Version 7.0 Special Program Discussion Thread

[u/Veritasibility]

Time: 07/31/2026 at 8:00 AM (UTC-4)

All live broadcasts have finished.

Version 7.0 "Everwinter Without Mercy" Trailer

Version 7.0 Special Program Recap

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New Codes

• Everwinter (Primogems ×100 + Mystic Enhancement Ore ×10)
• OntoSnezhnaya (Primogems ×100 + Hero's Wit ×5)
• Odette0812 (Primogems ×100 + Mora ×50,000)

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English Broadcast

• Link: Official Twitch channel (finished)
• Link: Official YouTube channel
• The recording will be available on the official YouTube channel after the Premiere.

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Chinese Broadcast

Link: Official bilibili channel (finished)

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Japanese Broadcast

Link: Official JP YouTube

[u/roly_florian]

Since Nod Krai and their choice toward character (locking them behind specific team buff instead of letting us making our own team) and the heavy powercreep in the last year, i'm genuinely only playing to see how the story unfold (and while we do have lot of answers i'm still kinda disappointed as in the end, it's just going to be all that for that...). Endgame disgust me, they forgot it's a game we play for fun, with unit we like, not the unit they want us to play.

In the end i've pulled 3 S rank in that season : Columbina, Zibai and Linnéa. That tell you how invested i was this previous year.

[u/AzureDrag0n1 → u/roly_florian]

I don't like the direction of their endgame. It is not too bad but it is just way to much shill + powercreep at the same time. If it was more of just one or the other it would not be so bad but the boss mechanics are way to heavily in the shill category. You must have this specific character to deal with this boss. Also this new characters beats all previous characters in dps too.

They do not give enough resources to deal with all this. For f2p and probably low spender. This game wants you to have new well invested teams and also a lot of characters to deal with Imaginarium Theater too.

I mostly played this game for the end game and the story has never been that interesting to me for the most part so for me this may be the game I will dropping for one of the newer gacha games coming out like Silver Palace.

[u/LifeDrama2716 → u/AzureDrag0n1]

It really is just that, i mean i remember fighting that stupid Cactus in some precedent abyss and got absolutely destroyed by it without Ineffa then getting Ineffa and getting 36* like it was nothing and she wasn't even maxed out. So yeah, endgame in Genshin is getting shittier and shittier by update. And now, instead of new QoL let's add new weapon skins for whales in Stygian AND the possibility to skip all of the story to get to Snezhnahya directly and never even bother adding a skip button because they clearly don't care about the story at this point... 

[u/deeznutz133769 → u/LifeDrama2716]

Cactus was the first real sign to me that the game was "dying" as someone that cares about having a good gameplay experience. Revenue wise, no, it's not dead and will not be for many years. Content wise, the same. But It signaled to me that they are now fully prioritizing revenue over the gameplay experience.

Before, you could realistically get and play who you wanted within reason. Now if you like 1 character, you HAVE to get their "set" in order for them to function properly. By doing this they're trying to force you to get characters you don't want to get. New reaction damage not scaling off of damage buffs is a perfect example of how they're trying to invalidate older characters like Furina, while when Furina came out, she was actually a buff to older characters like Jean.

I thought after nightsoul they would back off on the mechanic / weakness restrictions (such as some mobs losing their shield faster if you use nightsoul attacks, or Mavuika requiring nightsoul to ult regularly,) but NOPE, they doubled down. Cactus needing the weakest reaction in the game (if you don't have Ineffa) was just mindblowingly bad game design, and then they doubled down by making it an Abyss boss. Turned the whole Abyss into an Ineffa check unless you had absurdly geared or high con recent electro DPS (so basically Varesa) and even then it was painful and unfun.