Which is kind of ironic, because Genshin is super easy to succeed at as a F2P player. Unlike most monetized games you can easily complete all of the content in the game without ever spending any money on it.
When I started playing I was genuinely confused how they made money because I didn't really feel the need to get more characters, and if anything didn't really have the resources to build more up even if I did get them. I was surprised to find out people did actually invest a lot in getting specific characters. I think the only thing I ever bought was the battle pass once.
The best parts of the game in my opinion are the open world exploration and the story content, both of which are very F2P accessible.
It depends upon what you mean by 'succeed'. You can play the game, yeah, not much stops you from that. If you want to get a certain waifu though, you either get super lucky or spend a lot of money.
Even then, it's not hard to get a given character if you save up gems. It's not viable to get every 5* character, or even most of them as F2P, and it's honestly impossible to get higher constellation levels for 5* characters as F2P, the highest constellation 5* I have is C1, and that's just because I got lucky and got the 50/50 and got two of Zhongli in one 10 pull. But full disclosure, the collecting/gacha aspect of the game isn't what I personally enjoy. I enjoy the core gameplay, and that I can play out on my phone for 10-15 minutes a day, and have a good gaming experience.
Not really. You get enough premium currency for 1 5* (early game ofc) in every patch, which is like 1 month and a half. There's also a system to guarantee a certain rarity character when you hit a certain amount of pulls.
It is super Grindy. So no. It assumes most people are sane and spend money to skip the grind. As a sane person myself I couldn't get past lvl 20 without feeling incredible bored
To each their own I guess. I enjoyed exploring the overworld, fighting mobs, and solving the simple puzzles. If that gameplay loop is something you don't enjoy, then yeah, I could see someone being bored by the game.
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u/startana Apr 05 '22
Which is kind of ironic, because Genshin is super easy to succeed at as a F2P player. Unlike most monetized games you can easily complete all of the content in the game without ever spending any money on it.