Both in the macro and at the micro scale, Genshin Impact is about communism. so we all know how in genshin impact there are archons, gods that are appointed by celestia that rule the 7 nations that currently exist, and there are civilizations long gone. So far we have discovered two celestial nails that wiped out the civilization at dragonspine and the other civilization. we know that the nations that were wiped out were advancing far beyond their capabilities, and potentially looked to usurp celestia’s throne. so my theory is that they were smitten by celestia (america) because they were communist. also khaenriah is the biggest example of this, but this is obvious, which is why i did not bring it up until half way into my memerant. additionally, as the traveler we are the witness that can record information even as we go through samsara, which is what i would call Marx and Communists et al. as we saw through the lies of the dominant class to attain class consciousness no matter the point in time during our world’s cycle. also in the latest archon quest (spoiler alert for masquerade of the guilty AQ) we learn that focalors was cursed by celestia, so she hid herself and used furina to take over her role as an archon, until she sacrificed herself to stand up to celestia. this is reminiscent of how china is playing with the bourgeoissie in their country to pretend they are capatilism. (end spoiler) also also also we know that there were old old civilizations like the seven sovereigns that existed in what was yet to become teyvat when phanes came and killed or subdued them all representing the settler state of america. actually the world of genshin has discrete periods of time that could potentially represent the well known developments of historical materialism if i cared to stretch the truth enough.
I hope this elucidated the world of Genshin Impact and convinced you that it is Marxist. Please repost to /r/Genshin_Lore
edit fuck turns out someone did this already ironically-unironically on the actual sub 💀💀
predatory skinner box gatcha thing
I think it’s predatory if you’re prone to gambling or are a person who must have everything. I know plenty of people who tell me they’ve never paid anything and are deep into the game. I sunk about 30 hours into it for free without paying, so I believe them.
gacha is predatory by nature
it’s just gambling
Yeah I agree. Just saying that in the Genshin casino, as in an actual Vegas casino, you can walk past the slot machines and eat the cheap buffet if you want.
I actually also think that all blind booster based trading card games are also gambling and should be heavily restricted for young people but idk for some reason people don’t see the parallels.
i agree with that part
It absolutely suffers for orienting its progression around lootboxes and RNG, whether one’s a compulsive gambler or not. It’s an absurdly awful paradigm that incentivizes making things worse deliberately in the hopes that doing so will make people shell out money.
Especially since it’s principally a single player game, its whole mobile game paid lootbox and time gated progression that you can pay to make slightly less shit is bad. Like even beside separating people from their money in a manipulative way it’s just shitty and unpleasant design. Imagine reading a book where you were only allowed to read a single chapter a day unless you paid a few dollars in in-book currency, and you could only get all of the content in the chapters if you dumped enough money into buying page crates that would unlock random blocks of text throughout the book. Imagine a movie you could only watch 5 minutes of a day, and you had to play a slot machine to have all the characters actually appear in the movie at all. It’s just bad on like every possible design level.
Eh I don’t think the book and movie similes work in regards to gacha. The characters in the story are all fully fledged agents and appear as they usually do. Getting 5-star characters to be playable is different, and I am sure it will be harder now that there are considerably more, but I got 9 5-stars without even spending a cent because of the Pity system, just from normal story progression. For reference, I only care about like 3 of them. Not to mention the cute characters are all 4-stars, which are easy to get. I think the gacha crisis is a bit overblown, and my only criticism is that it’s predatory to vulnerable people who must have everything and now, and will fall victim to this system.
My point is that it’s not even about the money, but about how “you want access to [mechanical functionality]? Better hope the lootbox lets you lol” is just awful from a design standpoint. Ethical issues aside that’s just making the system worse for the sake of making it worse, so that they can sell the chance at a solution to the problem they intentionally made.
“It’s predatory if you’re the prey”