Phantasy Star Online 2 NA and Eu Release

[EternalHero]

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Early this morning, SEGA officially announced that Phantasy Star Online 2 would be headed to the west. The game is set to release sometime in early 2013. The official site is now live. With the recent news of tough times for SEGA, many a PSO fan in the west has certainly been waiting for this news! Here’s the official press release.

SEGA ANNOUNCES THE WESTERN RELEASE OF PHANTASY STAR ONLINE 2 SEGA’s Epic Free-to-Play Multiplayer Action RPG Coming to North America and Europe in Early 2013

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON – July 9th, 2012 – SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd today announced that free-to-play multiplayer action RPG Phantasy Star Online 2 will be coming to North America and Europe in 2013. For a first look at this new entry in the legendary Phantasy Star series, check out the official Phantasy Star Online 2 teaser site at www.pso2.com.

“Phantasy Star Online was a revolutionary game when it was released, and we want to make sure that its successor in the series is every bit as ambitious,” said Chris Olson, Vice President of Digital Business at SEGA of America. “We look forward to introducing Phantasy Star Online 2’s unique, easy-to-access multiplayer action to the rest of the world next year!”

“The number one thing we want to provide players in Phantasy Star Online 2 is an adventure that changes every time they log in. Just as great table-top RPG experiences revolve around imaginative and unexpected encounters, we want players to consistently be surprised as they explore dungeons and undertake quests,” added Satoshi Sakai, Phantasy Star Online 2 Producer at SEGA of Japan.

Over ten years have passed since the release of the boundary-breaking Dreamcast hit, Phantasy Star Online, and SEGA is poised to continue the Phantasy Star series’ multiplayer legacy on PCs worldwide with Phantasy Star Online 2. In the Year 238, the New Era of Light, players will join a new band of Arcs in the fight against mysterious D-Arkers, embarking on another epic adventure of infinite possibilities!

Phantasy Star Online 2’s features include:

Deep sci-fi fantasy universe filled with lush landscapes, extraordinary creatures, and epic adventures
Revolutionary real-time combat and third-person action with devastating combos and counters to master
Flexible, class-based leveling system that lets players define their own play-style with distinctive melee, ranged, and magic weapon types
Randomized dungeon maps and unexpected mid-quest encounters that ensure each quest is different for each player
Deep character creation system with a nearly limitless number of potential appearances
Three degrees of humanity to experience across three unique races: the versatile Humans, spiritually-powered Newmen, and artificial CAST
For more information about Phantasy Star Online 2, visit the official site at www.pso2.com.

For more news, follow SEGA on Twitter @SEGA (http://twitter.com/phantasystar) or “like” us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/sega.pso2).

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[MicroRave]

This game has wedding dresses :D

[Tolby]

I give it 6 months until the updates start to lag and Sega's admins start calling their loyal customers ungrateful children.

[God is a cat girl]

I thought that we already knew that it was going to be sometime.

But yeah, pretty much like many MMOs, as soon as the official service starts and we get a few months worth of updates, it starts to lag like a and the system requirements suddenly double. Unless Sega decides to be decent, but who's decent nowadays anyway?

Kinda of dislike that there isn't a global server, and like it as well. I won't be playing it without anyone that I know, which is kinda bad (not so much anymore anyway), but won't have to deal with lagtinos speaking Mexican and alien, and BRs that can't understand Portuguese.

[Shadownami92]

Sega of America has yet to make good on actually having decent service. Think I'm going to stick to the Japanese servers for now...

Phantasy Star Online and Universe had horrible service in America. Hackers were never dealt with, and the amount of updates was almost non-existent. I could see them not having many updates again because they might be like "Hey it's free to play anyways, we don't need to prioritize this game."