THE EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE IS IF YOU NEVER ONCE LOGGED IN WITH YOUR GOOGLE PLAY ACCOUNT. You can ONLY register a new Email or Username as a new MiHoYo account if you try and link from a Google Play account in the app. You cannot Link a Google Play account to an existing MiHoYo account. It is important to keep in mind the following: There are slightly different resolutions because of slightly different problems all centered around linking google accounts. If they give me any other tips or suggestions, I'll update this thread but I wanted to warn other newbies from my mistakes.ĮDIT: I figured I would to an overall update since there a lot of questions still around this. I opened a support case but I'm not too hopeful. Now, I can't link the account to the MiHoYo account because it claims that the account is already registered. I was never given an option to link it to an existing one when logged into a Google Play Store account. I made the mistake of making both and starting with my google play account thinking that I could link it to an existing MiHoYo account. You should then be able to use that email/username and pw to login to PC or Android. Create the account and follow the steps to verify your account. This will allow you to create a new MiHoYo account in order to link your Google account. You will only have one option which is link account. Once you login and get to the point you can access the pause menu, go to the account center under account in the pause menu. Launch the game with your google account. Do NOT create a MiHoYo account on PC or on their website yet. From here, select your google play store account and it SHOULD let you link it. DO NOT USE YOUR GOOGLE PLAYSTORE ACCOUNT YET. Create a MiHoYo account on the PC or on their webstie and use that account to login to the Android App.

If you want to link your Google Play account and you MiHoYo account, you have only 2 paths to do this:

As someone who now has to rely on a fresh support case, please head this advice.

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