Why you're burned out of Genshin Impact 

I will forever miss the first time I played Genshin. It was so magical and an amazing experience. I’m so sad that I’m burnt out of it now. Even with the new regions. :(

Genshin is definitely not a game you can grind every day and feel rewarded for it. It's a very casual game to log in when you want, do what you want to do, and log out. Unless you are like me, a person that enjoys pointless grinding every day for artifacts, achievements, lore, etc. I've played almost since launch, pretty much every day, and I still enjoy the game, events, abyss, combat mechanics, elemental reactions, etc.

It's magical that Genshin has gotten so many of us through dark times in our life And while it's not as enjoyable as it once was, I will always cherish the first few weeks of it that I experienced...

Not burned out but have certainly taken breaks. I think that's the biggest challenge with Genshin; there's SO MUCH to do, but at the same time you can also feel really pressured to complete everything event-wise in time or simply even keep up the mountain of tasks and farming. I regularly raid in FFXIV and play a good handful of other games in the downtime so in a rush to complete the rest of Sumeru and Summer Paradise, I am certainly back to pushing Genshin hard again. It's certainly been an amazing game for better or worse!

For me it’s a cycle of quitting bc of artifact and resource farming and coming back again for cool characters.

once I started treating genshin as a more casual game instead of a chore my interest on it has gradually been increasing back. I can now skip dailies without fear while enjoying the game

The gaming format of Genshin is not to retain their old players, but to keep attracting large streams of new players.

Remember when you were running around Mondsdadt? Or the first time you saw wangshu inn with your 4 star main? The times below Ar40 were magical, I cant explain. Now all we care about is strong teams, op artifacts, meta 5 stars. its not wrong but exploring and quests were just something else. I wont quit genshin soon but im on a burnout break. Thank you for everything genshin, you were what helped me get through last year.

I really miss how magical genshin felt. I was a player since 1.0 and everything was absolutely breathtaking. I miss those days.

i feel like crying because, regardless of what crticism genshin deserves, it's a game that has helped me cope with a lot of issues, gave me pretty good memories, and made me fall with its characters, worldbuilding and lore...I've tried so hard to get into it again but i just can't, so I'll just miss it forever. Edit after 7 months (this is what i replied to someone in the comments but i think that anyone who watches this video or reads these comments and think it's ridiculous should read this and shut the fuck up, you are no one to tell anyone how to feel about anything, stop bothering ppl writing their hearts out in this comment section): As the OP of the first comment, you couldn't be more wrong. I was 18 when genshin dropped, it wasn't my first game either, obviously. if you thought a little bit you'd realize that it also dropped during covid, people (including me) were struggling a lot, had ppl they care about dying of covid, etc w/o mentioning other personal issues. you can call me a snowflake all you want but you'll never make me feel ashamed for getting emotionally attached to stories and art, i feel like this with every piece of media or art I've ever loved and it's okay for me to feel sad about not being able to enjoy it anymore. You sound like an incel redditor, that's even more embarrassing than actually showing emotions like a normal person.

I started playing on version 1.3. I saw my brother and friends playing it and decided i wanted too. I made some new friends, got closer with one of my classmates all thanks to the game. It used to be magical to me, it kinda helped me during the pandemic when i was quite lonely and chronically online. I was obsessed with the game, farmed for characters religiously, constantly comparing my account to my friends’ . I felt like it was never gonna be enough no matter how much time and effort i put in. My grades were faltering too. I was so burned out that even now I still can’t come back to the game. Hopefully some day I can play it casually again.

This video really hit me. I think I just want Genshin to be something it wasn't and the expectation is killing me.

The reason so many people become burned out is that the game is designed to pull you in with it's early game content and then expects you to stay and grind well into the late game. It's hard to put into words exactly, but small problems become more apparent as you progress into mid and late game, and just simply compound on top of each other until it becomes too much for the player.

i miss the pandemic era back then where genshin didn’t seem that overwhelming to play yet, i absolutely adore this game:(

When I gave Genshin a real try I fell in love with it, loved it's characters, story, voice acting, scenes, secondary quests, etc., got hooked and played it every single day to discover new things, understand how the combat worked, get the 100% of every region. Played the game my way, I was enjoying it as an RPG, not a gacha. But that magic started to fade away as soon as I realized that exact thing: playing it my way, with the characters I like the most, the way I liked the most, relaxed, enjoying the story, the narrative, the scenary and unlocking things slowly, was going to completely ruin my experience in the future. Ayaka was my first 5 star but couldn't get her a team because her best teammates weren't even close to be in the banner, didn't care and decided to wait till they were available, which took around 8 months btw, meanwhile I continued playing, enjoying as much as possible, and I really did, but when I realized I couldn't wait forever for the proper team, I focused on getting new characters to progress without issues and to remain having fun. That, without me noticing it, very slowly took me away from what I loved the most about this game in the first place, it started this non stop cycle of doing everything available to save as much primogems as possible to see if I was lucky enough to get the next character, or save enough till the one I needed for my team arrive, build them, try them in a team, repeat. As I said at first I didn't even noticed it, and was having lots of fun, but with time, Genshin became a game I played to grind instead of enjoying it's world as I did in the beginning. A clear symptom of it is when I finally got Shenhe on her rerun, the character I wanted the most since my early days in Genshin thanks to her story and character overall, I even got her C3 with her weapon, just to play for a couple of weeks more and don't touch the game ever since. Didn't feel the excitement I used to, it became that rush of having a character but after that you feel empty, bored. The efforts you do simply don't pay off, you grind for weeks for a character, if you planned ahead correctly then it means you have the proper team, play with that team and enjoy for a while but if you want to try something new, that means you have to repeat the cycle I wrote above again and again, meaning that you will be spending your whole time trying to get to enjoy the game, instead of enjoying the game in the process.

I played Genshin every day (multiple hours even) since around 2.4 and loved it. It was my comfort game for a long time. I then startetd to feel very burnout at the end of 3.7 due to streaming it for 8 hours 3 times a week and didn't even log in to do dailies for 2 months. With the release of Fontaine I started to love the game again. I feel in love with the new characters and the underwater world. It was the first time in a while that I was just wandering(swimming) around and listened to the beautiful music

"Where did all the magic go?", "I miss the way that this game made me feel" Oh god, i relate to this so much. Started playing in 1.3, when xiao's banner dropped. I remember exploring monstadt and liyue, it was truly magical - the feeling of accomplishing quests and literally getting to greater heights, it was always breathtaking. That was where i felt the magic. When GAA dropped, personally, genshin's magic was at its peak, that's also the time i get to play with friends (and all of us needed each other's help since none of us have maxed out chars). It was one of the most fun i had in any game i played, so far. Inazuma dropped, the magic was still near its peak, but it took just a little dip. It was still magical - where liyue and mons still felt "logical", inazuma's magic was it's mind-boggling "world-building". Nothing made sense, and that's why it was beautiful. The story was soooo good too (archon quests of mons up to sumeru). It was always an adventure and u will always be in for a surprise. Patch 1.6 and 2.0 will always have a special place in my heart (the last patch i felt this magic was when enkanomiya dropped, but even then it wasn't in the same level as those 2 patches). The patches after that (2.1 or 2.2, and beyond), I was already feeling the magic (slowly but surely) fading away. I honestly dont know how i kept myself playing this game until the patch b4 Baizhu's banner dropped. Now that i think about it, 1 (of many) the things that made me quit was the 1st cardgame-heavy event. I just couldn' be bothered with it (this was also the time the college semester was getting harder for me). It was the perfect time to quit so i did. I didnt miss genshin when i was not playing it, tbh. I tried going back after the semester ended (just this current patch), but it really lost it's magic for me. I thought i would go back just for the story, but now, idk... I will always miss that "magic", it was one of the best experiences I had in life, even if it's "just" from a game.

Really well done video. You explained what a lot of players feel and weren't exactly able to put into words fully. From a content creator perspective, I FEEL the general tiredness of the playerbase (and viewerbase). We love the game, the universe, the story...we feel attached to it but don't feel like there is a meaningful way to engage with it right now, beyond limited events. I'm grateful for the work hoyo puts in to new areas and new stories but there is something so lacking in the daily repeatable content. I'm glad hoyo is working on it (they said so in patch notes) but it is wild how long its taken. same with all the bugs and strange design/UI issues. why doesn't our cooldown reset when you restart an abyss chamber? they restart with limited events so why cant they fix this? it feels like a lack of care. And if its all about story, why can't we access old limited quests? quests that are SO IMPORTANT to the lore and character development. It makes me wonder what the end goal of the game beyond money. And just to be clear, im not blaming writers, designers, artists, etc,. Its so clear how much love they pour into these stories and characters. A lot of these decisions gotta go down a massive flagpole before they get to us.

I think star rail has really made me realize what burnt me out on genshin. Like as a whole i probably had a more enjoyable time in genshin just cause theres more game to it, but the expectation to log in daily a dedicate a significant amount of time and effort to finish all of my dailys and use all of my resin just made playing the game feel like a chore i had to get done and really just made the rest of the game feel unappealing. Where as with star rail i can quickly get my dailys and all of my farming while im doing something else and its just made me feel way morw motovated to actually play the game

I‘m thankful for Genshin because I was going through the ugliest time of my life when it came out and I could just escape everything else. But it served its‘ purpose for me just like for everyone else. I quit the game almost a year ago and don‘t feel particular remorse. I just feel bad for those going through the same burn out right now that I was going through last year. It will become easier for you to accept that it‘s time to move on to something else (at least for now). You will feel a lot lighter too. Just be grateful for what this game gave you.

To me, Genshin burn out comes from being forced to do "chores" to get to the fun stuff. For a lot of people these chores manifest in daily commissions, artifact grinding, min-maxing resin consumption, battlepass leveling, F.O.M.O minigame events, and the fear of losings the fifty-fifty on an anticipated character. Those chores developed over the course of the player's gametime because a lot of it is tied to the Primogem -> Gacha -> New Character cycle born from the desire to expand our ways to have fun playing the game in the first place. Think back to when you first started the game, the feeling of unimpeded discovery, not only of the map but of the game systems and elemental reactions. The moment you discovered the Cryo Regisvine and Anemo Hypostasis or the thrill of reading "Snow-Covered Path (Highly Dangerous)" in Dragonspine for the first time. These moments are slowly replaced by mastery of the game's systems and we subconsciously min-max the "fun" out of the game. We try to explore Inazuma but it's gated behind an extensive questline at AR 30, we try to explore the caves of Sumeru but it's gated behind a voiceless sidequest that is as lengthy as the region's Archon questline. A new player tries to ascend Shenhe or Yae Miko but find out they won't be able to reach their leveling bosses for weeks while their favorite characters grow weaker as their world level ascends. For me the gacha has always been secondary to the exploration and gameplay (combat) so I enjoy the spiral abyss for the most part. New areas continue to draw me in but is usually hampered by questlines stopping or limiting my fun. The gacha experience can especially sours enthusiasm as failing to get a character will undoubtabley drain the drive to continue playing the event/story, especially since characters are teased all the time so the hype of playing a new character may be all that motivates that player at the moment.

I also begun playing Genshin during Covid and it was absolutely magical. Stuck to it for the first year and a half but after that I begun taking hiatuses, and they became more frequent as time went on. Other things and other games that were more interesting popped up and I couldn't be bothered to play. It's such a shame because Fontaine is around the corner and I'm not even excited for it, or the new characters.

Genshin also was my main pastime during the pandemic, and the game was SO IMPORTANT to me. I always felt such deep joy and connection with everything the game provided, and it certainly made the pandemic more bearable. Since I went back to the office at the beginning of the year, I was genuinely sad I didn't have enough time to "properly" enjoy the game anymore. It soon started feeling so overwhelming, and such a chore to log in every day just to do the same things over and over again. I used to love big events such as this last Klee/Eula one SO MUCH, I enjoyed everything about them. But this one was literally painful to play through. It was lore deep to the point where you can't do anything for like 5 minutes until characters stop info-dumping you. I was sad both because I couldn't enjoy the lore and also couldn't enjoy the game BECAUSE of the lore. I'm kinda heartbroken I couldn't care less about Fontaine.

3 years of playing, I don't have that feeling anymore when I once play, I reach ar 60 and mostly got all the fav, still played Fontaine and all, but, don't seem to want to play everyday anymore, maybe once a week😅😅😅

I remember really enjoying doing the story and archon quests for mondstat and liyue when the game was still young. The dialog was interesting and entertaining enough to keep me paying attention and the story was in general well structured. The best part was that one quest would unlock everything in the entire region so you could explore absolutely everything as you pleased. As far as I'm aware, nowadays you need to do world quests with no voice acting that are longer than old story quests in order to unlock some story/archon quests that are themselves unnecessarily long for what feels like absolutely no storyline progression. On top of this shit, the dialogue is far more repetitive than I remember and paimon's voice makes me want to commit unspeakable atrocities. The story and archon quests used to be something I really enjoyed in this game, perhaps even my favorite part of the game, but now it's a horrible chore that makes me want to either close the game or continue grinding aimlessly

genshin's open world being able to hold memories just like our world is so crazy. every region can hold feelings of what you experienced as you played through it and i find it so cool! it's just upsetting we can't make any more of these in the new ones because there aren't any good feelings left to enjoy within the game.

i remember stumbling upon this video when I was still in denial abt being burnt out from genshin. I am a lore junkie, and ppl have complained abt this before btw, this game's lore is all over the place, and its not getting better. I feel like characters are wasted and some have not gotten updates to their lore lore years, look at venti for example, he is an archon and he hasnt gotten any aknowledgement since the 1.x updates. After 3 years I feel like we weren't heard, despite surveys, and I was a dumbass and thought, "maybe its taking them too much time" and then I saw our feedback, our months of complains on star rail, it hurts so much being treated like trash tbh. It all came to a head last month (September) when I fell in love with final fantasy 14, and that kinda sealed the deal I spent 3 years on this game, and I feel I have many regrets, for one part this game gave me so many happy moments, but it gave me so much sadness, bc I hoped for something that will never come, and I decided to accept it, I would've loved to come to that conclusion sooner

The game is very fun at first because you have a weak ass party and the game feels challenging, the moment you get a few decent artifacts and some 5 stars the game is over, aside from abyss, all of the content is just a time waste. Aside from the gacha which keeps us addicted, the game itself turns into a very boring activity like a chore.

As someone who loved Genshin but can’t get back into it, thank you so much for this video. It comforts me knowing I wasn’t the only one

I like (and dislike lol) Genshin a lot for quite a few reasons, but what really stands out to me is the ost. I can’t really describe how beautiful I find the soundtracks to be, and don’t even get me started on the character themes! They have a really special place in my heart and the effort and care that goes into them is on a different level. Seems like all the tracks are symphony recorded and I think that’s really special. As long as Yu Peng Chen keeps providing us with masterpieces I will continue to play the game.

Genshin will always have a special place in my heart. I began as a casual player, but as my dad got sicker, he got put into ICU and I couldn't talk to him anymore. To distract myself, I began playing Genshin more and more. When he passed away, Genshin was the only constant thing in my life that did not remind me of him and gave me a breather. I stopped playing for a long while once I felt the burnt out, and now I'm taking it up again. I am not trying to level up or finish all the quests anymore, I just want to take the game easy and enjoy it:D

i genuinely miss genshin so much, i literally used to play this game every single day but one day there was just nothing to do anymore so i just stopped and now i wanna play it again and i'm overwhelmed cause theres a lot of stuff... i really wish i can play it while actually enjoy it someday again cause i love it sm

To sum it down, genshin is a story based open world exploration game, and that's what's fun about it. Later you learn about different characters and the pulling system so you continue playing to pull 5stars and 4star cons and it's a dopamine rush and super satisfying when you get the characters you want. What makes the game fun is the amazing world and interesting lore and story line. In a few months you've basically explored most of the world and completed the story line. It continues being fun since you get a rush pulling characters even though it's a boring process doing dailies and pretty much boring events over and over. But after a while you have a good amount of 5 stars and getting new ones doesn't change ur account much and the whole process is just repeating, dull, mind numbing and boring. Not to even talk about artifact farming and how repetitive and boring that gets. Been playing for 2 years and recently quit since its just not any fun. But to be fair story based open world exploration games (like breath of the wild, witcher 3, rdr2 etc..) are generally designed to be played from 40-200 hours maybe up to 400max. Once you complete the story, explore the map, complete all horizontal content, there is nothing left to do and you're done. And that's good, you move on, remember it as a fun game and play something else. The problem with genshin is that they try to get you to stick around with the pulling system and you end up playing even after completing all or most content in the game and end up doing boring content and trying to convince yourself that it's fun

Genshin helped me moved on. I strated playing since 1.0. When my brother and my mom died, it was difficult for me to move on. I was extremely sad and wanted to end my life. Then here comes Genshin and I fell in love with the music, scenery, and gameplay. There were events that I can relate to such as finding Razor's parents. There are stories with real life lessons. Suddenly I felt burnt out. I stopped playing even with the blessings and battle passstill active for a couple of months.With the help of my live-in-partner who actively plays and very much in love with the game since release, I went back and played again. I think we all go through the process of being burnt out even in other games. Right now I actively play and looking forward to Fontaine. There's so much to catch up to since Sumeru is huge but at least there's a lot to be done and explored. I found my way back to Genshin.

I played the games since it got launched, i was waiting for it since the trailer dropped. It was so magical when I first opened the game the world, characters, story. I remember when I was climbing Qingyun peak and the music played that was the best moment I ever had playing this game. I also made my friends play Genshin and they loved it. But now everyone is burned out and we all quit playing 😔

I started playing in early 2021. Back when Xiao first came out. It helped me deal with COVID a lot, coping with the hours of indoor life and lack of physically social interactions through the co-ops. I met a lot of friends online who taught be a lot about life (I met a lot of people slightly older than me), and kept me company. So many fond memories were created, those of which still brings me warmth when I think back on them. Genshin was a huge piece of my teenage life and I would never forget it. It also allowed me to connect with some peers through Genshin when I transferred to a new school. I stopped playing Genshin after getting burnout upon reaching AR 56 for a while (about mid 2022), and got tired of grinding long quests, while already having a collection of powerful characters. Along with my busy academic career, I really just don't feel like it's worth putting time anymore. The spark and excitement and connection isn't there anymore. However I am still always thankful for how much joy (or cope...) this game brought me!

At a certain point, the sense of discovery wears off; we develop a sense of mastery, form opinions, and look for an extrinsic motivator to keep us going, rather than enjoying doing it because it’s fun. Gacha games are very good at the extrinsic motivators (in the beginning), but eventually the reward no longer outweighs the effort to log in every day, and the flaws show through. I believe the solution is a combination of the individual player setting intrinsic motivations for themselves, and the devs finding a way to consistently reward players in *meaningful* ways with clear, lengthy, but *guaranteed* goals, and mitigating the punishment players feel for taking breaks or avoiding burnout.

I started playing Star Rail and I immediately abandoned Genshin. SR actually has a sense of passion behind it- seeing as I’ve only played it for two months and I already have five five stars and there’s also such dynamic cut scenes and pretty animations for all characters. And all the issues Genshin has are fixed in SR, especially the materials collection.

You are burned out because genshin lacks endgame content and purpose.

A big part of it for me as well is that just the regular content kinda feels like a chore. By the time I'm done with commissions, spending my resin, and doing any events that may be on I'm just... ready to log out again. They take enough time and effort that by the time the daily chores are done I've barely got any motivation left for exploration or questing.

i miss the old genshin times, when inazuma came out during lockdown i was having the time of my life 😭 i was so attached to the game, connected the characters.. co-oped and spoke to my genshin friends every day.. it’s such a shame i’ll probably never talk to them again or play the game. i guess at this point all we can do is be grateful for the memories, feelings and experiences, and keep on going with the rest of our lives 🫶

I’ve been back and forth of being into this game since it came out, but the one thing that’s always pulled me back into the game is the new regions. I still get the same excited feeling when I explore a new area. I love stepping into the new region for the first time and hearing the new soundtracks in the background.

I agree with pretty much most of what you said. What got me hooked at first was the beautiful world, the amazing music, fun combat and interesting story. This game even had me in tears on some parts, like during Zhongli's story with Azhdaha, and Ruu's quest on Tsurumi Island (actually had tears flowing down this grown man's face). I semi-whaled on this game because I loved it that much, but I regret it in the end. The leveling up is what frustrated me the most. Leveling up your characters took way too long, and WAY too many resources. Further more, the pay off wasn't even worth it. Congratulations, you spent 5 million Mora to level up your character's attack by 0.1%. The final blow to me was leveling up artifacts. You would spend days and thousands of resin to get the artifact with the main stat that you want, only to for you to roll HP and Defense on all of your sub stats. There is no reason for leveling up to be based on sheer luck. The only reason they, and most other gacha games do this is to artificially extend your playtime without having to put the effort to create new content. I just remember saying "this is stupid, I'm done." I quit playing right when Chasm was coming out, but I haven't touched the game sense. A coworker of mine kept bugging me to play FF14, and when I stopped liking Genshin, I decided to give it a shot. My only regret with that is I didn't start playing sooner. I had no idea what I was missing out on, and the thought of playing an MMO turned me away. I can't believe I was so closed minded on FF14 just because it was an MMO. 90% of the game can be done solo, but that's really closer to 95% now. I've been in love with FF14 for almost 2 years now (started playing when Endwalker came out) and it's been a great ride. I doubt I'll ever come back to Genshin Impact, not unless they do real changes. Wishes are too expensive, so there should be more ways to get Primogems so you don't have to break the wallet every banner. The artifact strongbox is a waste because you can't control the primary stat or substats. There should be away to guarantee you to get the stat you want, even if it's super grindy. Leveling up your character shouldn't be so painful, and the payoff for doing so should be huge, not just an negligible buff in stats. There should be more end game content, not just the Abyss. For all of the good the game does, like the presentation, music, stylization, and characters, these downsides are deal breakers. I do miss this game, and truth be told, I never uninstalled it. Sometimes I want to start it up, but then I just think of all the better things I could be doing with my time, like typing an autobiography in a RU-vid comment on a video about a game I haven't played in years.

hey, this video really hit home for me. i made so many friends through this game, grew my art account, and had so much fun on it during my online classes, and it distracted me from the more depressing elements of my life. now, i just cant get back into it, ive stopped talking to those friends as often since we just have different interests now, and ive lost a lot of interactions and followers on my page because i dont draw it anymore. this video made me feel a lot better about everything, knowing that im not the only one with these feelings and gripes about the game. also youre funny as hell man, here's a sub - hope to see you grow on here!

As I watch this video, my observation is that all or most of your passion for Genshin was in the gacha system. You said it was responsible for some of your most memorable gaming moments and then proceeded to talk about all the banners you pulled for, and I believe the passion was there.

I love genshin. I hate how complicated it is now. When I first started it was so easy. Somewhere around when inazuma came out, I pretty much started getting confused, I would try and do quests but nothing made sense to me. It got harder from there. I just play to get primos and do any important quests, but everything is quite repetitive

I started playing at around 1.4-1.5. The first time experience was amazing and I played daily. The story was so engaging too but as time went on it started to become stagnant and I got more and more burntout. Recently, I became more busy with college so I stopped playing, it was already exhausting at that point and it was just adding more stress instead of helping. I have no regrets and I lost any FOMO. I did return for a bit but only for Kaeya's new outfit. I'll play it at my own pace but for now it just isn't feasible and until they have a story that I am interested in and want to immerse myself in or until Dainsleif is announced then I won't really come back lol

i got burnt out when enkanomiya came out, just grinding every day for materials and artifacts felt less like playing a video game and more like a depressing office job, now I'm starting to play again but so far I'm having lots of fun with the new content to explore. All it is is taking your time and going at your own pace with the game, no one is forcing you to max out your characters as soon as possible.

As a day 1 player that stops when the first time Nahida banner came out and I never stepped on Sumeru, I had a ton of fun exploring and doing silly things when genshin impact came out. There's the secret island near mondstadt that really far and me and my friend tried to cross using kaeya on the sea. But, exploring can be tiring too. Imagine searching for whatever-culus that spread around the world + getting all the chest while keep changing tab between genshin and map marker. And the further you explore, the more things you need to unlock only to be rewarded by cheap change of primo - to the point that I feel like a forced labour slave with minimum wage. It no longer become a fun adventure full of wonder and exploration, but full of chores! day in day out only to do events to get petty sum of primo and farm artifacts. I didn't even bother touching abyss because I don't want to feel burdened and waste my time on something too hard.

I used to play this game religiously after I discovered it shortly after it's release. I absolutely loved the game. The core story was so intriguing and discovering the lore behind each character in mondstadt was the main reason why I kept playing the game. There was a strong plot for the game and the players were trying to solve the story. Obviously it would be a long time for the game to finish, they teased a long list of characters they were going to release. It was going strong for ages and it's heyday was some of the most fun I've had in a game. But then the game started dragging out storylines and making events take hours to complete, with a bunch of filler side quests that had virtually nothing to do with the main quest, but you had to do them otherwise you couldn't complete the event. It soon became like a chore to do events because the only payoff you would get is a character you could have a chance to play (and since I was F2P that was a very small chance). The events started to have no relevance to the main plot and just felt like a way for the game to run for a longer period of time. It was sad for me because the older characters became irrelevant shortly after their events ended and the original storyline became lost in all the other characters' storylines. Some people would easily forget the traveller was even part of the game until a certain cutscene or certain dialogue, because their story is barely relevant anymore. I'm not even going to mention the fact that the traveller is mean to be one of the most powerful characters canonically but is such a bad character combat-wise. The story is like trying to fill a cup of water that has a hole in it. It never gets filled no matter how much water you put in it. The game can easily have one of the strongest stories and has so much potential but it never will be because of the introduction of pointless characters and hours upon hours of useless filler content. The worst thing about it is it can easily be fixed, just look at Star Rail...It's made by the same company. If you want a story to be captivating and to lure people in to keep playing, don't waste time introducing more and more people who have no relevance to it. Don't introduce characters who have events or side quests that are 7+ hours long if they won't be mentioned ever again or wont even give you information about the core plotline. Keep the same storyline present throughout all quests and events and don't make the player sit through the travellers people pleaser mentality of trying to help every single person on the island or place in hopes that they will give you a smidge of information that will lead to even more quests. It was such a strong story at the start but then became lost, which is the main reason why I stopped the game shortly after Inazuma. I will also quickly mention that Genshin isn't really a game that you can take a hiatus from and then pick it back up a couple months to a year later. Sometimes for some unknown reason genshin will have very important information within events and then after the event is finished you will have no way of accessing that information again until it is brought up in a later quest where you will have been expected to remember it or know it. They don't care that you might've missed that event or don't remember it, they will just carry on the story and then suddenly hit you with a curveball and it turns out you need to know that information to proceed or to win a challenge. so then you have to look up what that you need to know and it completely defeats the immersion of the game. And don't get me started on the wish system and the enemies....I've always hated that.

I remember when I started playing genshin, in the first two days I have played around 22 hours, I was so hooked, yet now I can't even force myself to play, even after Fontaine released, but damn I will miss those first two days

Genshin was one of the best games I have ever played, and it will always stay in my heart. My two cousins from another country got me into the game, and it was so magical playing for the first time and getting Kazuha at rank 16. I remember Getting him with the very last of my primogems at pull 20 I think. Then I somehow got his weapon, too. I joined exactly at the launch of Inazuma and it was so beautiful playing the game i was absolutely obsessed. Especially with anything related to Kazuha too, and i worked my butt off trying to get to Inazuma to level him up. I got my sister into it too, and we made silly barbara and kazuha edits since they were our favorite characters. But as time went on, I started focusing on school and less on Genshin. I really tried to pay attention to every new region but it got tiring and less fun as time went on, so eventually I just left the game. I was even deciding on giving my account away, but I loved it too much. To this day I still play genshin, but only. forthe new characters. I'll play once a month and leave for another, but it will always, always have a special place in my heart

I'll never forgot how ridiculously beautiful I thought this game looked at first glance despite it being free. I spent a good hour just messing around in the forest. I was excited finally climbing up the hills to fight lvl. 12 hilichurls with a 0 xp traveler and thinking I was godly for finessing my way through it. I remember thinking 3-star artifacts and weapons were exciting and assembling my first team of xingqiu and xiangling was the greatest.

I remember that first feeling of playing Genshin impact for the first time. Especially playing during the pandemic game was it’s peak during inazuma. 💯

Fontaine has really helped me out with my burn-out. I think the archon quest and the underwater exploration are such fun elements that have been added and before i knew it, i've nearly 100% all 3 regions of Fontaine already. With the past few regions, although they've been beautiful, they've either had a lot of difficult puzzles, lots of long or annoying quests or generally the region has just been to vast for me to digest and i'm already exhausted before i've started exploring. I really do miss the magic of when i started playing, though. I know it's just nostalgia, but i played shortly after the release of genshin and i thought it was so cool i had found this amazing free rpg that i hadn't seen many people talking about. I remember begging my brother to play it and he kept refusing because he thought it was a dumb game he wouldn't like, and now he plays it more than i do! I've only been playing the archon quests for each region just so even if i do get burnt-out, stop playing for a year, and decide to come back, it wont leave me 3 regions behind with 20 archon quests to do because im pretty sure that would end up being the end of my genshin days. But i take a lot of breaks. Except for the times my brother would help me with world quests and stuff, i didn't bother exploring sumeru once because it was so big and there was so much to do. Especially the desert. God i hate the desert. It was honestly so tiring. Plus, genshin literally won't let you have burn out. One of my biggest complaints back in the day was the lack of the endgame content, and that still is an issue for some players. But unless you stay on top of every update and grind, eventually the unexplored regions build up and alongside quests, building characters, new things like TCG, events, it becomes way too much to keep up with. I went from being happy at any morsel of content or events we got, to skipping almost every event because i just don't have the time for it. I'm going to try to treat Fotaine as my new start because i really do want to see this game to the end, especially since i've already been here for 3-ish years, what's another 3 more :D

I think the craziest part about this is how much honkai: star rail sees the errors and complaints of genshin, and builds off of some of the issues that genshin has. It almost feels like their baby is honkai, and that the older sibling is genshin that they don't care about nearly as much, and keep it for a cash grab :/

I start playing at 1.4 and I was burned out at 3.0 so I stop playing at 3.0 and I came back at 3.8 and it was the best decision on my life because now I rehave this burning passion that push me too play everyday and a whole new quest with new character and I don't force myself

i started playing it back in 2020 nov, the game had just came out around 3-4 weeks ago. i remember the experience i had when i first played it and it was truly magical. no other game will make me feel the way genshin did. and i'm proud to say it too. that one year i absolutely adored the game. the spark started dying out slowly around the end of 2021 when stuff was hard and i couldnt play everyday. my laptop at that time didnt handle genshin well either so i thought why not take a small break. so i went on hiatus and then later in 22 i got a better laptop and tried to start getting into it once again but it was just hard. the spark died out completely and i started going on hiatuses too often. i still play it sometimes but i will never forget how awestruck i was when i first played it. im honestly surprised that a game has stuck with me this long because i never play any game this long i just quit after some months. but genshin is different and its my little safe place that i'll somehow keep coming back to. i have a love-hate relationship with this game istg.

I remember when the first version came out (1.0), my friend was actually the one who pulled me into knowing Genshin in the first place. It was back in highschool, early pandemic, we would usually play together whenever there was a combat event because it's more fun to do it in co-op. Genshin was genuinely fun. I genuinely enjoyed the mondstadt and liyue story quest, at the time I kept thinking to myself that no other game has done this well with an open world genre and anime style (I wasn't a Nintendo kid so I never played BoTW). It was around Inazuma release when I feel the change, the game got more repetitive, my friend stopped playing, and the story quest and characters interest me none anymore. The lack of end game content definitely an issue but more importantly it lost the charm that it once had completely. I kept playing until I finished Inazuma and even then the game felt oversaturated and monotonous. I don't miss the game as much as I missed how it made me feel when playing it for the first time.

I still remember downloading the beta for this game, I played and was really impressed and amazed how a world that big could be on a phone. However, after a while especially the Sumeru update I just had no more drive to even play anymore tbh.

Incoming Essay: You have been warned, but here is a semi-accurate-though-mostly-vague T.L.D.R: "I relate to a lot of the feelings expressed in this video, but not only with Genshin." My story with Genshin begins just before the Covid Pandemic began, when I had gotten a serious case of the flu and was running a fever of around 101. I decided to give Genshin Impact a try because it looked very beautiful and seemed like it would be relaxing to explore. I loved Breath of the Wild, so I gave Genshin a try. I enjoyed it a lot at first, but in that first sprint, I only played it until I was feeling healthy again. A couple of days and I was gone. I came back when Eula came out, and it was then that I explored my favorite region in the game: Dragonspine, but this was the start of my longest sprint with the game: I continued to finish the main quest in Liyue, then the Summer Archipelago came out, then eventually Inazuma came out. When Inazuma came out, I took my second break, and would come back for another sprint when my current favorite character, Kuki Shinobu, was first released. This pattern continued into Sumeru, with Nahida, but fizzled out to the point where even though I enjoyed the first chapter of the Sumeru questline, I'm just not interested in continuing on to the second chapter. I bring this up because I shared a similar pattern with Genshin as Haedal here, logging on for specific characters, and maybe playing a little bit of the game too. I can't say for sure that my problems with the game stem from the late-game dissatisfaction that a lot of the fan-base has. I was never interested in the Spiral Abyss, I played the game below my highest level so I could enjoy the story without needing max-investment characters, and the only money I ever spent on the game was 1 time when I had been playing enough to max out the battle pass. I played Genshin incredibly casually, and I focused on enjoying the characters, the story, the environment... but it eventually wasn't enough to keep me interested. Now, I appreciate Genshin from afar, and that's about it. I almost relate with this video even more with another game that I've played for a long time but have recently felt burned out on: Destiny 2. While I always played Genshin alone, I played Destiny frequently with friends who I made while playing the game. Friends that I keep to this day. I'll always have fond memories of playing with them all for days after days, raiding together, doing dungeons together, making bets with each other, helping each other with tough quests and grinds... Like Haedal says: "It's not that I miss the way things were... but I miss the way that this game made me feel." I used to really enjoy the grind, and now I either barely tolerate it with friends, or I don't play at all. That goes for Destiny, that goes for Genshin... I think we all wanted a game that we could play forever, like a new-age World of Warcraft. Something that would exist beyond us in our shared experiences. Something that we could back on together and relive our memories, and that we would feel happy to play again, if given the chance. But instead, we just got the memories, and the game will have to go on without us. I'll miss the way Genshin made me feel when I was exploring Dragonspine for the first time, or when I got the 50/50 on Eula with minutes to spare on the Banner, or the time when I gave the Weapon Banner a try and I got Nahida's signature weapon, having just gotten Nahida minutes prior. I'll miss the way Destiny made me feel when I had my friends rallying around me in support of my attempts on the hardest of challenges the game had to give. When I solo'd raids and dungeons, when I helped teach them to others, when I met friend after friend, the late-nights, the joke-filled days. If you've been reading to this point, thank you for listening to my story, and I hope we can look back on the time we spent on games like these with smiles on our faces, no matter if we enjoy the game anymore or not. We'll always have the memories of those early days. The memories of how these games used to make us feel.

I’ve been playing the game for almost a year. I joined when Sumeru released and even someone who had 4 nations worth of content can still look back on it and have similar feelings. I find myself longing for the feeling the game gave me when I was playing through mondstadt and liyue. I find myself wanting to play but logging on and doing anything feels like a chore. I was hyped when I saw Fontaine trailers but my first thought was “how long will that keep me busy until I’m back here with nothing to work towards?”

this game has gotten me through tough times in the pandemic and a little after. i even met some cool ppl while playing the game and had some good memories. im now a senior in hs and i gotta focus on the life i have ahead of me. this game will hold a special place in my heart but as of now ive signed off.

i remember knowing about the release of a super fun anime-like gacha game, my bestfriend told me about it and we were crazy to download it even though we had weak computers. i've never fell in love with a game like this before, exploring and suddenly discovering liyue, with the background music and the different culture. it was all just so magical. i aprecciate genshin for being the first ever to make me feel so compromised. at first, i would spend hours and hours playing without even noticing the time passing, the night would come and i felt asleep just thinking about logging back to the game again. i completed missions under missions and i loved it! (so much that one time i completed everything and just logged to have fun and do the dailies!) but after a while i felt like playing it was all about an obligation within myself, "you have to farm", "you have to get all of your characthers leveled up", "you have to do the dailies everyday", "you have to get every nation's areas at 100% exploration"... and now i am so sick and tired of all this. its not like i want to pay attention to the quests anymore, everything got SO boring and SO repetitive. but i confess i am so sad about leaving kokomi, hutao, zhongli and etc behind, even though they r all just binary numbers on a screen 😵 atp i dont know if i finally sell my account and get rid of this addiction or if i just keep my account paralised to log in and get future "interesting" characthers.

Something to note about 7:50 is that in recent times they've been significantly more willing to make a large portion of prerequisite quests optional; for example the current event only strictly requires that you beat the mondstadt archon quests in order to play (which seems to be a theme with events not held in inazuma, which in those cases require you to only complete the quests required to access the region instead of the whole of it). Fontaine will also be available immediately after completing mondstadt archon quests based on their recent dev blog, and the whole quest lock thing is going to have a (admittedly partial) solution in the form of being able to unlock quests without actually starting them.

Sticking for 2 years is already a feat in itself. I just started the game end January, only pulled on 3 limited banners since and every single time I do, I feel so burnt out. Frustration is the sole thing it makes me feel, and I admit that while I haven't played many gacha games, it's the first one to actually frustrate me with its gacha system. I don't want to spend money on it specifically because of that, and I can't even imagine still being there in one year. I haven't even touched it since I got Eula. Though at worst, I probably will go back to it for Fontaine for a while, but I don't know how long I'll be willing to continue playing it. And it's a shame, because I do love many characters. It's just that loving characters is ultimately useless if the game only brings me frustration.

In my case, I burned out on Genshin Impact a year ago, but now the desire to play came back.

I vividly remember watching the inazuma update trailer and beginning to loudly sob and I have no idea why other than the fact that I probably loved the game, I miss nothing more than being that emotionally invested in Genshin but no matter what I do that will just never come back

I don’t care how many people dog it, and how predatory it is, it’ll still be one of my favourite games. Not just because of the game itself, but the communities and friends I’ve found because of Genshin. I don’t play it anymore, but I’ll never forget the opportunities I’ve been given because I’ve played Genshin.

I played Genshin regularly until april 2022 and just like you said there was something magical about it. I loved flying through Liyue's mountains while flutes played on the background, and I loved picking flowers, and I loved arranging my Serenity Teapot, and looking at it now I even loved being scared of ruin guards lol. I truly loved this game, and obviously growing up played a part in how I feel about it now (I was a 16yo in the middle of the pandemic at the beginning), but aside from that it has become objectively repetitive and exhausting to play. *"Log in, do your comissions, spend your resin, log off". "Log in, do your comissions, spend your resin, log off". "Log in, do your comissions, spend your resin, log off".* _"Oh wait, there's a new story quest!" "Oh well i just finished it, so i'm back to the_ *log in, do your comissions, spend your resin, log off".* If you don't do this, you won't be able to keep up, so you'll have to stick with your old, boring and outdated characters, and you won't even be able to clear the abyss. The story is still interesting, of course, and that's the only reason why I still play it. But it's 2023 and we still know so little... And while back in the day all quests used to be great, rn some of them are truly tedious (Secret Summer Paradise, Nilou...) So yeah, I have fond memories of Genshin, but it's not the same anymore :/

After pulling for Scaramouche a few months ago, that's when my patience had slowly run out. Farming for the weekly boss rewards, doing daily coms, and grinding artifacts, It all just became clear. My patience had run out thin and dry. At that point, being a f2p player is tiring, having to keep up with many quests and the exploration for farming ascension materials just wasn't the same as before. I feel like in these past few months the hype for this game is slowly running out, sure maybe I'll come back for Fontaine, but I am not sure whether I will really come back into this game. Maybe because Honkai Star Rail is out that I stopped playing Genshin, but having to spend hours in this game is quite rare for me now as I only spend a couple of 2-3 hours just doing my daily comms. With all my friends online who had helped me in the past slowly quit or stopped playing the game, it became lonely. Maybe because they had helped for so long that it was easier but at the present it just almost became a chore for me to just do my comms that it became tiring. Maybe I'll come back, maybe not but as of now, I am just waiting for the hype to come back in the new nation, and maybe that's when I'll come back. As of now, I just wished that I forgot about all my progress and start again to feel the hype the game once had before it became tiring :). (didn't expect to get my comment so long but whatever, I'll come back later on to continue my journey with Mihoyo/Hoyoverse in the future. :] )

I started genshin in april 2023, and in a span of four months I have completed all archon quests, and all mondstadt, liyue and sumeru world quests. [We don't talk about Inazuma.] I have Keqing, Tighnari, Alhaitham, Kazuha and Wanderer. When Fontaine released I was getting burnt out, to the point where even finding the energy to do daily commissions was a struggle. And then I remembered Childe was rerunning and cleared everything in a week 🙏 Anything for my Taru

You know, I don't think any of the issues with the game are the real reason why people get tired of it ironically. It's just the natural progression that happens after spending too much time with a game, the problems start to feel bigger and you start to take the great parts for granted because you're used to it already. And I don't think there's any way to help with that kind of burnout except a break will alleviate it for some. If the game improves, it still won't be able to shed those feelings.

My issue with genshin is more of the obligation of logging on everyday. At first, in my honeymoon phase, I loved logging in because I could play for hours and hours, but then my bad habits kicked in and I started spending hours everyday exploring the areas until 100%ing them all, as I have a completionist spirit and wanted to see that beautiful golden 100% everywhere on the map (and for that I take accountability- that’s my fault if I have that obsession). Now, this is bad because now I do not have anything else to do. But while with other games, if I finish the content I can just… stop playing and go play something else, with Genshin I still need to log on every day for a bunch of boring, menial tasks. I’m not even talking about artifact grinding, I don’t play the abyss except sometimes when I’m just particularly bored. It’s daily commission, refreshing the teapot, trying to reach the max level in the battle pass; since 3.6 I have never gotten past level 30 anymore because I just don’t care enough to do all the stuff to advance it, cause it’s all stuff I’ve done a million times before. Events are nice, but they present another issue, they give me more FOMO than banners. Most important events have story significance and I love genshin’s lore, but I can’t enjoy the story because it’s either presented in a slow, boring way because Paimon infodumps everything (this is something that happens in all story content in Genshin, don’t get me wrong, but in events this just shines even more). And if you miss an event, that sucks, I guess you won’t know about this piece of lore then! I wasn’t playing in 1.2 and was in hiatus during 2.3 which meant I missed Albedo-centric events despite the fact that he’s my favourite character, and I also missed his BiS weapon because OF COURSE I DID. If I could just have the strength to actually go in hiatus for a few months I’m sure it would help me feel magic towards Genshin again. I played from 1.6 to 2.2 initially, only to drop it at 2.3 because I felt burned out, then came back in 3.0, and although I felt burned out again after 3.5 (the Dehya situation definitely didn’t help) I kept playing until now at 3.8. I wish I had the strength to go hiatus again.

I never got burned out because I really took my time playing and didn’t FOMO through the game. Zero play for two weeks straight then decide to randomly complete the 3.8 limited event in a couple days. I’m still AR45 even though one stage clear to level up will get me to AR60 in one go. I’m actually playing it right now and just got Yelan.

It's been a year since I've played genshin. I downloaded it on November 3, 2020, this game really gave me a lot of emotions. But, unfortunately, in August 22, my account was hacked. All my legendary weapons, all artifacts, all friends have been deleted. I spent almost $250 on it (I live in a country of 3 worlds, this is a lot for us). To say that I was upset is to say nothing. I watch your video and just cry. I want that time back

I always tell my friends (who are still pretty new to the game) that early game genshin is like a completely different game than late game genshin. When I started playing the game I had a blast, and that kept going even until Inazuma. I think the game is more fun when your characters are still weak, because domains story quest etc. feel more rewarding. The burnout for me started in Inazuma i think when the chasm released, because at that point my fav characters were built and new content was just scanning the map for puzzles and chests to get the exploration percantage to 100. Combat became a joke and it got worse when sumeru released along with the dendro bs. I made a hyperbloom team with ayato shinobu and nahida and I was shocked how broken this dmg was. That being said there was a really long time where I basically froze the game and did only my comissions and the events, not even using my resin. Had the advantage that i accumulated about 18 million mora so now the leveling is way more pleasant. Sadly Sumeru was for me disappointing, besides the amazing archon quest the region itself was super boring for me and the way to long world quests took a toll on my impatient adhd ass, when i completed on of the aranara quests i remember leaving my pc super pissed and I couldnt even tell why. I think that was the first time I realized how burned out I was from the game. Funnily enough, that is why I made all my other non sumero regions (except enkanomiya, fuck that shit) to 100% exploration. In a nutshell the magic of genshin goes away as soon as you have your first working late game teams, after that the daily gameplay sadly consists only about getting def-infested artifacts. This is why I love the games events, and fontaine is making me super excited because the region is like no other for me, it has this modern vibe that the others dont have and I hope the devs wont disappoint me this time.

I took a two month break recently, came back jus before 3.8, and I now am having loads of fun with it again.

I was watching this post and then my neighbor came and we watched it together. He said this post really changed his life and it touched my heart. My town people are so grateful. Am proud to say cool post wow thanks for sharing

I sure have some memories in this game, I already feel nostalgia for this game even though its not too long ago that the game first came out. somehow i’ve forgotten a lot of the memories ive made with friends but i sure as hell still miss the good times we once had on this game.

I am watching this because it is the first game I ever played for more than a month regularly. 3 years and I still love the game, and I really just want to know why people are getting burned out.

I have been logging in non-stop since 2021 and honestly i did feel like i was going to quit, but at the same time i was just so down deep into the game i was scared and somewhat sad for leaving all my characters, fun events behind. Knowing this game helped me through the toughest times (Ukraine was right now, from February 2022) is actually the thing that makes the game so special to me.

I actually had a burnt out once, around Eula's first ever banner and where the first ever wind trace event happened (it's probably more like a little break). I recovered pretty fast, since I really like this game and I'm super happy I can play this game as a free to play player, I kept setting goals in game so I have the motivation to go through and see more of the story. I made another acc so I could re-watch the parts I may have accidentally missed. I may not explore a lot more like before, like when I first started, but I look into exploring later when I got time or just wanted to explore so I still have contents to go through, it may not be as fun as the story quests etc, but it's still fun you get to see little details and listen to the game music, and use your favourite characters to explore the open world, I personally really enjoyed the exploring when I'm in the mood to, because it gets very interesting to the point I couldn't stop exploring. However there's a high possibility that I may stop playing if I somehow missed out on a lot, because it gets overwhelming and due to the long events that probably won't have a rerun ever again, I'll be really sad I missed out on those, because in my goal the event story is also really important, I already missed one where Scara is first introduced to us, I don't want to miss out on another. (the worst part is that I am literally in the second phase of 1.1 update and because I'm a new player I don't know what I should do and didn't ever thought of watching a guide, I missed out on a lot of things so I don't wish to miss out on more, that's like the main goal for me)

I used to be so passionate for this game a year before. Then all that passion went poof when they officially announced that they will never put anything other than the abyss in this game. I write all my thoughts that would probably improve the game more (IMO) in the monthly survey that they are conducting until I finally realized that im talking to a goddam wall and sending those survey answers to a black hole. I still play this game now, mainly because I used to be a dolphin for this game and stopped just this year. Im still trying to get my moneys worth. lol I'll cope and play this game for a little bit just because Im trying to save for the upcoming hydro archon and arleccino. The fontaine story looks interesting as well. the lore bombs are crazy in sumeru and i feel like Fontaine will have a crazier story, but that's it. I only treat this game like an open world visual novel now instead of a daily grind game. I think its the best way to play genshin now. But that being said, having a 100gb visual novel doesnt sound appealing at all. lol oh.. lastly, Hu Tao will forever be best girl.

I’ve been playing since week 1 and we still going strong. I feel all these issues yet I can’t stop. Not even a whale I just can’t let this journey end.

been playing since launch and played for 2 years before i started feeling burnout without realising, i would let quests stack up and only played when my resin was about to hit max. Will definitely miss the first time I started playing simply because I haven't played a game like Genshin, loved this video!

Joined 4 months before the first anniversary and I loved it, didn’t know how to pull and stuff and didn’t even know about the Gacha system at all at first because I got it through the ads not the gameplay and other people. Started a new account because I couldn’t beat the ruin guard in the Mond Archon quest but after taking the four month break necessary (effectively putting me in during the anniversary) I finally killed him off and slowly got to Liyue. I remember thinking Liyue was part of Mondstadt and that was just how big Mondstadt was, no, it wasn’t, but it was super cute looking back. I played with my bestest of friends back then, I made the new account just when she’d started and we had the same type of experience, I ended up competing to see who could get the higher AR - ultimately I won. She was a Yanfei main and I maimed Anemo Lumine (still my preferred Lumine) and I kept actively trying to understand how the game, elements and artefacts worked, which put me in-front of her and got me to help her a lot of the time, odd since she was the one who actually watched genshin content at the time. First time I pulled, I got Noelle, then Ningguang, I still love Ningguang to this day just like back then, and my first 5 star was Mona, I was so excited to tell my best friend - she’s kind of a Mona simp now lol - and I remember dragging Mona around everywhere with my impractical team of Anemo Lumine, Ningguang, Diona and Mona We’d keep racing, I got Mona c1 on standard banner and got Ayaya, who I built and now cherish greatly, she got Venti (I was very jealous lmao, but he came in clutch for her bc we would struggle with the ascension domains and she said she really needed a crowd control support) We used to go to each others teapots super duper often, at like 1AM, both not wanting to wake our families up, we’d just text via the genshin system, and I remember showing her around the festival area I made and the floating islands with the teapot money we get as compensation for the teapots closing for a while. (I also showed off the Raiden plushie I got that she couldn’t bc she was stuck with the Archon quest at the time which I beat solely for the plushie hehe) When she was about to build Kuki, her device crashed and that account was lost, but she eventually made a new one, and we still play together sometimes but it doesn’t feel the same anymore. I’m glad that I knew back then that these moments would eventually pass, and I’m glad I enjoyed them as much as I did back then. Genshin gave so many of us only the best gaming experiences, huh.

genshin rlly helped me in a time where i was pretty depressed and lost abt life. i wanted an escape and it truly helped me find smtg to at least look forward to in my day. i fell in love with the world building, the characters, the music, the gameplay. it was the first game i rlly invested in and its the gateway for me to try out other games too! however, after my life started getting back on track, and i don't feel as lost and depressed as I used to, genshin didn't serve that purpose of escapism for me anymore, and I couldn't purely enjoy the game for what it is. i was getting burnt out from the sheer amount of grinding i had to do and the (boring) story quests takes so long, that it became harder & harder for me to come back to the game everyday until i just didn't. my life became pretty busy compared to how it was during lock down, and i just have other things in life i find more enjoyable or have more passion for. so ill always appreciate genshin for what it personally means for me and how much it has helped me, but now it's time to let go of something that no longer helps me in life. ill miss the memories and the feelings associated with the game, but it'll always be smtg I cherish.

I downloaded and played it for a year when the game came out like religiously, super fun Then I took a long hiatus and when I returned there was just a bunch of random stuff I’d never seen with no returner guidance and I logged off again When I open my quest tab it looks like I have like 15 essays due and I don’t wanna do them. The main reason I quit is because I really enjoy the game in its core, but I get so bored when being forced to listen to the story. I just wanna get strong characters and wack mobs, explore or grind. When I need to wait 20-30 min on autoclicker total for one quest to end, I usually just end up in another game and forget. If genshin had a skip button I’d come back in a heartbeat.

Genshin is a game that holds a massive place in my heart. It was my escape for when times got rough and honestly kept me going through Covid. I remember downloading it for the first time after seeing a add, It took a whole day for it to download but when I first logged on, when I first saw that opening cutscene, that beach and the unfortunate crab that landed its place as the first thing in my inventory, I was mesmerized. It felt like watching fireworks go off, but this was permanent. I’ve have thousands of amazing experiences in Genshin, getting my first 5 star, finally unlocking the dragon spine domain, beating child after a embarrassing amount of fails, exploring the golden apple archipelagos, getting Kazuha and him becoming my favorite character, finally hitting at 50, getting my first dendro character and losing my mind over sumeru’s stupidly hard puzzles. So, so many amazing, unforgettable times. I’ve had my downs and ups for sure, I burnt out from the game after inazuma completely for months on end, I’ve cried and cried over it and gotten unbelievably mad at it at times, but I still love it. I love Genshin for giving me a world where I could escape to when I most needed it, for providing with endless laughs, tears and screams. I love Genshin for everything it’s done for me, despite its many flaws. Anyway, I’m gonna go whip my tears with grass

Yeah i get burnt out sometimes but after 8 months of not playing it felt good for some reason idk maybe it’s just me but i do miss the game sometimes

i started in patch 1.3. i don't blame people getting burnt out coz the the desert regions were boring as heck i didn't even bother exploring it after finishing main quest. Hoping Fontaine will bring new and exciting stuff to the game.

Playing since launch. What made me stay is I really love the story. The main quests are engaging and the world of Tevat is truly amazing.

Such a wonderful art, game and UIX design work that really changed the F2P scenery that was clearly delevoped with talent and love. As a dev myself and a fan of Grand Chase, it really makes me so emotional because it's like seying the GC of my dreams coming true. BUT, like every experience, it must end in some moment and you must go meet another experiences in another places and games. I still play it a bit sometimes tho because it's so inspiring in many levels.

I loved genshin, it felt magical, I could spend hours upon hours just going around and having fun. The biggest thing that drove me was the archon quests and scenery, it was beautiful. I joined because of Raiden but only managed getting Rosaria who became my main and I never bothered learning about artifacts, I just gave my characters stuff like “good enough” depending on their role in my team and it was enough, I cleared all archon quests and story quests, tried sticking around for a while but eventually got bored of it after windblume. Quit, came back for fontaine, finished archon quest, came back 4.1 for new archon quests, quit, came back 4.2 absolutely amazed by the story and then quit again, haven’t gone back since. I never cared about exploring or meta, it’s boring to me. I recovered from my burnout through Honkai Star Rail, they fixed most problems of genshin and actually offers great endgame that I DO enjoy and their events are fun, it’s not as childish in humor, the characters feel more real. More real than in genshin, I never understood the hype around most characters, they just felt like some traits threw together for a pretty design. Only characters I liked were Furina, Nahida, Kazuha and Kaveh because they feel like characters, not just cash grabs. So I never got hyped around saving primos, Genshin never drove me to actually save for characters, I just pulled when I could, never used the five stars that I got. Genshin doesn’t care about its players, it doesn’t feel that way, maybe they’re learning and now trying to improve through QoL but it’s already past the halfway point of the game. I’ll only return for archon quests, I do not care about anything else.

10:00 there are some in development. biggest being Wuthering waves. Genshin really needs a decent competitor. To be fair they recently mentioned wanting to implement some feature from Star rail into genshin. They mentioned the event archive and hinted at something like the simualte universe to come to genshin. Simulate universe = a rouge lite mode in HSR (Star rail)

I started recently in April, the game captivated me, so many factors to adjust and make the perfect team with good characters, so many landscapes, but after playing intensively for a while now, I also realize there´s not much more to do other than doing the same things I already did and farm artifacts and primogems to get the next characters. Maybe the game will change in the future to have a wider and more advanced form of multiverse and we will be proud to have gotten the characters we had with so much work but for now, it seems monotony and repetition seems to be the norm.

i cant get myself to go back, even though i love the visual of this game so much, and have made many memories with my old friend, i just cant get myself to go back. ive been on and off and on again with this game, one day i have motivation and the next day I dont. i remember being so emotionally attached to everything about genshin, but now it feels like ive just drifted away from all those feelings. During the inazuma update i fell even more in love with the game but ever since sumeru came out it hasnt been the same, just repetitive type stuff. i'll miss it, but im sure moving on is the best we can do now.

I miss the old time bcs its more of a exploration out of curiosity & excitement, and also you may have friends to play with or just a circle of friends that plays so you guys can talk about it. I still have them but we're all busy with life now, its no longer lockdown time. I still play genshin everyday, building characters that i've never use and saving for future character that i want. I mainly play for the storyline and world quest, I love them. I love the lore side of genshin, the mysterious, creepy dark ones especially. I'll spare my time, to explore and do the world/archon quest. Then after that, i'll put my focus on other things or games.

I think I’m really not in the majority here but I played since 1.0 (YES, since october 2020), have nearly 1000 log in days and still enjoy the game. I think what made it possible to stick with the game is that I just play it for fun and to relax. The grinding part was never a priority. I think when you remove that “pressure” to have the best of everything it becomes more enjoyable. But hey, that’s just how I play.