Monday July 9, 2012 06:01
Phantasy Star Online 2 International Release in Early 2013
Well the wait is over, Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally coming outside of Japan and onto our shores. According to the press release sent to PSO-World:
SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON – July 9th, 2012 – SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd today announced that free-to-play multiplayer action RPG Phantasy Star Online 2 will be coming to North America and Europe in 2013. For a first look at this new entry in the legendary Phantasy Star series, check out the official Phantasy Star Online 2 teaser site at www.pso2.com.
Phantasy Star Online 2’s features include:
- Deep sci-fi fantasy universe filled with lush landscapes, extraordinary creatures, and epic adventures
- Revolutionary real-time combat and third-person action with devastating combos and counters to master
- Flexible, class-based leveling system that lets players define their own play-style with distinctive melee, ranged, and magic weapon types
- Randomized dungeon maps and unexpected mid-quest encounters that ensure each quest is different for each player
- Deep character creation system with a nearly limitless number of potential appearances
- Three degrees of humanity to experience across three unique races: the versatile Humans, spiritually-powered Newmen, and artificial CAST
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- Category: Phantasy Star Online 2
- (22) Comments
Manta
Ricardo
halcyon
Anon
White Glint
joshua
Sac
Blaze
July 9th, 2012 at 2:27 am
*cough* PSU…*cough cough*
xBladeM6x
July 9th, 2012 at 3:01 am
This looks "promising". Lmao
Hisuiren
July 9th, 2012 at 3:12 am
Lol, Sonic Adventure 2 sounds when moving through the menu's. I half way expected the "confirmation" sound from it, too xD
Derp
July 9th, 2012 at 3:18 am
So nice to see US/EU cares about the game's first impression.
I mean look at that "teaser" site, it's like an aspiring HTML developer (that cannot code just yet) slapped it together.
Remember the "teaser" site PSO2 JP used?
Why couldn't they copy paste that over to the US/EU "teaser" site?
This, to me, shows how much the company actually cares about international release. It's not even about first impression anymore, it's just releasing it to shut the rest of the world up. "Here, have your piece of meat too, now get lost."
Last nail in the coffin would be for them to announce a server split where EU/US will be like PSU.
If they do that, they may as well not bring the game over at all.
And again I will repeat, the gambling gatcha, will not work in the western crowd, I hope they rethink that.
Shinri
July 9th, 2012 at 3:49 am
I'm sticking with JP servers, I have little faith in SoA.
Volt_Opt
July 9th, 2012 at 3:51 am
This is all fine and dandy, and I'm happy they're bringing it to other countries, my question is relatively simple, but important: will we be able to transfer our Japanese data over to those servers? As far as I know, our JP profiles can be used on the rest of Sega's website, but it's already been proven you can't use a different ship(which still bothers me). I don't know, maybe I'm getting uber concerned here, but it's something you guys might ask the next time you interview Sonic Team.
Ricardo
July 9th, 2012 at 3:57 am
At this point we don't know if the Japanese and English servers will be shared. I'm sure that will be the major deal breaker if people want to leave the Japanese ship.
natchu96
July 9th, 2012 at 4:22 am
Segac is not exactly trustworthy, but at least they're bringing SOMETHING over.
@Derp I don't know . . . I'e seen worse.
Vernor / Lulli
July 9th, 2012 at 6:56 am
PSO2 EU/NA Wee <3 yeah! but sticking to JP.
If English patch (or official english with 2013 release) will be added to JP (possible) i will be very happy, still PSO2JP will have more content, and Language barrier can be destroyed with some time, so not worrying much here, also Lag problems are very minor (Most is Client side, but funny things can occur like friends shooting into air for you
)
Ogni
July 9th, 2012 at 7:06 am
Since it's F2P I will make a character on the NA/EU server (if they are split which is very likely imo) too. It's not like you have to pay 2 monthly fees so no harm done.
I'll definitely give it a chance, let's just hope it draws the right kind of people. Can be tricky with F2P games…
Turom
July 9th, 2012 at 7:07 am
This truely made my day. AWESOME !!!
Mazarushi
July 9th, 2012 at 10:23 am
I agree, this teaser page is horrible if it's job is to attract attention, especially if you saw how flamboyant the JP teaser site was before. Even the Start Menu theme song they used on the website sounds lazy and slowed down from the original. I agree; looks more like "Ugh here, you little crybabies" than anything else. Guess it's JP for me.
Anonymous9001
July 9th, 2012 at 11:37 am
My eyes hurt. What exactly did I click on?
Nilok
July 9th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
This is nice and all, but I'm staying jp side. if they do an english client, great, but I'm not going to wait til 2013 just to start over again.
RocketZX
July 9th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
making one character on International server, and I'll keep the one on the JP side.
once the International one becomes stabilized (in terms of server and actual gameplay balances) i'll spend some money on it, i'm a bit paranoid about spending my money on JP server since i'm not japanese myself
Dynamiz
July 9th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
@Derp i hope the unify the US/EU/JP servers – cuz Square/Enix is already doing that (unified the US/JP Servers) with FF14 – it shouldn't be too hard
drakogarnus
July 9th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
iam TERRIBLY ashamed the least sega of america and sega of japan could do is do a joint translation of the text files and ingame text and give us an english option and a english community ship server
weeaboo
July 9th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
@derp lol u dont know nexon do you
KitsyLove
July 9th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Hmm, 2013 sound far away…Yet this is awesome news as they’re not forgetting about their international fans. I will probably play on both JP and EU/US server. xD
gogeta
July 9th, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Yeah, nexon uses gambling gacha in their games and get away with it.
Shazza Azurite
July 10th, 2012 at 5:43 am
regardless of how horrid the teaser splash page looks, at least it's being localized.
I can give two claps to SEGA for this "little" @ least
impactiko
July 15th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
I don't mind waiting for the NA/EU version of the game. In the meantime, I will need to save up for a new computer:D