Wednesday April 11, 2012 08:50
PSO2: Create More Characters with Arks Cash
So you saw in the Character Creation demo you had a limited amount of clothes and hairstyles to choose from. But with Arks Cash you can enjoy even more varieties, and more will be added into the game through updates. If you play the Closed Beta you can get more color variations of clothes. If you look at some of the NPCs in the lobby, you could see some of the future costumes that will eventually come out.
Now certainly you’ve been making many characters in the Demo, but in the main game, you will have one character. You must purchase the right to make additional characters through Arks Cash. (You can try this out in the Closed Beta since Arks Cash is distributed.) For all ships, you can have a total of 12 characters.
[via pso2blog]
Character Creation Contest!
- Entry: 4.11.2012 through 4.20.2012
- Voting: 4.27.2012 through 5.7.2012
- Winner: 5.11.2012
- Website: PSO2Chara
Grand Prize: Your Character in the Official Game!
Producer Prize: Your Character 3D printed (like WoW)
Arks Prize: Your character drawn by PSO2′s designer.
Rappy Prize: Known locally as the Chogokin Racaseal
- Enter a nickname
- Email Address
- Comments about your character
- Whole body screenshot
- Face closeup screenshot
- Character Creation Game Data
One entry per person, please finalize your character before submitting. You must make an original character, you can not submit a character that would infringe others copyrights. Winners will be contacted through email.
Shougai posted a new interview about Arks Cash, Playstation Vita, and the Update plans, and Shougai posted another interview with 4gamer.
Arks Cash and FUN Gacha!
- Players can rent My Rooms for 30 days.
- Two kinds of Arks Scratch, one that has costumes, and the other has costumes and consumption items.
- There’s also a free Gacha called FUN Scratch, that uses FUN points.
- You can get things like room items and other items.
- You can collect FUN points through player evaluations.
- Like for example 1 person can say “Good Job” through a menu to someone else and that will increase both of the players’ Fun points.
- ((It is unknown currently what restrictions they have on player evaluations, like once a day or one time per person?))
- You can also collect Fun points by doing quests with Friend Partners.
- *Friend Partners are NPC AI’s of your friends characters*
- You can also get points by purchasing Arks Cash
Rental Features and Packs
- My Room, My Shop, Extra Storage, etc can be rented for 30 days.
- You can purchase a “premium” pack.
- Features that you can rent will be included in this premium pack as well as other features like trade functions .
- Some of the items in this pack will apply to all your characters on your account.
- (This would make it appear like monthly charges, similarly how PSU premium course has you pay for My Room access.)
Buyable Features
- Additional Characters
- Hold more item in the item pack.
- An additional Skill Tree
Account
- You get 1 character per account, when you want additional characters, you must use Arks Cash to purchase them. You can have up to 12 characters on one account.
- He is considering allowing characters to move across ships (servers) in the distant future, but for now your characters are tethered to the one ship they were created in.
Updates
- Sakai plans to update the game every 3 to 4 weeks with maps, system updates, scratch contents, etc,
- Plans to add new classes later
- The level cap once the game comes out would be around level 40. This cap will increase as the game progresses.
- Initially, players can choose to play up to Hard difficulty, but they plan to have several types of difficulties. You can unlock these difficulties once you meet a certain condition.
- After the game comes out they plan to add super huge bosses in multi-parties.
- These bosses are much bigger than normal bosses, and you can have 12 players fight it.
- They plan to start off with 3 planets.
Matter Board
- As you fill up the Matter Board, new story quests will appear.
- Depending on the situation, when you replay a story quest, different events may occur.
- Some events can happen outside of story quests.
- Like if the Matter board asks you to collect certain items, you can do so with friends, and an event could occur.
Playstation Vita
- He’s still investigating this, but for now he thinks the Vita version should use the onscreen keyboard.
- He will probably have the beta test for PSO2 Vita start sometime during the fall through winter, but nothing is definite yet
- He’s thinking about the possibility of a separate offline title.
Beta
- After the Closed Beta is over, the data is reset.
- They plan to have you transfer your Open Beta Data to the official game when it starts.
- Category: Phantasy Star Online 2
- (36) Comments
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Nilok
April 11th, 2012 at 5:54 am
ONE character? Ok that's lame X_x. I figured they'd at least give us 4. I hope character slots dont cost too much. that would drive me nuts being stuck with just one.
So now when you say for all ships am I missing some information? Will our characters be divided up somehow? Or is it that we can have 12 characters per account? are ships like JP's PSU vanilla worlds? or are they like PSU universes? I assume it's the latter and I'm just loopy from the shock of starting with a single character slot.
Ricardo
April 11th, 2012 at 6:55 am
12 characters per account. (But 4 per ship)
djecliptik
April 11th, 2012 at 6:58 am
It's sounding like to me that there won't be global servers… to start off with anyways. I just hope it's reasonably priced to have more characters once the final game is released.
Let me guess, I still shouldn't try the character creation contest… does it still say only for Japanese residents?
djecliptik
April 11th, 2012 at 7:02 am
…or is it that the ships are that way just for beta?
Ricardo
April 11th, 2012 at 7:08 am
Ships are servers. (Hypothetically if it's global) you would choose your main language's ship first, then pay to make other characters on ships on other languages.
I wouldn't enter because I'm sure it's going to be pretty funny if an international player wins and they can't communicate in Japanese through email. I'm sure they'd ship locally too.
But I think we should have our own contest instead.
Genesis
April 11th, 2012 at 9:44 am
In the official game? Oh dear…
ThatsF2PforYou
April 11th, 2012 at 10:30 am
Yep, that's how F2P is.
F2P is little more than a scam. These games are designed to milk as much money out of you as possible, while providing poor service and lackluster updates. There is a good reason why people wanted this game to be P2P. Overall the game "costs" less and we get a better game since the company has to earn our continued subscriptions.
Too bad there is too many derps out there who actually think F2P actually means the game is free, and then bot/hack the game when they want something and its too hard to get.
People say its not gonna happen to PSO2. Those people need to wake up and take a look at every other F2P game out there (especially localized Asian F2P MMOS). It's still not too late people. We can still complain to SEGA and try to get them to switch to P2P.
weeaboo
April 11th, 2012 at 11:15 am
"but in the main game, you will have one character"
"12 characters per account, 4 per ship"
this is confusing. so what's the deal? I know in wow there was wow. and then you chose a server like darkspear etc., and then you could make like 6 characters on that server. however if you went to another server you'd start from scratch, and the characters you had on darkspear wouldn't be on the new server you switch to.
Is that like what ships are in pso2? if you make a character on ship 1 it won't be on ship 2? and why do you say 4 per ship then?
this should be more clearly explained. Bottom line is: how many free characters are we allowed to have? 4 per ship doesn't make sense when you say we only have 1. is it 4 per ship as in thats the most amount of characters you can have, if you pay for them? or 4 per ship thats free?
Lar-Lar
April 11th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Hopefully the 1 free character slot per account is a beta thing. It would be a shame if their F2P model put this game in the grave before its even released.
I hope they will do a hybrid of F2P and P2P. How could I go about contacting Sega to suggest this?
pso2love
April 11th, 2012 at 11:17 am
@ThatsF2PforYou
You're absolutely right, this is SEGA… not Nexon.
http://pso2love.blogspot.com/2012/04/phantasy-sta…
Anonymous
April 11th, 2012 at 11:18 am
F2P is the main trend going on in Asia currently, it's not a new thing, P2P is not going to generate as much sale as F2P with Cash item.
Lar-Lar
April 11th, 2012 at 11:26 am
What I really liked about PSO/U was that you could hop around to wherever the majority of the population gathered.
Not being able to switch between ships would be awful…
You've chosen a ship, leveled your character to cap, have all sorts of rares and such but then the ship you're on drops in population and/or community quality. You are stuck there unless you shell out the money for a transfer (if they even make transfers available in this game) if you had multiple characters on that ship, the situation's even worse…
This is why I no longer bother with WoW, The server I was on took a turn for the worse and population dropped drastically but I had several characters with items that were impossible to obtain again if I did a fresh start on a new server but transferring each character at $25 a pop was not a feasible option.
So again, hopefully these limits are just for beta. You have to remember this isn't the final product.
Ricardo
April 11th, 2012 at 11:39 am
@weaboo One character is what you get. If you want more characters you have to pay arks cash. There are 4 characters you can have on ONE ship (server) [This is how it was in Alpha Test 2]. You can make a total of 12 characters per account.
Mazarushi
April 11th, 2012 at 11:42 am
Man…it's like PSO without being able to go to the other ships, only change lobbies. It was set up like this in the alpha, there were 2 ships, you picked, you stayed. Guess they're keeping it and charging us to transfer…oh well, pick wisely I guess.
eclipsXe
April 11th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
You don't have to pay for the bottom half of that list do you? o.O
pso2love
April 11th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
@eclipsXe No, the standard game is free. It's arks cash items you pay for.
eclipsXe
April 11th, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Ok perfect, keep it at a fair price I'll pay monthly for a room. but that and missions sounded like I was going back to DC Universe.
Mazarushi
April 11th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Wtf we're renting rooms now??? Forget to pay, try to check your shop and you got that half broken key in your door LOL.
thiskeepsgettingbett
April 11th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Haha…so now not only do we have to pay for each additional character we make, now we gotta rent our rooms? Sounds like SEGA is taking notes from the shittier f2p MMOs about how to handle their cash shop. So what's next? Will we have to pay to do missions too?
At this point comparing them to Nexon or even PWE would be a compliment.
Mazarushi
April 11th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Paying for your room is about the same as paying a sub fee, so I don't really mind that. Only this time you're doing it with people who can harass you at any point, and with gameguard as officer on duty it won't be too hard to do…so I'm paying rent to live in the ghetto, one that I'm stuck in at that. I won't repeat the transfer price example, @Lar-Lar pretty much hit the nail on the head, getting stuck with botters and hackers until some crack dealer comes to save you. Told you sega could screw it up -_- but I haven't lost faith yet. We'll see..
Miijhal
April 11th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
I was planning on dropping $60 for this plus $15 a month for the subscription, so I can't really complain about the cash features. Long as they price things reasonably, I'm fine.
IamGodsGift
April 11th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Unfortunatly im still having trouble understading the whole character thing. More specific, the amount of characters. For instance is it free for 1 character per server? And i also dont fully understand what is meant by server. In psu people can switch and that is what i considered server. Ricardo, can u help me better understand this please?
Ricardo
April 11th, 2012 at 10:59 pm
You have 1 character slot you get for free. (Not per server)
The characters you make in one server stays on that server. You can't just jump servers. If you want to play on another server you make a new character.
Miray
April 12th, 2012 at 10:13 am
Oh well hopefully purchasing character slots isnt overpriced.
djecliptik
April 12th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
"He is considering allowing characters to move across ships (servers) in the distant future, but for now your characters are tethered to one ship.
The features that you can rent will also be sold as a
premium set. It’s supposed to feel like a paying a monthly
subscription."
Ricardo, did Sakai actually state this, or is this your annotation?
Ricardo
April 12th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Annotation and statement. It's being updated. Basically the premium pack includes rental features so you would rent your room for 30 days (as if you were paying for PSU premium course)
Ricardo
April 13th, 2012 at 12:10 pm
I don't think Skill Trees are subscription based.
ddl124
April 13th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
I wonder how many items/features could be retained after end of subscription on the premium pack….
I think Sega is trying hard to give a F2P model with “monthly subscription”-like plan and enable most of the features by that premium pack, but I wonder casual players, like me, want to keep chatting with players after work/class in weekend can get back to the game in quick by purchasing those premium pack time to play during weekends/holidays.
Also, PLEASE, don’t delete skill tress/features after the subscription. Of coz SEGA could suspend it or stop allow us to accessing my room but please allow us to re-open it and enjoy the game after we have paid for specific features :p
As all of us know, PSO has been released 10 years ago for those players have been grown up and most of them are 20s-30s its quite normal for us to have our own business in weekdays, but we still enjoy chating with PSO-mate, you know what, this is PSO! CHAT AND EMO ICON IS SO IMPORTANT!!
(Sorry for my bad english)
EricPimpi
April 20th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
you cant jump from ship to ship for the time being… also… like some said… its actually a smart move the F2P, hell they are giving you an awesome game for free!! and free to play too!! if u want a room, pay it montly like u would pay for a montly fee!!! its ur choice, but they are charging u with extras, not important stuff like lots of F2P where u need to spend cash to be a top player or something like that, just extras like characters or bank or room
so its kinda stupid to complain at this stuff if u ask me… also on the P2P to save the game? cmon a lot of games latelly have started P2P then switched to F2P, even SWTLR is giving free months to some people!!
EricPimpi
April 20th, 2012 at 10:07 pm
heck… ask Riot Games and their League of Legends 30 million players if their F2P sucks!
Stew
June 20th, 2012 at 10:54 pm
So if you delete your character, can you make a new one without have to spend AC?
Draconian
June 21st, 2012 at 6:04 pm
my god people quit complaining and play the game. if you dont like it then go play something else. there are bots and spammers in pay to play games as much as there are in free to play games. they are thinking of the success of this game so that it doesnt eventually die out in the future. if its f2p more people will be more likly to play it because they can tryh it without paying anything up front. alot of people already dish out money for other games and the best wayh to get people to play this game instead of the games they are playing is to let them play if for free first. you should just be glad tha this game even exists… because i remember hearing that psu was going to be the last phantasy star…. and also that psp2 was going to be the last as well….. games will always have hackers. at least they do something about it. other free to play games dont care if there are hackers. quit nerd raging and play what they give you or play something else!
so-CONFUSED
August 14th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
sorry but ive only played the psp2 version and i really liked it. is the game going to be anything like that. i dont understand the whole fun points either. the whole game sounds overwhelmingly complicated.
Nilok
August 14th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
There's nothing complicated about it. FUN is just a tertiary currency you earn by playing the game and is only used for raffles. you get it for the first time you log-in each day and also get it from buying stuff from the Ac shop or from clicking a "good job" button for another player.
It'll make sense if you play the game.
tristan
April 20th, 2013 at 1:05 am
so ive been reading all these posts and im sorry to bring this thread back from the dead,but,just to confirm we are going to be able to bring our current character to the full game,and we will have an english page to purchase AC because this JP page is a load, i really dont have patience or time to do the JP page for a subscription,hopefully there will be an english page and i really hope i get to keep my current character,i know its not alot of time to most players but i have 170+ hrs on this character and i like what ive done with it
Ricardo
April 20th, 2013 at 8:19 am
I can’t confirm the details as to what’s available in the English version, but you should not expect your characters to transfer from the Japanese to English version. It’s very likely you’ll have to start over.