Same. I mean, they would have to once PSO2 reaches its ten year life span and they eventually cut off support for it.Originally Posted by Zyrusticae
Same. I mean, they would have to once PSO2 reaches its ten year life span and they eventually cut off support for it.
Yeah I suspect some PSO3 is happening in one way or another. It may even reach the same stage as PSO2's pre-alpha (so orange!) soon enough. Assuming this is true, I reckon we'll hear about it in 3 years. IIRC they started working on PSO2 4 years before PSU's death? I'd have to look it up to be sure.
The way I see it, people are reluctant to start playing PSO2 as PSO3 might be in the works making your progress at PSO2 wasted.
What I think is enjoy the game as it is, Sega made it easy for people to catch up and the game has a healthy population still.
Plus I doubt that Sega will be doing spending huge amount of money trying to make another PC MMORPG when it is already in a decline thanks to smartphones so it's a risky business.
Who knows, it may even go beyond 10 years just by trying to upgrade the game bit by bit.
I really don't see how you guys are expecting a PSO3... Sure an offline Phantasy Star title would make sense, something like PS Nova or another installation to the old series, but I doubt that as soon as PSO2 ends, they'll bring out ANOTHER online Phantasy Star game. It just doesn't logically make sense, honestly. If that was the case, they might as well just keep PSO2 alive and give it drastic updates, since the game is such a cash cow for SEGA.
In fact, my bets are on an offline version of PSO2 and maybe another PS Nova-styled game, before we see anything about a third PSO. Don't expect one until maybe 5-10 years after PSO2's 100% dead.
Last edited by Zanverse; Jun 17, 2017 at 12:06 PM.
Don't really see why there's concern about this in the first place, and I have to agree with people saying that PSO3 isn't worth thinking about yet. I mean, PSO2 is still doing well, and it'll probably keep going into the next decade judging by the weapon rarity we currently have access to and how often that changes.
Going by what happened with 13* weapons, we should see the first 14* CF which is super tedious to complete some time near the end of next year, or early to mid 2019. By 2020, it will be 14* as standard weapons for endgame players, and 15* will be the new rare drop. It will be another year and a half or two years from then before 15* weapons become common via an easier CF.
An online PS game happening as soon as PSO2 shuts down is almost a dead certainty (it happened with PSO and PSU and it was no more "logical"). My gut feeling of a successor being in the works is based on how they've behaved for the last 17 years so I'm not exactly pulling it out of my ass. I don't know why people are suggesting PSO2 isn't worth playing because a successor might happen in the next decade though? That's absurd. Play PSO2 cause you wanna play it, don't play because you don't. PSO3 or no should make no difference, especially now because if it does happen we're talking at least 5 years before it comes out.
Really, the only ways a successor wouldn't happen is either PSO2 does so well in the next 5 years that they extend its life and keep extending it indefinitely (sorta what's happening to World of Warcraft with Blizzard. A WoW2 is probably never happening) or it catastrophically fails in one way or another meaning a successor wouldn't be seen as profitable or Sega itself dies for whatever reason.
Based on that long term roadmap and the state of the gaming market as it is currently (where micro-transactions make a profit), I think this is what SEGA is hoping will happen.
i don't think a pso3 will happen anytime soon. it seems that most (many?) who would like a 3 want it for an expected graphics revamp, not necessarily for a combat system overhaul or new major storyline. sega has proven with tier 6 that it can add new, and rather impressive graphics capabilities, depending on who is asked, in-line for those who want graphics for the sake of graphics. barring that, an improved combat system would be easy, relatively speaking of course!, to add to 2 as well. there really aren't too many improvements, i think, which necessitate a new version for the sake of a new version especially considering the current version's popularity (it's practically a whale conservancy).
actually, i'd sooner expect a sequel to pso2es which would incorporate heavy AR elements capitalizing on AR trends such as pokémon go and recent technology developments such as apple's metal 2 and ARkit. plus, the possibility of putting gene, for example, in one's bedroom on a qr coded dakimakura would open up wallets (and eyerolls and facepalms) like nothing any company has ever seen before or ever will since in mobile.
They need movable fingers to sell those emotes.
A sequel is inevitable. Even if only so they can sell more cosmetics.
With how the gaming market is shifting away from pc to mobile gaming, I doubt we will be seeing PSO3 like ever.
PSO2 was released near the end of the MMO era which marks the end of triple A MMO such as Aion, Blade and Soul, Black desert, etc. The long development time and huge money investments make this kind of games really risky, now the current trend is mobile gaming with releases like Dragon Nest R, Tree of Savior mobile and even that new Lineage, mobile gaming is the future now and if ever Sega wants to capitalize on that, it will be with PSO2es which if they will have more cross over with PSO2 aside from weaponoid stone, then it would really sell well. Imagine we have a chip system on PSO2, heck needing weaponoid stone stone alone is what got me to PSO2es in the first place.
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