-TLDR at the bottom

For the last 2 entries on the 3ds the community of the game was amazing for once particular reason, you could host or join a game labeled with a specific monster, find a group of random hunters and grind with them.

This seems impossible with the new popularity of the game... It's almost as though this standard for making lobbies has vanished. I tried to host a lobby to hunt a low rank ANYTHING and no one joins NOT A SINGLE PERSON. in mh4u and mhgen i could host a game even a year after it's launch and someone 1 PERSON would join within 5-10 minutes. I was in a lobby waiting for someone to join for 45 minutes. not a single soul joined.

So i thought "Ok, how about joining". Tried to join a lobby labeled Rathalos, Found a lobby with 9 people! WOW GREAT! went in... all the people were hosting quests either locked with their friends, or just random stuff unrelated to rathalos or some story quest i haven't done yet.

I love that MH is popular now... but i really miss this. My friends and I are not always online at the same time. We work at different times, have different things to do at home. So our "game time" varies and is different. I'd love to not have to play the game solo... but it seems i am forced to play solo.

-TLDR: I can never join/host games for monsters and get people to play with. So without my friends... I'm forced to play solo. This sucks.