This is a large scale expansion, you are referring to patch updates which have included new monsters and content for free. This is beyond the scope of those by a large magnitude.
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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Expansion announced
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This is a large scale expansion, you are referring to patch updates which have included new monsters and content for free. This is beyond the scope of those by a large magnitude.
This is the equivalent of the old "ultimate" editions added content. Traditionally you'd have to buy a full priced game with the base game + the ultimate content but looks like this time they'll let us just buy the additional content on its own
They've been doing that for a long time. This expansion is essentially standing in for the "G" version that Capcom usually sells a year and a half/two years after each MH game comes out - instead of making the community buy an entirely new game, they're just selling it as an expansion instead.
I mean, they did add that so I don't see what the problem is.
Thanks so much for the clarification peeps. Apologies for the confusion.
I'll be in day one but it's far out:(
This week they will keep rolling with Capcom Cup SF5 Season 4 ^_^
Still need the return of my Breath of Fire and Dino Crisis then i'll shall say CapGod has returned!!!
the delay for PC is pretty shitty...but the lack of trial really fucking sucks since the moment it went announced I went screaming to a friend about it...now I get to tell him "nvm jk you cant try the game"
I always liked gunning Gigginox. I barely used ranged weapons in MHW, but if they bring back Giggi I might return just to pew pew this motherfucker off the ceiling :D
I am interested to buy the game, but hesitant because I don't want to sink another 200+ hrs. My backlog is too long already.
Well, when this is the only game that Capcom has put out on PC that they can't figure out how to get in line with other versions in terms of content, reactions tend to be a lot grumpier, if entirely justified. It is inexcusable just how badly they've been handling things for that particular audience, particularly in the wake of how successful it's been.
Typically Capcom charges full price for G-rank on Nintendo consoles. I get the feeling its not going to be big in content size, unless console gamers are prepare to pay full MSRP for this expansion. I might wait for a Monster Hunter GOTY edition with G-rank then as a year is along time, who knows, Nintendo might get a new Monster Hunter released bu then.
PC delay means I'm out, unless it's a short period like a week or two, or something close to that, and all content patches afterwards are day and date with console.
If it's a massive delay like all the subsequent PC content patches have been I'm not supporting that.
This is getting to be like Sega with western PSO fans, where back in the PSU days we were 6 months behind Japan because reasons.
If it's a massive delay like all the subsequent PC content patches have been I'm not supporting that.
This is getting to be like Sega with western PSO fans, where back in the PSU days we were 6 months behind Japan because reasons.
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This is unnecessary. Chill out.
Iceborne is the same size as past G-Rank expansions. They're giving owners of the vanilla game an upgrade path this time, because cause they can now, whereas they could not before due largely to technical limitations.
Expansions on 3DS were not a thing, and Switch only ever got Generations Ultimate. That's why you had to buy a brand-new, full-priced standalone release before.
I understand folks being uneasy about the long wait for G-Rank, but personally I am gonna need a lot of time to play through so many other games before getting to come back to MH:W with renewed hunger.
More than likely we will first see what Yasunori Ichinose has been doing with his monster hunter title.
Yup. also this was on a new platform for them and I bet they slow rolled starting development till they knew they had a decent audience. Least we don't have to wait another year after that for the English translation.
Still kind of hope we get some news about switch. I miss playing this game on a hand held.
My concern is by the time the expansion is released most of the "decent audience" will have moved on. 😕
There's nothing stopping them from moving back. Literally nothing.
I will definitely buy the expansion next year.
At Kulve... If it yields a better bow than the current electric Kulve Arrow, sure, count me in.
AT Nergigante... Yawn.
Not touching CDPR, thank you very much.
At Kulve... If it yields a better bow than the current electric Kulve Arrow, sure, count me in.
AT Nergigante... Yawn.
Not touching CDPR, thank you very much.
I don't know what decent audience is but people will come back for the expansion, I'm really surprised how active the game still is on PS4 for the kind of game it is (it doesn't even have PvP), there is a big hardcore community it seems.
It would cost them extra to get exclusivity over xbox and they probably figured it wasn't worth it.
Let's assume autumn 2019 is around thanksgiving. It'll be going up against other big name titles, which we know nothing about at this point, during that time.
Don't get me wrong. I'm hour 1 on this. I just hope we get the ones that left to come back.
And, Saint14 is right. There's still a pretty dedicated community left on PS4.
Nearly two years for the first expansion, and you're hoping for a second? We'd be well into next gen by then.
Why are we arguing about Capcom charging for this?
Last generation we would have had to buy an entirely new game at full MSRP for something like this.
You finished the campaign? Because MHW is a GAAS title. There is currently an ongoing event with unique quests and items.
Last generation we would have had to buy an entirely new game at full MSRP for something like this.
You finished the campaign? Because MHW is a GAAS title. There is currently an ongoing event with unique quests and items.
This game has no levels in the traditional sense, it's all about your gear. Even if your current gear isn't up to snuff you'll get there by playing the expansion.
And you still have a full year until it comes out so that's plenty of time to catch up if you need.
The first expansion coming 20 months after launch at the earliest? Whoa...hope the playerbase holds/comes back.
Intriguing on the PC front considering how strong of support the player base has been. Understandable with development timelines but intriguing nonetheless.
My experience playing a vanilla MonHan then jumping into the G-rank upgrade is limited to Generations. However, in that game and my understanding of previous games, is that they reset your rank back to the point where you lifted the cap and then you went from there, i.e. right into the new content.
In World, there are several HR caps, though. So, it's unclear where the G-rank will begin, but if I had to guess, they will probably reset everyone down to HR15, the end of the story proper. I'm sure they will say explicitly in the coming months.
With how long I'll have to wait, maybe I'll find a goddamn sword streamstone by the time Iceborne drops.
Of course we will. It's not like Monster Hunter Players need a constant games as a service model to keep us playing every week. Everyone I know who's into the series dumps hundreds of hours into the base game and does it all over again for the next one. This expansion will bring us all back in full force.
Didn't stop them for most G rank expansions. It was fairly recently that they started only staggering those releases by 1 year.
Not sure where this sudden sales concern is coming from for the best selling MH game of all time that just sold gangbusters after a 6mo delay on PC at full price.
Better than that, this being an expansion instead of a full $60 rerelease should help instill more confidence in its sales potential, not less.
Is it leftover bad blood from Switch folks? I still remember how fucking insufferable MonHun sales and Media create threads were near launch because of some weird sour grapes console war nonsense.
Why not? A smaller team works on an expansion while the larger main team on World 2.
I've got three. But I'm a LBG/HBG user. I have only gotten one hero stone for those. This game rarely gives you what you want. I wish they would've implemented a trade system.