It is said that comparisons are hateful and unfortunately that situation was directly experienced by the miHoYo team with Genshin Impact. A few years have passed since its publication, but it has not been until now when Liu Wei, the company’s president, wanted to comment on how it was that hard time that they had to live.
At the Genshin Impact FES 2023 event that has been held in Shanghai, China, Wei Has revealed some anecdotes about the development of the acclaimed free-to-play. At the time, the team was quite small and was made up of employees who did not have excessive experience, so they were aware that carrying out the project it was going to be a very complicated task.
What’s more, he has even admitted that if he had known firsthand how difficult it was going to be, he would have given up and everything. To this was also added the lack of a graphics engine and that designing an open world was not going to be easy at all. Even so, the real problems started when it was shown to the publicespecially when it was launched.
It was then that a large number of users saw too many details in the title that resembled The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, accusing him of plagiarism because of the similarities which it shared with the award-winning Wii U and Nintendo Switch title. However, the team did not expect something like this to happen and some of the developers did not stop crying after reading such accusations.
Many of my colleagues were crying and wondering why is this happening? What did we do wrong? Let’s prove ourselves. Let’s do the part of Genshin Impact that nobody saw.
And said and done, because with the passing of the months the game did not stop receiving updates with all kinds of news, more areas to visit, functions and much more that caused it to gain more and more followers and, in turn, accusations of plagiarism were further removed. He even encouraged miHoYo to bring Genshin Impact to more platforms and it seems that he still has rope left for a while.
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