User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-184.79.164.231-20111004002825/@comment-71.238.11.166-20111004005021

I personally have no problem with no online as i'm lucky to have a bunch of friends who love Monster Hunter, but some people simply don't. It's not as easy as just going out, meeting someone, and playing MH with them. That would be hard to do even with a game like Call od Duty, let alone MH. The game isn't hugely popular in the West, so a lot of people don't know about it, and not everyone is even interested.

Now, I do see a silver lining to it, though. This should make Western localization much more likely, as the cost of the online infrastructure has been the bane of the Western MH market for awhile now. Maybe they can take this as a chance to popularize the series more?