SEGA Officially Announces Western Release of PSO2 in 2013

I know, right? I was just thinking the same thing, haha. We were always soooooo far behind JP PSU!

It seems like plenty of people are probably going to stick with JP PSO2 for a couple of reasons:
A. By the time PSO2 NA comes out, their characters in the JP version will have had a ton of time invested into them (Spring 2013? Really?), so it is doubtful they will seriously want to start over
B. If you stick with JP PSO2, you know you're always going to be up-to-date with the content rather than having to wait months for the same update on the NA version (see: PSO/PSU)
As for me, I'll probably just stick with the JP servers and hope SoA isn't stupid enough to keep their servers restricted by region and will try to combine efforts with SoJ to build the community. Sure, I can see SoJ surviving with their own servers, but do you seriously want a repeat of PSU, SoA? The population from PSU NA compared to PSU JP was laughable.
You know what to do, SoA.

D-Arkers? Arcs? Sounds like SOA being lazy or they are up to their localization failures once more. It's DARKERS and ARKS, even the concept art shows this. Why is it that SOA has this innate ability to mess up translations or unnecessarily change names of things in their games? Like how did we go from LineShields to Shieldweaves? Either way, this seems like they are trying to release the PC version along with the Vita and Smartphone versions if they are thinking of a Spring release.
Don't you mess this up SEGA...

Not really excited by this announcement. If I was Fall 2012 then that would be ok but 2013? Sorry but way to late Sega. By then someone else will have done an English patch for the menus and most people won't go over to the NA/EU release unless it is global servers. If its not global then forget it. So many other MMOs by then that the NA/EU servers will be sparse in population.
I should just go over to the Sega headquarters and ask them why they need a year to translate. I'll get my friend who's fluent in both Japanese and English to translate it in about month (Yes, he is that good and yes he works as a translator currently and yes I live in Japan. My Japanese is good enough to play and converse but not translate fully yet)

I'm glad they're localizing this but I honestly hope they don't screw it up. Honestly I hope that there's just 1 server and not different servers for each region. Also I hope that they don't take years to push patches >.> I also hope they localize the Vita version.

Finally. For a while there I was very worried that this game wouldn't get a western release. I can't wait until 2013.

I'm just gonna wait for the English release now.
I'd rather play a game I can understand instead of being confused with the Japanese text.
I know the game is easy to navigate but I'd rather play it in English. Oh my gosh I'm seriously freaking out about this news now.
And people complaining about the release date. Clearly you have no idea how long it takes to translate, bugfix and overall localize games.
I hope they'll release PSO2 on Steam.
You have to consider why it's taking so long is because maybe Sega in the west isn't so big anymore, considering how they've closed down multiple of their studios in EU and all that bad stuff that's been happening around them lately.

It was only a matter of time...and now?...it's only a matter of time!! cannot wait till the release

Play on both servers then. Sounds simple to me. And you get two free characters.

Did you know America never got the full PSOBB? It shut down a year after release due to the extremely slow updates. You know the GAC? Gaurdians Advance Content. It was a massive update for PSU. America got it a year later, and it was never updated as much versus the Japanese one that received constant updates. PSO-World always talked about those updates, if you never read. There is a history. Sure we get no bugs, but we also get no updates. Pick your poison:
Server A: Faster updates, more active players, lots of events, Japanese language.
Server B: Slower, if ever receives the update (which will be a year later), not so many active players who understand the game (those players are playing on the JP server), and hardly any worth while events. Just holiday events. Oh, but it'll be in the language you can understand.

I need to go to Sega and start busting heads, now.

Agrajag over at PSUmods translated almost all of what he could in about a week or so. Bug fixes? Bug fixes are fixed considering it's just the JP game but different language. And localizing a digital only game is not hard. About all there is is advertising, but I doubt SoA/E has the money for that. The only thing left are voice actors. And yes, I can see that taking awhile, but they should of already gathered the voice actors they needed and not wait until the game was released in Japan. Voice acting is not a major part in PSO2. And you just notified SEGA's problem. There are hardly enough NA/EU players to make up for seperate servers. Both will die out, just like PSOBB, PSU PC, and PSU Xbox 360. The players that truely do love PS will be smart to play on JP, even if there is a language barrier. If servers are seperate again, history will just repeat itself inevitably.

cross your fingers, cross your fingers...

haha PSO-World's logo is at the bottom right on the PSO2 site. Maybe, just maybe, SEGA is reading our comments on a global server and hopefully will listen.

...It's a trap. Definitely. Though, in all seriousness, I hope that they do their best to keep it up to date with JP servers!

We all want global connectivity for PSO2.

thank you sega. best news ever.

Yeah, no thanks SEGA, unless the the JP servers are made international I will stick to the JPN version, Thanks anyways.

Y E S! Sorry, too excited to bother being bothered by the Spring 2013 release date or whether it will be global servers or not.

FOR LOVE OF ALL THINGS SEGA GLOBAL SERVER THIS WITH LANGUAGE OPTIONS!!!
If they even have any inclination as to what the english speaking players want and want thier money then they need to do this. They hopefully will and add options for which voice set you want. Seriously im ataying on jp serv if this dosent have global interconnectivity which will also give it even more longevity.