MH Wilds: An Unmitigated, Unambiguous FAILURE

[Todrick Howard Sr.]

-59% positive reviews
-1/8th the player count just two weeks after launch
The numbers speak for themselves: Gamers have spoken. This game is in a SORRY state and Capcom needs to fix it.

[Dreadnaught]

I tried pretty hard to enjoy this game. Got into Chapter 2 after the ice caves and just couldn't take it anymore.

The completely unintuitive and bloated controls attack me harder than the monsters do. I sure love getting stuck in Focus mode or in 15 sub menus of the item bar mid fight. Or having my character "charge up" an attack by just standing there and no way of knowing if he's charging up or just standing there because the idle stance looks exactly the same as the charging stance. Who knows if the game accepted my inputs or not. Shouldn't take 15 menus and changing universal names of "Party/Group" to stupid names to set up a multiplayer party.

The missions are all just "get on your mount and follow npc X on a mount until you run into monster" with 10 minutes of meh cutscenes before, middle of, and after. Rinse repeat. No points there. Which honestly is fine since I would *like* to just grind and fight monsters at my own pace... but every damned quest is like doing an escort in an MMO. Just awful.

Everything is extremely bloated and convoluted then terrible performance to ice the cake. Any weapon I use, my character moves and reacts like they are sinking in quicksand. My mount runs all over the place forever even if I have all the settings for that disabled. Frustrating isn't a strong enough word for how bad this game controls.

[Hardwenzen]

Publicado originalmente por Mountain Man:

Every Steam forum for every game inevitably has someone declaring that the game is a failure. It's comical.

This is a live service game, you do not want negativity to be surrounding one, or the playerbase will nose dive real fast. Just look at Helldivers 2 as the latest example.

[Cyrigal]

Monster hunter freedom unite and portable 3rd were peak monster hunter, fite me

[Muppetops]

i got my moneys worth so far could use some polish but what game doesn't,

[sacpuncher]

look its a monster hunter flat launch. after 120ish hours your out of things to do. and thats perfectly fine its monster hunter not a MMORPG. once the title update hits ill be back myself. its a game with finite content on release. thats just how these games are. and frankly other than the optimisation which doesnt really effect me that much this has been one of the best games to release in the past few years

[This PC]

Publicado originalmente por Kiririn:

Are there people claiming otherwise? Of course all games drop off.

I think the more telling thing is that Wilds dropped off about three times faster than World.

My data doesn't align with yours, and it's cute that you selectively pick metrics that confirms your biases. :P

[This PC]

Publicado originalmente por Cyrigal:

Monster hunter freedom unite and portable 3rd were peak monster hunter, fite me

I mean, I might subjectively agree with you, but there's no denying people are loving wilds ;p

[Loren]

Publicado originalmente por ALMSIVI:

...The numbers speak for themselves: Gamers have spoken...

Yea. It sold like hot cakes. Capcom execs are laughing their way off to bank now.

[Varagonax]

Publicado originalmente por This PC:

Publicado originalmente por Kiririn:

Are there people claiming otherwise? Of course all games drop off.

I think the more telling thing is that Wilds dropped off about three times faster than World.

My data doesn't align with yours, and it's cute that you selectively pick metrics that confirms your biases. :P

Monster Hunter World first month on steam:
-Peak Average Concurrent Players: 334,684
-Concurrent Players after a month: 231,448
-All Time Peak Concurrent Players: 334,684

Monster Hunter Wilds first month on steam:
-Peak Average Concurrent Players: 407,189
-Concurrent Players after a month (or 3 weeks, in this case): 452,179
-All Time Peak Concurrent Players: 1,384,608

Turns out, TECHNICALLY, yes. Monster Hunter Wilds fell off 3 times harder than World. Also, turns out that Wild is growing its daily concurrent players whereas World did not, and Its also working with 4.5x as many initial players, and 25% more daily players overall within the first month. JUST ON STEAM (I wish I could get accurate player metrics for consoles. If there's a place for it, I don't know it). Never you mind that Monster Hunter Wilds is Capcoms fastest selling game of all time.

Some more fun data comparisons within the first month:
-Monster Hunter Wilds has 4 times the twitch viewership in its first month compared to the ENTIRETY of Worlds run time (Yes, including Iceborne).
-Monster Hunter Wilds is 5000% more popular at release [steam] than Worlds was (#6 steam best seller as opposed to #320)
-In comparison to other niche titles blowing up the internet Worlds is more popular than Elden Ring, Sold better than Palworld, and beat out Helldivers 2 in sales AND popularity.

[DJukor]

Main reason wilds sold so well on PC is that it was a simulations Reese on Consoles and PC.
And the PC market now is way bigger and popular than the Console market.
Mostly due to china having more people who can afford to be gamers now.
Even in Japan more Fans bought a gaming PC or a new GPU for Wilds than a PS5.
I talked to friends in japan and there ware lines to buy a new GPU just because of wilds.

Wilds has short easy hunts and guarantied drop rates on the rarest materials.
Fact is you can basically experience almost everything the game has to offer in less than 50 hours.
I have to find excuses just to keep playing after i soloed a Tempered Gore magala at hour 50.

[CHMA | gayspacecommie]

UnMiTiGaTeD dIsAsTeR, yeah the 4th most played game right now on Steam is such a failure.

[Varagonax]

Publicado originalmente por DJukor:

Main reason wilds sold so well on PC is that it was a simulations Reese on Consoles and PC.
And the PC market now is way bigger and popular than the Console market.
Mostly due to china having more people who can afford to be gamers now.
Even in Japan more Fans bought a gaming PC or a new GPU for Wilds than a PS5.
I talked to friends in japan and there ware lines to buy a new GPU just because of wilds.

Wilds has short easy hunts and guarantied drop rates on the rarest materials.
Fact is you can basically experience almost everything the game has to offer in less than 50 hours.
I have to find excuses just to keep playing after i soloed a Tempered Gore magala at hour 50.

a simultaneous release doesnt actually indicate better sales on pc. Arguably speaking, a simultaneous launch hurts both sales more than it benefits the other.

The reason why people are buying pc's over consoles is that with modern consoles being 1000 bucks (for several reasons), its actually more economical to get a pc. For the same price I can get a system I can do ANYTHING with, not just what the manufacturer lets me do.

People weren't buying Wilds more than World on release because they thought it was easier; The vast majority of the 8 million people who bought the game the first 3 days were doing it on hype alone, they had no idea the game was more streamlined. At least some of them were expecting improvements to what World did.

"Basically" "almost" lots of hand wavey language here bud. I think you are blowing this way out of proportion because you are thinking inside your own bubble.

[Cyrigal]

Publicado originalmente por This PC:

Publicado originalmente por Cyrigal:

Monster hunter freedom unite and portable 3rd were peak monster hunter, fite me

I mean, I might subjectively agree with you, but there's no denying people are loving wilds ;p

There's no denying that is selling very well, best in the series even, subjectively though it's my least favorite monster hunter that I've played, and I think I played every US release.

[Katitoff]

Publicado originalmente por Kiririn:

From a technical point of view it's atrocious.

Fav argument of people using AMD GPUs or 10yo POS PCs.

[Retsubty]

Publicado originalmente por Cyrigal:

Publicado originalmente por This PC:

I mean, I might subjectively agree with you, but there's no denying people are loving wilds ;p

There's no denying that is selling very well, best in the series even, subjectively though it's my least favorite monster hunter that I've played, and I think I played every US release.

It's weird to me because they've been defending wilds for days now and even making statements that act like Wilds is better than the old games (in like every aspect) and now I'm seeing that they "subjectively" like the old ones now..

Go figure. It was pretty transparent that they were just messing with people.