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SteamSpy: Monster Hunter World is at 2 million PC copies sold on Steam
- Thread starter Ryuichi Naruhodo
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imo it's more they had no faith it could sell that well on pc because audience of the licence is not there.
now they know.
Honestly even that's not excusable. How could they not have an inkling of an audience that would end up buying 2m+ copies of your game? Publisher's have entire teams dedicated to market research and new revenue opportunities. Is Capcom's division just incompetent at their job? What are they being paid for if this could slip past them.
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New method is not that innacurate but not yet 100% sure of it. Well see when capcom announces sales how close it was. Its def not a HUGE margin . He explains in his blogs for members.
Yeah, I believe the margin of error is 10% at most. Which kinda checks out with the current situation. The number has been hovering from 2 million to 2.3 million, and down to 1.8 million. Looks like the game has sold more or less 2 million copies.
The old method used to range between a 5-10% margin of error for anything that sold in significant numbers (say 100K+). So quite reliable after you left the initial sale spike for a title settle down a bit.
Dunno how the new system works, but I have no idea where that "EXTREMELY inaccurate" comes from.
I buy more games than I play on Steam
Mostly to fill the empty hole in my heart
This will never make sense considering how dead Xbox is in Asia, people were also saying there won't be an Asia PC version because of Sony and look where we are.
No, what actually makes no sense is Capcom considering the Japanese Xbox market viable enough to publish Dragon's Dogma DA, Okami HD, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary, MVCI, every RE game, every Mega Man Collection, literally EVERY CAPCOM GAME except their biggest game and lone million seller. The theory that makes no sense, has zero logic behind it, is the notion that "how dead Xbox is in Asia" would somehow be the reasoning it didn't get ONLY MHW. Despite Xbox still getting a full JP language option globally.
As far as the PC port, until Capcom announced (and Tencent leaked) an Asian release in late July it apparently wasn't coming to the platform. The complete press and media blackout actually supports the notion of Sony moneyhatting as that's how things have gone for other PC ports they've gotten console exclusivity windows on (Nier Automata, Nioh, etc).
Not anymore. Ono got demoted, seems like he lost the MMO dev team to Tsujimoto (they co-developed MHW) and now he only co-produces fighting games with contracted devs. He doesn't seem to have an actual dev team now but just a planning dept.
Lol, I'm the same.
Steam users don't play games, they just keep buying badges.
here is what he said in his latest blog today which explains the situation.
So.. its been more than a week now, i see its still in the range between 2-5m owners on Steamspy but what are the exact numbers on your end?
According to todays numbers and what it seems to be about the final:
Owners: 2,176,000
I see, 2M seems to be about the final number for MH:W launch week on Steam it seems.
I'm not talking exclusivly about PC sales, I'm talking about the total sales. Sure, PC sales would have been better with day and date but then consoles sells would be less.
This statement is only true if you think a large portion of MHW PC sales are double dips.
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https://steamdb.info/app/582010/depots/
seems like patch has been deployed. hope it fixes the connection issues at least.
seems like patch has been deployed. hope it fixes the connection issues at least.
So I been torn on buying it, I never could get into the series.. Is this a little different overall any? Outside of killing boss enemies, what are some things you can do? Just hunt for mats to build gear?
where do you see that, im not sure where to look in the site, sorry :(
Mostly, yeah. The core gameplay loop is: discover monster, hunt monster, make gear out of monster. In between that, you'll be gathering resources from the monsters' homes. There's really not much here for someone who doesn't like the idea of fighting large bosses for 8-20 minutes at a time (depends on your skill).
You don't need to build every armor set, so you don't have to grind every boss, but expect to kill the monster with the set you want somewhere between 4-15 times (15 if you're really unlucky and don't get a gem, which is something like a 8-15% drop rate per hunt if you're doing it right). A skilled player can make it through the entire game on 2 or 3 sets, less skilled players might need 5 or 6 (the ability to upgrade armor without needing to build a new set helps and must reduce that number a bit).
There are occasional quests to deliver resources and investigations where you can explore the biomes without a goal to hunt something, allowing you to learn the maps, where the bosses live in those maps, and where the rare resources/cat allies live in the maps.
TLDR: if you don't want to hunt big bosses over and over, this really isn't for you.
branches section..you'll see it says fixpatch_1 or soemthing like that...its been in testing now its been deployed lets see how long till it comes out.
How varied is the land? Are there a ton of areas to explore and see or are there like 3 or 4 maps you tend to go back and forth in?
See I love every concept about it, but I'm not a boss kill freak... Like for me in souls games the bosses are my least favorite part as exploring and gearing up is what I love. If getting and working on a character is similar then Itll definitely make me enjoy boss hunts even more
Well, it's not open world. You can traverse between areas freely - You choose a place and go there, usually on a quest but you can also do an expedition without an objective. As you progress, you open more areas, but you have a number of quests in each so there's repetition here.
I love it, but it's not really an exploration game.
There are 4 maps. There's not a lot of exploration to be done outside of the first few times you visit.
There are no stats tied to your character, everything is gear. Progression can be helped by gear, but you won't do well without learning the fights and getting better at using the weapon you chose.
Each weapon plays completely differently from the others. Finding the right weapon can be challenging, but it's really rewarding when it all clicks and you pull off some crazy attacks on a monster.
Really, though, if you don't like bosses this might not be your thing. If you can try a demo, I'd recommend that. The small monsters are not the focus of this game, and they generally amount to annoyances that harry you while you are attacking the large monsters.
If you want an example of what you'll be doing, Dauntless is currently in open beta on PC and is F2P
Oops! Yeah, my bad.
Ancient Forest (lots of verticality, somewhat confusing)
Wildspire Waste (flat, easy to navigate)
Coral Highlands (lots of vertically, not confusing, beautiful)
Rotten Vale (dark, easy layout, great music)
Elder's Recess (somewhat vertical, lava areas)
Still, if someone is looking for exploration they're probably not going to get enough from 5 maps.
Is this the biggest launch week of all time on Steam? Or does Fallout 4 beat it.
Fllout 4 beat it...it peaked at 470,000
this peaked at 329,000 i think.
its still massive though. todays numbers are: Owners: 2,367,000
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I think he meant in terms of first week sales, or are you saying Fallout 4 did more in that regard too?
MH games have never really been about the maps. For what it's worth, they are 5 of the most detailed maps in the series so far.
They serve more as arenas to fight big monsters than as places to explore
if steam charts numbers are correct, then yes...peaking at 470 first day or so yes...at least first weekend.
As a monhun fan I tried to get into Dauntless and it's missing everything that makes monhun good so I would not recommend it.