Monster Hunter 3 Getting a Big Push in the West

[LordTheNightKnight]

Demotruk said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
"Is there some correlation between fee based online and frontloaded sales? Or did they expect it to be free?"

When a series took off when it was free, having to pay is a factor.

In it's value, sure. But in the degree to which it's sales are frontloaded? You'd have to explain that to me.

I can't exactly do a scientific survey, but the most likely reason I can think of (feel free to propose more, any of you) is that the audience that was turned off by the subscription price was a "legs" audience, while those that didn't mind were those that bought a game around launch.