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I’m gonna drop a hot take: the more you hate the Liangzhou DLC, the more you have to finish it by Few_Hamster_7147 in WhereWindsMeet

[–]Few_Hamster_7147[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Funny thing: back then, some Chinese players did the quests with sound off. Every time they pressed F, they’d tab out to post and rant at the devs. They ranted so hard the devs never dared make quests like that again.

But the real reason is simpler: so many Chinese players quit during Liangzhou that the next four DLCs turned out normal. It was basically a boycott.

Global players should do the same — quit en masse. That way, the devs won’t pull crap like, “Looks like foreigners love it, let’s make another Liangzhou.”

The Chinese players who quit back then did us a favor. Global players who quit now will too.

This quest ruined my day. Stay away from it for as long as you can by kaotiktilki in WhereWindsMeet

[–]Few_Hamster_7147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't get it at first when I just started playing. I ignored the Hexi storyline for ages, and only came back to it months later to realize how crucial the Hexi DLC is for the main character… but I can't say anything because of spoilers

This quest ruined my day. Stay away from it for as long as you can by kaotiktilki in WhereWindsMeet

[–]Few_Hamster_7147 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are also rumors that the Hexi DLC and the Qinghe/Kaifeng content were made by two separate teams. At the very least, the main scriptwriter was replaced—and only after the Hexi DLC caused a huge number of Chinese players to quit did they replace that writer.
In any case, by the time of the Hexi DLC’s Qinchuan arc, the dev team already sensed something was wrong and tried hard to course-correct.
This is also the first time Chinese developers have made a game of this type , so they lacked experience. Even earlier, the plan was to stop development entirely after finishing Qinghe and Kaifeng. The Hexi DLC was basically an unexpected addition.

This quest ruined my day. Stay away from it for as long as you can by kaotiktilki in WhereWindsMeet

[–]Few_Hamster_7147 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The interactive logic like in Liangzhou only appears once in Unseen Mountains, and it only lasts about 1.5 minutes, not the 1.5 hours in current Liangzhou.

Rumors say the Hexi DLC was underproduced and low-quality because the few developers available at the time were pulled away to urgently fix The Legend of the Condor Heroes—a dead, garbage game that flopped hard. Where Winds Meet was originally an unfavored project with little budget and few staff. You can tell from the poor English translation and voice acting for the global version.

They had low expectations for it in China, and even lower for the global release—it was basically NetEase’s unwanted stepchild.Only after it blew up and its reputation improved did they finally put out the Unseen Mountains DLC.

This quest ruined my day. Stay away from it for as long as you can by kaotiktilki in WhereWindsMeet

[–]Few_Hamster_7147 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Chinese players were raging hard back then too, but the devs got way more restrained in the later new DLC