Longterm schedule for October 2011 - March 2012

[EspioKaos]

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=1488

Missions
Weapon development missions
* Proposed by the big three weapons makers of Gurhal, a "new weapon development project" mission is planned for release. This mission will be updated over a course of many months to allow for the development of new weapons for all 27 categories. Be sure to take part in this, as you will be suitably rewarded for your participation!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_wpmission_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_wpmission_02.jpg

Training missions
* New training missions will be added for new players who are strapped for time. These missions can be played only once a day. EXP and MP payout for these missions will be higher than normal missions. Their main purpose will be to help new players obtain items and level their characters.
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_training_01.jpg

New free missions
* New free missions will be introduced with GBRs, etc.
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_freemission_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_freemission_02.jpg

Mission redistribution
* Old ver.1 missions will be upgraded to AOTI standards and old event missions will be re-released. Not only will item drops be changed, but expect other modifications to the missions to make them a bit different from what you may recall!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_mission_01.jpg

S3 difficulties
* S3 difficulty will be added to existing missions to offer up a bigger challenge!

Items
New costumes
* "Project CUTE" will introduce new clothes and parts designs to AOTI. Here's a sample of what's to come!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_pcute_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_pcute_02.jpg

New items
* A wide variety of new items will be added.
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_item_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_item_02.jpg
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_item_03.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_item_04.jpg

Collaboration items
* Brand new collaboration items are planned. Stay tuned for details!

System updates
New background music
* New BGM will be added for new fields and event missions.

GUARDIANS advanced style
* The 13th set of GAS customizations will be added.

Photon art balancing
* Numerous photon art adjustments are planned, including some to PAs added with update 3rd.

Miscellaneous plans
Events
* An event with new missions to celebrate the end of the year is planned. Details will depend on player input!
* GUARDIANS Chronicle 4th will breathe new life into popular event missions from the past!

GUARDIANS Boost Roads
* GBRs featuring new free missions and new routes are planned. Also, a new experimental type of boost is planned for GBR missions!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_gbr_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_gbr_02.jpg

Special weeks
* Various missions with special bonus multipliers will be featured in upcoming special weeks.

Seasonal lobbies
* Look forward to the usual seasonal lobby changes in the coming months!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_lobby_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_lobby_02.jpg

[Recon Tactical]

D:!!! Why must you taunt us inferior 360 scrubs?! ;_; Also, dat "Double Chainsawd".

[Cloudstrife xx]

My jaw has fallen off.., omg!

[Tawon]

Ya our oct to mar schedule is reskin reskin gbr no new weapons reskin and no pa balancing with no new arts .. Love it

Also look at how much they put into jp psu.... We might get lucky to know what is coming that week if that....

Clearly shows they don't give a **** about xbox 360 psu...

[WiZ1988]

Some good news. Got a lot to look forward to!

[Recon Tactical]

Ya our oct to mar schedule is reskin reskin gbr no new weapons reskin and no pa balancing with no new arts .. Love it

Also look at how much they put into jp psu.... We might get lucky to know what is coming that week if that....

Clearly shows they don't give a **** about xbox 360 psu...

I'm going to say this for the 9 millionth time. The 360 has its limitations. If the required data doesn't exist on-disc, nothing new can be put into the game (which is why we're able to get PSP1 stuff, but not any PSP2 or original stuff). Until Sega agree to give us this content in the form of an expansion pack, then this is how it's gonna be. Sure, it's depressing, but that's shitty console gaming for you.

If they kept the EU/US PC servers up, then at least there would be no legit excuse for them (at least on that side) to not put the content in that version, and I'm sure within that time, the 360 servers would be a ghost town by now.

[Anon_Fire]

I think this means the 360 servers will not last long.

[Resanoca]

Looks very spiffy.

[Crysteon]

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=1488

Missions
Weapon development missions
* Proposed by the big three weapons makers of Gurhal, a "new weapon development project" mission is planned for release. This mission will be updated over a course of many months to allow for the development of new weapons for all 27 categories. Be sure to take part in this, as you will be suitably rewarded for your participation!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_wpmission_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_wpmission_02.jpg

Training missions
* New training missions will be added for new players who are strapped for time. These missions can be played only once a day. EXP and MP payout for these missions will be higher than normal missions. Their main purpose will be to help new players obtain items and level their characters.
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_training_01.jpg

New free missions
* New free missions will be introduced with GBRs, etc.
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_freemission_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_freemission_02.jpg

Mission redistribution
* Old ver.1 missions will be upgraded to AOTI standards and old event missions will be re-released. Not only will item drops be changed, but expect other modifications to the missions to make them a bit different from what you may recall!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_mission_01.jpg

S3 difficulties
* S3 difficulty will be added to existing missions to offer up a bigger challenge!

Items
New costumes
* "Project CUTE" will introduce new clothes and parts designs to AOTI. Here's a sample of what's to come!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_pcute_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_pcute_02.jpg

New items
* A wide variety of new items will be added.
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_item_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_item_02.jpg
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_item_03.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_item_04.jpg

Collaboration items
* Brand new collaboration items are planned. Stay tuned for details!

System updates
New background music
* New BGM will be added for new fields and event missions.

GUARDIANS advanced style
* The 13th set of GAS customizations will be added.

Photon art balancing
* Numerous photon art adjustments are planned, including some to PAs added with update 3rd.

Miscellaneous plans
Events
* An event with new missions to celebrate the end of the year is planned. Details will depend on player input!
* GUARDIANS Chronicle 4th will breathe new life into popular event missions from the past!

GUARDIANS Boost Roads
* GBRs featuring new free missions and new routes are planned. Also, a new experimental type of boost is planned for GBR missions!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_gbr_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_gbr_02.jpg

Special weeks
* Various missions with special bonus multipliers will be featured in upcoming special weeks.

Seasonal lobbies
* Look forward to the usual seasonal lobby changes in the coming months!
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_lobby_01.jpg http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/image/news/schedule_20110930/ss_lobby_02.jpg

So...basically:

1) Great Arms Race 2 will be a big fest of rare weaponry.
2) Training Missions is an excuse to add filler content for lazy players who want easy EXP and MP.
3) New Free Missions? More junk to the catalogue. And more stressing GBRs with almost unworthy items, and ubers with drop rates less than 0.0005% chance.
4) Mission redistribution? I'll rephrase that: They are S3ing deprecated missions nobody ever dared to touch before because nothing drops there.
5) Project CUTE = Project Fanservice = Custom item contest stuff with a fancy name.
6) New items on pics: Eternal Psycho Drive (red pwand), Double Strong Cannon, Ultimate Chain, and Twin Nanoblast Daggers (I should check the name again later...I dont recall at all)
7) Collab items? Really? They will simply recycle clothes and weaponry from PSP2/i and rename them. They have permissions of the respective companies anyway.
8 ) New BGMs? Yeah, there are a few BGMs from PSP2i lacking, like Dilla Bravas, Dark Falz Dios and Yaoroz BGMs.
9) PA ballancing: AC and Retsuzan nerfing...nuff said.
10) GC4...more crappy revamped missions where only noob luck counts to make it worth running.
11) GBR new % modifier? Okay...I'll take it they will apply some extra boosting to a certain mission per day or some cheap stuff like that...or they will just be lazy and apply a secret boost according to the present party members (example: 4 members = +25% extra boost added to cummulative %)
12) More Special Weeks: The void between events = Filler contents.
13) Wall of text....!!! Yay!....nah, jk.

*breathes deeply* Nuff bitching for today, lol.

[Recon Tactical]

So...basically:

1) Great Arms Race 2 will be a big fest of rare weaponry.
2) Training Missions is an excuse to add filler content for lazy players who want easy EXP and MP.
3) New Free Missions? More junk to the catalogue. And more stressing GBRs with almost unworthy items, and ubers with drop rates less than 0.0005% chance.
4) Mission redistribution? I'll rephrase that: They are S3ing deprecated missions nobody ever dared to touch before because nothing drops there.
5) Project CUTE = Project Fanservice = Custom item contest stuff with a fancy name.
6) New items on pics: Eternal Psycho Drive (red pwand), Double Strong Cannon, Ultimate Chain, and Twin Nanoblast Daggers (I should check the name again later...I dont recall at all)
7) Collab items? Really? They will simply recycle clothes and weaponry from PSP2/i and rename them. They have permissions of the respective companies anyway.
8 ) New BGMs? Yeah, there are a few BGMs from PSP2i lacking, like Dilla Bravas, Dark Falz Dios and Yaoroz BGMs.
9) PA ballancing: AC and Retsuzan nerfing...nuff said.
10) GC4...more crappy revamped missions where only noob luck counts to make it worth running.
11) GBR new % modifier? Okay...I'll take it they will apply some extra boosting to a certain mission per day or some cheap stuff like that...or they will just be lazy and apply a secret boost according to the present party members (example: 4 members = +25% extra boost added to cummulative %)
12) More Special Weeks: The void between events = Filler contents.
13) Wall of text....!!! Yay!....nah, jk.

*breathes deeply* Nuff bitching for today, lol.

You forgot the most important one of all:

14) The Xbox 360 server feeling inferior and scrubby.

[Crysteon]

That's implicit, though.

[Cyanide77]

You forgot the most important one of all:

14) The Xbox 360 server feeling inferior and scrubby.

We shouldn't feel that way at all. The 360 server is ran by a baboon with no concept of the game he was hired for.

[Selphea]

No new enemies =(!

[thunder-ray]

With all the updates that the jp servers are getting makes me wonder why I didnt try to join the jp servers 4 years ago....

[Vent]

Project Cute? Are they serious?! I mean...c'mon! Okay, I'll stop wasting words on it...

That one rod looks a bit like a Psycho Wand.

Generally to be expected; simple content releases with nothing radically new.

[Shou]

Unless MF is boosted to be able to keep up with CASTS and their OP AC and SUVs I may pretty much call it quits until PSO2.

[psu000]

Project Cute is another name for Project lolli. Got to keep the majority of community happy.

One good update would be to increased equipped PA to go more than 36, but unliklely to happen since they can't be bothered to tweak the game anymore, same goes to adding new enemies to the game

[Crysteon]

Unless MF is boosted to be able to keep up with CASTS and their OP AC and SUVs I may pretty much call it quits until PSO2.

No matter what happens...Shoe always comes back like a boomerang :0

[Tyreek]

Well color me in green in envy. :neutral: Yet another smorgasbord of content for the dear JP server... Again. All the way to March. Still no plans for implementing the PSP2 enemies I see lol. Not even Bil De Golus? Come on Sega, thats a reskin for crying out loud, you have the means to do that dragon some justice at least.

[Shou]

No matter what happens...Shoe always comes back like a boomerang :0

My playtime has always been like a dim candle. I have always been there but I just don't play very much because I am always waiting for MF to shine. When PSO2 is out though, that flame will inevitably go out lol.

[Positive]

Does this mean they're pushing pso2 to March? Or does that have a confirmed date already?

[Miyavi-sensei]

You forgot the most important one of all:

14) The Xbox 360 server feeling inferior and scrubby.

Quite the contrary im sure many 360 players will convert with this news except for all the little kids, and PC isnt superior Mac is :]

[Miyavi-sensei]

Well color me in green in envy. :neutral: Yet another smorgasbord of content for the dear JP server... Again. All the way to March. Still no plans for implementing the PSP2 enemies I see lol. Not even Bil De Golus? Come on Sega, thats a reskin for crying out loud, you have the means to do that dragon some justice at least.

Isnt Shizuru in JP PSU?

[Selphea]

Project Cute? Are they serious?

No, they're Engrish


Does this mean they're pushing pso2 to March? Or does that have a confirmed date already?

Apparently, from the PSO2 forums, alpha test 2 is scheduled for the beginning of 2012. The usual practice of other developers is for the next stage i.e. closed or open beta to be 3 months after, and then a further 1-3 months for full release.

[str898mustang]

Still no level cap increase :(

[Selphea]

Still no level cap increase :(

Lol how much more powerful do you want to be? Enough to kill Falz with a normal attack? =P

[sugarFO]

Project Cute sounds like my kind of thing, and with PSO2 being delayed I may go for it!

[Cloudstrife xx]

Unless MF is boosted to be able to keep up with CASTS and their OP AC and SUVs I may pretty much call it quits until PSO2.
Your acting as if Masteforce cant do anything yet thats not quite true Masterforce is still a very powerful class ive seen Odessa's and others Mf videos and they still tear missions up so what if acrofighter and fighmaster and the other fighting classes are better.
Masterforce is still a very good class if you want to ta with it just do it and dont concern yourself that af ect ect is somewhat faster.

[Powder Keg]

Time for me to drop the hammer on 360. Figure out a way to get my JP account to work and play that every now and then.

[HienkyakuX]

Project Cute is another name for Project lolli. Got to keep the majority of community happy.

One good update would be to increased equipped PA to go more than 36, but unliklely to happen since they can't be bothered to tweak the game anymore, same goes to adding new enemies to the game

Same for dodge roll from psp; Special Ops (Kanohne) have it since the first year of PSU and they can't give that to us...

[Anon_Fire]

Lol how much more powerful do you want to be? Enough to kill Falz with a normal attack? =P

Unless they can add infinity rank to all of the missions and raise the enemy lvl cap to 250.

[Tyreek]

Isnt Shizuru in JP PSU?

No PSP2 enemies are in PSU period. With the exception of Bil De Golus and Helga, who are are the only newly implemented enemies in PSP1. But even they aren't in the game. I don't get how they don't have an inclusion STILL after this game has gone PC onry. I would have loved to fight Helga in a higher quality.

[Keilyn]

I like the costume designs. (Always defended the wide PSU-Costuming)

As for PA balancing and 3rd Update Customizations...

I can only imagine a Grants Limit Break, along with Regrants Limit Break...and I wonder if they will "balance" assault crush.

[WiZ1988]

Unless they can add infinity rank to all of the missions and raise the enemy lvl cap to 250.


That would be awesome.

[Shou]

Masterforce is still a very good class if you want to ta with it just do it and dont concern yourself that af ect ect is somewhat faster.

I can't. Something about knowing that you could be finishing missions easier and faster with other classes kills the whole experience for me. The same thing happened to Bobby and why he and others kinda dropped MF. It's not a big deal, the game is old and tired. If MF becomes top tier again, I'll play, and if not, I won't play. I just get bored too fast.

[str898mustang]

I can't. Something about knowing that you could be finishing missions easier and faster with other classes kills the whole experience for me. The same thing happened to Bobby and why he and others kinda dropped MF. It's not a big deal, the game is old and tired. If MF becomes top tier again, I'll play, and if not, I won't play. I just get bored too fast.


Thats the reason I dont TA....I play a class because I enjoy it.....not because it finishes a mission first.

Old and tired to you.....still fun to me.

[bloodflowers]

So...basically:

1) Great Arms Race 2 will be a big fest of rare weaponry.
2) Training Missions is an excuse to add filler content for lazy players who want easy EXP and MP.
3) New Free Missions? More junk to the catalogue. And more stressing GBRs with almost unworthy items, and ubers with drop rates less than 0.0005% chance.
4) Mission redistribution? I'll rephrase that: They are S3ing deprecated missions nobody ever dared to touch before because nothing drops there.
5) Project CUTE = Project Fanservice = Custom item contest stuff with a fancy name.
6) New items on pics: Eternal Psycho Drive (red pwand), Double Strong Cannon, Ultimate Chain, and Twin Nanoblast Daggers (I should check the name again later...I dont recall at all)
7) Collab items? Really? They will simply recycle clothes and weaponry from PSP2/i and rename them. They have permissions of the respective companies anyway.
8 ) New BGMs? Yeah, there are a few BGMs from PSP2i lacking, like Dilla Bravas, Dark Falz Dios and Yaoroz BGMs.
9) PA ballancing: AC and Retsuzan nerfing...nuff said.
10) GC4...more crappy revamped missions where only noob luck counts to make it worth running.
11) GBR new % modifier? Okay...I'll take it they will apply some extra boosting to a certain mission per day or some cheap stuff like that...or they will just be lazy and apply a secret boost according to the present party members (example: 4 members = +25% extra boost added to cummulative %)
12) More Special Weeks: The void between events = Filler contents.
13) Wall of text....!!! Yay!....nah, jk.

*breathes deeply* Nuff bitching for today, lol.

You just earned todays 'whiny little bitch' award. Congratulations!

[Nel]

You just earned todays 'whiny little bitch' award. Congratulations!

Well.. but he is right

[Skorn]

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=1488

Photon art balancing
* Numerous photon art adjustments are planned, including some to PAs added with update 3rd.


Still waiting on the 2nd update stuff. =-(

[Crysteon]

You just earned todays 'whiny little bitch' award. Congratulations!

Thank you! :D

[Cloudstrife xx]

Thank you! :D
Oh dont worry normally K/bit wins that award for nearly any update even more so if it starts with the Word GBR.

[Crysteon]

That "ty" was a sarcasm actually, but there are times I enjoy being called a bitch, lol.

[Titan]

I wonder if that once a day mission will be accessible to Free Course players.

They need to help out Masterforce with something since its a pain in the ass leveling without any sort of limit break even with a pallet full of top notch gear. Maybe they can bump up diga/foie to hit 3 targets until limit break to give it its 4th hit.

Project Fan Service: What about Project Kickassery? SB isn't Cute.

Eternal Psycho wand will be GC content. :p

[Omega-z]

I was thinking that it be interesting if the Eternal Psycho Drive, Eternal Heat (red pwand). Was really a new RED rod, then Techer's could use the unused TP form the RED set then add the F/F to that and we have a 600+ TP boost. Just wishful thinking lol.

[Ce'Nedra]

Ya our oct to mar schedule is reskin reskin gbr no new weapons reskin and no pa balancing with no new arts .. Love it

Also look at how much they put into jp psu.... We might get lucky to know what is coming that week if that....

Clearly shows they don't give a **** about xbox 360 psu...

Be glad you can still play, they could of shut down the 360 servers at the same time as PC/PS2. We never got a ton of updates you guys on the 360 got.

Stop complaining or go play the JP version on the PC.

[Ilikelamp7]

I don't think you can call it an update unless it has new content.

[milranduil]

Thats the reason I dont TA....I play a class because I enjoy it.....not because it finishes a mission first.

Old and tired to you.....still fun to me.

I still stand by the fact that I've played AF since AotI was released in US. I was just infinitely patient waiting for the inevitable to happen :P

[str898mustang]

I still stand by the fact that I've played AF since AotI was released in US. I was just infinitely patient waiting for the inevitable to happen :P

You mean you looked into the future and saw the Assault Crush boost??!?! lol....good to see ya still posting here.

[Crysteon]

I was thinking that it be interesting if the Eternal Psycho Drive, Eternal Heat (red pwand). Was really a new RED rod, then Techer's could use the unused TP form the RED set then add the F/F to that and we have a 600+ TP boost. Just wishful thinking lol.

Just some slight corrections:

Eternal Psycho Wand is the rod (red pwand, if you wanna call it that way)
Eternal Heat is a double saber (a pair of Nightmare Blood duct taped, lol)

[The Master eye]

meh no new R mission :(

[milranduil]

You mean you looked into the future and saw the Assault Crush boost??!?! lol....good to see ya still posting here.

Not only that, but Twin Dil Edges and Kamades with Retsuzan :p

[Cleptomaniac]

meh no new R mission :(

They've outdone themselves with Ohtori.

[The Master eye]

They've outdone themselves with Ohtori.

it dosen't mean they have to bring a better one. Just something challenging or just new and fun :P

[Miyavi-sensei]

Be glad you can still play, they could of shut down the 360 servers at the same time as PC/PS2. We never got a ton of updates you guys on the 360 got.

Stop complaining or go play the JP version on the PC.

If they did that the Sega CEO would have alot of rioting americans at his front doorstep which would delay content for you so respect the 360.

[Arks Oracle]

If they did that the Sega CEO would have alot of rioting americans at his front doorstep which would delay content for you so respect the 360.

hahahahahhahaha:D
you don't know how funny your post just was

[Anon_Fire]

It's only a matter of time and when SEGA announces that they'll be closing the 360 servers.

[Africa]

why do some people believe they're shutting down the 360? they can perfectly well keep it like it is and still make money.It's the fact that they don't do the work that's killing the 360 with re-skins.It all goes back to mag in the end.

[Crysteon]

If they had a choice between which switch to pull down, they would pull 360 one with no doubt. If it's about which ones gives them the most money, you already know which one wins by far, lol.

[DeathDragon2332]

If they had a choice between which switch to pull down, they would pull 360 one with no doubt. If it's about which ones gives them the most money, you already know which one wins by far, lol.
Lolz this ^

[Ezodagrom]

Well color me in green in envy. :neutral: Yet another smorgasbord of content for the dear JP server... Again. All the way to March. Still no plans for implementing the PSP2 enemies I see lol. Not even Bil De Golus? Come on Sega, thats a reskin for crying out loud, you have the means to do that dragon some justice at least.
Since the supplemental update the JP servers have been getting more supplemental updates in the 1st half of each year.
In the 1st half of 2009 was the supplemental update, in the 1st half of 2010 was the update 2nd, in the 1st half of 2011 was the update 3rd, if it goes on like this, sometime after this longterm schedule we should be seeing an update 4th.

I wonder if they might add enemies or bosses with that. Well, they added a PSPo2i boss music recently to the JP servers (which can be used in the current event), the addition of new enemies and bosses could still be possible. ^^;

Or maybe I'm just expecting too much, haha.

[Cleptomaniac]

If they had a choice between which switch to pull down, they would pull 360 one with no doubt. If it's about which ones gives them the most money, you already know which one wins by far, lol.

Obviously, but if they're both making them money they're going to both stay up for a while. When PSO2 comes out I can see them dropping support for the xbox 360, but I think they'll still keep the servers open.

[Ce'Nedra]

If they did that the Sega CEO would have alot of rioting americans at his front doorstep which would delay content for you so respect the 360.


hahahahahhahaha:D
you don't know how funny your post just was

I agree, i never had respect for the xbox consoles at all, to much elitism arround it (not to mention the 12yo kids), but when i heard 360 server stayed open i started to hate them even more.

And like sega would really care if they had 360 fanboys on their doorstep, did they care for the PC/PS2 users when our servers got shut down? No. They won't care either for the 360 players when the server will get shut down.

It's a miracle the 360 servers are even still up and running, guess Microsoft has to much influence on Sega here.

[Selphea]

Since development and marketing costs (i.e. effort into making/translating/advertising new content) for are almost 0. The only real costs they incur are probably server upkeep and bandwidth, and maybe a token fee to M$. So I'm pretty sure that as long as there are at least 30 or so players subscribed, Sega already makes a profit from PSU 360 :O

[Vent]

30 players = 30 * 10 = 300 dollars/euros

I'm not sure with how many employees you're trying to run a gaming server, forum and whatnot? ^^;

[Selphea]

30 players = 30 * 10 = 300 dollars/euros

I'm not sure with how many employees you're trying to run a gaming server, forum and whatnot? ^^;

The forum's integrated into the main Sega forums, and the moderators are all community members o.o The server admin doesn't need to man the server full time either. Assuming a US$20/hour pay rate, that's enough to pay for somewhere around 10 man-hours per month after accounting for misc expenses like electricity, ISP bills etc. That's enough for 1 person for 2 hours of weekly maintenance. If SoA is hiring 1 IT person full time just to maintain their PSU servers, I think someone at their HR department needs to be fired =p

P.S. I know their maintenance lasts much longer than 2 hours but seriously what do they do with all that time? =/

[thunder-ray]

If they did that the Sega CEO would have alot of rioting americans at his front doorstep which would delay content for you so respect the 360.Your post gave me A good laugh thanks I needed that.


I agree, i never had respect for the xbox consoles at all, to much elitism arround it (not to mention the 12yo kids), but when i heard 360 server stayed open i started to hate them even more.

And like sega would really care if they had 360 fanboys on their doorstep, did they care for the PC/PS2 users when our servers got shut down? No. They won't care either for the 360 players when the server will get shut down.

It's a miracle the 360 servers are even still up and running, guess Microsoft has to much influence on Sega here.Ya the 360 servers might not last one year after PSO2 comes out. But I doubt sega would even keep the 360 servers up longer then that.

[Ce'Nedra]

30 players = 30 * 10 = 300 dollars/euros

I'm not sure with how many employees you're trying to run a gaming server, forum and whatnot? ^^;

If 30 players is all it takes then why did PC/PS2 get shut down? There were at least 100 players on if not more each time i played. I know it's an example mind you :)

[Anna_Wren]

Actually, its about 4000 players active subscribe usually with the occasional bump during events and the like. Most people don't play it daily and the stable daily population ranges from 200 to 1000 a day. Monthly thats more like 40,000 bucks and that more than pays for the games upkeep and a tidy profit. During events its likely to bump that up to over 60,000 with the return of event players who cancel and the like until events. Since that means they make about 200,000 or more a year off of PSU subscriptions then that would add significantly to the profit of SoA which isn't particularly profitable to begin with.

Course in JP, a single player may spend more than a thousand dollars on GC stuff meaning that PSU could theoritically make over a million a month (though likely much much less than that) for SoJ. That would likely make PSU its single most profitable series currently and the reason they would like to keep them happy over there.

[Selphea]

If 30 players is all it takes then why did PC/PS2 get shut down? There were at least 100 players on if not more each time i played. I know it's an example mind you :)

If they kept PC/PS2 up today, they'd actually have to pour money into development for supplemental updates!

Notice that PC/PS2 was shut down just before 360 got their supplmemental update (the first one I think?)

[Ce'Nedra]

Yeah it was a month or two before that update i think. Either so, i still hate sega for closing down the servers, if they get so many money from the 360 servers they could easly keep the pc/ps2 servers running against very low costs either.

[thunder-ray]

Yeah it was a month or two before that update i think. Either so, i still hate sega for closing down the servers, if they get so many money from the 360 servers they could easly keep the pc/ps2 servers running against very low costs either.I dont blame you for feeling that way I was pretty pissed when I lost my account. However when theres no profit in what your paying for it only makes sense to get rid of something that has no value to you and pay more money on the other thats giving you the better profit.

[Ce'Nedra]

I was more then willing enough to pay every 2 months (I could only buy 60 days) to play this, heck i only started online during Shred the Darkness event so i still had tons more to explore, my main was only lv120 or so and my alt's all like lv20 or lower.

I never got to fully enjoy the game, i played it offline for a good while but that's boring so i went online after convincing my parrents finnaly to use their credit card.

Ah well things happend, it just pisses me off when i see 360 players whine and complain about slow updates and such, cause they can at least still play. And no JP server is no option for me, ás much i love japanese i can't stand playing the game in all JP (I tried it for 2 weeks and then never touched it again) and i just lost intrests in the game in general when they shut down the servers.

Which is kinda why i'm happy PSO2 is PC only and not seperated like PSU.

[Omega-z]

Cloud, that wasn't it, tho there where many other reasons that it did.:(

[Illuminate]

Cloud, that wasn't it, tho there where many other reasons that it did.:(

It was full of fail, a terrible fate for any game.

[thunder-ray]

I was more then willing enough to pay every 2 months (I could only buy 60 days) to play this, heck i only started online during Shred the Darkness event so i still had tons more to explore, my main was only lv120 or so and my alt's all like lv20 or lower.

I never got to fully enjoy the game, i played it offline for a good while but that's boring so i went online after convincing my parrents finnaly to use their credit card.

Ah well things happend, it just pisses me off when i see 360 players whine and complain about slow updates and such, cause they can at least still play. And no JP server is no option for me, ás much i love japanese i can't stand playing the game in all JP (I tried it for 2 weeks and then never touched it again) and i just lost intrests in the game in general when they shut down the servers.

Which is kinda why i'm happy PSO2 is PC only and not seperated like PSU.Ya thats one thing I am happy about pso2 is only for the pc.

[Africa]

pso2 only being for the pc is iffy to me i prefer to play my games on consoles as i hate pc gaming in general.the 360 players gripe because they shouldn't have to put up with re-skins and other issues that are mainly sega's fault for not fixing or badly addressing them.Either way a global server is the best way for pso2 to be done and the only way i'd consider buying it.

[Keilyn]

To SEGA it may have been "marketing" or upkeep costs, but the players it was a failure. PC/PS2 players own a pair of titles (PSU and PSU-AoTI) which no longer have Online Components, yet are still sold over the counter for the singleplayer without any warning on the box that the game no longer is supported online unless its 360 or PSU JP.

[thunder-ray]

pso2 only being for the pc is iffy to me i prefer to play my games on consoles as i hate pc gaming in general.the 360 players gripe because they shouldn't have to put up with re-skins and other issues that are mainly sega's fault for not fixing or badly addressing them.Either way a global server is the best way for pso2 to be done and the only way i'd consider buying it.I to prefer to play my games on the consoles but since I like the phantasy star series ill try it on the pc.


To SEGA it may have been "marketing" or upkeep costs, but the players it was a failure. PC/PS2 players own a pair of titles (PSU and PSU-AoTI) which no longer have Online Components, yet are still sold over the counter for the singleplayer without any warning on the box that the game no longer is supported online unless its 360 or PSU JP.Your right it should be written on the game box that the servers are indeed shut down so people arent suprised that they cant go online.