which is basically an alternate type of universe where you can play as your own character through a myriad of games and worlds that other people create. It kind of reminds me of something back from 2021-22 that allowed players to do something similar before, but now they took that and made it into a separate permanent gameplay. I just watched the stream for Version 6.3 and there's walere so many negative comments about it? What are everyone's opinions on the gameplay Miliastra Wonderland?

**edit**: it was Windblume Festival from 2022 (I think that's the year). You could play TCG, hide and seek, aim and shoot games, and create maps. So they basically took most of Windblume stuff and put it into a PTW gameplay 😭

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The_Great_Ravioli2026-01-02 07:02

For the same reason there is "backlash" for the TCG.

"I don't like this piece of content, **So no one else should be allowed to enjoy it**

Aka, Entitled babies.

Real-Contest49142026-01-02 07:05

yup.

Godforbid a game tries to expand its scope beyond the same scoop to appeal to other players.

Classic-Pea68152026-01-02 07:06

I’m all for others enjoying it. I will just never play it.

Jirul112026-01-02 07:07

TCG doesnt have Gacha nor a convoluted monetization system. It gives primos and is actually included in the world of teyvat and not a separate thing altogether. Miliastra on the other hand feels so isolated from Teyvat.

dadofwar932026-01-02 07:03

It's another way for Hoyo to make money. The launch was half a**ed, pay walled skins and the majority doesn't care about those mini games cause that's not what they started playing Genshin for. Waste of dev time.

Besides, it's pointless other than having "fun" while playing silly half baked games. There are far better games if you want that.

Hotspur0002026-01-02 07:04

Don't worry about the haters.

If you like MW, play it. If not, just ignore it.

RaidenXYae2026-01-02 07:04

cause genshin fans are massive babies and gotta cry about everything. They cried about the tcg same way too

Friedlead2026-01-02 07:05

Pretty much every cosmetic minus the basic bland skins is paywalled with no way to obtain the currency for free unlike primos. And now they're adding a robux ahh system in Luna IV which is gonna just piss people off even more

Edit for clarification: The gameplay itself is fine. It's awesome that there's a way for players to express themselves and make their own content for others to enjoy.
The problem is the blatant bullshit regarding the monetisation. It could be handled so so so so so much better, especially as it's the gamemode children are more likely to be invested in. It's predatory, simple as.

perfectchaos832026-01-02 07:06

You can earn it now, but it seems to be limited to 1 ten pull a patch.

Friedlead2026-01-02 07:11

Even so, pretty yikes for only being able to get 1 limited skin every what... yearish? And that's only if you actively play the gamemode and get the rewards

It's only because people spoke up that people even have the 10 pull worth of currency you mentioned in the first place

Neospanner2026-01-02 18:00

The 4-star skins offered by the Limited Banner are pretty good, too - and a 10-pull guarantees you one of those.

Classic-Pea68152026-01-02 07:05

The games honestly aren’t that great. Not trying to be mean but every time I tried to play them again I found games that were either glitchy or incomplete. There is just too much content in the game to feel like this is needed and if I ever run out of Genshin to play I just pick up another game. It just seems like more for the sake of more and isn’t as polished as it could be. But if other people like it good for you :) we all don’t need to like the same thing.

Ivan_Rabuzin2026-01-16 15:46

Agreed. Most games I tried, even those with higher ratings, were disappointing. Even amongst the popular ones I haven't found any that I'd be willing to spend an hour or more on.

For example there exist tons of good idle games or roguelikes on the market. Why would I want to play a barebones player-made imitation of one within Genshin Impact? That just makes no sense to me, are people really that lazy to go "I could play a good game but I don't want to shut down GI so I guess I just settle for whatever this is"?

The manekins are useless for any real content and their outfits are often immersion-breaking, so I wouldn't want to use them in a team anyway. So you're using them only in this Roblox copy that is held together by duct tape and wishful thinking. This proves there really is an audience for just about anything.

Classic-Pea68152026-01-16 16:47

I agree entirely. It literally seems like they just made this for people who don’t want to close Genshin.

Naive_Ad_57752026-01-02 07:05

The main problem people had was the incredibly predatory monetisation

stolenglass2026-01-02 07:10

like money hungry or sth? wdym?

Chrisarts20032026-01-02 07:12

you can't even pull on the limited gacha without spending real money to buy the currency

stolenglass2026-01-02 07:13

oh yikes......

Chrisarts20032026-01-02 07:15

I read on this thread that it *can* be earned, but it only amounts to a single 10 pull per patch... not that much better imo. Also, some outfits that aren't in the gacha can only be bought with real money

SquishyBruiser2026-01-02 08:24

And being able to just straight up buy an outfit is bad how ?

I can go and buy Hu Tao's outfit without a gacha and that's good. But me being able to buy the idol outfit for my character is bad ?

EarlyBirdLate2026-01-02 07:06

I'm annoyed at having that darn button there all the time, let me hide it ffs

Illustrious_Kiwi55182026-01-02 07:08

1. People not satisfied with monetisation

2. Crybabies not comprehending not everything has to cater to them

1 of them is understandable

Marionette22026-01-02 07:08

People just want to push their agenda and narrative.

BusBoatBuey2026-01-02 07:09

If someone cured cancer, there would be people crying for the death of tumors. No reason to care about backlash from billions of monkeys on phones.

KibbloMkII2026-01-02 07:14

for one, you can't pull for any five star outfits without forking over real money, because the currency is paid only

my complaint that killed any interest i had in it is you cant choose weapon type for your manekin, they're sword only, not gonna bother with it unless that changes

Aldaric2026-01-02 07:15

Western CCs that gauge everything based on the gacha, so if the gacha is mid or bad, then the whole game is bad.

_DestroyerX2026-01-02 07:19

I think it’s because it’s a purely “for fun” gamemode. No rewards, no achievements. Only fun from your time and investment. And this can clearly be seen through the differences in fandom.

Asian fans, like the CN bros, create some of the most incredible things for the sake of it. Because they actually just play for fun.

But the Western fandom play for rewards. When there is none, they won’t play it and may hate it.

Basically, people hate it because there’s nothing to achieve even if you invest in it. It’s purely for fun.

stolenglass2026-01-02 07:21

that actually makes a ton of sense 😭

_DestroyerX2026-01-02 07:25

This is just what I’ve seen and heard. And seems to be the biggest reason of all.

It even applies to the tcg mode and teapot. Though, they do still have some rewards so the hate is slightly less.

Whilyam2026-01-02 11:56

I honestly don't care about no rewards. I care about:

1. It taking up room on my limited storage
2. It taking up space in the UI
3. It taking outfit ideas the traveler should always have had
4. It taking primo codes and dev time on new explorable areas.

Like, no one hates TCG and it also gives no rewards. But it's unobtrusive and doesn't take from the real game.

_DestroyerX2026-01-02 12:09

Like I said in my other reply, this is just what I’ve seen and heard. While I do hear your complaints before, it's not often. I simply stated the one I heard the most. And yes, that includes TCG and teapot.

skyvvalkiria2026-01-25 16:26

"No one hates TCG" is simply untrue because i've seen lots of people complain about it. 1,2,4 I can understand but I feel like traveler's outfit is what it is and doesn't have full-on customization for a reason. it holds a certain story too, like inteyvat. Twins got their skins now, each with elements of each other's original outfits, so :)

Whilyam2026-01-25 16:29

Complain, sure, but people HATE Mildew Asshole Wonderbread. Like, there's nowhere near the hate for TCG.

Kingrion9k2026-01-02 07:20

Bad Monetization and the narrative of miliastra stealing primos/content from the actual game of genshin. Im not gonna spend a dime in the mode due to the first reason, but it is the endgame i enjoy the most due to being a big fan of co-op gameplay.

Whilyam2026-01-02 11:54

It's not a narrative, it's demonstrably a fact. We've lost 1-2 codes and obviously that's not game breaking but you couple that with no new areas to explore and it's devastating to f2p players. I think the last calculation I saw was that we were missing about 20-30 pulls.

Kingrion9k2026-01-02 19:03

Eh no. Im not too familiar with the amount of codes given so i wont comment on that, but the exploration drought of 2 patches has happened before, just not towards the beginning of a region. The primos from these past two patches are in the same range as previous non-exploration patches, so those 2 things I know are false.

Either way, narrative is just an idea that goes around. No matter if it is true or false, the narrative put the mode in a bad light before it was apparently proven (if it even is).

DevolayS2026-01-02 07:21

Because people feel entitled to free stuff. Paid cosmetics is the most chill form of monetization, yet people lose their shit over the fact that most outfits are paid.

Paid constellations exist since 1.0, literally p2w, yet it never got that much backlash. I find it hilarious. Of all the things people could've been mad about, they chose paid skins that have 0 effect on gameplay. Lol. Lmao even.

V1nnieSousa2026-01-02 07:22

I don't care if it is predatory or not since I won't play it or talk about it anyway.

IMO there are two main problems:

1 - I wish I could uninstall only MW to not burden my HD

2 - I think they could use the resources creating that numeruos pretty looking costumes into characters skins, or even improve NPCs old models. (I could guess they ARE improving little by little, see Minnie, the NPC on this last event)

Rigel572026-01-02 07:32

because the monetization is absolutely ridiculous compared to the main game and actual customization is very limited with colors not being changeable

_ironhearted_2026-01-02 07:33

I feel like it should have been a separate game. I feel like it has enough overlap for people to feel they're missing out if they don't play, but not much to do if ur not a fan of community-made games. The manekins give the player a much-anticipated customisation feature, which is bogged down by

- being locked behind very predatory monetization. It's needlessly convoluted imo, and gender-locked in weird ways.
- if ur not a fan of community-made games there's not much to do after getting an outfit. I personally really loved the ducky raincoat and I was prepared to shell out some money for both male and female versions, but then I wondered what will I even do after getting them. I tried a few games but overall I got bored quick.

They kind of put customisation in Genshin but tied it too tightly with MW imo. That's probably why many people hate it. Also because over the last patch we've had many MW promotional events which further made players feel that MW was siphoning devs away from the content they like. There's a lack of exploration recently and players blame MW for being a cheap replacement.

rekage992026-01-02 08:12

Because it sucks and it wastes dev time

ViprineSupreme2026-01-02 08:32

I understand some of the backlash. Like so much of the custom features, are pay to earn. I think if they’d given us the launch pay to play outfits for free we would probably see less angry people.

Custom characters are such an highly anticipated feature. So if they’d given us weapon customization and a bunch of free outfits at launch, they probably would have raked in money easily with the banners moving forward.

I think as it stands right now, having multiple of the same hair styles in different colors, instead of 1 hairstyles with swappable color swatches, also didn’t go over well

Complete_Ability81222026-01-03 05:24

It's not annoying, what's annoying is not being able to offer the option not to install that mode.

HeilFalen2026-01-04 06:08

I don't want to touch it and I reject it because more workload for MW means less workload for base game which is lazy enough

Foreign-Possible54992026-01-11 22:45

Not sure if there’s any real backlash but my criticism for the mode is as follows:

- it takes up space even if you don’t want to take part in it. Remember that they removed a lot of important stories from past events, yet they keep space for a whole new game mode that gets constantly updated.

- the tasks they give you are way too demanding for players who are not too invested in Miliastra, which will be the vast majority of players because Genshin is a 5+ year old game and Miliastra is 2 months old. Why does a permanent event have a time limit to complete it before it becomes inaccessible? Why do they expect a new Miliastra account to be able to get Rising Star in 2 separate games in less than 28 days? 15 games a week for BP exp is also way too much unless you play the 1 click stages which are unfun and makes the entire thing a chore.

- long time players who have invested years into Genshin may feel like their investment is being used to fund something they didn’t ask for, this is especially worse with Nod Krai being the obvious filler region to pad the game’s lifespan. Long time Genshin players will also tend to be older since it is a fairly old game, Miliastra to them is like selling Roblox to a 30 year old.

Ornery-Flow-38442026-01-20 02:55

Brain use, you must, young Padawan.

They complain about it, because its trash, boring, broken, distracts resources from the main game and is by factor 10 more predatory than the main game. And that was just the begin, the real scam comes, when they apply the Roblox predatory model to it (Let players add shop items that you can buy in their games, completely ripping off any kid thats too dumb to use its brain, same as Roblox and Infinity Nikki does).

JustJoe72026-01-30 02:29

To be fair, we already have Minecraft and Roblox so it's an overall hit or miss.