Honor of Kings' Da Si Ming PV Caught Using Genshin Impact's Sumeru OST In-Game — But the Official Upload Was Fine? Players Smell Something Fishy

Honor of Kings just pulled off one of the most baffling gacha-era blunders: the PV for their new hero Da Si Ming (大司命) was found using Genshin Impact's Sumeru region OST 'Radiance of Wisdom' (慧光启曙) as its background music — but only inside the actual game client.

Players recorded the in-game footage as ironclad proof, cross-referencing it with the official Bilibili upload. To make things even wilder, the PV video itself was also called out as AI-generated.

Here's the key plot twist: the exact same PV had been uploaded by Honor of Kings' official accounts on Weibo and Bilibili days earlier with the correct, original music. But when it shipped inside the game itself, the BGM mysteriously swapped to Genshin's Sumeru track. One top commenter nailed the situation: 'The PV uploaded on Weibo and Bilibili days ago was fine, but when it went live in-game it had Genshin's music. That means either they shipped a half-baked build or an insider did it on purpose. Most likely they'll just pretend nothing happened.' Another player echoed the confusion, noting that the official upload was completely normal while the in-game version used Sumeru music.

The jokes wrote themselves. 'I've got this one figured out — a miHoYo mole planted as an intern at Tencent did it. All miHoYo's fault,' quipped one commenter, dripping with sarcasm about how companies always find someone else to blame.

But the real winner of the thread was the user who dropped: 'Fun fact — Da Si Ming's design prototype is Nahida.' That one line turned an asset theft scandal into a 'cross-dimensional tribute' meme. Others piled on with 'that makes it even worse' and 'Sumeru's retcon powers are insane — it plagiarized Honor of Kings across space and time,' pushing the irony to absurd new heights.

The comment section split predictably along faction lines. One user pre-wrote the expected PR response: 'You're right, but does it really matter? Only miHoYo shills care about this.' Another hit the classic no-scope: 'Without Honor of Kings, who would even know about Genshin Impact?' A warning came from a more grounded voice: 'This thread is crawling with Tencent defenders who can twist black into white — watch what you say.' And the peacemaker dropped: 'Both sides are serial plagiarizers — mutual destruction it is, meow.'

One commenter pinpointed the absurdity perfectly: 'The plagiarism is in the live game client — that's a first. They can't even blame outsourcing for this one.' After all, the official account version proves the team had the correct assets on hand. But somehow, the game shipped with someone else's BGM. Who takes the fall? That mystery might be harder to solve than Da Si Ming's skill descriptions.

As of now, Honor of Kings' official channels have said absolutely nothing. Based on the community consensus, they'll probably just ride out the silence. But this incident has set a new benchmark for operational absurdity: a major game studio accidentally shipping another company's OST in their own live client, while their official version was totally fine. It's easily one of the most surreal PR disasters of the year.