User blog comment:Aandrew07/Discussion of the Week: 2013, The Year of Monster Hunter!/@comment-969093-20130104212119/@comment-205.56.181.195-20130106003844

Since the game itself it's free to download, I wouldn't exactly call 1400yen(around $16) a month to play it expensive as hell. It's around the normal price of other pay to play games.