Publisher
miHoYo / HoYoverse
miHoYo, operating globally as HoYoverse, is the Shanghai-based studio behind Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, and Zenless Zone Zero, known for polished live-service games.
What is miHoYo / HoYoverse?
HoYoverse — the global brand name miHoYo uses outside China — emerged from near-obscurity to global prominence with Genshin Impact, which launched in September 2020 and generated over $100 million in revenue within its first two weeks. The game's Gacha monetisation system, combined with genuinely high production values and an active development cadence, made it the template for the modern live-service action RPG. The company has since expanded the HoYoverse universe with Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, and Honkai Impact 3rd, each running on its own server infrastructure with separate gacha economies and update schedules.
HoYoverse's infrastructure must handle a global player base distributed across PC, iOS, Android, and PlayStation simultaneously, with multiple game servers — Asia, America, Europe, and the TW/HK/MO server — running in parallel. The HoYoverse Passport account system (formerly miHoYo account) provides unified authentication across all titles. Each game's banner system — the limited-time character and weapon pools that drive most revenue — creates predictable traffic surges at banner rotation windows, when many players log in simultaneously to pull for new characters. Version updates, shipped roughly every six weeks per title, require maintenance windows that temporarily take servers offline.
Server problems at HoYoverse have a distinct vocabulary for players. Genshin Impact returns error code 4206 when the login server is rejecting connections. Honkai: Star Rail shows a "login timed out" message during authentication backend degradation. Mid-game disconnections during co-op domains or spiral abyss runs are particularly frustrating, as they consume resin or fail to count weekly clear progress. The in-game mail system, which delivers primogems as compensation, sometimes fails to deliver items even after the underlying outage resolves. The HoYoverse Passport portal becoming inaccessible blocks two-factor authentication setup and email changes for all titles simultaneously.
Outage.gg tracks HoYoverse service status for Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, and other titles using real-time community reports. If servers are down, login is failing, or compensation mail is not delivering, the live status page shows current player-reported impact.
Common miHoYo / HoYoverse Problems
Issues users most frequently report when miHoYo / HoYoverse is having problems.
Login failures
Players are unable to sign in, receiving authentication errors or being stuck on loading screens.
Matchmaking problems
Unable to find or join matches, long queue times, or errors when trying to connect to game servers.
Disconnections mid-session
Getting unexpectedly kicked from active sessions, losing in-game progress or items.
In-game store & purchases
Cannot load the in-game store, complete purchases, or received items are not appearing in inventory.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about miHoYo / HoYoverse outages and server status.
You can check the live miHoYo / HoYoverse server status at outage.gg/services/mihoyo-hoyoverse. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
miHoYo / HoYoverse can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
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