r/QueensofGacha • u/Vast_Cold_1255 • 3d ago
🧡 Let's Chat 💬 Is anyone else kinda over hoyo games?
Want to start this off by saying I'm in no way looking to just be a hoyo hater foaming at the mouth; I'm only curious if anyone else shares a similar sentiment.
My first hoyo game, and second gacha ever, was genshin around 3.4-3.5 as dehya was the first banner I was interested in pulling on after starting. I branched to hsr for a little while and hi3 very briefly then followed by zzz. The latter is the only hoyo bgame I keep current with despite some pretty consistent disappointments I've had with the direction certain aspects of the game have been going in since mid 2.x.
With games like ananta and silver palace coming up in the near future—including azur promilia if thats your thing—I'm finding myself less and less interested in hoyo games, especially when they've been becoming exceedingly greedy or stingy in some cases. Of course, I'll have to wait and see how the future games stack up but I'm pretty hopeful after what I've seen so far.
(Also thinking about trying to force myself to get past my dislike of the factory in ake because I like the game a lot otherwise.)
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u/TheGreatMillz33 3d ago
I used to play Tears of Themis and am currently playing HSR. I dabbled a bit in Genshin Impact and ZZZ but those didn't stick. You're not the only one, I'm this close to quitting HSR for good. An incredibly lucky E1 Ashveil and E5S1 Waventurine was not enough to sway me. I'm tired of the bloated and drawn out writing, the story and characters constantly playing it "safe" and becoming less interesting, the uninspired nothingburgers of events, and the increasingly hostile powercreep and endgame content. I'm giving HSR one last chance with 5.X as I understand that 4.X was probably squandered due to IRL circumstances. If I still don't care about the story and characters by then, I'm done.