User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter Frontier G8 Discussion/@comment-184612-20150703045038/@comment-969093-20150705130332

Not that question again... but okay. There are a few reason why they possibly will not release it in the west:

1. Money: They may not have the resources to finance such a project.

2. Fanbase: Capcom is probably aware that the western fanbase that would support them in a game like Frontier is very small. Too small to make it a profitable and sustainable practise to bring the game to western shores. They have a business to run and keep running and you can't run a business that's gone bankrupt. Either their confidence in the western community is very small or they know for a fact that they cannot be sustained by them.

3. Mentality: Difficulty / Grind: In Japan it is more common for people to be able to grind for days, weeks, months than it is over here. Just look at Japanese players sleeping at Netcafes for extended periods of time and rotating who plays on their account to keep them going during competitions for 24/7. Their mentality is way different from most of ours.

On top of that, Frontier is the most difficult game in the series. Even though monsters like Duremudira may be made look easy in speed run videos by people who fought it 200 times to get 1 good recording, they are generally still too difficult for a lot of players to handle. Capcom has slowly been introducing the series to the west in terms of increasing levels of difficulty as a result of the bad marketing sales and reviews they received from 1st/2nd generation installments. Monster Hunter 3 was an introduction to the series, 3U raised the bar slightly, 4U is the first new game in the west where you will actually face difficult monsters and quests and get more of that traditional monster hunter taste.

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But yeah. Even though I cannot claim that what I have described is, in reality, the true reason(s) as to why they will not localize the game, I hope it may give you an impression as to what certain possibilities are.

As a long-time player of Frontier myself, I can say that the game, despite it's difficulty, isn't all that bad even for newcomers to the series. The game relies heavily on the fundamentals of monster hunter. Those being basics like observing, adapting and evading. These 3 qualities are all you need to make it, really. A bit of dedication and stubborness also helps though. And the will to learn a bit of Japanese, of course. Lets not forget that.