Yep, 4 players in a party.

Not that I think 4 player parties is not a bad idea, however, 6 would have been a lot better. 12 player multi-party areas are better than 8 player areas, so I think they even it out somehow.

My main concern is not about the gameplay, because we know that is being taken care of… My concern is that they might think of going the F2P route with micro-transactions. Please SEGA, do NOT go that route! You will then make room to allow what every other F2P game has… bots, spammers, farmers, etc. Plus, I want to be able to get anything in the game with my hard-earned Meseta, not to be able to buy a rare weapon or item with dollars that gives extra stats to cause me to have an advantage over other players that don’t have the extra cash.

And when you do go with the hunter’s license, please make it reasonably priced this time around. I can not express my disgust enough about what you did with PSO v2, let alone the first PSO. You forced me to buy Seganet, which was suppose to be a special Dial-up service just for gaming on the Dreamcast for like 24$ a month, then, you released v2 and expected me to pay more not just for the game, but for the license on top of what I was already paying for Seganet. Yes, I know, in japan it probably wasn’t free to begin with, but still… that kind of progression really made me upset.

Just A rant that I needed to get off my chest, that has been on my mind for a very long time now. *phew*

4 players sounds good. Unless the game dynamically adjusts difficulty to the number of players (and no PS online game has before), 6 players just breaks everything. Heck if the game is balanced to be soloable, even 4 people tends to trivialize the challenge.

Also solid to see that Shino is pre-painted. Can’t wait for mine to arrive!

Yeah all PS online games did that. But my statement still stands because it never adjusted dynamically based on how many people are playing like in Diablo.

@Light I doubt Sega was about to do some charging for a handheld game. PSP2 is really an exception to the discussion..

@Mazarushi & @Nohman
PSU is now F2P in Japan, just had to add this in.
Let’s not forget the “Arks Cash” text string (among others) found in the PSO2 Alpha 1 client, pretty sure that’ll be an analog of the current GUARDIANS Cash in PSUJP.

Dark-Sun

The key word you forgot is limited. Now correct me if I’m wrong, (was on pc/ps2) but if I remember correctly there were very few things you could do if you went the f2p + cash shops route and the monthly fee was still there for users who wanted the full game, but it’s not just straight out f2p. That being said, I’m pretty sure the games fanbase consist of many players still under subscription. Even then, you have to remember that PSU didn’t start that until years later which makes sense. Think about it, how can you have limited gameplay when there isn’t much content to limit? And if you were there on day one you remember just how LIMITED psu already was (raffon field base anyone?) They probably will have cash shops on PSO2, but the style will most likely follow the same model as PSU. They may even have the shops at or close to launch and incorporate a free mode further down the line when there’s more content to tempt free users with.

Why do I get this feeling that If I wished SEGA not to go the F2P route, that they will anyway? Do NOT get me wrong, I DO want Sega to make money off this game, so they can make it the best it can be. I just don’t want it to end up with poor implementation like Nexon games. TBH, I somehow knew PSO2 would be in the works before the rumors last year, so to keep myself busy waiting for this one, I decided to give Mabinogi and Vindictus a try. Vindictus could’ve been great, yet it was thrown out there for the sake of getting players on board.

Sakai promises to make PSO2 like no other, and thus deserves top-notch support. I’ve previously posted my concerns about F2P games, so there is no need for me to repeat myself. I will add, that I want both the players, and SEGA, to be happy. (I am merely a player, I do NOT work for SEGA…OK?)

PSP2, you still had to pay for the game, you just weren’t charged a subscription. I would agree, PSO2 should do the same, only if there were no micro-transactions for reasons previously stated.

I never said all PS titles were always p2p…I said they all started out as P2P…and yes they did. I know the pc/ps2 servers are dead, which is why I said “correct me if I’m wrong (was on pc/ps2)” as I haven’t followed the game too much since it died. I wouldn’t be surprised if by now they transitioned over to complete f2p, with Japans fanbase it makes sense, they make more money that way. But over here it didn’t go so well, and with everyone complaining about F2P it would be amazingly foolish to still force F2P here in the states unless by some mirical Phantasy Star managed to grab a new crowd. Otherwise, the only way that would even be decent is if they made the servers universal (probably won’t happen why fend for a few hundred dedicated US/EU players). That being said they’d probably do the same thing they did to the PC/PS2 servers when they rejected GC…shut it down. My #1 worry right now.

Bit off topic but i like to show mah Shino Ver. APSY

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/motokochan/shino.jpg

And back on topic, it is better off having this as P2P since F2P system these days can be a utter full of bs going around with hacks,trolls,spams etc. Especially with In-game currency system that proper scam ppl into spending real money buying update items/equip/specials to make the game further entertaining,which is more expensive than paying the monthly fee for HL, trust me, I calculated it and its better off playing P2P games than F2P.
Sure, F2P is ‘free’ and would be amazing for something this great but i rather P2P to avoiding having all those kind of shit than having the game ruined and everyones fun, like it happened on PSP2.

I got excited from that commercial at the time, twas the point I was getting across.

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