PSO2 on west XBOX (and PC too, apparently?) confirmed on Microsoft E3

[Dark Mits]

If I have to be realistic:

- Can we transfer our characters?

Most likely not. PSO2 JP has been advertised exclusively as a JP game. It's in their ToS that it is illegal for us gaijins to log in to those servers. The reason they have turned a blind eye is not because they felt "sorry" for us, it's because they saw that they have higher revenue that way. Sort of a win-win situation.

There is also the issue with PS4/PSVita and Switch accounts. They would have to be extremely careful and think of all possible outcomes that such a move could cause. The easiest and most foolproof way would be to have entirely new accounts on PSO2 West.

- Do we get to keep our Phasion wardrobe we've collected over the years? (they could easily only let you move with certain outfits being locked due to collab rights interference limiting what you have on US vs JP)

Assuming that we would be allowed to transfer accounts, the most likely option would be that a massive amount of cosmetic items would be locked from being available to be used, despite having been purchased, exactly similar to how some items are unavailable for Switch at the moment.

- Are the servers going to be Global or Separate? (any combination you can think of)

Separate. PSO2JP servers are physically in Japan, PSO2 West servers will be physically in the US. If for some reason JP and West use the same client, there will be ships with numbers 11-20, or A-J, or West1-West10 (or whatever scheme they decide) which will host the West players, and accounts will be soft-locked from connecting to ships belonging to another region.

- Are they going to IP lock everyone not living in Japan from playing before or on release of the US version?

Most likely not. They didn't have a reason to before this, they won't have one now either.

- Is there going to be a Switch version? (could be since Japan does have a Cloud version and Microsoft could easily do it too)

There was nothing mentioned on Nintendo's E3 segment, so either there will not be, or it will be released in the future, not concurrently with Win10/X1 versions.

- Is the PS4 version going to hit for US too? (its technically Xbox Exclusive, whether it could be timed or not, no one knows)

Again nothing on Sony's E3 segment either, so similar to the above.

- Are Consoles locked to one region only or can you switch?

I have no insight on this.

- Are you locked to Win10 only if playing on PC?

This will depend on if the connection to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure requires your OS to be that.

- How are they going to handle content thats been released over the years for the new Western audience? (aka old EQ's that no longer exist or particularly any reason to run them due to outdated content etc)

My understanding is that the game will have the same content as the JP servers, maybe a patch behind schedule to catch up with translating. So basically, it would be as if you just found the game and decided to give it a go. They most likely will not follow a path similar to OSRS (Old School Runescape) or WoW Classic, as it would require tremendously more effort to maintain.


Again, that's all speculation based on what would be logic and safest option.