Summary
There are a lot of interesting statistics surrounding the launch ofMonster Hunter Wilds. It reached over1.3 million concurrent users on Steam, the most of any MonHun title, and it’s also currently theworst-reviewed game in the serieson the Valve-owned platform.Wilds also has fewer large monstersthan bothWorldandRisedid when they launched.
Another interesting statistic that we’ve managed to glean from Monster Hunter Wilds' achievements is that players are choosing to hunt monsters instead of capturing them at an alarming rate.
Monster Hunter Wilds Players Definitely Prefer Hunting Monsters
Monster Hunter Wilds has two achievements related to capturing and hunting monsters: Capture Pro and Monster Slayer. Capture Pro challenges players to capture 50 large monsters, while Monster Slayer tasks them with Hunting 100 to completion. Unsurprisingly, players favor hunting over capturing— the amount they choose to do both, though, is surprising.
OnSteam, 4.9 percent of players have hunted 100 large monsters, whereas only 0.4 percent have captured 50. On PlayStation, the split is 4.8 percent versus 0.3 percent, and on Xbox, it’s 2.78 percent versus 0.19 percent, a stark difference.
This means, on average, players have hunted 100 monsters 12 times more than they’ve captured 50.
On its own, this isn’t too shocking. It is Monster Hunter and not Monster Capture, after all, but comparing it withMonster Hunter World’s achievements, the contrast is huge. On Steam, 40.9 percent of players have hunted 100 monsters versus 28.2 percent who have captured 50. This makes the ratio much closer to 2:1 versus the 12:1 currently seen in Wilds.
Naturally, the number for World is likely to be a lot higher as the game has been out for significantly longer, and therefore, more people have had a chance to get both achievements, but the gap still feels huge.
One potential reason for the difference is that Monster Hunter Wilds doesn’t actually give you a mandatory capture quest until you hit High Rank, which seems pretty late. This means that players who are new to the series aren’t likely to have the knowledge or tools to capture Monsters and are, therefore, simply hunting them. Whatever it is, though, Hunters gon' hunt.
