SE consider a free to play option

[Gao]

Phantasy Star 2 I don't know much about, so I can't really comment.

I'll help you on this
Not only that it's F2P for PSO2 it's not really an MMO IMO since there's no open world exploration to it just point and click on what dungeon(kind of like Vindictus) you want to go through and mostly grind in that one dungeon for hrs on end on quests to be able to access to higher dungeons, plus you'll have to be a certain level to enter the newly unlocked dungeons. The game cash shop items are extremely expensive. Some of the items I wanted to buy from the shop ranged from $20 - $30 like costumes : Wedding Dresses, Tuxedos, etc etc. To get a housing in the game it's like $7 - $10 a month for you to pay for a 3 bed room apartment. Not only that, to get the good furniture for decorations it costs roughly about $2 - $10 to get nice looking couches. Not only that some people abuse the function of the action house on where they jacked up the prices to get people to buy those said cashed shop items, which in foremost, you're most likely getting ripped off from them. Since people tend to get lazy I remember wanting to buy a wedding dress for my character for xx amount of mesata(PSO2 Ingame money) while some of them you can buy rl cash cards so you can buy the wedding dress a lot less. Some of the stat attribute menus iirc require you to have a premium account to access them(Can't be sure about this now because I haven't played for quite some time) So depending on which type of player you are, you'll spend around $30 a month at most if you're really picky about what you want to buy. If not most likely you'll pay $10 a month if you don't buy that often. I became the latter and was a $0 a month player for the game, but I was extremely limited on the enjoyment factor I could get from not buying any of the cash shopped items.