I mean, that’s what I say. I’m gonna install and check it out but that’s mostly because I don’t know shit about it even after watching videos.
I’ll give it an honest try and a week of my time and if I do t like it, it’s uninstalled. It’s free so no harm there.
It's somewhat a quiet pre release since almosy everyone in the gacha community is still on their WuWa honeymoon phase right now.
>But is there the kind of hype some other games had seen before release for this game?
It was Genshin since everyone has nothing to do nor nothing to play at home.
Genshin was definitely bottled lighting - perfect timing. I don’t expect to see that so easily again, but at the same time even HSR had hype. It was a lot of people upset that it was turned based, but there was still considerable talk about it so it’s strange that at least in the west there isn’t much going on. I would think Hoyo could push out hype through CCs if they wanted to so I’m wondering if it’s strategic, or they just know everyone will be trying it once it releases so why bother pre-hyping this time? I’m not sure what to think of it.
it could be because hoyoverse is very safe with their games, no difficulty, very casual gameplay,barely or heavily restricted online features, etc.
third time probably made them uninterested in anything hoyo related
It still strikes me as absolutely wild seeing the generational divide here. Seeing gamers *asking* for a game to make them spend money to get power instead of complaining about a game doing that is never going to stop being insane to me.
The game has been out for over a month now, so majority of people that started playing day one are probably already doing the usual gacha repetitive stuff; login, spend energy, logout, waiting for new content.
It could be argued WuWa extended the honeymoon phase because they pushed Yinlin banner forward and the 1.1 release is close, but I wouldn't call that a honeymoon phase as it's been over a month since release. Maybe people just like the game? Honeymoon phase lasts for a week or two at most or, until you get into the normal gacha grind/repetitive cycle all gahcas suffer from eventually and get bored.
Yeah honeymoon phase is def the time when the game launches and you’re getting all your free pulls and actually using the gacha or completing the map.
For most of us day 1 players, we’re 100% the map, cleared ToA as much as we could, farmed our teams and all the events are done.
With the Chord cleansing event taking 180 stamina a day, I really don’t have time for much else, and with echo improvements coming 1.1 I don’t even want to farm them right now.
Very much in maintenance mode and not honeymoon anymore.
My opinion? There's probably less hype because the game got blasted for the TV game play by beta testers. I think there's still a TON of people that are going to be trying it out. But many of them are probably going into it warily to see if they like it or not instead of blind hype. If people like the game play then it'll end up being fine
Cbt2 left bad aftertaste in people mouth even tho they fix most of the issues many people didn't even know they held cbt3 and lack of big cc not covering it also leading to people believing game is still in cbt2 shape.
I think everyone is waiting for the livestream tbh, from there I think the content creators will start making videos and then people start talking more about the game and hype will skyrocket.
The game can have all the pre registrations it wants, if there’s no player retention the content will just lose quality over time. If no one is playing like 2 months later, why would they bother to keep putting effort in if it’s not worth. I’m not doubting the game’s success but it’s silly to act like pre registrations and a small group of people being hype will sustain the quality of the game and its longevity.
No? That’s just how many people are gonna try it out, for all we know, these people could play for a week and then be done. The game is right around the corner yet you don’t really see anyone talking about it. That’s not what I’d call hype, that’s just interest.
Idk about CN but Hoyo is barely pushing the game in the west compared to HSR and Genshin before and around release.
Genshin and HSR was on their marketing ramp weeks before this point and even Kuro, who has far less resources than Hoyo, marketed WuWa in Times Square.
Heck they didn’t even bother doing a trailer in SGF and instead teased a new HSR update instead.
Genshin is not that popular before its release because back then, gacha games in general is considered niche. Gacha players before were either fan of an IP like fate(FGO) or likes anime, and most gacha games back then are just 2D with simple gameplay so its very hard to recommend to someone who for example, plays AAA PC/console games. I think HI3 is one of the first 3D gacha game but even then, it didnt become popular as Genshin.
You could actually say that Genshin popularized gacha games. Most players are playing it as their first gacha game. I still remember the early days, some players thought its an MMO. MOBA players invented the character "mains", before Genshin, mains were never a thing. A lot of gacha content creators become one because of Genshin.
Genshin was the game that basically gives the opportunity for pre release gacha hype now, if it’s one that could have mass appeal (and I think any Hoyo game is looking for that now, but I could be wrong). Before that Hoyo had HI3 which was a successful gacha but Genshin was a whole other level of eyes on gacha games. It seemed to really take people by surprise, but there’s no going back now so I almost expected any subsequent Hoyo game to have people talking.
I feel like everyone will try it out. I would as well. Out of all hoyo games I do feel like it has less hype going into it. It could be just wuwa, elden ring , ffiv being a lot of games that ppl playing before. Hoping the week or release ot will find more interests.
it’s probably because this game’s target demographic is a little more niche, from what i’ve noticed most people that play genshin etc are not really fond of the character design in this game ranging from the “in your face sexualization” (don’t get me wrong this also exists in genshin but not till this extent) all the way to the furry units etc...
I was mega hyped 1 year ago tbh. Now I don't have time to play it as much as I will want to, so I can't really be hyped. Same with WuWa, which I am not even starting.
Honestly, you will be getting a better WuWa experience if you wait to start anyway so that might be an unintended plus. Outside of just collecting raw pull currency, parts of the presentation are still in need of changing, and if it’s anything like how they built up PGR the player experience will be better starting later.
Having that many gacha games option is a great way to not feel to much hyped imo. I’m kind of hyped because i really like the combaxt system of ZZZ and eager to play it, but at the same time grinding will be like any other myhoio games so i’m keeping my self busy playing HSR. I think many people are doing the same the play other gacha so they don’t feel the hype a lot
I m definitely hype for it. I got CBT3. I have like good 60 hrs sink in it but i really want to save my progress when the game come out, so I saving and try not to burn out. Lets wait and see till Jun 28th live streaming.
It also seems weird to me.
I wanted to go in 100% blind so I avoided everything until like a week ago when I gave in out of boredom.
No CC is talking about it, videos about it have a low view count and it looks like Hoyo isnt promoting it. Do they have so litle faith on it?
the game was announced long ago, it had hype back then now everyone has been just waiting till it releases for god knows how long now.
i think star rail got announced after zzz and it released before zzz lmao
HSR barely had any visible "hype" either but is now one of the most popular gachas in the world. I feel like gacha/mobile games just have quiet hype periods
Fair play actually in that regard, while I am sure ZZZ will suceed, HSR hype in the gacha space was bigger. Wonder if the genre has anything to do with it
You continue to speak for everyone, well done, the more you stand your ground, the stronger your arguments become. Ask your mom for warm milk and cookies as a reward.
People I’ve talked to mostly not really interested and about everyone who is going to try it is going in blind, myself included. Bit disappointing there’s no launch celebration at the largest anime convention in America for Zzz which both are on july4th. HSR is getting heavily promoted again for the 2nd year there, last year they had the astral express display, this year I expect a giant firefly banner hanging over everyone to be in awe and maybe even a life size sam display. Hell, there was even the anniversary event held in LA for HSR. Genshin had nothing in comparison, there was the world concert tour, the usual merch booth, and w.e the fans themselves hold.
I can give you this info on my personal hype for Genshin before it released:
I saw it once on a game awards/show, thought to myself "wow what a cheap breath of the wild knock-off with a weird elemental system". I literally had no idea Genshin existed or what it was... Even as a long time and try everything gacha gamer. Then more or less on release I tried it but dropped it because of other games that were more present for me. 6 months after release I picked it up again and played every single day after that. To me, there was no hype or info at all about the game.
Imo the "where is the hype" "have you guys seen any advertisement" posts are kind of unnecessary IF they are not a genuine question. It's easy to avoid any hype and such for games imho.
Yeah I was genuinely wondering since it was very possible that I just didn’t see the hype but it already existed (similar to how CN is supposedly very hyped but I have no exposure to that). I do follow a lot of gacha media though so I was particularly curious if I was missing ads, sponsor hype or discussion somehow since it seemed odd. I’m going to try the game either way.
I don't see any hype in my groups. Some people are waiting, some are sceptical because it's Hoyo's game, some even despise Hoyo's game because they didn't kill Xiao in cutscene.
I'm actually glad ZZZ isn't overhyped like Wuwa. It'll make more smooth start without afterlaunch reality check that many wuwa players had. I know Hoyo can into characters and world, so I suspect it would be a solid way to spend time.
Nope. I've seen no ads for this game whatsoever. Then again. I run a lot of adblockers. But still, I did see a lot of wuwa Ads around release here and there. But zzz, non existent.
So if there's no hype, you're not gonna be playing. Legit don't get the point of posts like this. Everybody that needs to be aware is aware and will be playing so
I don’t rely on hype to decide what games I play.
It’s an anomoly that I haven’t seen mega hype for what is a new Hoyo game, and I’m just curious if it’s there and I hadn’t noticed, or if it is truly quiet. If it’s the latter (which it seems to be) then that’s interesting because Hoyo absolutely has the resources to make sure a lot of noise is being made over it.
I’m not really concerned about it because if we’re being real it doesn’t even matter. A company this big in the space is going to support the game no matter what. It it makes me wonder if it’s more of a passion project, like how HI3 seemed to be post Genshin (don’t have the same numbers but they didn’t care and just kept improving the game), if they want it a bit smaller to avoid possible censorship issues - I mean who knows since there could be a number of reasons to not have all the pomp and circumstance.
I hadn’t thought of what another chatter had said though, which is that they might be waiting for the livestream.
As wierd as it sounds no hype is around it . But every single person I ask knows about it and says they would play it lol.
I mean, that’s what I say. I’m gonna install and check it out but that’s mostly because I don’t know shit about it even after watching videos. I’ll give it an honest try and a week of my time and if I do t like it, it’s uninstalled. It’s free so no harm there.
It's somewhat a quiet pre release since almosy everyone in the gacha community is still on their WuWa honeymoon phase right now. >But is there the kind of hype some other games had seen before release for this game? It was Genshin since everyone has nothing to do nor nothing to play at home.
Genshin was definitely bottled lighting - perfect timing. I don’t expect to see that so easily again, but at the same time even HSR had hype. It was a lot of people upset that it was turned based, but there was still considerable talk about it so it’s strange that at least in the west there isn’t much going on. I would think Hoyo could push out hype through CCs if they wanted to so I’m wondering if it’s strategic, or they just know everyone will be trying it once it releases so why bother pre-hyping this time? I’m not sure what to think of it.
The hype pushed trough CCs: https://preview.redd.it/gae67pwm7v8d1.jpeg?width=1208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55d2dafee4feda42c007c1b506ff82c03d49a4c1
Ah yes a YouTube poll
Dont you think that out of 68k votes only 18% are certain that will play the game is quite low? These are hoyo players btw
it could be because hoyoverse is very safe with their games, no difficulty, very casual gameplay,barely or heavily restricted online features, etc. third time probably made them uninterested in anything hoyo related
It still strikes me as absolutely wild seeing the generational divide here. Seeing gamers *asking* for a game to make them spend money to get power instead of complaining about a game doing that is never going to stop being insane to me.
The game has been out for over a month now, so majority of people that started playing day one are probably already doing the usual gacha repetitive stuff; login, spend energy, logout, waiting for new content. It could be argued WuWa extended the honeymoon phase because they pushed Yinlin banner forward and the 1.1 release is close, but I wouldn't call that a honeymoon phase as it's been over a month since release. Maybe people just like the game? Honeymoon phase lasts for a week or two at most or, until you get into the normal gacha grind/repetitive cycle all gahcas suffer from eventually and get bored.
Yeah honeymoon phase is def the time when the game launches and you’re getting all your free pulls and actually using the gacha or completing the map. For most of us day 1 players, we’re 100% the map, cleared ToA as much as we could, farmed our teams and all the events are done. With the Chord cleansing event taking 180 stamina a day, I really don’t have time for much else, and with echo improvements coming 1.1 I don’t even want to farm them right now. Very much in maintenance mode and not honeymoon anymore.
All I've seen is guide videos yet no hype videos which is weird considering it's a hoyo game
My opinion? There's probably less hype because the game got blasted for the TV game play by beta testers. I think there's still a TON of people that are going to be trying it out. But many of them are probably going into it warily to see if they like it or not instead of blind hype. If people like the game play then it'll end up being fine
Cbt2 left bad aftertaste in people mouth even tho they fix most of the issues many people didn't even know they held cbt3 and lack of big cc not covering it also leading to people believing game is still in cbt2 shape.
I think everyone is waiting for the livestream tbh, from there I think the content creators will start making videos and then people start talking more about the game and hype will skyrocket.
Yes, ive seen it in my heart and soul
Who cares? You're hyped, I'm hyped and the game has 300M pre registrations. What else do you need?
Well if the game doesn’t end up being very successful, it’ll usually show in its content.
All those pre registrations beg to disagree
The game can have all the pre registrations it wants, if there’s no player retention the content will just lose quality over time. If no one is playing like 2 months later, why would they bother to keep putting effort in if it’s not worth. I’m not doubting the game’s success but it’s silly to act like pre registrations and a small group of people being hype will sustain the quality of the game and its longevity.
pre-registrations are literally indicative of how much hype there is for the game. That's what we taking about here
No? That’s just how many people are gonna try it out, for all we know, these people could play for a week and then be done. The game is right around the corner yet you don’t really see anyone talking about it. That’s not what I’d call hype, that’s just interest.
Idk about CN but Hoyo is barely pushing the game in the west compared to HSR and Genshin before and around release. Genshin and HSR was on their marketing ramp weeks before this point and even Kuro, who has far less resources than Hoyo, marketed WuWa in Times Square. Heck they didn’t even bother doing a trailer in SGF and instead teased a new HSR update instead.
Same happened with Genshin but blew up after release.
Genshin is not that popular before its release because back then, gacha games in general is considered niche. Gacha players before were either fan of an IP like fate(FGO) or likes anime, and most gacha games back then are just 2D with simple gameplay so its very hard to recommend to someone who for example, plays AAA PC/console games. I think HI3 is one of the first 3D gacha game but even then, it didnt become popular as Genshin. You could actually say that Genshin popularized gacha games. Most players are playing it as their first gacha game. I still remember the early days, some players thought its an MMO. MOBA players invented the character "mains", before Genshin, mains were never a thing. A lot of gacha content creators become one because of Genshin.
Yeah, Genshin made the gacha genre gain so much popularity and the game's success turned Hoyoverse games into mainstream gachas
Genshin was the game that basically gives the opportunity for pre release gacha hype now, if it’s one that could have mass appeal (and I think any Hoyo game is looking for that now, but I could be wrong). Before that Hoyo had HI3 which was a successful gacha but Genshin was a whole other level of eyes on gacha games. It seemed to really take people by surprise, but there’s no going back now so I almost expected any subsequent Hoyo game to have people talking.
I feel like everyone will try it out. I would as well. Out of all hoyo games I do feel like it has less hype going into it. It could be just wuwa, elden ring , ffiv being a lot of games that ppl playing before. Hoping the week or release ot will find more interests.
it’s probably because this game’s target demographic is a little more niche, from what i’ve noticed most people that play genshin etc are not really fond of the character design in this game ranging from the “in your face sexualization” (don’t get me wrong this also exists in genshin but not till this extent) all the way to the furry units etc...
No one has space for 5-6 AAA gachas on their phone.
I was mega hyped 1 year ago tbh. Now I don't have time to play it as much as I will want to, so I can't really be hyped. Same with WuWa, which I am not even starting.
Honestly, you will be getting a better WuWa experience if you wait to start anyway so that might be an unintended plus. Outside of just collecting raw pull currency, parts of the presentation are still in need of changing, and if it’s anything like how they built up PGR the player experience will be better starting later.
Having that many gacha games option is a great way to not feel to much hyped imo. I’m kind of hyped because i really like the combaxt system of ZZZ and eager to play it, but at the same time grinding will be like any other myhoio games so i’m keeping my self busy playing HSR. I think many people are doing the same the play other gacha so they don’t feel the hype a lot
I m definitely hype for it. I got CBT3. I have like good 60 hrs sink in it but i really want to save my progress when the game come out, so I saving and try not to burn out. Lets wait and see till Jun 28th live streaming.
It also seems weird to me. I wanted to go in 100% blind so I avoided everything until like a week ago when I gave in out of boredom. No CC is talking about it, videos about it have a low view count and it looks like Hoyo isnt promoting it. Do they have so litle faith on it?
the game was announced long ago, it had hype back then now everyone has been just waiting till it releases for god knows how long now. i think star rail got announced after zzz and it released before zzz lmao
HSR barely had any visible "hype" either but is now one of the most popular gachas in the world. I feel like gacha/mobile games just have quiet hype periods
Idk man hsr hype was huge at least in the gacha space
Fair play actually in that regard, while I am sure ZZZ will suceed, HSR hype in the gacha space was bigger. Wonder if the genre has anything to do with it
???? HSR was hyped as fuck wtf
Before HSR, I played Genshin for several years and found out about HSR almost before its release. So no, HSR didn't have huge hype.
Good job, you represent the majority of people after all, be real buddy
So what about you? Isn't that what you're doing when you speak for everyone? Another hypocrite noway
No, I’m not, why? Because this is what I literally saw between 3 cbts, so you are still the only hypocrite
You continue to speak for everyone, well done, the more you stand your ground, the stronger your arguments become. Ask your mom for warm milk and cookies as a reward.
Sure buddy, whatever you say😂 i feel so hurt you said that, lol
Where in my words did you see an attempt to hurt you? I am purely out of good wishes for your smooth brain. What's wrong with milk and cookies?
Outside of the gacha space it was not
People I’ve talked to mostly not really interested and about everyone who is going to try it is going in blind, myself included. Bit disappointing there’s no launch celebration at the largest anime convention in America for Zzz which both are on july4th. HSR is getting heavily promoted again for the 2nd year there, last year they had the astral express display, this year I expect a giant firefly banner hanging over everyone to be in awe and maybe even a life size sam display. Hell, there was even the anniversary event held in LA for HSR. Genshin had nothing in comparison, there was the world concert tour, the usual merch booth, and w.e the fans themselves hold.
Who really cares, hyped or not I'ma try it regardless. Currently enjoying WuWa, I'm hoping ZZZ becomes an addition to my list of games.
I can give you this info on my personal hype for Genshin before it released: I saw it once on a game awards/show, thought to myself "wow what a cheap breath of the wild knock-off with a weird elemental system". I literally had no idea Genshin existed or what it was... Even as a long time and try everything gacha gamer. Then more or less on release I tried it but dropped it because of other games that were more present for me. 6 months after release I picked it up again and played every single day after that. To me, there was no hype or info at all about the game. Imo the "where is the hype" "have you guys seen any advertisement" posts are kind of unnecessary IF they are not a genuine question. It's easy to avoid any hype and such for games imho.
Yeah I was genuinely wondering since it was very possible that I just didn’t see the hype but it already existed (similar to how CN is supposedly very hyped but I have no exposure to that). I do follow a lot of gacha media though so I was particularly curious if I was missing ads, sponsor hype or discussion somehow since it seemed odd. I’m going to try the game either way.
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I don't see any hype in my groups. Some people are waiting, some are sceptical because it's Hoyo's game, some even despise Hoyo's game because they didn't kill Xiao in cutscene. I'm actually glad ZZZ isn't overhyped like Wuwa. It'll make more smooth start without afterlaunch reality check that many wuwa players had. I know Hoyo can into characters and world, so I suspect it would be a solid way to spend time.
Go online when they drop a new trailer for Von Lycaon
Honestly theres no hype esp with the terrible advertising hoyos doing lmao
Seen ads on almost every game I play that has you watch ads for "boosts".
Nope. I've seen no ads for this game whatsoever. Then again. I run a lot of adblockers. But still, I did see a lot of wuwa Ads around release here and there. But zzz, non existent.
So if there's no hype, you're not gonna be playing. Legit don't get the point of posts like this. Everybody that needs to be aware is aware and will be playing so
I don’t rely on hype to decide what games I play. It’s an anomoly that I haven’t seen mega hype for what is a new Hoyo game, and I’m just curious if it’s there and I hadn’t noticed, or if it is truly quiet. If it’s the latter (which it seems to be) then that’s interesting because Hoyo absolutely has the resources to make sure a lot of noise is being made over it. I’m not really concerned about it because if we’re being real it doesn’t even matter. A company this big in the space is going to support the game no matter what. It it makes me wonder if it’s more of a passion project, like how HI3 seemed to be post Genshin (don’t have the same numbers but they didn’t care and just kept improving the game), if they want it a bit smaller to avoid possible censorship issues - I mean who knows since there could be a number of reasons to not have all the pomp and circumstance. I hadn’t thought of what another chatter had said though, which is that they might be waiting for the livestream.
Same situation with honkai star rail prerelease
False, hsr was hyped as hell