Wilds success is interessting...

[Bongoboy]

If you look at Steam DB you see:
Monster Hunter World/Iceborne had an all-time peak of players of 334,684
Monster Hunter Rise/Sunbreak had an all-time peak of players of 231,360
Monster Hunter Wilds had an all-time peak of players of 1,384,608

What do you think caused this massive increase of people that bought and play Monster Hunter Wilds?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Bongoboy:

Wilds success is interessting...
If you look at Steam DB you see:
Monster Hunter World/Iceborne had an all-time peak of players of 334,684
Monster Hunter Rise/Sunbreak had an all-time peak of players of 231,360
Monster Hunter Wilds had an all-time peak of players of 1,384,608

What do you think caused this massive increase of people that bought and play Monster Hunter Wilds?

You basically wrote it already: people know what to expect from playing the previous games which are far longer available and many have picked up during sales.

Which you should too - buy Monster Hunter Wilds and start playing already.

[Yu Ryujin]

Originally posted by Bongoboy:

If you look at Steam DB you see:
Monster Hunter World/Iceborne had an all-time peak of players of 334,684
Monster Hunter Rise/Sunbreak had an all-time peak of players of 231,360
Monster Hunter Wilds had an all-time peak of players of 1,384,608

What do you think caused this massive increase of people that bought and play Monster Hunter Wilds?

World, and Hype.

Wait a 2 weeks or 3 and then check the number of players again

[Soul]

MHW popularized the series in the mainstream global market. Rise built upon that. There's also a real shortage in good AAA games over the past couple years. And they also know how to market games unlock a lot AAA publishers nowadays.

[Jadepaw]

There's been an amazing amount of hype around Wilds and no small part of that is due to how advertising is handled these days. Influencers are king.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Captain Bolt:

There's been an amazing amount of hype around Wilds and no small part of that is due to how advertising is handled these days. Influencers are king.

Makes me wonder if certain presidents are more influencer and less officials.

[nwad]

MH is mainstream in the west now. I'd like to see how many people got a refund.

[Stone Cold Stavros Flatley]

Originally posted by Captain Bolt:

There's been an amazing amount of hype around Wilds and no small part of that is due to how advertising is handled these days. Influencers are king.

Yup. Give it a few more days or a week when the performance issues persist and the streamers and their fans have moved on and there’ll be more honesty allowed with the game; at the moment, dissenting opinions are like poking a hornet's nest. You get slapped down immediately or called “poor”.

[YMD]

Mostly because it's huge in Japan.
As it should be. Everyone I know in Japan is playing it. All the streamers are too. The entire country loves it

[Baffman]

Hype train, more influencers on youtube and twitch advertising the game. Everybody saying that the game is easy and a good entry point for newcomers.
Also, people are desperate for good AAA games these days.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

one thing to note is that steam has recent large influx of chinese users for w/e reason idk maybe could be part of it?

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/gaming-pcs/huge-os-and-ram-usage-swings-in-steam-survey-likely-to-have-been-influenced-by-china-influx

[ikko]

The hype in Japan was absolutely insane—like, graphics cards legit vanished from every store! Sure, Nvidia’s shortage played a part, but seriously, there wasn’t a single card left because everyone was scrambling to build a Monster Hunter-ready PC!

[Bongoboy]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

You basically wrote it already: people know what to expect from playing the previous games which are far longer available and many have picked up during sales.

Which you should too - buy Monster Hunter Wilds and start playing already.

Well the interesting part is, at its base every Monster Hunter plays very similar. Like all the Street Fighter games Capcom released over the years.

But your answer doesn't answer my question why. If any, I would expect people to already know how Monster Hunter plays, it is not like Wilds is a total new game rather it plays eerily similar to World and Rise.

[HitrapperAndArtistDaBaby]

The Influencer and content creator machinerie is bigger now than back in the day monster hunter world was released.

[NashDash]

Poor people that can't afford the nem game.

[Necropants]

because world of mouth has spread that Monster Hunter is a tier 1 franchise. This is a common thing with games that have a popular release when the next big one comes out, lots of new people try it out ect, and this was already capcoms most popular franchise from a popular name in gaming.

Gamings getting bigger you are going to continue to see records being shattered.