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0:00 Yo, I called it. I was right. Papa Stakes was right yet again. And by extension of being right, things have escalated. Let me give you a quick TLDDR of what happened a couple days ago. I made a tweet going over a publicly accessible article and analysis by Newu, which is a reputable company that's been around since 2007, where they documented the top 20 most played PC games. Weathering Waves came in at number 18 and Genjin Impact came in at number 19. I've said that this was a an incredible achievement for both games and people were not happy with that. Genchin Impact players specifically, and this is not an attack, but Genchin Impact players tried
0:45 every single thing they could to justify why Genchin Impact was realistically higher than Weathering Waves, going on to discredit the website, discredit me, and discredit every other player. Again, I will stress this is not an attack against the Genjin Impact community because a lot of Genjin Impact players are totally normal and really don't care about any of this tribalism [ __ ] Now, fast forward to today. It was confirmed via Lenovo, which is an incredibly large, very popular tech company. Lenovo posted their 2026 PC top 20 games. These numbers, according to Lenovo themselves, are based on comprehensive data from Lenovo's entire product line encompassing over 280
1:33 million active users, monthly active users. This includes launches and downloads specifically within China, which is one of the world's largest gaming markets. As you can see on screen, the top four are not gota games. Valerant, League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and then number five is Weathering Waves, up two positions from number seven in January. At number six is Genchin Impact, up two positions from number eight in January. And then at number seven, which is actually an incredible placement by the way, and shout out to Ark Knights Enfield here because they're also in the top 10 most popular PC games in China right now. Coming in at number seven, down two from January where it was at number five.
2:19 That's three gotacha games in the top seven. At number nine is Hankai Star Rail up two positions from number 11 in January. We see Zeno Zone Zero up one position at number 12 currently from number 13 in January. and where winds meet at number 14. It has been apparently for multiple different months now. What we can gauge from this is that much like New ZeU's report which targeted a more global market, China's which targets a Chinese market also lists weathering waves ahead of Genchin Impact. And I pointed this out. I said it is now officially the number one gotcha game on PC worldwide. This includes global and China, followed by Genchin Impact at number two, both being in the top six most played PC games in China. Congratulations.
3:06 I openly stated, completely unbiased, this was a an event that required congratulation not for Weathering Waves, not for Genchin Impact, but for both. Not just that, but every other gotacha game here. I also pointed out that is not indicative of mobile or console numbers. It is also not indicative of total revenue per game. I even stressed here so people wouldn't think that I was being biased or that I was attacking Genjin Impact. Genjin Impact coming in at number six in terms of total PC games and number two in terms of gotcha games is also absolutely incredible. Being number two is an incredible achievement. Final Fantasy 14 remained the number two MMORPG in the world for a decade after World of Warcraft. Seeing Arc Knight's
3:52 Enfield at number seven is also wild. More played on PC in China than Hongkey Star Rail is quite the achievement. What we can gauge from all of this, however, is that gotcha games are continuing to rise in popularity, growing far beyond non- Gotacha games, securing themselves as absolute monoliths in the gaming scene. Congratulations to Wthering Waves at number one, Genchin Impact on number two, Enfield on three, Star Rail on four, ZZZ on five, and where Winds meet at number six. All very fun games that I have enjoyed in the past. Not once did I criticize any of these games. Not once did I say anything that could be considered an attack or anything disingenuous. I did nothing but praise every single game. And even in spite of this even in spite of how positive I was being, all the uh the praise that I was
4:38 spreading. Unfortunately, a certain community of players found issue with what I said. brother saw one OEM launcher chart and wrote an entire thesis about the global gacha industry. This is like measuring the global economy using vending machine sales, LMAL. One OEM launcher chart. This is an article. This is an analysis based off of 280 million active users. I uh I went ahead here and clicked his profile and saw that he's a big Hawkeye Star Rail fan. So, makes sense. Hawkeye Star Rail was all the way down at number nine after all. rather than being up at number five or number six. He then further went on to state that uh not all Lenovo owners play games. It's just an
5:23 ecosystem. And I I completely agree with that. But at the same time that I also stated that uh encompassing over 280 million monthly active users, I never stated that uh there were over 280 million monthly active gamers. So, this this right here is uh reinforcing the whole gotacha players can't read. Gotacha players misconrue. Gotcha gamers lack critical thinking. Gotacha gamers lack actual just basic comprehension skills. I even went on to further elaborate in my reply to this. It's only 280 million people. Again, I never stated that these people played games, that all these people played games. But, I mean, you know what? That's totally
6:09 fine. This is just a a case of, you know, this is basic reading comprehension or an inability to comprehend. Yo, I don't mean to interrupt the video, but I need to take a moment here to thank all my incredible patrons over on Patreon whose support continues to allow for me to do regular videos like this every single day on this channel. Thank y'all so much, including our YouTube channel members. You guys mean the world to me. So to you guys as viewers as well. Now, without further ado, let's continue. This guy here stated, "Stace is a real loser spreading misinformation." Misinformation about something that is publicly accessible and stated via their own official report and then covered on
6:55 numerous different gaming websites around the internet. But because I I post something publicly accessible, it's misinformation for me. Watch Twitter getting mad over it saying that Lenovo is lying or it's botted by Tensson somehow. It is that they they they actually are not not that it is botted or not that uh you know they're lying but it is this this exactly what he said is happening which is crazy. This guy predicted it. He's a freaking prophet. Me when I lie my ass off to Grift. You mean being supported by hundreds of thousands of people receiving thousands of likes being right? Okay. Yeah. No, I'll I'll take that one. That's a win. Then there's this guy, good old John Hunt. This guy is like a crazy obsessive
7:41 stalker X. Yeah, that that's about how I feel. I I saw that uh he was spamming I was actually alerted to this from one of our moderators that he was spamming comments and I I looked into it a little bit and yeah, everyone agreed this guy's kind of lost it a little bit. I I I went to his profile just to kind of examine it a little bit and he's leaving comments, tweet messages, replies on the official Weathering Waves tweets, their actual tweets where he's telling them that uh they need to clean up their PR campaigns and focus on their own affairs instead of focusing on unofficial content creators. Like some of these
8:29 tweets are absolutely insane. They are delusional and unhinged and he's being called out in every comment he makes. And like he I don't know, man. For whatever reason, he thinks he's the he's in the right. And of course, he is a Hoyo player. I'm not saying again that this is, you know, all Hoyo players, but I checked his profile and he also is a Hoyo player. But then we have this. This is something I actually saw on his profile as well. This is apparently an argument here that um multiple of them are using to kind of take apart or justify the inaccuracies in what Newsu and Lenovo themselves have posted and my interpretation of what they posted. My post specifically, it goes on to state
9:16 that my post is not 100% false, but it's misleading and exaggerates, misinterprets data from the newu PC and console gaming report 2026. So, that is what they're sharing. Now, I went ahead here and did my own AI accuracy test here, and I asked it just like they did. And as you can see, they actually don't include the prompt here. So, you can't actually see what they asked. I'm going to go ahead here and show you exactly what I asked because what I'm doing here is not disingenuous. I am more than happy showcasing everything cuz I have nothing to hide. So, I asked AI, "Is this tweet accurate?" And you know what it said? The tweet accurately represents data from New Zeal console gaming report, which was
10:02 published on March 12th, 2026. The chart shared in the post matches the report's ranking of the top 20 PC games by playtime share for 2025 based on monitored data from 37 markets in excluding China and India. With Weathering Waves at number 18 and Genchin Impact at number 19 among gacha style games, these are indeed the top two in the list, making Weathering Waves the most played gotcha title on PC by this metric, followed closely by Genjin Impact. In a shocking turn of events, this was actually accurate, true, legitimate, and correct. Who'd have thought? The report notes that rankings for certain late 2025 releases like Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders may be understated, but this doesn't affect the positions of the games mentioned in the tweet. post also correctly specifies the data is PC exclusive and focus on playtime share not revenue or
10:47 multiplatform totals. Again, in a shocking turn of events, everything I stated was actually accurate and correct. So then I asked AI, is this tweet inaccurate? Was I lying? And it says, no, the tweet appears to be accurate and completely completely align with everything as noted by multiple different sources as well. For whatever reason, there are certain people out there that are just incapable of accepting that there can be more than one very good, very popular game. There are multiple people out there that for whatever reason are unable to accept that Wthering Waves on PC is actually very popular. I've stated repeatedly, [ __ ] repeatedly, Genchin Impact has more mobile players. Hands down. They probably have twice Wua's mobile player
11:32 base. Maybe thrice. I don't know. The mobile player base for Genchin is enormous. Same with Hongkey Staro. But Wua is unquestionably the most popular PC gacha because it is the gacha game with the most PC players. And there's nothing wrong with admitting that. At the end of the day, right, I love Wua, but I'm well aware that it's not the most popular game by every metric. And there by extension, there are people that should also understand that Genchin is not the most popular gacha game by every metric. Going back on over to the official website though that went on to document the actual positioning of each game, it states that kudos weathering waves rose to fifth place this month,
12:18 reaching a new all-time high. So this is a peak forthering waves. I mean evidently the game is continuing to increase, right? So are even higher. The version 3.1 major update not only introduced a core character IMH, but its tearjerking storyline has been hailed by some players as the highest peak of storyline among second generation games. There are people saying that this Wow. Yeah. No, it really that that is what they're saying and I I actually kind of agree. This positive reputation directly translated into popularity. For example, when ASO virtual streamer Narin streamed the 3.1 update, she garnered over 220,000 concurrent viewers, the minimum number of viewers who watched or interacted. And they also uh did not really agree that this was accurate. There were people claiming that yeah, it was definitely bought it. There's no way
13:03 that was real or genuine, etc., etc., because, you know, someone a big content creator streaming a game clearly can't amass numbers like that that are higher than any other recorded stream of a gotachu game in history, right? No, it can't be Wthering Waves breaking the historical record for related streams. And then beyond that, specifically pertain to Ark Knight Enfield. In contrast, Ark Knight's Enfield, which debuted in January and broke into the top five, has slightly fallen back down to seven play seventh place this month, which I want to point out is still an incredible number. The the the entire top 10, the entire top 20 rather, are incredible numbers. People that are looking at these numbers and just saying, "No, they're not are unhinged. These are all incredibly popular games.
13:49 Cuz at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter who is number one, who is number two, or who is number three. The fact that there are games that are actually breaking into a a market that has been dominated by AAA games for decades, free video games. Dude, that is impressive. Amidst the intense spring festival campaigns of established second generation games, new games after passing initial launch boom are gradually entering a phase of normalized long-term operation. And I'm assuming here that Arc Knight Enfield's going to solidify a player base and establish itself at a certain level. I hope it remains in the top 20, but that's going to be quite a feat to achieve long term. But I guess we'll find out on the way to version 2.0 and after 2.0 whether or not
14:35 the game has longlasting power. But I just want to point out here I was right. Once again, I I was right. Weathering Waves is the number one most played gotcha game on PC. I I was also right when I stated that it's not the most popular mobile game, the most played mobile gotcha game, because it's not. And there's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't need to be. And people need to just stop lashing out and attacking each other in each respective community. And they also need to stop stalking me on social media and making me their life because that's kind of weird. Like I'm married. I'm a taken guy. I I'm I'm John brother. I I don't really know who you are, but you need to need to hop off my dick just a little bit, please. You're starting to smell.
15:20 It's getting a little uncomfortable. I know you think that you just hit the end of the video, and technically, yeah, you have. And I know your first reaction is to close out of it at this juncture, but don't. No. Instead, I urge you to take a moment here and click one of the videos on screen that are coming up in just a moment. so you remain up to date with everything going on in the gacha genre. Trust me, you're not going to regret doing so. Stay flaccid.
