Quote Originally Posted by Velveteer View Post
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.