User blog comment:Aandrew07/Discussion of the Week: 2013, The Year of Monster Hunter!/@comment-76.173.162.242-20130106001834/@comment-969093-20130106190917

The problem these is that with different seasons running per player could disable them from playing with some players who are behind or ahead of others. If the game doesn't have SR in season X for player 1 but he wants to play with player 2 who has SR in season Y, then wouldn't that basically be like playing MHF1 with someone who's playing MHF2?

I've had it happen on Adhoc Party. Things did not end well.