Phantasy Star Online 2 - New Genesis 2021

**Noobta** · 2012-07-12 19:14

Originally Posted by Deadgye

So can FUN only be used to buy scratch-offs? Or are there other uses?

Just scratch-offs

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-12 20:08

Another question: I have two lv.4 photon art discs. One of them is for an ability I have that's level 3, another is for an ability I don't have (lv.0) and I can't use either or them. Anybody know why?

**Noobta** · 2012-07-12 20:20

Originally Posted by Deadgye

Another question: I have two lv.4 photon art discs. One of them is for an ability I have that's level 3, another is for an ability I don't have (lv.0) and I can't use either or them. Anybody know why?

Your stats aren't high enough to learn it.

**Mooshywooshy** · 2012-07-13 00:48

They unrelease this game or somethin? Every time I try to log on its down for maintenance. I am have bad luck :\

**Kiarax** · 2012-07-13 01:07

Something like that. Ends at 5 AM EST.

**Kiarax** · 2012-07-13 03:04

New translated Sakai interview details, explains the reasoning for separate servers:

There is an extremely long interview posted on 4Gamer, but near the end, it seems Sakai has been watching the international Phantasy Star community for quite some time.

Basically each area will have its own separate server. They plan to have Europe and North America share the same server.
They are also eying on expanding into other parts of Asia, but it’s not at a stage where it can be talked about as of yet.
Since the laws of handling cash items is different in each country, it’s difficult for them to have everyone share the same server.
Since game culturalization will be necessary, there may be some changes to the game’s contents to reflect each nation. (PSUBLOG Comment: Find the list of seasonal lobbies that were data-mined a while back.)
Was shocked to see the Character Creation demo completely translated into English through a mod.
His official blog entries are translated overnight too. (Who would do such a thing?)

Aside from that, other tidbits from the interview include:

PSO2 started development back in 2008, back then they were discussing whether the title should be PSO2 or PSU2.
They basically decided upon the cross platform play concept back in 2010.
The development progress for the PlayStation Vita and Smartphone versions are currently underway, but it’s not at a level which they can show you yet. You should wait around TGS for more information about these versions.
The Free 2 Play model was decided upon since the beginning.
Were a bit worried that people wouldn’t like meeting unknown players in multi-party areas, but the reception so far has been mostly favorable.
The highest amount of characters that can be created on each ship is around 2x the maximum number of concurrent connections.

**darkepyon** · 2012-07-13 07:25

Hahahaha....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Can't say I didn't see that shit coming. Surely they could've found ways around the money laws.

I can't believe you omitted the most important part!

Spoiler: show

"Y'all gon' get shit on again, but here's some pretty polygonal women to look at!"

**SephYuyX** · 2012-07-13 09:00

Well, that pretty much seals NAs fate.
Lets hope for that decryption to get back underway; maybe it will be as simple to take the NA files and overwrite the JP ones..

**Kiarax** · 2012-07-13 09:22

It's very unlikely that the US/EU version will be on the same version as the Japanese server, so I can't see files being compatible like that at all. Here's hoping though, assuming people can't work out the file encryption by then anyway.

**Spoony Bob** · 2012-07-13 12:07

I never stuck around on PSU for very long, so I can't speak for all of sega's mistakes back then... But if they use separate servers while giving everyone the most recent content at the same time, would it really be such a travesty?

And yes, I know it's Sega in question and its more likely I'll be impregnated by a koala this afternoon... Just curious.

**Kiarax** · 2012-07-13 12:46

In ideal circumstances? No, that'd be great. But there's also other stuff to worry about. They could very well butcher the cash shop, making it far more expensive and with far worse odds on the scratchcards or they might fail to crack down on hackers or exploits that are discovered like SoJ seem to be trying to do.

**Akiyama** · 2012-07-13 13:38

Needs more people playing btw.

Also curious; what are everyone's thoughts of the game thus far? Do you like it? Is it meh like PSU was? I've noticed not as many people are playing as they were the first few days.

**Mooshywooshy** · 2012-07-13 13:58

I like it, I think. I just unlocked Hard mode a few days ago and havent had much time to play but it seems 20-25 is gonna be grindey. Also it seems like putting abilities on weapons and grinding now that you have to pay to use the AH is entirely not worth it until max level as it is pretty expensive, and even 80% success seems to fail 80% of the time for me.
Just not wanting to grind (money or exp) is why I havent been logging on much I guess.

**The Blackrose** · 2012-07-13 14:07

Some of us have been busy.

NA announcement (especially with separate servers) probably hurt it for some people too.

**Noobta** · 2012-07-13 14:15

Yea...haven't been on much because nothing else to do besides grind money at like 300k/day. Meanwhile you could spend 5000 yen and sell 5mil worth of costumes.

**Kiarax** · 2012-07-13 14:29

This is PSO. It's all about grinding for rare lootz. Working on... well, trying to get my hand on whatever rares I can at the moment to sell since I used a 3 day AH ticket. Tempted to buy the rare sword I'm after (though it's 4m minimum), since finding PSE Burst parties in Volcano is a pain in the ass and that's where the sword is from. Got 2 Patty Lumeria (best Partisan in the game) today and sold em, delicious meseta. I'm still having fun anyway. Once character creation on Ship 2 opens up I'm gonna make another character and level Force on that to dick around on too.

**Scythiroth** · 2012-07-13 14:29

Originally Posted by Akiyama

Needs more people playing btw.

Also curious; what are everyone's thoughts of the game thus far? Do you like it? Is it meh like PSU was? I've noticed not as many people are playing as they were the first few days.

I love it. I can't play too often though, since I'm trying to play this and TERA still. Convincing friends to play a game when they know 0 Japanese isn't very easy. =x

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-13 15:20

I'm having fun so far. Only level 14 though, usually I'm either playing solo or with a rl friend. After 2-3 days I feel like I have a pretty good handle on what I'm doing. Knowing Hira/Kata helps immensely also lol.

**Akiyama** · 2012-07-13 16:49

Okay, well was just curious. I figured people were just busy and what not, and yeah, while the NA announcement may be a turn off.. I still have hope we'll have a patch. Plus I guess me playing PSOBB in JP for so long really doesn't hurt me here enough to want to use guides to translate shit, Lol :<

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-13 19:39

So me and my friend get to cateradan boss. There are two of him. One of them disappears halfway through the fight. We killed the one that was left and then killed the infinite spawning mobs until they.. stopped respawning. And then we had to quit the game because we couldn't leave.

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