Rumors about this have been circulating for a long time, but no one believed that this would happen. However, in December 2021, miHoYo announced that they were no longer developing the game. Genshin Impact is now run by their Singapore-based subsidiary – cognosphere.
Previously, Cognosphere was called Hoyoverse and was responsible for another miHoYo game - Tears of Themis. So soon the name of the publisher will be changed in the game, in the launcher, on the websites. So far, the main question that worries the players is: who exactly will be involved in the development and development of the game, will the developers move from China to Singapore, or will completely new people be involved in the project?
Causes
So far, this event has not been officially commented on and the reasons have not been announced, but miHoYo's motives for postponing the development of the game from China to Singapore quite obvious. This is primarily caused strict Chinese censorship, which greatly limits the development of Genshin Impact, preventing the imagination of the developers from running wild. The second important factor is taxes, and Genshin became one of the most profitable games in 2021 due to its gacha mechanic for getting heroes and weapons.
What could be the consequences
There are far fewer bans in Singapore, so chances are good that content in the game will become more frank in terms of creating skins and characters. Previously, miHoYo had to change the models to more decent ones in order for the game to match the age status of 12+.
UPD: Users reddit found the confirmation that cognosphere is not responsible for development, but is only responsible for publishing games.
Also in February 2022 miHoYo changed their name to HoYoverse and announced the creation of a metaverse.
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Well, it’s not clear that Mihuyo was spinning us at Huevers. Apparently Venti too impressed the Chinese party. Maybe now they will bring a normal plot into the game?
Roflish? The game has a wonderful storyline.
And they brought everything)
create genshin impact in vr plz ok
this is already 100 percent infa, because even the game logo has already changed a bit. when you enter the game, the name of this child game is displayed
For God's sake, correct the article to the end. The title is no longer deceiving and thanks, but in the article itself you write that the developers have changed, but this is not true. and they didn't replace anything.
The publisher changed, yes, and yes, to bypass censorship and severe Chinese restrictions, but this studio plays the role of a “proxy”, it is just a puppet and in fact only the PLACE of the publishing house has changed (the main thing is legally)
Thanks for the good information.
Damn, I hope this is not true and MiHoYo will work on the game further. They really know how to make games. Why just give away the work for a year and a half?
This is for sure that the publisher of the game has changed. The development team will most likely remain the same, perhaps they will expand the team (if they release excellent versions for Europe and the same China).
They just passed it on to their subsidiary outside of China to get around the country's bans.
The article is false, just because they changed the publisher on the Epic Games Store doesn't mean they are changing the developer. Well, at least write the sources, or something.
Changed publisher.
Fix it and don't fool the people, damn it.
That's right, we apologize. Thank you for writing! The first rumors on the Internet were misleading🤷🏻♂️ We dug up more information on reddit, added at the end of the article. But here the situation is a little different than it was with Epic Games.
The article states that we are talking about changing the publisher (2nd paragraph). The title has also changed.
Let's hope that the plot and the whole game will not suffer
2022 mmm
oops, I got ahead of myself a little😅 Thank you, I fixed it