Monster Hunter Wilds is one of Capcom's most successful games ever. The game launched in a pretty broken state for PC players, and there were some characters that didn't go down too well, but it sold like hot cakes and became one of Steam's most-played games of all time.
Well, you got what you asked for.
Less than three months later, however, players are dropping like flies, seemingly at a rate that is far, far quicker than Monster Hunter: World ever lost them.
Initially, it looked like Monster Hunter Wilds players were sticking with the game for longer than World. A higher percentage of them hit Hunter Rank 100, and more of them hunted 100 large monsters. That could have been a false dawn, though.
According to SteamDB, yesterday, on April 19, Monster Hunter Wilds peaked at 41,101 players, a 97 percent drop from its launch week peak of 1.4 million. In the seven years since its release, Monster Hunter: World has never lost more than 92 percent of its launch week peak, and the game still managed highs of over 26,000 yesterday.
There are a couple of things to consider here. This number only takes into account one...
