Let's be realistic...in the event of a foreign IP ban...

[darkwraith007]

Spoiler!

Well this is an interesting time to log back into this place, heh.
When I last left PSO2, the beginnings of the item/story patch were just starting to emerge.

I'd love for someone to give a brief TLDR on the status of PSO2JP in English and what it means for the English community. I've seen that Singapore (PlayAsia) has PSO2 in English but they require some type of National ID verification. Not sure what is up with that or if we can use their client files somehow.

It may end up that we might have to do a private PSO2 server for the English community if things keep going the way they are with this DDoS crap business. Any clue on who's responsible or why they're doing it? O_O

And if any of the above offends anyone, just don't click the spoiler thing to read it. Thanks!

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[Sizustar]

Spoiler!

Well this is an interesting time to log back into this place, heh.
When I last left PSO2, the beginnings of the item/story patch were just starting to emerge.

I'd love for someone to give a brief TLDR on the status of PSO2JP in English and what it means for the English community. I've seen that Singapore (PlayAsia) has PSO2 in English but they require some type of National ID verification. Not sure what is up with that or if we can use their client files somehow.

It may end up that we might have to do a private PSO2 server for the English community if things keep going the way they are with this DDoS crap business. Any clue on who's responsible or why they're doing it? O_O

And if any of the above offends anyone, just don't click the spoiler thing to read it. Thanks!

(My signature is severely old. Just ignore it)

Read through this
www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220812

[holmwood]

Well that's a year from now.

I think making a decision now for something that is better made a year from now is meh, and the belief that PSO2 NA is coming out is a tad bit misguided, at least based on the information that's floating around. I'm aware that NA could announce it tomorrow, but the odds are unlikely that PSO2 is coming to NA anytime soon.

It also assumes that NA users will be IP blocked like SEA users, when the common belief is that ASIASOFT is more responsible for the IP block than Sega is.

Who is to say that the publisher in NA will fight for an IP block?

There are a lot of if/ands/maybes that assumptions would have to be made.


I personally just think you should enjoy your year of the game via free AWS. If you don't trust VPN than look into something else maybe?

I just feel like you're worrying about something prematurely.

Region block is common for games licensed in the NA. So I'm not going to put my bet on PSO2 being the exception. That would be newsworthy wouldn't it.

And yes, you are right about enjoying the game while we still got the free AWS.
Even if AWS runs out, it's dirt cheap to resume service. I could toil a bit on Amazon Mechanical Turk and have a couple weeks worth of playtime in just an hour of effort. So that doesn't seem to be my central issue.

I think maybe my biggest concern is the fact that I can't enjoy the game without all these hoops to go through. And from what I hear about the reduction in international players in-game, it seems others share that same sentiment.

Tldr: I'm just brooding.

[GHNeko]

The international players have been coming back. Slowly, but most definitely.

More so the dedicated players are jumping through hoops and the summer teenyboppers arent bothering anymore.

I think the hoops are a minute problem compared to the gains, but that's me.

[holmwood]

The international players have been coming back. Slowly, but most definitely.

More so the dedicated players are jumping through hoops and the summer teenyboppers arent bothering anymore.

I think the hoops are a minute problem compared to the gains, but that's me.

It'd be better if it was more intuitive. ~_~ I really applaud Limni's effort to simplify it for stupid people like me though.

It's nice to hear that more people are coming back. I guess it'll take a while for me to warm up to the idea.

[NoiseHERO]

Would rather jump through a couple hoops or quit than play on a private server... <_<;;;

I SEE HOW PHANTASY STAR FANS GET WHEN THEY GET A LITTLE BIT OF POWER!

[Yamishi]

And if the NA version is coming out some time after that 1 year, all NA players will be region-blocked... just like what happened with the SEA version. You'll pretty much lose your account from there unless you want to pay for a dedicated VPN service.

Taiwan has a regional version of PSO2 that is handled by a company other than Asiasoft, and they are not IP blocked from PSO2JP.

In other words, it depends if Sega outsources publishing to a company in NA that demands IP blocks.

Spoiler!

> implying there will ever be NA version

[AlliThePally]

If there is no NA release and this continues I'd just play on a private server.
I really see no reason to jump through a bunch of hoops if they don't want me on their server I don't want to be on it.

[GHNeko]

Taiwan has a regional version of PSO2 that is handled by a company other than Asiasoft, and they are not IP blocked from PSO2JP.

In other words, it depends if Sega outsources publishing to a company in NA that demands IP blocks.

Spoiler!

> implying there will ever be NA version

YEP. PRETTY MUCH THIS.

>implying things on psow

[holmwood]

Taiwan has a regional version of PSO2 that is handled by a company other than Asiasoft, and they are not IP blocked from PSO2JP.

In other words, it depends if Sega outsources publishing to a company in NA that demands IP blocks.

Spoiler!

> implying there will ever be NA version

That is very true. We can't directly assume Sega America will mandate a region block from the japanese servers.

What bothers me is that Sega Japan region-blocked the registration form a while back. This was around the same time Sega America were/was (grammar lols) releasing news about the NA version... Maybe they decided to re-enable it once PSO2 NA was delayed. Who knows. Im not sure that's conspiracy worthy.

I apologize for fear mongering.