The Problem With Events In Genshin Impact 

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Genshin should do something similar to Arknights. Where Arknights makes the event’s story permanently available after its rerun and the REALLY important story events are available permanently immediately. Yeah you don’t get the exclusive event awards after it ended but they introduced a new feature called record restoration where you can get its rewards after a year of its rerun.

Simple solution for those invested in lore: Keep the story, but NOT the rewards. It will still suck to lose the rewards, but you atleast still got a story to cover.

I really wish we had the ability to play time-limited lore-related events. I don't mind losing the initial rewards for doing them, but it's definitely a big problem that new and possibly old players alike miss out on them when they're important to understanding the world of Teyvat. While we can watch these events from someone else's gameplay, it's just not the same.

I wish they had a way to play through old events-- at least the storyline. I started playing on Raiden's first banner so I'd like to be able to have the experience of the story of Albedo's first event or the Fischl Mona event. It makes it unfriendly towards newcomers.

I started around the 1st anniversary, and the Scaramouche part was on point. No idea who the guy was, didn't get invested, and now he's just this awkward footnote like Teppei. Missing out on limited events with lore sucks.

I hate that Albedo’s quest from 2.3 is gone for seemingly forever now. Learning about his connection to Dragonspine was so awesome and really made me appreciate a character I would’ve otherwise ignored. I really think that events story should have been made permanent because new players will think Albedo is just a simple alchemist and nothing more when he really has a complex and intertwined story that involves a lot more than just himself.

i think only lore-oriented events should stay permanently (without the rewards). that would be the unreconciled stars (scaramouche introduction, a lot of info on teyvat), moonlight merriment (liyue history) and hues of the violet garden (inazuma history, scaramouche backstory). if you haven't played them, you're missing out on a lot of very important lore. it also seems very unfair to new players to hide albedo's bis weapon behind an event and not give another option - the only other def% sword is 3*. it's a huge oversight on the developers' part.

Mona is one of my favourite characters, but I started during Shenhe’s release banner. I have no words to descride how distraught I was upon finding out there was a whole event about astrology and herself.

I have had several characters in the roster whose overall interaction boiled down to "Who the hell are these people?" because their introductions were tied to stories and their place in the stories were tied to those temporary events. The biggest of these was Beidou, whose massive interactions were all tied to an event I wasn't around for and when engaged with familiarity my first thought was, again "Who the hell is this person"

I came back to this game after a year while golden apple archipelago was running. The story was great and I had a wonderful time getting to know more about 4 characters (and hell it made me somewhat like fischl). Kazuha prob was my fav story out of all and hell I even got the goat from the rerun banner. Finding about the amount of shit they had in the past (YALL HAD A MARIO MAKER EVENT?????) that is gone now rly tilts me because they quite literally are throwing away work and money. Its really fucking stupid how a piece of content that can be fleshed out wonderfully is just deleted at the end of the event and never comes back. What made me rly angry was kazuha's story quests situation because of how wonderful his archipelago quest is, and how boring and unintresting his base game story is (at least comparatively). And they come out in the same patch too like bro, the fomo is so stupid and pointless beyond belief with these events bruh.

Another issue with limited events is that they sometimes put 4 star weapons that are bis for a certain character, but after the event finishes, you cant get it anymore, like the cinnabar spindle for albedo. You cant build albedo without it. A solution to this problem is to put the limited weapons in the starglitter shop, since they already do this with character skins.

I think the best event design they did was the 2.7 one where the story was related to archon quest so it remained permanent, but the extra fighting events were limited

I still can't believe that recent event Hidden Strife had so much Kaeya lore that just won't be accessible now. It also corrected a lot of misconceptions about Diluc's character being just grumpy or arrogant. I don't really care if we never experience the gameplay, but they need to stop locking important character lore behind limited events.

I personally think that events with character lore should just be added in the game, such as Albedo's story on 1.2 and Kazuha's story on both the Irodori Festival on 2.6 and Golden Apple Archipelago on 2.8. I was so disappointed when they released Kazuha's story quest with so little backstory compared to his domains in the GAA event (this also applies to the backstory given to his clan on the Irodori Festival). Albedo's story quest had a blunt end because it didn't end there during the 1.2 event. Although these characters aren't the main focus of the game's lore, they still contribute to world building. I would also love to know more about these characters by playing the game and not just reading lore off their profiles :/

Once you reach the end of the story you quickly reach this awkward spot where you log in to the game each day, do the 4 dailies that spawn, do a quick 15min artifact route, spend the meager amount of resin you are given each day, then stare at the screen for a few seconds until you realize you have nothing else to do for the day in the game. Might as well let people have the option of shifting through some older stuff if they want to keep playing

Three events that absolutely should be a part of the basegame are Unreconciled Stars and both Dragonspine events, since they contain very precious pieces of backstory for related characters. I can only hope to see my boy Albedo featured again ;(

The seasonal events are one thing, but it is the height of absurdity to know that Unreconciled Stars is forever gone apparently

I relaly want important stories to be repackaged as Archon Quest Interludes for those who have not finished them. They are the best contents with voice-acted interactions between playable characters and should not be wasted. Not really sure about how to rerun old Latern Rite, GAA and Irodori Festival plotlines.

The only thing I ask of Hoyoverse is to make the event stories rewatchable in the archive. That way, new olayers can experience them even after the event is long gone and old players can rewatch them if they so desire.

3 events I'd love to see permanent are Albedo's event about the imposter, Mona and Fischl event with scharamoch, And the Inazuma event the iradory festival. All have important lore only players who haven't played won't know and the most important one to have is anything with Scharamoch since no new player is gonna know who he is if they didn't watch a RU-vid video.

I just want more co-op stuff to do. Especially with the lack of co-op events, there is little reason for me and my buds to actually play the game together. Which is a shame because one of the draws that got us into the game was the co-op aspect.

Lemme predict the TL;DW for this video: The events can go, but the story(maybe the event weapon as well) should be kept and made accessible any time you want to, granted the requirements for unlocking them remains the same as when the event was running. Oh, and they are not mandatory to do.

I started playing Genshin at 2.0 when Inazuma was released, so meeting Sacaramouche was my first time seeing him since that event he was in was around 1.1? The crumbs about this guy is behind mostly limited time events, I was really bummed I couldn’t even push through the Labyrinth event because I was just not strong enough to do it, so I did turn to RU-vid to see the cutscenes, but it doesn’t feel the same. I wish their is way they can archive at least the cutscenes like how FGO does it.

FIRST! Also, Albedo is the character I want to have a rerun the most but because I wasn't playing during 2.3 I feel like even if they rerun him he's not worth it to get since his best weapon will forever be gatekept from me. Mihoyo ruined a chance of me feeding them my money.

I would still argue that reconcile stars should have been permanent It's really pivotal to the plot and the world building

There's nothing that hurts my soul in the game other than the fact that I missed out one week after the cinnabar spindle and the among us event was gone and now i won't be able to pull albedo if he comes back because of that🙃

All I want is to obtain the event limited weapons and recipes I missed out on, as well as the lore of certain events (cause let's face it watching them on RU-vid is not the same). Event requirements are also becoming more of a painful chore the more regions and areas are unlocked. Even with the Quick Start function, I still had to do a portion of the requirements just to participate in both big to small events. I'm a busy casual player 100% exploring Liyue as of right now , I still have Inazuma, Dragonspine, Enkanomiya and the Chasm to explore when it comes to treasure collecting, world quests and puzzles. I can't catch up and so far the order I played the game just for the events has made the story very messy due to an NPC being in a different quest. With now Sumeru being released, I won't touch that area unless needed for events.. which is kinda sad ;-;

The only events that I think really should be added to base game are the albedo events and unreconciled stars… cuz lore I missed the first albedo event and unreconciled stars but I watched them on RU-vid and sheer amount of lore in those events is kind of insane. It surprises me that they are events in the first place

I feel like the main problem with these temporary events is that they’re often times completely alien from the main appeal of the game (combat and exploration) and are instead weird puzzles, events not containing exploration is understandable because to explore you need a new area to explore which takes dev time, but the lack of combat events is inexcusable, it would be dead easy to just make an event that drops a bunch of enemies at you and be like “have fun” and for a lot of players that’s exactly what they want

The three events I would choose are both of the Albedo event quests and Unreconciled Stars. The Albedo quests were really important character development for a character who has yet to appear in the game outside of events (unless he has a story quest I am forgetting about) and they give lore for people like Rhinedottr and Durin. Unreconciled Stars dropped a major lore bomb that players that have joined since will never get to experience unless they look for old youtube clips.

For real, I loved this summer time odisey event due to Fischl playing a bigger role in the story. It sucks that people that may start using her and liking her design and quirks will miss the experience altogether. The character development is simply gone after the event.

I get the "quality over quantity" part and honestly i agree,all the non-story related events can go bye bye as far as i care and come back next year i don't mind,what i hate is when MHY literally deletes masterpieces of events that ARE story related like the first GAA or second GAA which can be permanent and gated one after the other to make sense,alot and i mean ALOT of the events were story related and were deleted which sucks,i was surprised when Scarashit mentioned meeting me before during the Inazuma archon quest meanwhile i didn't know what he was saying so i brushed it as "ohh he knows i am special,i am the trav so maybe he knows something" WITHOUT knowing during Mona's addition or Fischl's addition(idk which) he was featured int eh story,that was main story related and yet MHY decided to fuck the players and the story -_-

Be nice if events reran or could be reran once per account...you know, so everyone doesn't have to miss out of every unique weapon or VITAL STORY BEAT each event has. Not even like most events give you a lot of primo gems, and if MHY is so scared of losing profit...just half the primo rewards, there. Done. The rerun is saved.

First thing I did for the second GAA was equipped the ball from the last one. Didn't have to use it so it was very disappointing 😞 😞. I loved the mini games with the beach ball.

I would like it if the reconciling stars and dragonspine events were quests or interlude chapters like the recent ones. The whole story with fischl and Mona, and the story about albedo and sucrose, and later amber and eula would add a lot of depth to the characters and their lore. It would give new players a reason to hate Pallad and make the whole journey around dragonspine more fun. And although it's great that the events are voiced, I would have loved it if the really long world quests were voiced too such as the Sakura tree quest in Inazuma and the aranara quest in sumeru. Edit: having the event weapons like festering desire, cinebar spindleand maybe even the event character invitation would be very nice for new players. If they start now they're already so far behind on characters and weapons compared to long time players

I like how some of Vars video sparks healthy/reasonable discussion in the comments. I feel like whenever stuff like this gets posted to the main sub it sometimes gets downvoted or the Mihoyo whiteknights come out in full force to block out any criticism. They don't realize people criticize stuff they care about and want to see Genshin improve because the game has a lot of potential to be greater. But it does have a lot of problems holding it back.

I know there's an argument about the event exclusive story/lore being supplementary and not necessary to understand the main story but I would argue that not having those experiences firsthand definitely hurts the overall experience of the story. Like sure I could probably look up a synopsis of a show's early episodes/seasons and hop in on the more recent seasons and be fine but my experience with the overall story would not be the same as someone who has watched every episode from the pilot. Game of thrones for example: if I hopped into the last season without having watched all the previous seasons and just looked up a plot synopsis I probably would've had a different experience with the last season.

I wish they'd do something like in their other otome game, Tears of Themis, where they have past events that's optional to download to save space. It might be different because ToT is 2D and maybe that's less space, but for Genshin they should just have the option to download previous cutscenes from past events. I swear Hoyo knows exactly what they're doing and it's not impossible. But it's also no surprise that they need to make money off of FOMO

"Let's lock vital story and character development behind one time limited events!" - But that sounds idiotic and has zero upsides "It's called fear of missing out, people will be more likely to play!" - Not really, it just means you'll lose sales on characters like Scara-whatever when you release him because half or more of your player-base missed out on his big reveal.

As a newer player I just hope years down the line when Genshin is going to stop updating they will re-release all events. I will be on my deathbed, but at least I will see some lanterns.

At very least I want them to keep the story transcript in the archives. As it is, even players who cleared them lose out on rereading the story. They can keep the event rewards, but weapons might eventually get replaced unless they're very specifically designed like Cinnabar Spindle.

Just here to say that the Amaurot theme was unexpected but nice to hear while watching your video!

I missed Festering Desire so would like a chance to get it. I like Azur Lane's method of event catch up for newer players. They are still time limited. You can only have one drop of unique items, so no dupes. To prevent burn out from too much to do, the grind is also nerfed compared to original. Veteran players might replay it for basic rewards, or skip it entirely. It would be nice to see this in Genshin to help out newer players keep up, since they wont have a lot of opportunities from longer time players.

The Labyrinth Warriors event was one of my favorites because of the gameplay, and it looked like it had the potential to be end game content similar to the Abyss. They need to bring it back permanently.

The three events I would choose to bring back would be: Golden apple 1 (I missed out due to taking a break. Didn't get kazuha on his rerun either :c ), Reconciled stars and Albedo's event. They all contain great story.

The transition of FMA game to Genshin pv animation was so sweet~

The amount of speedrunning it takes to access these events is a tall, awkwardly-placed hill that often burns out new/casual players quickly. Once you get to Inazuma, congratulations-the storm has passed, and you should be sitting pretty for future events.

love the ffxiv music in the background what sounds like Amaurot theme

Of any event to be made permanent, I'm surprised "Shadows Amidst Snowstorms" didn't make the cut. The giant Cryo Whopperflower boss was a very fun fight, and could've been a nice addition to the roster of World Bosses.

I was really happy to finally fully participate in at least Diluc’s, but had to blaze through the Golden Archipelago event within its last 7 days because I wasn’t a higher AR and had to complete Mona’s story quest. By that time, I just arrived in Inazuma. Now, I’m playing through the Chasm quest, trying to take things slow because I defeated Dvalin, Childe, Signora, and Raiden Shogun in a span of 4/5 weeks.

I just wish that the Boss event (like Legend of Vegabond, Hypostatic Symphony) and Labyrinth Warriors and Theathre Mechanicus event would be permanent content .Those are my favorite. And I hope it's the same as the spiral abyss where the levels reset every 2 weeks.

The Mona, Fischl, Kazuha and Xinyan stories were far more enjoyable than I thought. I have only liked Mona before, but I just love her now. Her friendship with Fischl is so wholesome

Events are the reason I've been way behind on story not to even mention all the character quests or the hangouts. I'm content to watch playthroughs of old events on YT but it would be fun to add in some event mechanics (I REALLY enjoyed the drum-along minigame,,,)

Started to play genshin 2 months ago. Didn't know i missed out so many events until now 😱😭 there are many events happening right now with the new sumeru, so much to catch up on

I just think that it'd be really neat if they added the story part from every event as extra downloadable content like language packs.

Vegabond sword was so fun. That was the only time other than doing floor 12 at 1.1 where I needed to try different team comps, swap artifacts and weapons, and go in with a strategy.

I started playing just a month ago and I missed out on so much it really sucks, I was lucky to have a friend explaining some things to me while exploring (like Albedo's connection to dragonspine) but it would have been so much nicer to actually experience it

the one where i can generate a dungeon to explore (the long with the old wood building's) Archipelago 2: it had many awesome looking arias, and Mona's island is something you want to explore in months not one event. The other dungeon where you can try out extra characters and its only about fighting.

I love the Golden Archipelago event and I'm sure that it has to stay temporary, but gosh, this is so dumb that they showed us many important things about characters that we often don't hear much about. THIS is meant to be in their quests, NOT the temporary event that many people missed out if they didn't play in this time period. This is ridiculous.

I would make important story events permanent, so if i had to chose 3 i would keep unreconciled stars and albedos events. Sucks that irodori is seasonal bc it had important lore about inazuma, scaramouche and kazuha. Also could you make a video about ennemy design ? I find theres a lot to say about it.

i think the interlude chapters is the way to go for story events, i hope unreconsilled stars would be like that, and some dungeons for farming wod be more enticing like you said

They definitely need to find a way to add story/character based events. I'd vote for Fischl/Mona's and Albedo's. They also need to put in the og rewards for reruns like namecards and companions for those who may've not gotten them on the og run.

they should have a in-game event archive, to display past events, and a section to view narrative cutscenes, so that new players can see old stories from events they might have missed, my favorite events that should be part of the game are- theater mechanicus, Windtrace( my personal all-time fav so far) , and the one where you built stages (the mario maker-like one, the name escapes me)

There where so many fun events iv heard of from genshins past put I started in yae mikos banner so I missed so much! I want to do the dragon spine event with Bennett so bad

3:50 I can confirm that it does. I'm technically not "new" in the sense that I made my account on day 1, but I never even made it to Mondstat before I picked it back up again at the start of October and I've easily sunk 200 hours in now.

Honestly one of my greatest wishes for Genshin is for them to do event reruns (or just make them permanent as world quests or even make a whole new category of quest for stuff like that) for the events that were extremely character and lore heavy such as the Dragonspine event and Shadows Amidst Snowstorms for Albedo (they fucking introduced his impostor and backstory for him in those events along with cinnabar spindle and then dropped it forever what the hell), Unreconciled Stars because of all of the lore drops, Balladeer’s intro before Inazuma happened, the fake sky of Teyvat, Enkanomiya event and that event where they dropped a shit ton of lore for Kaeya that newer players sadly won’t be able to access cause it’s gone. Im saying this as a new player btw, I joined in 2023 and I was devastated when I found out that I had missed out on so much lore heavy events that won’t be coming back.

The music in the backgrond made me think alexa had an alarm set so many times ;-;

3 events to make permanent? I could say the obvious ones like unreconciled stars, lantern rite, golden apple archipelago, and both of the Dragonspine events that gave Albedo literally ALL of his story. But there's something to be said about events that had different kinds of gameplay. Stuff like theater mechanicus, the gear puzzle we had before 3.0 or even the drink mixing mini game. As an aside, I liked how Fate/Grand Order did "lite" re-runs of events. Usually run along side another new event. You could play the story, or even unlock limited time characters, but the battle content (and thus the larger bulk of rewards) would be drastically reduced. For players that had done the event before, there were still some generic rewards, but since they had seen they story they could just skip the cut scenes and get those rewards quickly and continue on with the new event (which would sometimes be continuations of that previous events story!). Imagine if while the 2nd Dragonspine event was going you could play the first one and even get the limited time weapon!

One of the few things I’d like to see in the future is important event quests, like the dragonspine event quests, becoming permanent quests. Even better imo if they are optional, because then people won’t be forced to invest their time in them if they don’t want to, but will be insentivised by primogems.

personally the three events i would like to be permanent are the drumming one because it had great songs and i had an absolute blast with me and my friend seeing who could get a higher percentage on the songs, the second would probably be the windtrace because its a great way to pass time with friends and could be a great permanent addition and finally i think labarinth warriors would be great to add permanently as its a fun challenge that had some cool buufs in the event that if made permanent could change the game for endgame players (such as the buff that gave one character in your party o constellation)

I actually got back into Genshin because of Fischl and the recent summer event. I had to grind up and get the point since I mistakenly committed when there was only less than 2 weeks left. Thankfully I was able to get through it, but I kinda wish I had the previous story beats of the other limited events.

COMPLETELY AGREE with what you’re saying here. I’ve been playing faithfully since version 1.2, and I’m still bitter about missing the Unreconciled Stars event by just a couple weeks. I don’t need to prizes, but god I’d love to be able to just play through the story bits. Aside from that, Windtrace is fun to play, I wish it was either permanent or at least in the rotation more.

I started very recently, during Raiden's rerun, and I actively avoid content where people talk about past events. I hate that I have missed out on so much, especially things that helped flesh out a character or just added more to the lore in general.

I'm glad you brought up the enkanomiya point. Me and my gf both started playing after the event but I like exploring so I still went and unlocked it but it's so irrelevant that my gf didn't even bother to. We just play co-op and she comes to my world to fight the boss. An entire region reduced to just a boss battle lol

They should really make the events with story and lore content permanent. I started playing during the Three Realms Gateway event and it was really disappointing learning that events had important lore that was no longer available. Like sure RU-vid exists and you can get the lore that way but it's not the same as playing through them. And personally, I don't care if I can play the first Golden Apple in the middle of winter, that doesn't bother me I just want to play it. And they could also just put them with the character quests and hangouts lock them behind commission keys, I've already unlocked all the character story quests and hangouts and just have 3 keys sitting there not doing anything.

I joined genshin in 1.6 a little before the summertime event started i think but stopped playing and after like 4 months i went back to genshin. The sad thing is Scaramouche is my second favourite character and i didnt know that the 1.1 event was a limited time one, i was so happy to go do it during monas story quest but nope, no quest. They should seriously add lore quests as a permanent thing to genshin

I'd choose Theatre Mechanicus, Windtrace and that Drink making one to be added to the base game cuz its a fun thing to do with friends when youre just bored and want a lil change of environment sometimes. The rewards could be as simple as mora and xp books or things you can normally get through leylines or domains but it just adds a lil more variety in acquiring those tings.

I wish they had Fischl’s event quest. She’s the character I relate to the most I would really like to have her more in the story of the game.

First of all: I really, REALLY appreciate that you remembered Amaurot and Emet-Selch today, at the anniversary of A Realm Reborn. A tiny little detail that makes me happy.

I think if some of the events where players can make content for each other are permanent then it would be really cool especially cuz a lot of the things that people make are really fun. I would love to play dungeons that people have made or the custom rhythm game beatmaps whenever I'm bored.

I think my biggest complaint with temporary event content is when it has a lot of story featuring characters who don't have any permanent content. This summer event featuring Xinyan and Fischl is a prime example of that. It's the most character development they've ever seen, and now it's gone from the game forever.

Unreconciled stars and albedos events would be my three. They’re full of lore for the world in a game that needs an excuse for people to play and has built a very interesting lore to be that excuse. We don’t play Genshin for the combat trials and beyond character summoning it’s up to the story and lore to keep us hooked

First two on my list are Labyrinth Warriors (for endgame purposes) and Windtrace (for the more casual side of things). My third isn't a single, but an aspect of previous events: the quests Having started playing after Unreconciled Stars and The Chalk Prince and the Dragon, I missed out on some lore. The traveler knowing Fischl during the GAA rerun felt especially jarring for me since I haven't really met her yet.

Thank you for a good video. I have something to contribute to the video after a few months following the channel: the clearance of your voice when you speak and your speed. I have to use earphone of headphone to hear your voice clearly, when I put your video on my phone I could barely understand what you're talking about. I know I can do something about it, and there are ways. True, however, I really hope you can read my comment and give it a thought. Thanks.

12:25 STO having the exact same events for summer and winter for 8 years or so... "nah it will be fine."

10:47 There WAS other mandatory co-op events like Oceanid revenge in 1.4 and golden Apple raid in 2.8 There's are rare events because most Genshin players don't like co-op, despite they might have full friend list or their list full of active players

so sad mario maker event is gone because it was so fun to do other player's domains. it's literally a genius event on behalf of the developers because they can literally let the players make their own content and share it. if they added a combat portion and made it permanent it would literally be insane for endgame

the amaurot background music is excellent taste. 😌

I would love to do the 1.1 story quest u mentioned as i missed it and also apple archipelago as i didn't play both times.

I can only think of two events that I wish would re-run in their full. Those would be the Albedo story line and the Scaramouche storyline (I've also heard like two people talk about an early even that told players that the stars didn't matter/lied? If that's the case, definitely that one as well). I only started playing this year, and granted I've made it very far already, it's a little disheartening knowing that I did miss out on some very fun, very crucial events to some characters stories.

Three events I loved in Genshin: Of Drink a Dreaming event, Elemental Crucible and Vibro Crystal

I like the events where you get to try characters you don't have, and some combat based events

Vibrocrystals and Perilous trails domains as an alternative to ley line domains sounds so fun

I really hope Labyrinth Warriors returns... I was a newbie when the event dropped, so I didn't have the best equipment to play through it, and only one 5 star (which was Qiqi). But still, roguelite elements match great with genshin, and I'd love to return to it with all my new characters.

they should add it afterwards once the event is done as DLC, so it wont add unnecessary size/storage to the game but will always be there as something extra for folks that have missed out on the story event content.

i think what they could do is have a separate shop specifically for people who have missed the event to grind and get the event currency and redeem the rewards. They dont have to track the players individually for this, just make the currency cap grindable infinitely. That would be great for similar seasonal events as it has the relevant offerings for those who have to catch up. Think of it as the Jewelry shop in Mondstadt where it sells previous event gear + Teapot Shop selling previously event exclusive furniture.

I've been playing since day 1 but have missed so many events or had to speedrun them because of college and life stuff in general. I couldn't finish the 2nd dragonspine event nor the 2nd apple archipelago and had to speedrun the inazuma festival. Wish they would keep the story or at least make them last longer :(

In FGO they do (or did) event reruns a year after they first came out, and some events that are pretty relevant and crucial to the main story become "main interludes" that get added a couples years after the event first came out, these only have the story portion of the event and they still give the free character. I can see something like this being added at some point but who knows

Shadows Amidst Snowstorms - Not only it gatekept a huge chunk of Albedo's story which should've been part of his character story quest to begin with (which by the way doesn't even have a test run and just ends in a cliffhanger), but it also gatekept his best in slot weapon. It's so unfair that I'll never have Cinnabar Spindle because I started playing during Itto's first banner, and thus my Albedo's full potential will never be fully reached once his banner reruns again.