{"id":44983,"date":"2025-02-28T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=44983"},"modified":"2025-02-28T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:16:28","slug":"we-havent-sold-a-single-game-since-monster-hunter-wilds-release-says-japanese-indie-game-dev-as-wilds-edges-close-to-1-million-concurrent-players-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/we-havent-sold-a-single-game-since-monster-hunter-wilds-release-says-japanese-indie-game-dev-as-wilds-edges-close-to-1-million-concurrent-players-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe haven\u2019t sold a single game since Monster Hunter Wilds\u2019 release\u201d says Japanese indie game dev, as Wilds edges close to 1 million concurrent players on Steam\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On February 28, indie developer STP Works made a humorous post on X saying that they haven\u2019t sold a single game on Steam since Capcom\u2019s highly anticipated <strong>Monster Hunter Wilds <\/strong>came out.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>STP Works is a two-person indie developer that makes low-cost multiplayer games. Their releases include the Old Coin Pusher Friends series of co-op games with a Japanese theme.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30e2\u30f3\u30cf\u30f3\u304c\u767a\u58f2\u3057\u3066\u304b\u3089Steam\u30671\u672c\u3082\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u58f2\u308c\u3066\u306a\u304f\u3066\u30ef\u30ed\u30bf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fncEdWKnUR\">pic.twitter.com\/fncEdWKnUR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; STP WORKS\uff20\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u958b\u767a (@stpworks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stpworks\/status\/1895329764522762299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation: <\/strong><em>We haven\u2019t sold a single game since Monster Hunter Wilds\u2019 launch, lol.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the X post, it seems they were selling games right up until 8 hours before Monster Hunter Wild\u2019s release, when sales suddenly flatlined. It is unclear whether this was directly caused by Monster Hunter Wilds or is merely a coincidence. Although their post is quite humorous, it wouldn\u2019t be a complete surprise if other games saw fewer sales and lower levels of user activity for the next week or so because tens of thousands of people were busy hunting in Capcom\u2019s latest game.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, at the time of writing, the Steam version of Monster Hunter Wilds been out for just 2 hours and already has an estimated concurrent player count of almost 1 million (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/2246340\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SteamDB<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monster Hunter Wilds is out now on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie game developer STP Works took to X to jokingly point out that Monster Hunter Wilds popularity might be impacting their bottom line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":44987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-44983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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