Capcom has announced the cancellation of a planned lecture on Monster Hunter Wilds’ optimization at Japan’s CEDEC 2025 (Computer Entertainment Developers Conference). This decision likely has to do with harassment and targeted threats its staff has been facing over Monster Hunter Wilds’ performance issues.
CEDEC is Japan’s largest game development conference, bringing together industry professionals from major game companies to share technical know-how about game development. The 2025 event is scheduled to run from July 22 to 24, with around 200 sessions planned. Several of these are organized by Capcom, covering topics such as narrative design and UI art, using Monster Hunter Wilds as a case study.
Among these, a session titled “Making Monster Hunter Wilds run smoothly! Everything you need to know about optimization” has been cancelled. According to CEDEC’s description, the lecture was supposed to cover the technicalities of performance tuning using real-life examples from Monster Hunter Wilds’ development, with the engineers covering issues related to CPU, GPU and memory load.
While Capcom did not officially specify the reason for the cancellation, it likely relates to recent backlash surrounding the game. On June 30, Monster Hunter Wilds got its long-awaited Free Title Update 2, which introduced new monsters Lagiacrus and Seregios, along with gameplay- and performance-related adjustments. However, following the update, players began reporting critical bugs, frame rate drops and crashes. A patch was released on July 1, but some players reported CPU usage spikes after installing the update.
Capcom has acknowledged these concerns on its official X account and expressed its commitment to improving the game’s stability. However, criticism from players in Japan and overseas remains harsh, and some of the comments addressed to Capcom’s staff were extreme enough to prompt a statement from the company.
On July 4, Capcom issued a notice about its Anti-Customer Harassment Policy. While emphasizing how much it values player feedback, the company said that its staff has been facing harassment via customer support channels and social media. Alarmingly, this includes targeted threats against individuals, so it’s very likely Capcom was thinking of the developers’ safety as another factor when it decided to cancel the CEDEC lecture. Meanwhile, the company warned that it will be taking legal action in severe cases of harassment against its employees.
