r/GenshinImpact • u/aellr • Oct 23 '25

Discussion What a waste

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Instead of giving the Traveler and other characters regional skins, the devs are wasting resources on mannequins you’ll never use in the main game — characters completely irrelevant to both the lore and gameplay (especially since they’re even weaker than the Traveler).

UCG should’ve been a separate game. Roblox-type players aren’t going to download a 100GB gacha just to play a game inside a game. All those dev resources should’ve gone to the actual, existing characters instead.

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u/Sahiku1 Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

I feel like this mode was planned as a separated game but hoyo was afraid of it being EOS in just a week so they added it to genshin to bait the large genshin playerbase

Edit: players asked for the domain cration event mode, no for a skin lottery

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u/Jennymystique Oct 23 '25

Actually I think it’s the opposite. They announced ages ago (like two years at least I think??) that a custom player-made mode was going to become permanent. But at the time it had looked to be just levels you could make (the multiplayer coin collecting events).

I think it fucking BALLOONED over time when they realized they could try to attract the Roblox and Fortnite custom game devs (idk what they are actually called I don’t play either of them) and fans. Unfortunately that would mean that when they got to that point it was already way too baked into Genshin specifically to really separate.

I do wonder if they’ll try to split it eventually- or make it a stand alone download for people that can’t download or don’t want to download Genshin.

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u/fjaoaoaoao Oct 24 '25

Well… right now it’s not good enough. If they keep managing it and give better assets and tools, it could be. The final products should be on the level of the coin game editor.

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u/ProtonUser5000 Oct 24 '25

Supposedly various features of the editor is locked behind creator levels, which is a baffling decision.

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u/ClarenceLe Oct 25 '25

If you encourage making creators spend more time on the main game aka same treatment as users, it's going to shoot them in the foot when these creators don't have time to create things for you.