Honkai Impact's Third Anniversary Triggers Extreme Controversy, What's Really Happening?

Recently, the Honkai Impact community was shocked by a new controversy that arose from many fans opposing the game’s third anniversary event. In order to reduce the anger of fans who are increasingly extreme, miHoYo as the developer and publisher finally expressed their apologies while canceling the event on the global server. Then what really happened to make this situation so big that it infuriated fans?

Yes, actually this anger only came from the fans of the game in China, where the third anniversary celebration event with the Bunny Girl theme was only devoted to the global region. Negative responses began to emerge when a collaboration music video with the band Myth & Roid entitled Brilliant Bright was uploaded on YouTube, which then received a lot of criticism from Honkai Impact players in China. They also mentioned how his favorite character in the music video acted “out of character”.

This situation escalated and sparked a wave of anger, ranging from giving bad reviews to the game in Bilibili, sending many complaints to miHoYo and even extreme threats. The peak then occurred when the media Red Star News reported that a fan even went to the miHoYo campus to attack the top two leaders with a knife.

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— Honkai Impact 3rd (@HonkaiImpact3rd) April 22, 2021

To mitigate the situation, miHoYo has sent a request via an official announcement and canceled the Honkai Impact anniversary event on the global server. The situation this time was considered the most severe so far, even surpassing the Zhongli controversy in Genshin Impact because it was considered too weak before finally getting a big buff.

This anger from Chinese fans is indeed strange, because Honkai Impact itself also often gets special events that are only devoted to their region. However, when the global server got its own special event, they didn’t accept it and even sparked an outrageous controversy, even life threatening. Hopefully in the future the game community in China and other regions can be more conducive and not cause unnecessary noise like this.

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Honkai Impact 3

Publisher: miHoYo

Developer: miHoYo

Release Date: 2016-10-14

Mobile Games, Android, iOS

Honkai Impact 3 is an anime-style Action RPG game by Mihoyo. In addition to offering smooth graphics quality with cool action gameplay, this game also offers very evocative story content. The number of memorable waifu characters who have their own unique fighting style is also the best plus of this game.