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Re:Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any... by sudosysgen on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:50PM (#29111740)
You don't have to - you can use an Android Emulator. But it will suck.

If you don't like it, it's not very hard to make Genshin single-player only. Most of the game is client-side, except for the spawning of enemies and resources. If you can figure out how to replicate it, you can get a 100% server-less Genshin Impact. I can definitely help with that if you want.

People have tried in the past to get the game running in single-player mode, and managed to get everything working except for mob spawns.

You'd also need to figure out some progression system to unlock characters, but that's not too hard.

If we could find some people to maintain the patch I'd be very willing to contribute to this too.

Re:Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any... by VRay on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:18PM (#29112650)
Being online and unnecessarily punishing makes the game feel more real to people

You may as well not bother.. people with self control and awareness will play non-toxic games, and people without it will avoid your patch since it’s not the real game to them

Re:Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any... by sudosysgen on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:52PM (#29112946)
The majority of Genshin players have enough self control to not spend any money.

Certainly, if you make such patch you can't have it be too easy, it should be a challenge to get 5* characters and there should still be some RNG.

Really the biggest obstacle is that updates may happen and prevent new content from being available.

Re:Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any... by GhettoComputers on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:41PM (#29114561)
Windows 11 comes with one by default now so you don’t need to download one even.