I know Fantasy Earth is still going, and I saw that Nobunaga's Ambition was still running when I booted up my JP PS2 with PSBBN on it earlier. The update list for NAO looks like it gets frequent version upgrades. The GAMECITY channel for it on PSBBN is the only one remaining that they didn't shut down last year.
Anyway, I was wondering how easy these games are to get into for importers without much kanji experience, and what they are like. FE seems to be PC-only, and NAO seems to be PS2-only. I'm kind of amazed that NAO has been running so long with only a JP PS2 following, when FFXI couldn't be profitable under those conditions.
Any English wiki or anything for these games for a basic explanation? Youtube videos aren't usable on the computer I'm on right now, it's too old at 350 MHz G4 and 512 MB RAM.