Genshin Impact 4.5's second-half gacha banner is live, featuring two limited male 5-stars — Kaedehara Kazuha (the god-tier support recently crowned as the best C6 DPS) and Neuvillette (the Dragon King, whose "nothing compares to one spray" meme is plastered everywhere). But when the Day-1 revenue numbers dropped, the community went full doomer mode.
According to the OP's real-time App Store chart tracking: the banner peaked at 4th place in Wave 1, failing to overtake Douyin (TikTok China — the eternal mobile revenue benchmark in Chinese gaming circles). It then climbed to 3rd in Wave 2, overtaking Game for Peace (Peace Elite / PUBG Mobile CN, nicknamed '鸡'), but still couldn't touch Douyin. For a rerun banner with TWO meta-defining limited characters, this was seen as a massive L.
The comment section was almost unanimously doom-posting. One highly upvoted reply read: "At this point the first wave has probably peaked — it's not going to make it. First rerun with this kind of result? Embarrassing." Another user jumped in early to gloat: "Quick, trash-talk before it overtakes! Forget about being civil." The word "品德" (品德/pǐndé, literally "morality") is a community in-joke — it refers to a time when Genshin fans in revenue threads tried to shut down criticism by calling for "rational discourse," which became a meme.
One user pointed the finger squarely at HoYoverse's own product cannibalization: "Ever since the Neuvillette + Furmeta versions launched, they basically killed Topaz and Huohuo's banner revenue on the HSR side. It's obvious now that both games' whale pools are the same group of people. So the Douyin-overtaking competition is basically whichever game has the more appealing character at any given time. If that's the case, Genshin has lost this war completely. Hot take: from now on, only new Archon-tier characters will avoid a zero-charting disaster." This comment was cited by multiple users as the definitive take of the thread.
Another user piled on: "It's the end of Game for Peace's event cycle with nothing new until tomorrow — and they STILL can't even beat Game for Peace, let alone Douyin." Even worse, someone dug up that the cloud gaming version of Genshin (云原神) sat at rank 132 — "lower than the Cyno and Ayato banners" — implying the overall performance was grim even accounting for PC and cloud players.
The copium crowd tried to hold the line: "Relax, office workers get off at 5pm — it'll definitely overtake by 5." But most commenters had already popped the champagne. Replies like "Don't pull a 3am ghost traffic spike on me" (referencing past scandals where suspicious late-night revenue spikes were attributed to bot activity), "1+1 equals what again? I forgot" (mocking the earlier hype that Kazuha + Neuvillette = 1+1>2 synergy), and "Here comes my second-favorite genre: veterans mocking newbies" filled the thread with a mix of schadenfreude and premature conclusions.
As of now, the final chart rankings for Genshin 4.5's second half haven't been locked in, but from the community reaction, the "nuclear combo" of Kazuha and Neuvillette clearly didn't deliver the hype-induced expectations. The recurring talking points — HSR cannibalizing Genshin, male character revenue ceilings, and "only Archons can save us now" — are likely to dominate gacha discourse for weeks to come.
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