HoYoVerse is cracking down on accounts and people who leak information about its games. According to a report by Axios, miHoYo, the Shanghai-based owner of the HoYoVerse brand and the parent company of Impacto Genshin publisher Cognosphere: asked a California court to subpoena information from the social media platform Twitter regarding the identities of those featured Impacto Genshin leakage counts. (THANKS, Axios Games!)
The subpoena was issued in February 2023 on behalf of miHoYo and asks Twitter to provide “the names, phone numbers, IP addresses and other information sufficient to identify” the people who operate the accounts. @merlin_impacto, @GenshlnWorld there @Xwides. These three accounts published leaked information about previously unseen parts of Impacto Genshin. Sources of information are often unclear, but are likely to come from test builds of the game distributed to testers by miHoYo, or from data mining activities. In response, the @GenshlnWorld operator appears to have closed their account, while the @Xwides operator has made their account private. @merlin_impact is still active, but last posted on Feb 4, 2023.
This is not the first time that miHoYo has acted against a Impacto Genshin leakage phenomenon. In 2021, miHoYo publicly asked players to refrain from releasing leaked information about version 1.5. In 2022 and 2023, TorrentFreak reported that miHoYo persecuted prominent Impacto Genshin Discord-based leakers such as Ubatcha, the Impacto Genshin Group of Leakers and House of Daena. The global gaming industry tends to vary in its handling of leaks. Some developers and publishers complain or turn a blind eye and encourage their communities to ignore leaks, while others take legal action, ranging from using copyright notices to suing perpetrators.
Impacto Genshin It is available on iOS devices, Android devices, PS4, PS5, and PC. The next content update, version 3.5, will be available in March 2023.