Article: SEGA Officially Announces Western Release of PSO2 in 2013

[r00tabaga]

Play on both servers then. Sounds simple to me. And you get two free characters.

[M3rror]

Did you know America never got the full PSOBB? It shut down a year after release due to the extremely slow updates. You know the GAC? Gaurdians Advance Content. It was a massive update for PSU. America got it a year later, and it was never updated as much versus the Japanese one that received constant updates. PSO-World always talked about those updates, if you never read. There is a history. Sure we get no bugs, but we also get no updates. Pick your poison:
Server A: Faster updates, more active players, lots of events, Japanese language.
Server B: Slower, if ever receives the update (which will be a year later), not so many active players who understand the game (those players are playing on the JP server), and hardly any worth while events. Just holiday events. Oh, but it'll be in the language you can understand.

[Peejay]

I need to go to Sega and start busting heads, now.

[M3rror]

Agrajag over at PSUmods translated almost all of what he could in about a week or so. Bug fixes? Bug fixes are fixed considering it's just the JP game but different language. And localizing a digital only game is not hard. About all there is is advertising, but I doubt SoA/E has the money for that. The only thing left are voice actors. And yes, I can see that taking awhile, but they should of already gathered the voice actors they needed and not wait until the game was released in Japan. Voice acting is not a major part in PSO2. And you just notified SEGA's problem. There are hardly enough NA/EU players to make up for seperate servers. Both will die out, just like PSOBB, PSU PC, and PSU Xbox 360. The players that truely do love PS will be smart to play on JP, even if there is a language barrier. If servers are seperate again, history will just repeat itself inevitably.

[lcronovt]

cross your fingers, cross your fingers...

[M3rror]

haha PSO-World's logo is at the bottom right on the PSO2 site. Maybe, just maybe, SEGA is reading our comments on a global server and hopefully will listen.

[Mizumi323]

...It's a trap. Definitely. Though, in all seriousness, I hope that they do their best to keep it up to date with JP servers!

[Anon_Fire]

We all want global connectivity for PSO2.

[Teerack]

thank you sega. best news ever.

[AnnabellaRenee87]

Yeah, no thanks SEGA, unless the the JP servers are made international I will stick to the JPN version, Thanks anyways.