Monster Hunter Wilds
One of the highest profile, most-beloved releases of the past few years, if not this entire generation, would be Baldur’s Gate 3, the TTRPG that easily swept most GOTY awards at the time and most impressively, despite being a single player game, maintained a shockingly high consistently playercount for a long period of time.
Now, it seems that so far, Monster Hunter Wilds is matching its pace two weeks after launch, or is at least close to it.
As it stands, while down from its 1.3 million all-time peak, one of Steam’s highest ever, Monster Hunter is still putting up 650,000 players or so a night, more than two weeks after launch. That’s ahead of Baldur’s Gate 540-580,000 range around the same period, albeit it was dropping from a somewhat lower concurrent peak.
Monster Hunter Wilds
Even now, a year and a half later, Baldur’s Gate 3 is still putting up 100,000 or so players a night on most occasions, and only recently has started to dip under that. Both are co-op games, though often largely played single player, and both have endings to their campaigns. Neither are live service in the traditional sense.
Dedicated Monster Hunters, however, know that you can throw hundreds of hours easily into these titles if you’re a harder core player, and that already seems to be happening here. There are good, mid-period grinds like getting the best armor set or a solid endgame weapon. But there are also crazy long grinds like maxing out your armor set with sphere upgrades or boosting an Artian weapon to max. Then, of course, there are 14 total weapon types to master, and make your own builds for those too.
Monster Hunter Wilds already set a sales pace record for Capcom, and this sort of recurrent playercount is a great sign that this may go on to be one of their most successful releases ever. Wilds was certainly aided by the fact that it had a simultaneous, multi-platform release, which was not true in the past.
Capcom has already laid out two significant Title Updates for the game, in addition to weekly events that are already running. The first Title Update will contain a new monster and an entirely new difficulty level of monster, which fans have said feels needed straight from launch here. The second update will contain a new monster, represented by the commonly-known “unknown monster” symbol in the roadmap. Everyone is looking forward to seeing what the game does next.
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