Genshin Impact studio head says Breath of the Wild comaprisons left some devs in tears
At a recent Genshin Impact event, miHoYo president Liu Wei shared that the comparisons made to Breath of the Wild was difficult for the dev team.
Wei recently made an appearance at the Genshin Impact FES event in Shanghai, where he spoke about the game as well as what it was like working on it. But as reported by CBR, it doesn’t sound like things were always easy for the time. In a clip shared and translated by tokinohikaru_00 on Twitter, Wei spoke of the criticisms Genshin Impact garnered over its similarities to Breath of the Wild. Important to note is that Wei didn’t mention Breath of the Wild by name in the clip, though the timeline he laid out makes it clear that that’s what he was talking about.
“When I put out the [closed beta], I was pretty proud,” Wei said. “But [the closed beta’s] response [was] different from our assumptions, it was completely different. When we did [the closed beta] we faced an unprecedented crisis.” Wei went on to explain that everyone that saw the video didn’t really understand what the team or the game was trying to do, but the team was left feeling worried.
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