Lotteries and presents are not uncommon at corporate parties, but the company behind it Genshin Impact took it one step further and randomly awarded hard-to-get graphics cards and PS5s to employees as a thank you for helping create one of last year’s hottest new free-to-play gacha games.
“MiHoYo, the developers of Genshin Impact, held their annual employee meeting where they gave away a bunch of electronics to employees in a lottery, ”Niko Partners senior data analyst Daniel Ahmad, wrote on Twitter yesterday. The accompanying photos showed huge stacks of iPhones, Nintendo Switches, GeForce RTX graphics cards and PlayStation 5s, the latter of which was especially difficult for people to get their hands on after persistent stock shortages.
The irony, of course, as PC gamer pointed out, is that Genshin Impact itself is largely based on lotteriesbased on random number generators (RNG)–in which players pay in-game currency or real money for a chance to unlock rare new characters. Some are much harder to get than others, requiring players to grind and burn resources wait for top characters like Venti to fall. Some players spent a lot of money on the game this way, one of the reasons Genshin Impact went on to make nearly $ 400 million in the first few months, according to mobile analysis company Sensor Tower.
To celebrate the game’s lucrative launch, MiHoYo reportedly used a similar drop-rate system to allocate the limited range of gaming hardware it planned to give away to employees on top of other bonuses. According to a screenshot shared by Ahmad, staff had a 30% chance on a Nintendo Switch, a 21% chance on an RTX 3070 graphics card, a 16% chance on a PS5, and a 1% chance on a combined Apple Watch Series 6 and iPhone 12 Pro Max bundle.
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For now it looks like you have at least the same chance of scoring a PS5 while working on a job. Genshin Impact as you do by refreshing your Amazon shopping cart.