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I saw a post on the gaming Reddit asking something like “Which game doesn’t deserve the hate it gets?” and I immediately thought about Genshin. Searched through the comments and nobody mentioned it… I want to know if it’s just my opinion: most of the hate the game gets comes against its gatcha nature, which granted can be damaging if you don’t have self-control or have addiction/gambling tendencies. The other hate factor is pure sinophobia, and that’s a rabbit hole I don’t even want to go into.

What am I missing? The community is not “more toxic” than other games: with N million players, you will find a lot of loud toxic people, but the majority are silent players who just want to have fun, experience the story or explore.

I really want to know if my bias is blinding me from something else…. My comment on the post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/8FHK46lLxm

(In case you want to support it >\_<‘ )

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Soloking_Itachi2026-01-29 16:07

The fandom is messed up,that's why,the game itself is pretty good,even if people don't believe so,it's success shows.

rogerioth2026-01-29 16:23

I know it’s a success in terms of numbers, but I’m afraid not so much in terms of reputation: especially with people who never tried it

Tripdrakony2026-01-29 16:32

All you can do is tell them to give it a try. If they don't want to, it's their loss.

Confident-Low-26962026-01-29 17:04

if its that succesful in terms of numbers it's doing a good job getting people who never tried it to play it, they invest millions on advertising for that, you dont need to convince people yourself just play the game and enjoy wathever you enjoy lol

Soloking_Itachi2026-01-29 17:47

It has a lot of success,you're wrong and focusing on the loud minority,even aside from the game,this is not the right way to view things.

RandomEOS2026-01-29 16:32

welcome to a popular game, that means you will get hated for no reason

DrkSpde2026-01-29 16:37

People jump on Genshin because they think it's the shining example of a predatory gacha game. Now to be fair, they're not completely wrong, but everyone jumps on it like it's the absolute worst gacha mechanics to ever release in a game. I find it especially funny when they bitch about the battlepass like there aren't $60+ out there doing the same damn thing.

They pick on Genshin because it's very likely the first (if not only) gacha game to ever get popular enough for them to even notice.

Atque123456782026-01-29 17:07

\*casually glances in pre-pity FGO direction

Yeah, compared to that Genshing literally gives you characters for free lmao.

Particular_Web32152026-01-29 17:15

The FGO community oscillates between "this game fling sucks and I am only here for fate" and "at least we play authentic JP stories and not CN slop with weapon banners" . Genuine Stoxkholm syndrome that is only slightly better than limbus community

Atque123456782026-01-29 17:48

I feel personally attacked....

But yeah.

Apprehensive_Shift702026-01-29 17:07

Genshin is just a boogeyman and a punching bag,
any fandom say stupid shit, must be the hoyoshill pretending to be part of X fandom
Its just easier to shit on genshin and CC also get more views farma draming genshin

ceos_ploi2026-01-29 17:08

I feel like this could be a bubble thing.

Like, most people who don't play gachas don't even know it's hated, cause the hate usually comes from other gacha players. You'll find tribalism in lots of gaming communities, but I've never seen it as prevalent as in gacha communities.

The other side might really just be the gambling aspect. I've not seen any gacha being mentioned in the thread you've linked, so far.

Just my observation though.

Independent-Can-1832026-01-29 17:18

This is the biggest fake news ever. People don't hate the game. They hate the devs. That is the biggest difference between Genshin Impact and games like Final Fantasy XIII

Atlmykl2026-01-29 17:25

I never see genshin hate. You know why? Because I don't go looking for it. If you look for hate on any game you will find it. A lot of people seriously look for things to make themselves angry and I don't know why.

875moT2026-01-29 17:49

Obviously within the Genshin subreddit, you're bound to attract a lot of support for this sentiment, so all the answers here might not prove to really help you understand the opposite viewpoint or your own biases. But for what it's worth, I do agree that this game just doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

Ultimately, I feel that it's just easy for people to reinforce a negative perception against things they don't understand, or put differently, things far removed from their own sphere of life. Whether that be gacha systems, anime culture, China in general, or something else, all can be things that people just never get exposed to that much. These things aren't exclusive to Genshin, but Genshin became so popular that it's much easier to join in with the crowd whose reaction to that popularity is far more negative than it realistically needs to be.

Doesn't help that like many big pieces of media, Genshin has a really bad online fandom. Again, not exclusive to Genshin, but when you're looking from the outside at anything similar, you don't really remember those chill fans who just want to have fun breaching your side of the internet, you see and remember all the negative, more clickable stuff, so it becomes yet another reaffirmation of someone's negative bias stemming from that lack of understanding.

At the end of the day, a lot of the details about this whole conversation stem back to issues with online culture in general I think. Best we can do is to try our best to be mindful of the way we engage with the internet and to be mindful of our judgements of other things the same we ideally want to stop others from unfairly judging something like Genshin.

DungeonEnvy2026-01-29 19:09

Genshin was the first gacha to break containment

Before Genshin, gacha was just lol gullible idiots spending thousands on waifu jpgs. Raid Shadow Legends meme goes here.

But Genshin was a real game, with a marketing budget. It got people from all across the world hooked, and it's flooded anime and comic conventions, YouTube ads, sponsored videos, gaming site articles, in a way that no previous gacha ever did

Visibility is a two-way street. A massive community means people can't just ignore it, they have to have an opinion on it because it keeps coming up in conversation, and that means haters are gonna hate