another thing is that gacha games are more saturated now. at that point you mentioned, genshin heavily dominated the gacha game market still. nowadays people won’t hesitate to explore other options as they did before
Genshin have much bigger exploration capabilities than HSR, therefore you still login everyday and occasionally pull. Personally I spent "yandere Ayaka incident" by 100% most of the regions that I didn't explore.
In 2022, competition barely exists. Fast forward to 2025 and the market is so competitive now, and 2026 is only going to get tougher for every title new or old competing for the same player wallets and time. AKE has a great start now slicing more of the pie, if more releases like NTE, Azur or others also slicing more off each other’s pie, numbers will be shared to even more games lol instead of everything piled into just 3 titles, it’s a 25 titles way battleground now.
I think Genshin had more players back then than HSR has now, so even without new banners or spending events, there were still a lot of people buying the monthly stuff.
That was not a bug, when they edited that, the 240 days was the representation of time remaining until December 31, 2022 because the actual delay was unknown.
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u/Stormer2345 Genshin, R1999, HSR Feb 01 '26
Tbf, look at the banners rn.