Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is an idea thats been brewing for a long time due to the discourse between Mihoyo's 3 big games (Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero) and I finally decided to go into detail about it to present a theory to you.

A theory that Mihoyo deliberately designs good and bad aspects of their games and either which way they will somehow find a way benefit from it in the future. As someone that clears end game consistently on all three games, I think I have some position of value you could listen to. This is gonna take a long time to explain, so without further ado, let's buckle up and get into this.

00:00 - intro
00:43 - genshin impact's philosophy
01:50 - why genshin is not for you
02:53 - star rail's philosophy
04:30 - why star rail is not for you
05:21 - zenless zone zero's philosophy
06:57 - hoyoverse's formula for success
08:11 - honkai star rail is THE cash cow
09:43 - genshin is as greedy as star rail
10:46 - the future of hoyo games
11:44 - outro

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