A bunch of big free-to-play RPGs all celebrated their anniversaries fairly recently, and games like Wuthering Waves ended up embroiled in player outrage over rewards seen as meager. Gacha kingpins Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail are no strangers to the same controversy, and some disappointment lingers, but they've mostly gotten better about it through a combination of beleaguered player acceptance and improved goodies. So when Zenless Zone Zero rolled up with its first anniversary rewards, a lot of people were waiting to count, measure, and compare the goods. The result? ZZZ wins, folks.
HoYo revealed Zenless Zone Zero version 2.0 today, headlined by a new area called the Waifei Peninsula and carried by new characters Yixuan, Ju Fufu, and Pan Yinhu (who is, importantly, a big ol' panda man). It's poised to be a massive update that changes how the game looks and feels from day to day. The accompanying one-year anniversary rewards have become one of the biggest emerging talking points after the dev showcase.
