Genshin Impact developer miHoYo subpoenas Twitter in hunt for leakers
With any big game, leaks are bound to happen. It’s nigh on impossible to keep things from slipping through the cracks, especially when developers working on a particular game number in the hundreds. As such, things like release dates, screenshots, and sometimes entire demos of games find their way onto the internet despite publishers’ best efforts. The massively successful Genshin Impact is no stranger to this, being a live-service game that pushes out big content updates every couple of months.
However, it would seem that parent company miHoYo is doing its best to put leakers on the back foot, according to reporting from Axios. The Chinese company recently pushed to subpoena Twitter, in the hopes of discovering the identities of three accounts that regularly leak information about Genshin Impact. The subpoenas request personal information including names and IP addresses of Twitter accounts @merlin_impact, @GenshlnWorld, and @Xwides, all of which tweet Genshin leaks. While Merlin Impact remains live at the time of writing — the most recent message thanks followers for their support and assures them that the owner is “not in any legal danger,” promising to simply move to a different platform if the account is shut down — XWides has locked down their account and Genshin World appears to have been deleted altogether. Whether the latter was a formal takedown or merely a precautionary measure is unknown at present.
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This is far from the first time that miHoYo has clamped down on unruly leaks. Towards the end of last year, the company issued more subpoenas to Discord in order to find the identity of another prominent leaker, and before that it did the
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