The Giving of the Full Moon New Year’s event of Genshin considered to be the biggest ever, has everyone in the Game community going insane about it. The Version 5.7 Strategy Guides Contest (“A Space and Time for You”) kicked off this week, granting the players a treasure trove of opportunities to hone their creative skills and snag some gorgeous in-game rewards in return. However, as usual with a Genshin event, the announcement tweet is now a churning tempest filled with hype, troll trash complaining, and referral codes spam-lets-go-while-we-can.
The contest begins from June 18, 2025, to July 27, 2025 (UTC+8), meaning that players would have more than one month wherein they can dump some strategy guides for the newer version of the game. Having a certain sort of ambiguity, the official details imply that the event theoretically wants the players to build guides for the new content, so other travelers might enjoy it. The usual sort of rewards should be at least Primogems, Mora, or even maybe some rare and special materials.
And here is where the chaos starts. If you go through the official tweet’s comments, you will get all the emotions felt by the Genshin fans. Certain ones, like that of @Siddhartha37124, are jelly of the contest and state with utmost certainty that this can only mean Capitano arrives in v5.8 (all the CAPS screams are telling enough). Then there are the salty ones, like @ZackWyatt292052, talking about 50/50 they never won, and now they’re grieving for their 12k Primogems as if the game personally went against them.
Then comes the usual spam of referral codes. Scores of players have invaded the tweet’s replies with their “exclusive links”: GA6LA4S79N, GB54MHXKUN, The codes that promise you guaranteed Primogems and entry into drawing for top prizes. The act has got so common that these referrals drops have become louder than the conversation about that strategy contest. Typical Genshin community move.
Not everybody’s happy with it: @adelfrancois goes on to go in all caps about the “trashiest trial ever” with “underpowered characters,” while @beepbeepbop50 has noticed something odd about Paimon’s voice acting in this update. And then, to curse this whole Archon Quest, @OpTiMiSt_CaT39 dubbed it with “a lil bit of a letdown” – meatier.
Technical difficulties are also cropping up: @suming_dp states that he can’t select options on the event interface, prompting others down the line to offer tips on how to fix it. And, as great gamers go, in an almost perfect manner, @Shadow76932 had to nearly shout to find out about a Fortnite collab.
Which single aspect puts a perfect Genshin-In-A-Nutshell on the whole affair is the fact that it perfectly captures the personality of the game’s community-passionate, chaotic, and a little bonkers. Players complain about literally almost everything else while grinding new content for like twelve straight hours. They rage about their own pull rates while pre-farming materials for characters they don’t even have yet. And then they’ll absolutely flood any official post with referral codes as soon as any event goes live.
Speaking of the strategy contest itself, this is yet another clever move from HoYoVerse to keep most of their player base engaged in an activity. User content is what keeps the community alive between updates, and by rewarding guide creators, the community of the game’s extensive wiki gets sustained. Don’t expect the comments to stay on topic with the Primogems up for grabs.
The events are scheduled to last until the end of July, so shortly, there would be strategy guides flying around on forums, social media, etc. Whether you are interested in taking up that creative challenge or just there for the rewards, one thing is for sure: the Genshin community is going to find a way to turn this into complete chaos because this is now basically unofficial endgame content.
