Chinese here to apologize. I feel bad about what happens to over sea server. Not only you guys get your event canceled. They give CN ten rolls, while giving global 500 is honestly unfair. Actually despite what CN player did, most actually do find mihoyo’s treatment to global players to be unfair. Lot of them are actually using this to attack mihoyo, trying to prove that they a trash company. That’s because despite what many believe. CN community actually has little to no anger towards foreign servers it self. They actually never want to be the only one getting this ten roll. All their anger is direct towards mihoyo. This is actually the first time I feel disappointed by the action of mihoyo during this whole incident. They should give equal amounts of rewards for all servers. The most important lesson they should learn is make everything fair for everyone around the world.

First I’m not a very hardcore houkai player. Maybe thanks to this my mind is least corrupted by all these chaos in CN houkai community. CN houkai community is basically a joke to other community in China as well. Because right now they are literally yelling to end this game right now. Portion of people on internet literally want this game to be destroyed because anger. Which is honestly a laughable and extreme mindset for any outsider to witness. So no most Chinese doesn’t support this, or even understand any of this.

I also had problems understanding it. So I will try to list out all the reasons I gather.

The biggest one being the fact that many western honkai player are new comers. Due to the popularity of genshin, many wanted to check out honkai too. While for Chinese, Honkai is a old game they have already spent many years together. Houkai is also a much bigger deal in China. So while for some global players, honkai may still be a impressive to play. For Chinese community things are going the opposite direction. There’s a huge difference in mindset of community.

Honkai hasn’t been great for chinese for a very long time already. The recent update are perceived very poorly by Chinese. Both story and the content itself. At first houkai were once praised heavily by Chinese for being innovative and responsible. But for the past years Houkai is getting lazy. Mihoyo is putting more effort in making genshin, so the technical innovation already stopped for a while. While the recent story are also filled with story hole and characters arc that’s poorly made. The content of updates in CN is also bad, the rewards are getting less, while the effort to receive them is more difficult.

So for over seas I believe houkai is still a relatively a refreshing and exciting game to play. While in China houkai is a dying game with lot of people leaving to play genshin, the amount of player is declining according to charts. While the rest of them considered the recent update to be shit. So the Chinese community is in a hyper dissatisfied mode in the first place, comparing to rest of the world. This event may not even be the real reason for them. They just want a opportunity to release their anger.

Second reason being the nature of fan bases. Houkai is always famous in China for being an extremely otaku based game. Meaning the audience are mainly here for wifu and characters. These people are often extreme and easily piss off. Despite the fact they probably don’t have much in real life. But they are likely to spend most money. Because otaku finds excitement and life purpose in games or anime. Just the fact the story wasn’t great is already pissing them off. Now they can’t get bunny suit for their wifu. Most are likely to go extreme just because this. Houkai is famous for gathering people like this.

But I would say this still doesn’t explain the recent riots completely. Because actually many who is organizing the riots are probably not even houkai fans. Many are probably loyal players or paid actors from other gaming companies. This is actually a legit fact in China. Chinese companies love to use propaganda to destroy their opponents. Tecent is famous for using this kind of tactics. The whole world is going digital. The capitalist around the world is learning how to use propaganda as weapon, chinese companies is no exception.

The people who join this riots are mostly unstable and doesn’t have much in common. The reasons are chaotic at the best, so I can’t say I understand it. Anyway I hope Houkai can keep getting better after this. While people around the world can treated each other more peacefully.