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The original was posted on /r/genshin_impact by /u/Onepiece285 on 2026-08-12 03:50:45+00:00.

I've been waiting all day to explore Snezhnaya. Got home from work, downloaded the update, waited for maintenance to be done, only to log back in at Nod Krai and not even half a microsecond to breathe before I'm thrown into a cutscene. Can't even claim my commissions, condense my resin, pull for Odette, nothing. It's just quest time and I have no choice.

And what's more, Hoyo has thought of EVERY POSSIBLE WAY that we could avoid starting the new Archon quest in favor of just exploring and put measures in place to mitigate that.

Go around the objective with Furina/Sandrone/etc? Nope, invisible objective barrier that takes away your team and forces you to be the Traveler and auto-guides you to the objective.

Teleporting away to get out of the quest? Nope, throws you right back in when you come back.

Log out and log back in to exit the quest? Nope, resets your progress.

Hoyo, for the love of everything I hold dear, it's been 6 years of this and you somehow still haven't learned that maybe we just wanna do a lil bit of exploring before we start a quest. Maybe not all of us want to be thrown into dialogue the instant we log into the game and can't actually play for the next 30 some minutes. Is that so much to ask for?