My Life as a Darklord is way more unreasonable. I'm definitely paying for MH3.

That's good news, I've never played a MH title, but I'm actually looking forward to this.

If it has no free online then I won't be buying it for sure

Even if it has Pay to Play were to be a bother, the 2 player co-op makes up for that. It will be worth the money even if I never play it online, so long as it has the co-op offline.

Same situation with Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2. I liked the Dreamcast games but refused to purchase them (I own them now, almost ten years later but not at the time), but when the Gamecube version came out with split screen co-op, it was enough to put me over the top.

I will get this game, and it will most likely not have Pay 2 Play in America.