Final Phantasy Star?

[Gilraen]

While a cool idea... a better one would indeed be Sega getting over their grudge with US players and releasing PSO2 outside of Japan.

[Velveteer]

While a cool idea... a better one would indeed be Sega getting over their grudge with US players and releasing PSO2 outside of Japan.

I've heard about it, but I'd like some more details on it.
Why so JP only?

[Gilraen]

I've heard about it, but I'd like some more details on it.
Why so JP only?

It's from the bygone days of Dreamcast with the original PSO. In the States it's online component was free. This was not Sega's idea, it was Sega of America's idea. In Japan players had to pay $9 to play online. This, by itself, wasn't appreciated but also wasn't punished (much). No, the straw as it were, was what US players did with their games. Cheat disks were plentiful at the time and many players found ways to alter the game with them. US players, though, took it to levels of low I've not seen since. That is what pissed off Sega. Ever since then US players have been getting the shaft on the series, from higher fees on Ver.2 to releases often a year after the Japanese. Now with PSO2... we don't even have a rough estimate of a release date. Sega's grudge runs deep.

[Velveteer]

Have you seen the western MMO market..? Or Western gaming in general? lol. Fyi a lot of Western stuff stays NA/EU (AU) only.

Yeah, I know since I've played a couple of chinese mmos where they'd block out Asian players since they hve their own version.
But in the case of PSO2 I thought it was more like what we have where it was accessed worldwide. But I got my answer:

It's from the bygone days of Dreamcast with the original PSO. In the States it's online component was free. This was not Sega's idea, it was Sega of America's idea. In Japan players had to pay $9 to play online. This, by itself, wasn't appreciated but also wasn't punished (much). No, the straw as it were, was what US players did with their games. Cheat disks were plentiful at the time and many players found ways to alter the game with them. US players, though, took it to levels of low I've not seen since. That is what pissed off Sega. Ever since then US players have been getting the shaft on the series, from higher fees on Ver.2 to releases often a year after the Japanese. Now with PSO2... we don't even have a rough estimate of a release date. Sega's grudge runs deep.

Wow... that's really messed up.

[Tupsi]

I've heard about it, but I'd like some more details on it.
Why so JP only?

Have you seen the western MMO market..? Or Western gaming in general? lol. Fyi a lot of Western stuff stays NA/EU (AU) only.