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Capcom outsourced their online servers for the PS2 games Resident Evil: Outbreak and Monster Hunter, and it pretty much worked out fine for them. But with their chosen hosting provider leaving the PS2 game server hosting business as of December 31st, Capcom has announced that the online support for those games will be ending at that time.

On its surface this isn’t all that upsetting. These are, after all, three-year-old PS2 games that never hit it big in the United States. But the fact is that Monster Hunter is still fundamentally the same game as the ones that have reached the PSP recently. With no new online-playable Monster Hunter console games on the horizon it’s a net loss for fans of the franchise.

In the past I’ve theorized that Capcom deliberately cuts online play out of Monster Hunter games to push people to subscribe to their currently Asia-only Monster Hunter MMO Monster Hunter Frontier, so I’m sure they’re not losing sleep over turning off the Monster Hunter servers.

Source: Joystiq.