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Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+
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Build an open source & paid cloud hosted service that can sync OFL licensed fonts through an API, GUI, GIT and you'll be swimming in cash. Just make sure it's easy for casuals & devs and works for both individuals and teams. There are projects similar to this, but nothing nearly this level of usable by everyone.
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Yet another reason to use and support open fonts. Idk how many fonts are typically in a game but at $20k a pop, I suspect you could hire your own designer or collaborate with a few other small studios to design a few open game fonts.
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The problem is Japanese has so many characters - typically a font would need 5-6000 glyphs to be usably complete - that it isn't easy to create new fonts. English ASCII is 96 characters, for reference. A designer can crank out a new thematically-appropriate font in a week.
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Why the hell would anyone need to *host* free fonts? A proper OS has them in the repos. Oh right - there's still people who believe the diarrhea coming from MicroLimp is a "proper OS"
especially corporate IT departments 
Your post reads a bit aggresive towards a use case completely fabricated within your imagination. However, it's quite different in reality. I do graphic design and need a FOSS alternative to Fontbase, but also able to comply with technical requirements for dev teams. Something like what I've described in my OP would be great for both dev and designer teams alike. Also, if you try to be nicer to people, you'll help make the Fediverse a nicer place. -
Your post reads a bit aggresive towards a use case completely fabricated within your imagination. However, it's quite different in reality. I do graphic design and need a FOSS alternative to Fontbase, but also able to comply with technical requirements for dev teams. Something like what I've described in my OP would be great for both dev and designer teams alike. Also, if you try to be nicer to people, you'll help make the Fediverse a nicer place.
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I was being aggressive, but not towards another poster, but the corporate bullshit culture that requires such a thing as an online repository for free fonts.
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I think the collab would be more likely. Ideally the government would create public domain fonts for their official languages. If they publish in that language then they should support the font for that language. Funding such an endeavour as a single studio/designer would require making over 6000 characters for the font ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208 ). I'm sure modern unicode could do wonders to reduce that number (kanji has ~2,000).
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Fonts cannot be easily removed or replaced. So you pay their extortion or they sue you and get it anyway. They’ve been doing this for a long time. They are the _comic villain_ kind of evil.
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If you are collaborating with a team, you need to keep your work in sync. What does this have to do with corporativism?