User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Kulve Taroth/@comment-4370375-20181211174514

I feel like many have forgotten that Monster Hunter is a multiplayer game first and foremost while single player has always been an afterthought that could be skipped altogether until the online campaign is finished. Multiplayer has always been the biggest selling point of the franchise so I find it odd that people are only now complaining about it. Yes, 4U had points that forced you to do single players stuff but they were few and far between.

Hell, the original PS2 game was created because Capcom wanted a multiplayer game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPEBQ11M7NA

World is the first time you can't do that because the campaigns were fused into one.

And to the guy bitching that MH shouldn't deal with MMORPG mechanics, I'd argue that MH was always supposed to be an MMO on console but hardware limits kept that from being possible until World and MHW itself is the game Capcom wanted to make from the start with the original MH on PS2.

Now could this have been done better? Yes but by complaining that it exists, you've already missed the point of MH.