IGN thinks 2014 will see PS02's release...

[TakuBeardedOne]

with an international version, the english patch could be bigger and better i think.

[The Walrus]

If they still do it.

[landman]

Was this a thing in older Phantasy Stars or were there only a couple or so things added in to be a unique version?

Yahoo! MAG in PSOBB and I don't remember if AOL had an item. PSZ had some reskins to western magazines. And PSP2 reskined real loli posters to fan art. But if the 1 + 1 = 2 is true Epic should be able to add new content in the western server.

[Zeota]

Yeah pretty much. That cheesy AOL Cup dialogue!

"Your enemies have been notified via AIM!"

Spoiler!

[hoppimike]

Yeah I guess for ages I was subconsciously waiting for this before I tried PSO2.

Now though I've just gotten impatient and am going to play on the Jap servers

[Emeraldcat89]

I wonder if anything happened where somebody did something with the game to make the programmers mad and decided not to release it yet. :s

[landman]

But weren't these all pre-existing items that simply had their textures swapped? I don't think there's been any "exclusive" US content.

In the case of PSZ and PSP2 yes, in the case of PSOBB I don't know, but I remember this game having a lot of "clones" as item IDs, the official ones were legal, the unofficial ones were not. In any case I don't see the problem, Epic could add an item ID, and PS team could ad that same ID and don't use it, to avoid conflicts in future content sharing.