PSO2 Fan release version?

[NoiseHERO]

o_o kotaku is pretty pathetic but what's with the strong emotion-

nvm

[Noblewine]

o_o kotaku is pretty pathetic but what's with the strong emotion-

nvm

That simple. They wrote a ton of stupid click bait articles claiming "Gamers are dead" and so did their affiliates after they were exposed for colluding with one another and indie-game developers.

[Hysteria1987]

I do think this is at a bit of a risk of a C/D but I would like it to to succeed. What I've heard is planned at the moment-

* Things are free! I'd love to be able to screw around with my hair colour whenever I wanted.
* Some measures may be implemented to not ruin the market re. AC scratch content- last time I was in a convo where this was talked about nothing had been decided.
* The server will be kept up to date with JP.
* They'll be able to 'read' your characters on the JP server and transfer a copy of them directly over to Polaris, so you aren't starting at square one.

Of course I'm not related to the project in any way, this is just from conversations I was in a while back.

[Macman]

They are a Japanese company, why should they care about the Western market?

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I mean it works for Nintendo...

[Nitro Vordex]

They are not strictly a Japanese company, and they have SoA and SoE for a reason. If they have divisions specifically for the western market, it doesn't make sense to not care about it. But I digress.

SoJ and SoA are pretty much different companies, at this point. Not to mention SoJ just kinda shits all over SoA, and SoA only wants to make Sonic games, sports games and movie tie-ins, because that's what sells. Which brings me to-

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I mean it works for Nintendo...

Nintendo can make basically any Mario, Zelda, whatever game and everyone will eat that shit up. Granted, Nintendo actually makes decent (at worst!) games. Sega's track record...not so much. Phantasy Star, as a series, wasn't exactly a money maker, in the U.S., anyway. Plus it's been so long they're probably thinking it's just not worth bringing the game here. They've been at it for 2 (3?) years in Japan, and they announced an NA version and just died. No one who was even remotely interested even cares now, and those that do are a very small minority that would not turn profits. Sega is also terrible at advertising, and even if they did, guess what! That costs money!

tl;dr sega needs more bikinis and pachinko machines in Japan more than they need anything of actual value in the rest of the world

[Xaelouse]

If Americans got the game as it is now, it'll get shit on or left dead for WoW/FFXIV pretty quickly.
Modern Japan have bad taste when it comes to anything but porn games, so it's fine there since Sega can fly with a lot of stuff easily and get away with it.

[Nitro Vordex]

If Americans got the game as it is now, it'll get shit on or left dead for WoW/FFXIV pretty quickly.

I'd say it'd fill a hole that Vindictus left pretty darn well. It's not easily compared to WoW/FFXIV due to real time combat, even if it does have similar points. (Simply put, PSO2 leans towards an action RPG, while the other two are full MMO, and mostly MMO with Action RPG elements, respectfully.) The issue is how far behind it would be, and how mostly sure we are it would be run into the ground.

Modern Japan have bad taste when it comes to anything but porn games, so it's fine there since Sega can fly with a lot of stuff easily and get away with it.

I'm sorry, what?

[Z-0]

* They'll be able to 'read' your characters on the JP server and transfer a copy of them directly over to Polaris, so you aren't starting at square one.

I highly doubt that one -- they'll probably just ask for information, but I could be wrong obviously. That being said, character transfers are a thing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PSO2/commen...jifu?context=3

[FacelessRed]

SEGA takes legal issues very seriously. If this does get the go-ahead I would advise the people responsible to have their legal team ready, as PSO is one of SEGA Japans biggest Intellectual properties. They can also hold the fact you have taken or need donations to run such services against you.

Quite frankly after a recent conversation with parties involved, I could care less if they got legally destroyed, but for the greater good of the PSO community, I'd advise against releasing any further information publicly and perhaps brush up on a few legal loop-holes that may see you at least don't get sued into another dimension.

[Vatallus]

In short the DMCA says private servers are illegal unless you have consent from the actual game owners. There are probably loopholes but the only loophole I use to know is now illegal in the DMCA's eyes also.

Look at it this way. If Sega actively wants to hunt down the server owners of the private server if it ever gets launched... then they will. It is pretty hard for a private company to just come looking into your private property but with enough money and lawyers they can. You'll have a fun time of constantly changing server host trying to evade Sega until they either get enough info to sue your host or figure out where you actually are. (Assuming you aren't being your own host.)

No I don't have previous expertise in hosting private servers. I just use to play one that was actively being hunted by the actual game owners for a few years before they finally got enough info to bring the private server owner to court.

Don't get me wrong. I love the work these people put into Tweaker, PSOProxy, etc so that english players can play this great game... but just figured I'd let you have a heads up in what you will be facing if you ever launch it and Sega wants you gone.