Article: PSO2 (JP) - New Boss & More High Level Content Coming in March 2013

[Tomeeboy]

Our friends over at Shogai PSO have posted some interesting snippets from an interview with PSO2 producer Satoshi Sakai and director Yuya Kimura. In the interview, which was released today (Dec 13th) in the Phantasy Star Online 2 Master Guide Book, the developers talk about some of their plans for the future of PSO2.

Specifically, they mention that they intend to release more high level content and a new boss sometime in March 2013. They also intend to put together a new road map for the next 6 months of the game's development by the end of the year. Combined with the Arkz Clones update coming in January, it sounds like the stream of PSO2 content will continue to flow well into 2013. In fact, the interview seems to indicate that the development team has enough to keep them busy all the way to December 2013, and that content updates should continue monthly.

In addition, Sakai and Kimura talk a little about the weapon potential release ("Latent Ability") system that was added on December 5th. According to the interview, they plan to expand on this system and would like to make abilities available on more existing weapons as well. It also looks like they are considering having weapon abilities that will boost the power or effectiveness of certain PAs while that weapon is equipped.

A big thanks to Shogai PSO for posting the info and Mike for the translation clarifications!

[EvilMag]

In other words, MORE DRIP FEEDING!

[Fontes]

And that's how MMOs survive.

[ZIE creations]

Traditional MMOs such as WoW release huge expansions once every year or every other year, then players play through them in a month and have nothing left to do for the rest of the year. I rather like receiving a bit of content every month, keeps you occupied and I always took forward to the next months update.

[gunlocksp]

I guess this means they won't be adding any new weapons anytime soon... Twin sabers, how I miss thee~