Is it worth it?

[|Frost|]

Hey all,

I've been a fan of Phantasy Star for a while. I played PSOBB and PSU on the PC and was pretty devastated when the servers were shut down for PSU. Until now I haven't had a way to play PSU, but I finally got an Xbox360 recently and I just got PSU from one of my friends. Sweeeettt. So I still have no idea how populated the servers are nowadays and I was debating whether or not I wanna purchase a guardian's license again. Is it worth it?

[|Frost|]

I realize now that someone else already posted a thread similar to this, but I want more answers haha. Someone mentioned downsides of the Xbox360 version and something about a JP version?

[Konflyk]

JP-PC has a F2P model on it, excludes trades, my room.
Xbox PSU is just like the US-PC ver, monthly sub to play online, don't need gold just a sub. People only run white beast so good luck finding a party unless you want to do, white beast all day.
Just wait for PSO2 you'll enjoy it a lot more than PSU and we're just waiting for open Beta now. I don't like to beat a dead horse so I'll leave what I've said so far about PSU-360 out.

Downsides of JP vs International: Content on the xbox is at least a year behind now, might have trouble getting latest JP updates since they dropped the PS2 to improve the development of the PC ver. other than that I'm clueless otherwise. I regret wasting time and money getting it again for 360 after losing my PC ver, at least it helped kill some time for a few months.

[Powder Keg]

If you are newer to the game you will have tons to do despite it's shortcomings compared to JP. Just be wary of the community, a lot of them like to take advantage of players and are general scumbags. There's some good ones around though.

[Midori Oku]

People only run white beast so good luck finding a party unless you want to do, white beast all day.

What? People run more than just White Beast nowadays. You can find also find parties at GAM, Distant Memory, and obviously events/GBR's. Once the current event ends 360 should get the Parum GBR that adds Lightning Beast S3, Seed Express S3, Two-Headed Ruins C-S3, and Evacuation Route C-S3. People will be doing Seed Express S3 for Iritista Spellstones, Lightning Beast S3 for Sturm Bursts, and Two-Headed Ruins S3 for the (well whatever it ends up being called/looks like) M25SE Missouri.

Then again, I guess it is just your advanced/elite players that don't run White Beast 24/7.

[HIT0SHI]

It's better to go on the PSU JP for it's content which it's ahead of the 360.
But if you do decide to play online, my character and gamertag is HIT0SHI!

[dias_flac_0g]

After playing on jp for about a month now there's no way in hell I can recomend the 360 version.

The person who said that the 360 is behind 1 year is actually being nice. It's much more than that.

Plus no one talks about this but i'm sure the 360 servers wont last as long as the JP ones. PSU as a whole isn't worth it anymore.

PSO2 is coming out sometime soon. If you want your psu fix I recomend the free JP one. Dont waste your time on the watered down (being nice here) 360 one.

[padiwac]

Wish they were running White Beast now! 29 mil for an Aoryu and 9 mil for a Shuzak and still no dark Shijin (made 4 off ROF so far).

For console players 360 is the only version available.

[|Frost|]

Thanks for all the replies!

Ok, so I guess that pretty much rules out PSU360 for me haha what a bummer. I'm understanding that JP PSU is on the PC? and if so, how do I get it? Also what is F2P? Also I'd like to here pros and cons for JP PSU if anyone can do that for me. Just like a summary. I'd appreciate it. =] I just really miss playing PSU. I played the story mode for a little bit on 360 and it brought back a lot of good memories hah.

[|Frost|]

I was also considering just paying $10 for a month of the Xbox version just to see if its satisfying. I mean I haven't played since the PC servers shut down. What exactly do you guys mean when you say its 1+ years behind? Anddd alsoo my computer sucks. Not sure if it can even run PSU anymore. I could hardly run simple games like Vindictus (if anyone has played that) D;

[padiwac]

Well 360 is well populated and has an event that ends in June. Everything you need to play it is on Games on demand and you can cancel online at any time. We get items that PC pays for, for free, and they are ahead content wise and in other ways.

[|Frost|]

LOL so I ended up buying the subscription today and I started playing. The typing was really tedious and I found out I could use a USB keyboard. Luckily my dad already had one. The actual USB plug for it is tiny and it was painfully difficult to get it into the front USB port. Stupid flap. I actually couldn't even get it in...so I ask my dad. He tries and fails. The USB plug fell inside and for me its pretty easy to get, but his fingers are big so he couldn't reach in. My Xbox happened to be on with PSU still on and my dad, not knowing any better, tilted the Xbox to get the plug out. Pretty sure you guys can fill in the blanks. Any suggestions? I was just gonna go to gamestop to get a preowned one but I really don't feel like spending $20 on it.

[NewAgeRed]

oh no. :(
Maybe a movie or game place can buff it out for you. I'm not sure.
Anyone else know how well that works?

Well, I came in to tell you I'd help you start out if you wanted. My GT is the same as my screen name here.
I also have a character by this name.

[Lostbob117]

JP psu free course, Free course features

Free play
You can play online for free by registering a PSU ID and downloading and installing the free

client software.
There is no need to purchase an Illuminus game key or GUARDIANS License.

Earning EXP and MP
You can still earn EXP, photon art EXP, AEXP and mission points by playing missions.
You can raise your characters to the current level cap, LV180.

Playtime limits
There is no limit to the amount of time you log in and play.

Mission acceptance
You can freely play each of the following mission types:
Story missions (all 10 chapters of Episode 2, all 8 chapters of Episode 3)
Party missions
Partner missions
Event missions
Item exchange missions
GUARDIANS Cash missions (including item upgrade and GC Shop)
GUARDIANS advanced missions
Door to subspace (side story mission)
Versus missions
Recruitment missions
Mission tutorial (initiated by the NPC at Clyez City 1F)
Training missions

Universe selection
You may freely move between each of the following universes:
01: Event/GBR
02: Beginner
03: G. Colony/GAM
04: Parum
05: Neudaiz
06: Moatoob
Please note that you cannot enter your room.

Common box
Though you cannot enter your room, you can still access your common box from NPC vendors.
Common box storage gives you 100 item storage places per entrance.

Casino Voloyal
You can access Moatoob's Casino Voloyal and collect a daily allowance of 50 Vol Coins.
You can play the roulette wheel and slot machines, and trade in your Vol Coins for items at the exchange counter.

Daily Stamps
You can collect 1 DS per day at the Resident Security Department (Clyez City 3F).

GUARDIANS Cash
All features of the GUARDIANS Cash system are open to free course players.
Enjoy all GUARDIANS Cash missions, including GC Shop and The Upgrade Device!

Inter-player trading
While you can pick up items dropped in missions by monsters and boxes, you cannot pick up items dropped by other players.
Furthermore, the "trade items" function in the options menu cannot be used.
While items dropped by other players cannot be picked up, items dropped by GMs, such as rewards for participating in GM events, can be picked up.



Free course restrictions

Mission acceptance
The following missions and mission types cannot be played under free course:
Innocent Girl
The Magashi Plan
Rare free missions
GAS

GUARDIANS advanced style
While you cannot access the GAS mission to purchase new customizations, any customizations you may have purchased as a premium course player carry over to free course.

Universe selection
You cannot enter the following universes:
07: Premium only
08: Premium only

Your room
Access to your room is cut off as a free course player, effectively revoking access to the following features:
Partner machine
Additional item storage (300 spaces, which can be upgraded to 500 spaces)
Partner machine raising
Item synthesis
Room decoration and remodeling
Vision phone
Player shops
Titles (your player record will still be updated, however)

Daily allowances
Vol Coin and Daily Stamp allowances are limited to free course players.
The daily allowance of Vol Coins is set to 50 per day (as opposed to 01 50 per day for premium course players).
The Daily Stamp allowance is set to 1 DS per day (as opposed to 5 DS per day for premium course players).




If you want a communityish go to 360 but if you want just some fun with some english players and try to get around everything be booted my jp players sometimes than come on to jp. Oh yeah you also cold run solo.

[Omega-z]

Lostbob117 - it's upgraded to 1,000 item slot's not 500 anymore.

That too you can get 8 player's (JP) instead of 4 (360) and they can share items and help to get extra stuff.

[Lostbob117]

Lostbob117 - it's upgraded to 1,000 item slot's not 500 anymore.

That too you can get 8 player's (JP) instead of 4 (360) and they can share items and help to get extra stuff.

I just copied and paste from the psupedia.

[|Frost|]

Thanks Lostbob117, that clears up a lot haha. I think I'm just gonna stick with PSU 360 for a while. Idk what I'm gonna do about the perfect circle. Hopefully the parts of the game that I wanna play aren't corrupted. I was able to start the game and go to Clyez 4th floor, but I haven't had time to try anything else. Anyway, thanks for all the insight.

And NewAgeRed, I'll look you up the next time I get on :)

[NewAgeRed]

ok cool. any idea what class you want to go for?
Also it may be a long shot, but will the game let you install to hard drive?

Lostbob117's post makes me want to play the JP version even more. but my computer sucks. :|

[Lostbob117]

ok cool. any idea what class you want to go for?
Also it may be a long shot, but will the game let you install to hard drive?

Lostbob117's post makes me want to play the JP version even more. but my computer sucks. :|

I'm glad my post makes you want to come on to jp it's really fun, and really cool weps like my highest lvl character 55 has a lot of weapons and good ones and I'm free course. like I have three spears 0/10 with 900+ atk with semi good %'s. 22% dark
34% ice, and 33% ground. And it looks cool it's called chrome lance.

[|Frost|]

NewAgeRed, totally forgot to hit you up on live haha but I just did. I'm a beast FF now, lvl 57. Didn't waste any time xD I found out unfortunately that I can't go into my room >_> sooo I can't stow anything away. I bought a new copy though for $12. I just won't buy hamburgers for a week and it'll make up for it lol.