Everyone has a fighting chance
Starting today at around 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern, Monster Hunter World’s red-headed stepchildren on PC will finally be able to take part in the Autumn Harvest event. Autumn Harvest will run through October 18th. Console players wrapped their event up today after starting on September 21st.
Without citing any specific reasons, Chinese regulators have removed Monster Hunter World from sales. The only issue revealed is that regulatory officials have received “a large number of complaints” about the content, but with no more specific information it remains to be seen what precisely has caused the issue. Tencent will be offering nearly 1M pre-order customers a refund of $44 per copy.
Monster Hunter World just came out for PC yesterday and it’s smashing records according to SteamCharts. The concurrent number of players is an amazing 240k, the highest in 2018 and the seventh highest of all time. Players have put in 3.6M hours too. Lastly, it will come as no surprise that MHW is Japan’s biggest hit in the west, far eclipsing Dark Souls 3 that came in at about 130k concurrent users.
Capcom has released its financial statement for the first fiscal quarter of 2018. The company’s earnings are up 46% from last year and profits are up 649% year-on-year. The success of Monster Hunter World is largely responsible for the huge earnings, with 8.3M units sold by quarter’s end.
The PC system specs for Monster Hunter World are posted on the game’s official Steam page, with many players wondering if their systems will be able to keep up. Streamers and content creators have been taking a look at MHW using a variety of settings, but the one that piqued our interest is the one that shows how the game looks on low settings. Surprisingly, it’s not bad at all!
Monster Hunter World players will soon be able to take on Behemoth from Final Fantasy XIV as part of a new crossover event. Players will be able to start hunting this big boy starting August 1st and will be able to craft armor similar to the FFXIV Dragoon armor. In addition, new weapons, Cactuar, Moogles and aetheryte crystals will become available.
The Financial Times (subscription only – see link below) is reporting that Capcom’s shares dropped nearly 13% on the same day that the company announced the PC release date for Monster Hunter World. The drop came after Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgraded Capcom’s stock rating to “underperforming”. The company cited “significant risk of sales decline” for Monster Hunter World just a month ahead of the Steam release.
After months of wistfully watching PlayStation 4 players running amok in Monster Hunter World, PC players will finally get to start on their own journeys. The Monster Hunter World Steam page has been updated to let players know that the game will be out for PC on August 9th!
Monster Hunter World will be getting a big update on April 19th. The patch will bring a new elder dragon, Kulve Taroth, into the game as well as a new location called the Caverns of El Dorado. Kulve Taroth “protects itself with a glittering coat of metal”. The patch weighs in at a hefty 1.2GB for both PlayStation 4 and XBox One.
Capcom has proudly announced that Monster Hunter: World is the company’s biggest game ever and that over 7.5M units have been shipped worldwide including physical and digital downloads. For a console-exclusive title, those are impressive numbers. The PC release of MHW will not come until late in 2018 that will expand those massive numbers even more.