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Persisting technical issues<\/a> and a lackluster game loop<\/a> have resulted in harsh criticism of Capcom\u2019s Monster Hunter Wilds<\/strong>. The game currently has an Overwhelmingly Negative rating on Steam<\/a> based on 20,000 player reviews from the past month, and its official social media channels are swamped with players\u2019 demands for fixes. However, the criticism has escalated beyond the game itself in certain instances, with developers reportedly being personally attacked and threatened. The issue seems to be particularly severe in Japanese online spaces, as the topic has even earned coverage from major national newspapers like The Sankei Shimbun<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monster<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Capcom issued a statement regarding its Anti-Customer Harassment Policy<\/a> (only in Japanese, notably), in which it said its employees have been faced with harassment, threats of harm and threats of business disruptions. Furthermore, some of these instances were supposedly directed at individuals personally, addressing developers by name. Capcom warned it would be taking legal action in cases when criticism goes \u201cbeyond the scope of socially acceptable standards.\u201d Although the company did not state so directly, the warning was, based on the timing, likely related to the controversy surrounding Monster Hunter Wilds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few days following this announcement, Capcom also cancelled a CEDEC lecture<\/a> during which its engineers were supposed to hold a presentation about Wilds\u2019 optimization, which may have been done as a safety precaution. Reporting on the worsening phenomenon of harassment in the game industry, the Sankei Shimbun notes, \u201cDie, \u201cGet on your knees,\u201d \u201cIncompetent scum\u201d – these are just some of the many words of abuse hurled online toward specific creators behind Monster Hunter Wilds.<\/em>” Although this kind of crude language is nothing new to gamers, it is increasingly becoming targeted at individuals working in game companies \u2013 on a personal level, which makes the issue a lot more serious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monster<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Sankei talked to Hideki Yasuda, a game industry analyst at Toyo Securities, who commented, \u201cIt\u2019s always been common for some fans to lash out when a game\u2019s quality doesn\u2019t meet expectations. But in recent years, companies have increasingly put individual creators in the spotlight as a means of marketing, which has turned them into public targets.\u201d Yasuda goes on to note that with how widespread social media has come to be, society now demands the same level of moral conduct online as it does in real life, but \u201cwhen it comes to gaming, user awareness hasn\u2019t quite kept up with this shift.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, there has been an increasing tendency among Japanese game companies to publish policies against customer harassment, with some recent instances being Square Enix<\/a>, Sega<\/a>, and Level-5<\/a>. Among them, Sega even publicly announced that it had taken legal action against an individual who continuously made \u201cexcessive defamatory and insulting remarks\u201d about an employee. It might be important to note that in Japan, the memory of the Kyoto Animation arson attack<\/a> \u2013 which took the lives of 36 people \u2013 is still fresh in the memories of creatives, and it serves as a very stark reminder of how much harm a seemingly random online threat can lead to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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