Yeah, but I don't think this on the same level as Zonghli for instance.
I mean, the Geo Archon to be a piss is basically the worst and most retard joke ever made. Dehya? She is basically a nobody with a drip story market, they probably will make people forget her in no time.
I dunno, sure I'm actually invested in the outrage this time, but I don't remember any character getting reactions like this outside of Zhongli. I think there's a real chance that MHY does SOMETHING for her. Even if it's just bug fixes for her awful buggy burst and some % buffs for her moves, that's enough to make her "ok". I don't think that's a particularly high ask for MHY.
As for geo honestly I kinda feel like MHY doesn't want to make changes to geo at all. I think their fanbase already know what to expect from new 4-star geos. Just the fact that she is now geo suddenly felt more interesting to me, while as a I already have like 3 geos, one of them as a shielder. I like to talk to my brother about suggestions on geo reactions, but I'm done ever giving them any ideas or suggestions so they can steal them for easy money.
Geo is really an unfortunate element. They designed it way back when they were lying to themselves about defensive mechanics mattering at all while simultaneously designing content that was hyper-offensively focused. I'd love to see a rework on the element eventually. I don't think a single player would cry about losing access to crystallize shields. Then again, from the smooth brained posts I've seen about Dehya, maybe some idiot somewhere would defend it.
At this point is there anybody here not saving for Fountaine? Kinda speaks alot about their current character release roster.
Fontaine seems dead in the water (ha!) as far as excitement. Focalors has one of my least favorite female designs in the game yet. The only one I'm even mildly curious about at this point is the Bloodborne girl that supposedly will come with Mondstadt's Port Douman expansion. Character Designs have been getting worse, character kits are either copy/pasted from other characters or strictly inferior to characters that came before. They're lucky their quest content is improving, or else I think they'd start to see a large dropoff of players. Imagine if we were still getting Inazuma Archon quest tier content on top of these shit characters.
And all of this is coming after them making money hand over fist, constantly breaking banner sales records (Dehya banner excluded obviously). I'd love to see the game start tanking in $$ to force them to stop sniffing their own farts for a while and re-evaluate their game direction.
I still play Tower of Fantasy from time to time, and while it's an inferior game in almost every conceivable way, it does one thing right in making the actual core gameplay
fun to play. Characters aren't all locked in to the same 5 animations and body types. Some weapons allow you to fly just because. There's a grappling hook for getting around, there's jetpacks. They aren't so afraid of opening up the gameplay and letting the players have a good time within the world. Character balance is decided in terms of overall game content, not just based on the first characters they released in version 1.0.
Genshin is primarily a single player game with no real leaderboards or stakes or anything. Their hyper focus on keeping characters at or below version 1.0 characters is really stupid at this point in the game. We still have 3 nations and whatever endgame they have planned for part 1 of Genshin Impact, so thats' what, another 60 characters minimum? They need to loosen the grip a little bit and start doing some cool shit. The only ones holding them back are themselves.