"Final Fantasy XIV and PSO2 Collaboration Announced"

[Kazrah]

I'm scratching my head as to why there hasn't been a PS4 announcement as well. The JP version is F2P on PS4 already.

In a word, competition. This new English version of PSO2 is going to be supported by Azure--Microsoft's cloud tech--which is why it's going to be on Xbox and PC, but not PS4. I know it's dumb, but that's sadly how business goes.

As for a collab, I have no idea what we'd even get from PSO2. That game is such a hodgepodge of content and themes utterly devoid of anything that could be considered "iconic" enough that no matter what we get, it still wouldn't really capture the game in a way that other games can do with XIV. In fact, there have been times where PSO2 has seemed more like "collaboration: the MMORPG".

even their healers seem to spend downtime dpsing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidqQAjvXqU

So just for clarification, the character that video is focused on is NOT a healer, but a class called a "Force", which is a caster dps that (like a handful of classes in that game) has access to smaller heals. Proper healers (called "Techers") in PSO2 still do dps, but they do it through melee damage and mostly to restore power used to give heals and support buffs.

PSO2 is a weird game. Fun, but weird.