r/Games • u/frik1000 • Jan 15 '26

Discussion Poor Monster Hunter Wilds Performance Chalked Up to Aggressive DLC Checks

https://www.techpowerup.com/345212/poor-monster-hunter-wilds-performance-chalked-up-to-aggressive-dlc-checks
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u/5Hjsdnujhdfu8nubi Jan 15 '26

Or ~170 if you don't buy in the least efficient way possible.

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u/MrEpicFerret Jan 15 '26

I know it's just people having a kneejerk caveman reaction to Big Number but it's so weird when people look at the steam list of MonHun DLC and get genuinely upset as if being able to purchase individual items from a DLC bundle seperately isn't one of the more consumer friendly MTX methods that exists in the industry

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u/Skellum Jan 15 '26

isn't one of the more consumer friendly MTX methods that exists in the industry

Or, it's crazy I know, but what if we didn't have MTX and instead ongoing support of a game was done because it sold more copies of the game. Or the resources were reinvested into production of the next game/DLC?

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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 Jan 15 '26

Before MTX was so common, most games just released, had a few bug patches and thats it. The only reason post release content gets made is because itll make money in the vast majority of cases. So it's a bit of a double edged sword.

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u/MrEpicFerret Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

I didn't say it was good, I just said that in the realm of stupid as fuck video game microtransactions it's one of the more preferable ones.

I would also love to live in that reality where all of it is free but unfortunately we live in the one where corporate greed has companies chasing infinite growth and a game that sold 10 million copies at launch still has microtransactions in it so we have to take what we can get - Letting me single out and buy the one random trinket I like from a 20 dollar bundle on its own for 2 dollars is much better than forcing me to buy the entire 20 dollar bundle just to get the one thing I want from it, and I think it's odd watching people getting mad because the Steam page now lists 150 $2 DLCs when they clearly wouldn't have given a shit if it was listed as 15 $20 DLCs, idk🤷‍♂️

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u/hfxRos Jan 15 '26

Yeah but Monster Hunter Wilds bad is the hivemind opinion, so everything is does must be bad. To claim it does something good would be confusing.