PSO... It's over.

[cashizslick]

Cranberry,

If you look at the join date under my user name, you can see that i have been playing PSO for much longer than most people on this board.

I got it the day it came out in the USA for Dreamcast.

I also have it for Gamecube now.

Dont think that I have somehow "avoided" the addiction PSO burns into its users . . .

. . . in fact, i like PSO so much, that i have made the choice to continue playing it as it was meant to be played.

[Saphion]

Umm... since when was PSO-World's joining date an indication of when people started playing PSO? I played PSO since release on the Dreamcast (in fact, a day earlier - the sole reason I bought it was because I saw it in a shop the day before it was supposed to be out. Glad I did) and I didn't get around to joining PSO-World until recently.

I'm sure the same can be said for other people here.

Also, PSO was meant to be played on private servers? Wow, news to me.

[cashizslick]

^

You are missing the big picture. Private server or not, its meant to be played online.

I was just using my join date as a reference as to my experience w/PSO, as i was accused of not knowing that this was a 'deep' topic.

/rolleyes

[Cranberry]

This is starting to get a little off topic. Allow me to re-focus this topic back to its intended course. There's no reason for this topic to become an argument.

Gamecube PSO was my first PSO experience. Originally I was on a regular PSO Gamecube version like everyone else. Shortly after the double save patch was released, I corrupted because of it. It was so long ago I don't even remember what character it was. About this time Sonic Team also released PSO+ in Japan. At that time there was no indication that PSO+ was ever coming to the US. I decided that since I had to start over, I would do so with the new content so I imported Plus and a Free Loader so that I could use it on a US Gamecube.

When the game came, I loaded it up and created my new character. A FOnewearl named Cranberry. At first I stayed offline only in protest of ST's double save patch. I later went back online with my new character and appreciated the bug fixes of Plus (which saved me from being corrupted again at the hands of FSODers). I hadn't been online all that long before my original version was corrupted, so I still had a lot to learn about PSO. I spent my time on the JP ships, and began joining their games. I spent a large amount of time playing on the JP ships and learning PSO's online mode. I was pretty much raised by the Japanese PSO-wise. My play style is similar to theirs, and how I interact and perform with my team-mates is a lot like the Japanese. I even often like to make an "item pool" by the bank for distributing the items just like the Japanese players do. So much of what I learned in PSO I gained from the JP players.

So many great memories and so much learned about teamwork and compassion from PSO. I'd venture to say a lot of things I learned in PSO have very real applications in real life too.

One belief I still carry with me that was largely formed by my time with the JP is this: It's not about being the biggest, best, and most powerful. It's about working together and lifting others up. For when your companions succeed, you succeed as well.

As a FOnewearl, it's never been my style to stand safely to the side while my team mates were going sword to claw with the monsters. I was always right there on the front lines with them, engaging the monsters, drawing them off my team mates, and keeping the team mates as safe as possible. When a team mate was in trouble, you did whatever you could to rescue him. You didn't let him die and revive him later.

I learned a lot about myself as well as other people on ST. Many things I learned help me understand people a lot more deeply than I did before.

Farwell Sonic Team ships. You were poorly supported, but other than the bad apples that were around your community was a great one.