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by: Mia Soriano

For the last 7 years or more many role playing games had been stirring up the charts with different kinds of story-telling experiences that were always quite the charmer and tinkering for each massive success. Every member of the Gaming community had been looking forward to a unique jest that can serve them thrill, fun and excitement whatever the hype train it may be as long as it's worth the "penny". Commonly for players back then in order to get the full experience of the game, you would pay an "excessive amount" of money. This is where the term "pay to win" comes in, defined as the transaction used to allow players to purchase character skins, weapons an d abilities to further excel your progress. Since, some story lines are quite hard to trigger, it ends up "troublesome" to Gamers and they would end up paying because it would leave them to "no choice" at all, even when you already purchased the game itself for 30 dollars or more some options are still unlocked that limits you "literally" and it had been an over all business strategy of some developers. The Charts had been full of Games that are mostly pay to win, but why is it so? Because, when you would get to the area of gaming "fully pledged" or not if you are interested into the concept and implying as a new hobby to presume and it serves you competitiveness towards someone who committed his time and effort in playing, then you would most likely grab the opportunity to shell out an extra stash of money to get the serious chance of advancement due to this you become dedicated as far as you can. So, some parts of the Gaming community are not really shocked if all of a sudden after 3 years a Developer instantly releases a new game, all thanks to "millions" of their supporters that are PTW. Some of the biggest games back then and up until now are The Witcher, Assassin's Creed, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Fallout, Star Wars, Final Fantasy VI, World of Warcraft and many more. Most of these games contain high quality graphics, exclusive perks for any kind of enjoyment platforms just like PlayStation 4 and 5, XBOX, Nintendo, Pc or even on Mobile. But, just because these are a good set of leisures, it still won't escape criticism about each pros and cons, some might even come of as harsh comments thought developers actually takes it as a "way they could further improve and exhibit special customer service".

Upon the year of 2012, 3 college students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) decided to team up and develop games based on their love of Anime. Upon their dedication (a year prior) the students successfully developed their first game which is FlyMe2TheMoon. Around the year of 2014, they had their first nobility for Guns Girl Z. And ever-since, Liu Wei, Luo Yuhao, Cai Haoyu continued to have success on releasing anime-oriented games especially for mobile gamers. Most of their games were very successful upon Asia until, the release of Honkai Impact 3rd (2016) the name of Mihoyo surfaced around the globe.

But behind their success, they did face a ton of backlash and criticism from some of their Chinese Fans. Some were about the appearances of the game characters and some parts of the community commented that some contents were disrespectful China, this led to the developers in deleting some of their promotional videos and fixing them to face the over-all standard of the country, and to prevent any hatred on some of their future creations. Despite the negative opinions they had received, the Company that started from 3 simple college students that had a motivational inspiration from Japanese Anime paved their own way of proving that no matter what happens these challenges that fell unto them never interfered with their dreams and took it as a lesson to keep improving from time to time. Upon the year of 2020, they had released a game that took "Free to play" standards to a whole other level.

Genshin Impact, a new action-role playing game that features various types of open-world environments by its breathtaking ambiances and accuracy you wouldn't even think that you can download it free. And it does not require you to be Pay to win but, you can rather work hard within unlocking some weapons, characters or even collect wishes since the game also offers a "gacha game monetization". The game is so astonishing that even features beautiful music and story-lines that you can unlock without using any stash of money. It's not even a year yet but the hype train for Genshin Impact has been bulking up ever since. Most youngsters and even adults make the most out of this game, some of them even gets attached emotionally because it makes you imagine that you are already part of the game and gives you an escaping vicinity to forget all of the bad things and probably one of the most unique features of this jest are the unique life lessons that each character even the main mc that you use can provide amazingly. So, it is not a surprise that Mihoyo won countless awards like the Best Game Award for the year of 2020 from both Google Play and Apple Store that prolonged the winning-streak of Chinese Developed games and made a revenue of 1 billion dollars. Seeing the current success of a company that was founded by simple 3 aspiring college students had inspired the a modern generation of youth, to continue their dreams of creating the impossible "reachable" regardless of the hard work, effort, and sleepless nights that you do, when there is something at the end of your journey that you would like to open and discover then having dreams of something is not bad as long as you took effort on what you uphold the possibilities are endless.