Monster Hunter Wilds is seeing a mass exodus of players following the rather disastrous Final Fantasy 14 collaboration. While the game hit a peak of 120,000 concurrent players during the update on the 30th, that figure has plummeted to under 60,000 as of the 14th. That is a 50% drop in just a fortnight.

The Monster Hunter Wilds third free title update brought in the Omega Planetes, alongside Dark Knight hunter gear and Pictomancer magic. Initially, this pushed the daily peak concurrent players to 127,993. The problem is that players aren't just finding the Omega Planetes 'challenging'—they’re calling it fundamentally unfair, cementing this as arguably the worst title update in the game's history.

Things were already looking grim for the title, but the post-update Steam user reviews took a nosedive into 'Overwhelmingly Negative' territory. While the recent sentiment has recovered slightly to 'Mostly Negative' (with 5,922 reviews at 24% positive) as of the 14th, the player count has halved to 58,532. It seems the community feels the update didn't fix a thing; if anything, it just added to the frustration.

Recent reviews over the past week are still hammering the design of the Omega Planetes and a general lack of content. To make matters worse, technical woes—ranging from worsened optimization to the game simply refusing to launch—are piling up. With the fourth title update not scheduled until December, fans are stuck in this state for at least another month.

On a brighter note, Digimon Story: Time Strains has been holding its own near the top of the global Steam charts for nearly two weeks with a 'Very Positive' rating. Meanwhile, Borderlands 4 has kicked off its first discount one month post-launch alongside the start of Steam Next Fest, and Detroit: Become Human took 7th place following its first 80% price cut.

Looking at the top 20 for daily peak concurrent players, the weekend exodus is clear. Battlefield 6 saw a sharp decline of over 100,000, settling at 549,576, while Hollow Knight: Silksong dropped by nearly 30,000 to 78,644.