Comments on: “Gamers’ moral conduct hasn’t kept up with the times,” Japanese analyst suggests as Monster Hunter Wilds criticism escalates into death threats and personal attacks

By: Oh for the love of...

Oh for the love of... — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:04:43 +0000

In reply to Tea. And you wonder why people call you a racist.

By: Bruh

Bruh — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:04:10 +0000

In reply to Clover. If you're this upset about them being upset that they're getting death threats, you're 100% throwing said death threats at them. Why else would you be so defensive about it?

By: Nah

Nah — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:45:50 +0000

In reply to Dexal. There IS no genuine criticism in thsse threats.

By: Nope

Nope — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:45:21 +0000

In reply to Bob Ross. Calling things woke is not genuine criticism. It's stupidity.

By: Bro

Bro — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:44:33 +0000

In reply to MBII. A lot of people would say otherwise.

By: Dude

Dude — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:42:52 +0000

In reply to Jim. You're not helping in the slightest. You're about as self aware as a rutabaga.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 15:19:15 +0000

Part of the problem is that the consumer expects too much. Instead of accepting lower graphics, the consumer expects 4k ultra HD without gameplay issues. It really doesn’t help that there are gamers who have accepted toxicity as part of communication. Giving and accepting criticism are important, but threats aren’t criticism.

I’m not saying that performance issues are acceptable but people need to be realistic with their hardware. My laptop was chugging with the FREE benchmark test (15-30 FPS on low settings) so I chose to get the game on PS5. Games are getting bigger and pushing hardware more and more, there needs to be give somewhere.

By: Trev

Trev — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 02:09:51 +0000

Looking at the comments, coupled with the attitude of the gamers mentioned in the article…yeah, we are pretty well cooked.

By: Lizardboi

Lizardboi — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:53:50 +0000

Shit like this is why I havnt bought the game. Even though I’ve played every other monster hunter since freedom unite.

Anyone expecting to not get death threats from gamers are hilariously out of touch with reality. Maybe Instead of crying about the morality of losers, how about you just fix your product?

By: Nah

Nah — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:16:50 +0000

Devs morals have slipped far beyond that of gamers. Sounds like victim blaming to me. But you got people in this thread calling other people kids for having an opinion that differs. Not because they are right or wrong, just different. I can tell from this comment section is not the place for me. Take a long look at yourself before you start calling out other people for their morals

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:37:18 +0000

The reason this is happening is because Capcom is refusing the acknowledgement that there are some serious performance issues with the pc version of the game.

By: Mabus

Mabus — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:40:34 +0000

It has been months since the game’s release. If you had done something you would not have been in this mess. They are just buying time and excuses to normalize poor performance as part of the game

By: Karmak

Karmak — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:22:23 +0000

Reading the comments, I think most of the commentors would be better of going back to fortnite with the rest of the kids. If you don’t like something play it, it’s rather simple. From the way I see it Wilds has a rather healthy community, I’m not losing any sleep over these youngsters quitting or belly aching. So you know, grow up or make your own games

By: Thescottyp

Thescottyp — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 04:59:52 +0000

I don’t condone death threats at all…

But I’m definitely not surprised when a major publisher releases a game that is not playable to any decent standard whilst at the system requirements they recommended… Then puts out a statement they will fix and doesn’t… Then puts out a statement they’ll fix and doesn’t… Then puts out a statement and fix that doesn’t fix it but says they’ll fix it later…. And here we are 5 months after release… Still unplayable, still no news on when it will be fixed, and to make matters worse this is NOT the first time the company has had this issue.

By: Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:21:28 +0000

Personally dont agree with individuals who go beyond the realm of gamering to attack individual personal that work for certain game companies and individual who work on a specific of a game that people may not find fun or what not. If you a person who feel the need to attack a human being for a game that being what you expect it to be. You need help or jail. That’s so wrong for that, we live in a crazy world in general nowadays.

By: AZOURYS

AZOURYS — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:19:00 +0000

Wauw it’s almost like it’s bit about the fact that it’s a videogame but you are playing with people’s hard earned money. You’re taking their cash and delivering bullcrap and when you get normal feedback you do nothing with it so people lose their shit

By: OMG

OMG — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:02:46 +0000

I’m completely fine with the game the way it’s going I’m on PC and haven’t had any issues graphics wise. The only problem I have is that it takes forever to load up. so all you people complaining about it graphics wise get a better setup or shut up. I’ve played Monster Hunter Series since day one love them all and this one is no different for me.

By: Mikedot

Mikedot — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:57:11 +0000

This is nonsense. Just because a handful of people say something mean on the Internet, it does not mean that all legit critique of the product should be considered null and void.

If these people can’t handle having their work criticized, then they should leave the gaming industry. We as consumers shouldn’t have to sugar coating our criticism when we have to spend our hard earned money on a video game.

By: Ruime

Ruime — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:12:22 +0000

Well, when you promise certain things in a game and you deliver junk. Pretty sure that is also cause for a law suit, maybe not threats of assault and death, but definitely legal action against Capcom for producing crap. All game companies have been lazy lately and just letting half finished games out…. with promises to fix it…. but thwy dont.

By: Eggman

Eggman — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:35:55 +0000

Death threats are a crime and authorities need to investigate, but I don’t think it’s fair to use this as a form of immunity to divert attention from the problem.
In recent years, it has become standard to use comments from toxic minorities to deflect issues in games.

By: Bibby

Bibby — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:27:20 +0000

Its hard to take these statements seriously when the gaming industry as a whole has used this as an excuse to deflect criticism or to tug at peoples heart strings to make them feel bad or slander the actual criticism.

Even if Gamers’ moral conduct hasn’t kept up with the times, then the same could be said about developers game development conduct. If were going to endlessly be fed slop repeatedly with the same issues that every one of the games predecessor’s had. With no noticeable improvement at all in that regard after a decade… its no longer on the gaming community, but the developers and publishers for refusing to actually make an effort to not let the same mistakes happen again, and again, and again. Wilds had the same problems that Rise had, and Rise had the same problems that World had… literally nothing has changed outside the monsters and the environment.

Hyperfixating on the death threats is and has always been a deflection tactic of these industries to take away from the actual problems being presented.

By: Ferlucio

Ferlucio — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:04:34 +0000

Let’s Cherry pick 5 instances of bad actors in order to ignore 10000s of valid criticisms.

By: Zipper

Zipper — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:22:21 +0000

Yea we got to a point where kids were taught they do not have to respect elders or anyone else, they can not be punished or grounded or parents could literally face legal actions. Schools step in and violate parent rights all these things have led to where we are morally bankrupt.

By: Aze

Aze — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:34:21 +0000

None of those meet the legal minimum to be considered “death threats” in America. Those are just common trash talk. To be a credible death threat, the perp has to mention a time, place, method, and intent. There can be no ambiguity for that to stick in America.

If I had a nickel for everytime someone told me to “die” or “kys” in a lobby, I would be on a megayacht typing this.

By: Leonid

Leonid — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:55:15 +0000

This is why I never play multiplayer games. I don’t care what people say most of the time, but death threats are inexcusable and should be taken seriously. Although the main reason I keep my distance is to preserve my own identity. There are too many people out there who can determine, and later publicly disclose exactly where a specific player lives.

With this said, I think that is the larger threat. I believe the people involved in moderating the issue described in this article have chosen to handle a fly with a sledgehammer so to speak.

By: Oof

Oof — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:20:28 +0000

What’s even more childish is singling out the outlier comments in order to discredit all criticism of your product. People saying dumb things has been true ever since we moved past “ooga booga”, and what also hasn’t changed is rich executives thin skin to genuine criticism

By: Tea

Tea — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:58:06 +0000

Typical Asian devs taking standard internet comments and blowing them out of proportion. There are obviously no real or credible threats they’re just grasping at straws because people aren’t eating the monster Hunter slop anymore and are starting to push back with legitimate criticism on their poor game design decisions.

By: Clover

Clover — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:53:05 +0000

This is business speak for “We released a bad product and don’t like criticism”

By: Dexal

Dexal — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:17:23 +0000

I don’t condone death threats. But I’m getting tired of game companies cherry picking those from the actual criticism to deflect they messed up.

People making mostly empty death threats has sadly always been a thing. So stop pretending like this is only now a problem.

By: Bob Ross

Bob Ross — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:10:28 +0000

Pathetic attempt at deflecting genuine criticism of the game.