How Genshin Impact Earns My Money!

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Captain_Yuri said:

Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

Is it possible to beat this game without paying?

I played for some time and was thinking about getting back to it, but I don't want to progress the story and getting stuck to a paywall.

Afaik you can play the entire game without paying anything because the base 4 characters you get covers all the needed elements and you can unlock Noelle with the free wish you get after the intro section which gives you the last element.

There are boss fights and such which require specific characters to beat but those characters are provided to you during the mission and after you finish the required mission, they are no longer in your party. The wishes aren't too hard to get imo if you like exploring and playing the game so as you put hours into it, you probably will get a good number of new characters regardless.

I think most people just buy the $7 cad monthly subscription which gives you 90 Primogem every day until it expires and 300 gems both of which you can use to unlock more characters.

Barbara and Xiangling are also guaranteed as you progress as well.  Not to mention in game primos are easy to save up on for event characters you may want later.  So you will have far more than just the free ones to choose from as you keep playing.

So to answer the guy you quoted, Genshin is one of the few truely F2P games out there.  All content can be finished without hidden paywalls.  Those that spend money either just want to support the game, or they don't mind paying up to collect as many characters as they can.