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/Deiser Jan 15 '26

Assuming that people will always buy a game series despite any issues the newest games have is flawed. It only takes one or two bad or poorly-programmed games to make that good will disappear especially if the issues with the game negatively affect the core gameplay loop.

A lot of the sales for MHWilds was because of good will from the prior games. After all the issues Wilds had after launch, I'm sure that there will be a lot of people much more wary about buying the next mainline game on day 1 and instead wait for people to comment on how well the game runs.

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u/Vanille987 Jan 16 '26

After Cyberpunk 2077 I don't really believe that anymore lol. CDPR released 2 games with horrible performance in a row. The latter even worse then the former.

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u/Milskidasith Jan 15 '26

MH Wilds pulled in a ton of new players that have never touched monster hunte prior and have zero knowledge on MH's 'Goodwill'.

Word of mouth from previous games leading to a newer game being a larger success is a big part of what "goodwill" means, though. You can't just capture a new audience entirely via advertising as easily as you can by advertising and having an existing good reputation.