So, the announcement of separate world servers has been the most disappointing one that I have heard thus far as it sounds like a return to the status quo on the last seven years of PSO titles. And I would rather address it in a topic of its own.
I would like to hear what you think the announcement means for the future of the international releases of the game and perhaps find a more hopeful incite than my own.
But I will begin with my own prophecy of doom:
I suppose we are all quite aware of how the last game worked out - if I recall correctly, the Japanese version of PSU has two world severs for the PC/PS2 crowd. Then there was one server for the US/EU PC/PS2 crowd and one international server for the Xbox 360 crowd. Ignoring the semantics, I will just treat the world as an impassable server barrier created for various reasons (Microsoft licensing, language differences, or popularity).
Thus this announcement makes me think of a repeat of the PSU strategy, which ultimately fell apart due to mismanagement.
Yes, this essentially happened in all the PSO titles, but at least on Dreamcast and Game Cube I could go to a Japanese server, read a guide, and play through the quest I wanted to check out. So I would be happy to hear some form of assurance that I can at least do that again. And with the announcement of a world transfer as a future possibility, that does give some hope to free world transfer afterward.
Of course, it would be even more preferable to just have a guarantee that the international versions will be well managed, but there certainly is no need for such a press release before any other versions even have a release date.
That all said, I will definitely get both versions if they are all separated and jump ship depending on how well things go on either.
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