POST-LAUNCH SUPPORT AUDIT · VERIFIED
Monster Hunter: World
Capcom · 2018 · Action RPG
Did the studio keep supporting this game after launch? This page is the evidence.
AFTERCARE SCORE
81
Tier B · Strong
Pattern: Steady
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LAUNCH CONDITIONGood
AFTERCARE PATTERNSteady
AUDIT STATUSVerified
A textbook planned live-service run: three years of free title updates and collaborations, then a deliberate grand-finale sunset — not abandonment.
01Score breakdown
Patch Speed16 / 20
Maintenance Quality16 / 20
Communication17 / 20
Player Responsiveness15 / 20
Follow-Through17 / 20
Five categories, 20 points each, 100 total. Full method on the methodology page.
02The evidence
Launched January 26, 2018 (consoles) to 90-Metacritic reviews and became Capcom's best-selling game ever (15M+ shipped). Post-launch ran like clockwork: free monsters (Deviljho, Kulve Taroth, Lunastra, Behemoth), weekly event quests, and major collaborations (The Witcher, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed), followed by the Iceborne expansion and five free title updates ending with Fatalis on October 1, 2020.
- Iceborne's PC launch (Jan 2020) suffered save-corruption and CPU-usage bugs; Capcom apologized and shipped hotfix 10.12.01 within a week
- Five free Iceborne title updates on a published roadmap, with PC/console schedules fully synced from April 2020 onward
- Regular Developer Diaries and a public 2020 content roadmap; the COVID-delayed Alatreon update was announced and rescheduled openly
- Support ended deliberately with a final Developer Diary and the Fatalis grand finale (Oct 1, 2020) — a planned sunset as the team moved to Rise, not a quiet abandonment
03Sources
01Monster Hunter World Iceborne PC and console updates 'to sync from April'Press reportVisit02Monster Hunter World: Iceborne PC patch 10.12.01 fixes CPU & save bugsPress reportVisit03Monster Hunter World's Final Big Update Adding Boss Fight With FatalisPress reportVisit04Monster Hunter World: Iceborne's Final Update Brings Back FatalisPress reportVisit
04Audit record
- Launch date
- 2018-01-26
- Evidence coverage through
- Oct 4, 2026
- Methodology
- v1.0
- Audit confidence
- Medium
- Why this confidence
- Roadmap-level story is well sourced (title updates, 2020 roadmap, final Fatalis update, PC hotfix), but day-to-day patch cadence and exact event-quest scheduling come from press summaries rather than primary patch notes.
- Score band
- Strong (Tier B)