All I am trying to say is it's incredibly stupid to flood unrelated topics with complaints about not getting enough gamble currency. That's what happened with the previous community stream and what will happen with the concert on these forums.
Yes, I am blaming these fans for only caring about gacha.
Granted I can't and don't speak for everyone who's unhappy with all this, but I do think "only caring about gacha" is being extremely reductive. It isn't just a matter of "I'm not getting enough stuff for free"; it feels like there's a fundamental lack of respect for their own player-base coming out of miHoYo HQ and it seems like they're missteping on this at every juncture.
People have offered plenty of things that could have been done in the game itself to celebrate the anniversary that would feel like mHY at least somewhat appreciated the players that made their game a global phenomenon and filled their coffers to a level beyond which they'd ever seen. Everything from a free 5* (which I agree was unlikely) to temporary domain cost reductions or even a single skin or...honestly anything at all. Moonchase has some fun content, sure, but it's nothing that we haven't already seen in other events before and would exist entirely unchanged if the anniversary date hadn't happened to fall here. As far as the game itself goes, the anniversary isn't a big deal at all, and if they'd just left it at that people would still complain, but it would be easier to just move on and treat things normally. It's miHoYo themselves that now keep bringing the anniversary back up, trying to use it to use players to market the game. Getting people to post theater links is marketing. Investing in hashflags to drive posts on Twitter is marketing. Incentivizing fanworks with a fairly paltry contest is marketing.
Well...giving players something special in-game for the anniversary is marketing too. It encourages people to engage or re-engage if they lapsed at some time. It would do the same thing as their hashflag campaign, except it'd be an investment that players themselves get a benefit from too. Like I said earlier today, mHY has shown that they are willing to spend their own money to market the game, yet they aren't willing to "spend" the small bit of potential revenue to give something that could also help the players as well as themselves. They're specifically making the benefit of the anniversary one-sided and it's that lack of respect or appreciation that's so chafing.
There's more to this than just "people want more gacha currency." It's "people want to feel like mHY recognizes what the playing population has done for them and share some of their success," and are getting slapped down instead.
