The reason PSO2 got forgotten

[Reyoku]

im really confused about western release myself but are there any people here knowing the reason why it actually got delayed?
pso is my favorite gaming series since 12 years now and i know its not that famous outside jp. maybe cause of the name, less advertising
or cause it was p2p in past..
so how is it going in jp? is the game actually running good? are they making good sales with pso2? i have a bad feeling about the long delay and lack of news.. if there are not enough player/sales they could close down the servers before even releasing the game outside of their country

[ArcaneTechs]

im really confused about western release myself but are there any people here knowing the reason why it actually got delayed?
pso is my favorite gaming series since 12 years now and i know its not that famous outside jp. maybe cause of the name, less advertising
or cause it was p2p in past..

o man time to sit back and wait for the usual responses to this, heres a hint, have they ever told us why in PSU we had 3 months no content? no

so how is it going in jp? is the game actually running good? are they making good sales with pso2? i have a bad feeling about the long delay and lack of news.. if there are not enough player/sales they could close down the servers before even releasing the game outside of their country

you don't read up much on this game do you?

anyways, time to sit back and watch the fireworks

[gigawuts]

As far as I'm aware no reason was ever given for the delay. The game is doing pretty good in Japan, but some game communities definitely express a distaste for it after playing it long term (or short term, depending on the person I guess) due to the finer points of balancing, etc. You know, the usual stuff.

Phantasy Star has never really been a big thing in the west, partially because of cultural differences but also partially because Sega never actually pushes it very hard over here. I'm not sure how much liberty SoA would have with it in the west, but I can say some things in the JP version will definitely make westerners cringe.

[strikerhunter]

*grabs a chair and sits back with a soda*

With the fact that 3 million users register (hahahaha I bet most where those that didn't want to pay for another character) and bout 100k log-ins on a monthly average and great success in JP, one can say it's doing very well in Japan.

But just because it succeeds in one place does not mean it will succeed or no in another place, mainly because of the culture difference and audience.

And lastly, no................Sega of America had yet to say any reasons why NA/EU was delayed. PAX is nearing and still no news because this is SoA, they like to keep their fans in the dark like they did in PSU.

[Ezodagrom]

so how is it going in jp? is the game actually running good? are they making good sales with pso2? i have a bad feeling about the long delay and lack of news.. if there are not enough player/sales they could close down the servers before even releasing the game outside of their country

It seems to be doing quite well on Japan, they recently reached 3 million registered accounts, had a new peak of slightly over 100 thousand simultaneous connections in late July, and PSO2 is mentioned in SEGA Sammy's quarterly financial reports.

[Taurus83]

im really confused about western release myself but are there any people here knowing the reason why it actually got delayed?
pso is my favorite gaming series since 12 years now and i know its not that famous outside jp. maybe cause of the name, less advertising
or cause it was p2p in past..
so how is it going in jp? is the game actually running good? are they making good sales with pso2? i have a bad feeling about the long delay and lack of news.. if there are not enough player/sales they could close down the servers before even releasing the game outside of their country

is a big success in japan and it they gonna be SEA version of PSO2 at year 2014 handle by Asiasoft and Gamania for hong kong

[ReaperTheAbsol]

I'll be refreshing the thread consistently. Stay classy, PSO-W.

[ArcaneTechs]

just read everything here

http://bumped.org/psublog/

you'll get the idea and save some people from lashing out at you

[Punisher106]

SoA only cares about running Sanic into the ground. They could give two shits about any other sega title.

[Exiled_Gundam]

If the SEA version is using English language, will you play it? Let's say they didn't impose IP ban