On the day of its launch, the web site for gacha sport Infinity Nikki was hacked to show an abusive message directed at gamers.
When publishers aren’t attempting to ape Fortnite’s success with their very own stay service video games, that sometimes shut down not lengthy after launch (Ubisoft’s XDefiant being the latest example), it seems they want some of that Genshin Impact money, with free-to-play open world gacha games.
There’s been talk of Elden Ring getting a mobile version specifically inspired by Genshin Impact’s model and today, Chinese publisher PaperGames has released its own potential rival in Infinity Nikki.
While the game itself is visually very cute, with vibes so sweet they’ll give you cavities, the official Infinity Nikki website was recently hacked to display a far less endearing message to anyone who saw it.
As spotted and shared via Reddit, when you visited the Infinity Nikki web site this morning, you’d have been met with a message telling you to commit suicide. That or play Genshin Impact as an alternative, through a personal server.
The message got here with a QR code as properly, though we haven’t checked to see if it really works, because it might very simply be a rip-off of some variety. The web site has since been restored to regular, though neither PaperGames nor developer Infold Games have made an official touch upon the state of affairs.
Reportedly, the web site was compromised for roughly 30 to 40 minutes, which isn’t an insubstantial period of time for such a dangerous message to be displayed.
Although it’s straightforward to imagine this was the work of a disgruntled Genshin Impact fan fearful of latest competitors, there’s in the end no proof both method. It might simply as simply be somebody trying to fire up hate between Genshin Impact and Infinity Nikki gamers.
What is Infinity Nikki?
Self-described as an open world costume up sport, Infinity Nikki sees you accumulating a wide range of outfits to decorate up in, which in flip have skills to assist you with fixing puzzles and exploring extra of the world.
This is definitely the fifth sport within the Nikki sequence, although it’s the primary to come back to consoles, with earlier entries solely ever obtainable on cell units.
Despite the similarities, it’s a really completely different beast to the extra motion oriented titles from miHoYo, one other Chinese firm that’s gained fairly the stranglehold on this market of free-to-play gacha journey video games.
Aside from Genshin Impact, it’s loved success with Honkai: Star Rail and, extra just lately, Zenless Zone Zero; all of which supply completely different flavours of role-playing gameplay however in any other case make their cash by means of microtransactions.
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