Capcom canceled a planned lecture on Monster Hunter Wilds’ optimization at Japan’s CEDEC 2025

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Capcom cancels lecture about Monster Hunter Wilds’ optimization as devs face threats and harassment - AUTOMATON WEST

Capcom's engineers were supposed to hold a CEDEC presentation on Monster Hunter Wilds on July 24, but this has been cancelled.
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At this point, whenever "harassment" is brought up i just assume its an excuse to not admit terrible decisions.

"Yeah we sold a completely broken product to users then broke it further, but harassment something something give us sympathy points pls and ignore our shitness"
 
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I always question how much "harassment" happens, because I'll see companies conflate insults or mockery with actual threats. The threats or other weirdness is garbage though.

That said, I'd echo why they would EVER think they're qualified to have a lecture on game optimization when they did a shitshow of a job? Not to mention they have had pathetic communication on timeline-ing real improvements to game's performance problems across all platforms.

They still released a broken unfinished product knowing it was like that.
 
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Yes my first thought was also to question the legitimacy of the harassment. But it's very confusing.

On the one hand, with a title like "Making Monster Hunter Wilds run smoothly! Everything you need to know about optimization", it's very likely they needed a bullshit reason to cancel it.

On the other hand, with a title like that, it's very likely you were really harassed.

I don't know man.
 
I like most Capcom games, but I got burned with Dragons Dogma 2. Only a DLC may save that game, if they even bother with it, and next gen consoles to resolve the performance issues seems like. I am not gonna buy any more day 1 Capcom games, and they have only themselves to blame for this.
 
I'm not advocating for harrasment or anything like that, but maybe this will make them think twice before churning out unoptimsed shite again. or at least one can hope.
 
So let me get this straight, the game releases in a terribly optimized state, each update to it either doesn't fix it or creates a new problem, and the writer of this article assumes (yes assumes as Capcom didn't state why they cancelled the panel) the reason the panel was cancelled was because of "harassment"? Not because it was a panel going over how to optimize a game, using a game that is very poorly optimized as it's example, but because of assumed harassment that doesn't seem to even have been harassment, but people rightfully upset their $70 game doesn't work right.

Yeah going to say the article is a bit click baity.

Edit: OP should make it clear that Capcom never said it was harassment why this was cancelled, but the article writer assuming as such

While Capcom did not officially specify the reason for the cancellation, it likely relates to recent backlash surrounding the game.
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Am i supposed to feel bad? No. Gtfo. One of the largest devs in the world, and you release your flagship game in this state? I am glad everyone is permanently shitting on them now. It'll hopefully teach em not to release games in a broken state, or choose engines not made for the genre.
 
As usual everyone should just wait for the REAL main line MH ... probably on switch 2 first then others later.
 
Guilty_AI said:
At this point, whenever "harassment" is brought up i just assume its an excuse to not admit terrible decisions.

"Yeah we sold a completely broken product to users then broke it further, but harassment something something give us sympathy points pls and ignore our shitness"
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Its the modern "safe" word
 
Guilty_AI said:
At this point, whenever "harassment" is brought up i just assume its an excuse to not admit terrible decisions.
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There have been violent incidents or varying levels in the past with Japan involving crazed fans or just mentally unhinged people who go too far. There's been multiple crimes against idols and voice actresses, the horrific Kyoto Animation studio massacre, etc.

Even if Japan is probably one of the lower crime rates in terms of nations, shit can still get real there. If one actually read the full post by the OP, which I'm guessing most didn't based on the reactions, Capcom staff have gotten specific threats against them. They'd be fools to not take that shit seriously, even if it's just a tiny chance that one of those threats is actually carried out.

At the end of the day, if people are unsatisfied with a video game, okay, but the priority and focus should be on people's lives at the end of the day, period. Don't blame Capcom, blame the scumbags who sent in those threats to begin with.
 
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As terrible as the performance and optimization of the game is (and you can find several posts I have made criticizing the game for not just its technical shortcomings, but also design decisions that have made Wilds the least engaging Monster Hunter game in history), the losers sending death threats to the developers over this are somehow even worse. Imagine sending death threats because your shiny new toy doesnt look as pretty as you want it to

Grow the fuck up
 
Doom85 said:
There have been violent incidents or varying levels in the past with Japan involving crazed fans or just mentally unhinged people who go too far. There's been multiple crimes against idols and voice actresses, the horrific Kyoto Animation studio massacre, etc.

Even if Japan is probably one of the lower crime rates in terms of nations, shit can still get real there. If one actually read the full post by the OP, which I'm guessing most didn't based on the reactions, Capcom staff have gotten specific threats against them. They'd be fools to not take that shit seriously, even if it's just a tiny chance that one of those threats is actually carried out.

At the end of the day, if people are unsatisfied with a video game, okay, but the priority and focus should be on people's lives at the end of the day, period. Don't blame Capcom, blame the scumbags who sent in those threats to begin with.
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And i sure would take it more seriously if it didn't keep being used at every single turn for the smallest of criticisms.
 
Bernardougf said:
Its the modern "safe" word
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I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the harassment claims. Some fans can be quite extreme in their fandom, and in this case it's specific to the Japanese community of MH. Capcom released a statement only a few days ago regarding the abuse they've received online from said Japanese fans, and it included but weren't limited to personal attacks and threats of harm of staff members. Not only through their customer support channel but on other social media platforms. There is a difference between harsh criticism and actual harassment of employees, and some fans can be really psychotic.
 
Was this supposed to be a commitment to improving the game or some devsplanation that serves for an excuse for why the game isn't optimized or can't be quickly? Weird title.
 
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SILKYSMOOTH30FPS said:
Am i supposed to feel bad? No. Gtfo. One of the largest devs in the world, and you release your flagship game in this state? I am glad everyone is permanently shitting on them now. It'll hopefully teach em not to release games in a broken state, or choose engines not made for the genre.
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I hope you haven't said we have to threat the developers to have an optimized game because it's something else to claim and surely not help your cause.
 
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Cool, and I care more about the developers' potential safety in this moment. That shouldn't be a hot take.
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If you do, you should condemn the use of "harassment" as excuse for every little thing, otherwise no one will take it seriously when it's actually something dangerous rather than some mean social media message or rude costumer support email.
 
Honestly we are a big part of the problem. Look at the vitriol we have in all facets of our society over basically nothing. Who harasses people over Monster Hunter Fucking Wilds. Jokes aside, let's get a grip fellas. Pick your battles. Let it ride man.
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This is no longer about each individual situation, but rather society has become like a crazy person off their meds. Harassment is always bad but this shit is not just bad it's crazy. We are approaching getting angry over nothing arbitrarily at scale.
 
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I hope you haven't said we have to threat the developers to have an optimized game because it's something else to claim and surely not help your cause.
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If shitting about optimization everywhere you can is considering as threating, then yes, please do.

And if some dumbass on twitter did threat them, so what? This happens to every game that has ever come out. You can't do anything about it. But i bet you Capcom considers people complaining about how trash tier their game runs as a threat, and i am supposed to feel bad? It's not happening, they can fk off.
 
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I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the harassment claims. Some fans can be quite extreme in their fandom, and in this case it's specific to the Japanese community of MH. Capcom released a statement only a few days ago regarding the abuse they've received online from said Japanese fans, and it included but weren't limited to personal attacks and threats of harm of staff members. Not only through their customer support channel but on other social media platforms. There is a difference between harsh criticism and actual harassment of employees, and some fans can be really psychotic.
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Hunnn it can be .. can you point to me the examples of japanese gaming devs being attacked in real life ? I tried to search and couldn't comeout with much.

Because the online "harassment" I have no doubt is true .. and Im sorry but I cant be bothered by the snowflake online fake drama.
 
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I haven't played Monster Hunter Wilds. I don't know how well it plays. But the way these conferences work is they send out calls for topics and people who worked on certain things and want to get their work in front of an audience of peers submit topics, that then get chosen.

Somebody worked on MH Wild optimization. We don't know how it ran before that person did the optimization work. We also don't know if the person is happy with the state of the game or what they think could be done further. We don't know what they will incorporate in the topic. It's a professional presentation for people who are faced with similar challenges in the real world, a real world where you usually can't do everything you want within the time and resources allotted... it's not some ComicCon fan glazing session.
 
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