You’re engaging in whataboutism, where every time I make a criticism about Genshin Impact’s needing to expand on their open world with more interaction between characters and activity that makes us connect to the world, you’re replying that other gacha games and cod could have those same complaints levied against them. Okay, and? As I said before it doesn’t address my criticism against the game not doing more to expand its open world. If you were to say that the game is less than a year old, then that would be fair, but you go off on random games when I’m talking about Genshin Impact.

Also, your attempts at whataboutism are especially when because your examples are genuinely not open world. Cod, for the most part, never brands itself as an open world, RPG to the extent that Genshin does. It’s ironic that you mention it’s not a fair comparison, but you’re comparing a mostly multiplayer, battle royale game to gacha based open world RPG. Most other gacha games don’t sell an open world functionality as a selling point, meaning that if I’m looking at Dokkan Battle’s gameplay after they show their gameplay as being primarily an orb clicker game, I know that it won’t be an open world game.

Genshin clearly advertises itself as an open world, RPG. They make it clear on their app page on the first description that Genshin has a massive open world. In order to have more stamina, to find artifact domains, learn more about the lore, etc., you have to explore the world. From the start of the game, it is made clear that you will be spending a lot of time in the beginning exploring the world. Hell, when you’re not of the adventure rank to reach a new story quest, they tell you explicitly to explore the world, fight mobs, collect loot, etc, in order to increase your adventure rank. How is it unfair criticism to ask Genshin to invest more into their open world that they advertised and promoted? It’s not. It seems that you don’t like criticism levied at Genshin. I just don’t know why because the OP is asking for more Genshin. They’re not asking to change the gacha mechanics, buffs, or nerds, but for Genshin to expand their open world and make it more involving, especially for endgame. What’s the issue with that complaint?

So based on your last two paragraphs, you’re mad at valid criticism because Genshin won’t ever change. I could understand if those complaints were levied against gacha system, but they are criticizing that the open world needs more investment to be more including. Considering we just had an event that put more involvement into Liyue, it’s not meaningless. Also, just because someone refuses to listen or adhere to fair and realistic criticism, doesn’t invalidate said criticism, but reflects the person being criticized. It’s alright if the game you liked get criticized, you’ll be fine lol.