In Monster Hunter Wilds, players often craft tools, items, and equipment to improve their arsenal for the game's challenging hunts. However, they must first obtain the necessary materials before they can do so. While there are many ways to gather resources in Monster Hunter Wilds, such as scavenging the environments or taking on the game's titanic beasts, one is considered the safest but can also be seen as the most unsatisfying: trading. This is because of what it offers, or what it fails to, meaning there is a clear case for Capcom to update it in a future patch.

While traveling to and visiting the different regions of Monster Hunter Wilds, people will eventually encounter NPCs with whom they can trade. These characters were meant to make it easier for players to acquire hard-to-obtain items, and while they do that to a certain extent, they aren't exactly living up to their full potential. The game's trading system has some issues that prevent it from being used as often as it should have been, ultimately leading to a good number of people ignoring it. Given how underwhelming the feature is in its current form, it will hopefully undergo some serious changes in the future.

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How Monster Hunter Wilds Can Update Its Item Trading

The trading in Monster Hunter Wilds can leave players wanting, but if Capcom ever decides to push through with its improvement, there are a few key areas it should focus on:

  • More trade NPCs could be added to the list, ones that offer items and materials that cannot be found in the current exchange system, ensuring that people will stand to gain something from using them.
  • The NPCs could be changed in a way that each one focuses on a specific item type or monster parts rather than being a mix of just about anything, making it easier for people to get what they want more easily.
  • When getting to Monster Hunter Wild's High Rank and unlocking the easier method of accessing all trade NPCs, an option should be added that saves certain trades and allows quick access to them.

While these changes might not immediately popularize Monster Hunter Wild's trading system, they can at least help it become a feature that's worth utilizing more often. Hopefully, Capcom will consider implementing these adjustments and potentially others, as players would benefit greatly from such an update.

Normally, trading would require players to exchange specific items that they have with the ones they want from the NPC, but perhaps the system could be adjusted so that players could use whatever Zenny they farmed in Monster Hunter Wilds instead. Aside from trading materials, one could pay the NPC for whatever they have instead of giving up the item that was supposed to be traded. To ensure that this doesn't downplay the concept of trading, the cost of doing so could be considerably high, enough so that players will have to actually think about doing the exchange the normal or alternate way.

When it comes to the different item trading systems between all the Monster Hunter games, the one in Monster Hunter Wilds is arguably the most inconsequential. There are many ways that it can be improved, and Capcom can still change it in future updates to make it better than it is in its current state. If the developer chooses not to make any changes, then perhaps the trading system of the current game can be used as an example of what should not be done in the next one, ensuring that Wilds' eventual successor is better off than its predecessor.

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Top Critic Avg: 89 /100 Critics Rec: 95%
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Released
February 28, 2025
ESRB
T For Teen // Violence, Blood, Crude Humor
Developer(s)
Capcom
Publisher(s)
Capcom
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DIGITAL
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Genre(s)
Action, Adventure