Genshin Impact Will Soon Require Age Verification in the United States

What are they requesting for age verification?

TDLR: "If you don't give us PII information within a made up deadline, we will deny you access to any content you paid in the past."

Blame the US for declaring that US minors are too stupid and US parents too neglectful to pay attention to what is purchased online.
They have to kick off kids from their game, legally, and nearly all mobile and online games that have any way to spend real money will be doing the same within the next year.
- They have to kick off kids from their game, legally, and nearly all mobile and online games that have any way to spend real money will be doing the same within the next year.
  Good. Gambling is illegal for minors under the age of 18.

Force government ID and I'm out. Max I'm giving you is DOB.

... And I don't even play anymore

DOB, yes.....Fake, but yes.
- I'm old enough for any DOB check, yet I still lie.
- 9/11/1900
- I have a note on my phone for keeping track of what my birthday is on different platforms

Largest simp/grindwage DB ever

Yeah because they intentionally sexualise their extremely youthful characters

... And promote gambling.

wait how exactly are the kids sexualized? i know there's like one or two, but are they actually sexualized canonically?
- erm aktually they're 2000 years old
- IMO minimal clothing on a <18 y/o person with slitted clothing is enough to me to be considered sexualized

Ha. I hope it kills it.

people under 18 will just jerk off to the girls instead of spending money on the game

Deleting friends lists seems pretty extreme for being late to verify your age? What age are they requiring? 18?

Killing off your largest player base. Smooth.

People say that, but kids under 16 probably aren't the majority of people spending thousands in gachas. They usually don't have money, save for the ones who steal their parents's credit card.
- No, but kids under 16 are hooked into the content drip on their favorite social media. This significantly impacts the drip, a big part of online gaming is sharing what you have or have done through YouTube, TikTok, etc.
  Everybody wants to be a content creator. Nobody wants to be a content creator in default skins.

Dang there is a lot of hate for this game here, like it's definitely not the best game ever but it is one of the most compelling mobile experiences out there, with a decent story that has some great moments, and it can absolutely be played completely for free without missing out on much. The only thing spending money is good for is specific characters and weapons, none of which are required, and you can absolutely save up from playing for free and get almost any of those characters/weapons without spending a dime.

It's not for everyone but I feel like this game gets a lot of hate simply for the Chinese origin, cartoony style, and microtransactions without any actual knowledge of what it's like to play it.

- So basically your argument is, if you don't like the gameplay loop, they force you to pay? I'm not arguing that there are idiots out there who will spend their life savings on digital crop, but you are dramatically OVERselling the difficulty of upgrade requirements. Sure if you wanna play 8 hours a day you're eventually gonna have to spend money, but. If you play for an hour or so each day, hit the events that are worth the time, do some daily/weekly dungeons as they are available, a little exploration and a little questing, and have any sense of "progress takes time", the actual gameplay is fun enough to carry without spending money. If it isn't, for you or someone else, then just don't play?
  Also, oversexualization of minors is a term that gets thrown around a LOT with this game and I just don't see it, basically ever. The few characters that are actual children are dressed conservatively, act like children, are treated like children by other characters, there's never inappropriate commentary about them... if you wanna offense to the anime-style art that makes everyone, including adults, cartoonist, that's your opinion. It's weird that a lot of people act like it's a pervasive issue when it really doesn't exist at all in the game.
When it comes to gacha games or even just Asian developed games in general, Lemmy is equally as bad as Twitter, maybe even worse. Not only in hostility, but also in making comments on things that are just outright wrong or completely ignorant because they don't play the game and literally never will.
I don't play Genshin anymore (stopped playing around the time of the "Rosaria Nerf Incident" because I wanted to play other games), but when I did play it, it was pretty fun. The gacha did not feel forced, I never spent a dime on the game and never felt like I needed to. The community was fine when you ignored the Twitter people.
- What the fuck are you talking about. This is an insane take.