User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Leshen and Ancient Leshen/@comment-4370375-20190830190153/@comment-4969421-20190831183240

>Yes, that's why the game connects to the internet as soon as it starts, something that didn't happen when single player and multiplayer were separate.

If there's no internet the game will continue anyways and the gameplay will be exactly the same. At most you'll miss a daily bonus which 99,9% of the time is trivial at best.

> You act as though Capcom has any control over the decisions of console makers or internet providers, they don't and they shouldn't have to compromise their design for shit that they have no control over.

I'm saying that if you go in one direction for the base game, then do a complete 180 on the game's DLC with no previous notice whatsoever that's bullshit no matter how you try to justify it. Like at the very least they could warn us? "Hey guys, for this game we're gonna give a heavy focus to multiplayer, much more than previous games" so those without internet connection or money for a PS subscription can at least reconsider purchasing the game? Instead they make World the most solo-friendly game in the series, except for 3 monsters where multiplayer is required more than any other monster in the franchise. That's just absurd.

>I also have to question why you prefer playing alone cause if it's because you believe the everyone except yourself is a shit player out to ruin your hunt, you may want to rethink calling others toxic for challenging that mindset

Again with the retarded levels of projecting. Did you even read my previous post? I personally prefer solo because it's faster, less tedious, and makes it easier to be aware of the monster's actions and my own, too. You can keep telling yourself you're right and they're wrong because you perceive the reasons they favor solo as "toxic", at the end of the day, neither opinion matters but you're still justifying fucking over a sizeable portion of the playerbase.

>When it is between forcing players to play an specific way and forcing developers to compromise the design of their own game, I'm always going to choose the former cause it is the lesser of two evils.

There's nothing to be compromised because MH is already pretty balanced when it comes to playing solo vs mutliplayer. There's plenty of reasons to play online, even though "hunting with friends" is the only reason you should need. The difference is it wasnt obligatory before, like it is now. Justifying the removal of options is not only a terrible complacent mentality, but it also ends up in the justification of removing content ("Well, it's no problem they removed every other weapon in the game, after all, the devs always intended GS to be the flagship weapon type, and only gave you the "option" of using other weapons as a nicety")

>The latter is what leads to shit like lootboxes which Ryozo vetoed specifically because they go against the core design of Monster Hunter as a cooperative multiplayer experience that just happens to also give you the option to play alone, empasis on "option".

I have a hard time processing this entire sentence as a serious statement. How the fuck do you come to the conclusion of "they're forcing multiplayer so they don't have to add lotboxes"? Like, are you for real?