User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Frontier G 2 Discussion/@comment-2194133-20130731030046/@comment-11685710-20130731123041

I think it's not just the game itself people in japan have to pay for. There was a fee for MHTri, too and I guess the same goes for almost everything with an Online mode in Japan.

They have excellent connections, but they literally have to pay for that.