I'm also hoping frontier comes out in the USA. I loved phantasy star online and the monster hunter series but I agree that this type of game will loss too many potential sales due to the fact its suscrption base. It is just an rpg with coop multiplayer. I think xbox live gold should be enough.
As for the offtopic online service arguements. Xbox live and PSN are very crappy when compared to steam for instance. Xbox live Gold is defenitly better than psn from my experience, but for developers PSN seems to be a better platform to work on from what I've read.







