I was going over some of the information on my Twitch channel & ended up noticing the URL to the official Genshin Impact forums, decided to go to it again to see if there had been any development in adding vertical invert mouselook to the game. What I found was not the original post I made, but instead their claim that the post "violates community rules":
The reality of this is this doesn't make any sense to me; how could requesting a standard mouse function in the game (a normal function that most other games of this type) be considered as a violation? I suspect I have an old backup of the post somewhere on my Gaming PC, I will republish the backup when the time comes to publish an article about this game & the companies involved in it.
In any case, I decided to follow up on this & found that I wasn't able to log back into my account (the site was not sending authentication emails), even after resetting the password.
There is the possibility that my account may have been compromised (I haven't gone anywhere Genshin Impact or their website in probably over 4 years) & the individual that may have stole the account may have done something that may have resulted in an actual violation of ToS (even if it wasn't my doing), but I wouldn't be surprised if it was more a matter of retaliation to negative publicity (the statement on my Twitch channel stating that streams were discontinued in this game due to lack of inverted vertical alignment), something Bandai/Namco has proven themselves very keen on doing.
Regardless, I have no intentions in restarting the game & given this gives a history with MiHoYo, I find it best to avoid any of their games in the future, so this ultimately results in a full boycott against them (at least until I can get to the bottom of why I am unable to access my account & that's only if it can be recovered). I will be publishing a boycott against the company to my personal site when I have the time to write it (likely the next time I have to do an update to one of the existing articles on the site).
As for my Twitch channel, this temporary discontinuation of Genshin Impact streams on it has likely become permanent. This also means that I won't be going to channels while they are streaming this game (adding Genshin Impact & any other game by the company to my Unwanted Twitch browser plugin's blacklist).
