GM Edward just posted a notice that the PSU servers will be undergoing a period of maintenance tonight starting at approximately 11:00p.m. PDT. Though no further details are given on the English site, the official Japanese 360 site was updated with a similar notice, citing a bug fix as the reason for the downtime. You can join in our discussion of this news at the forum.
Update: As of 2:00a.m. PDT, all servers are back online. With this maintenance, the Winter Mission Carnival missions were completely removed from the game.
A small bug which prevented the missions "Unsafe Passage" and "Fight for Food" from appearing correctly on certain universes was discovered on the PC/PS2 servers after coming back up from maintenance on January 23. In order to correct this problem, the two affected servers, Universe 1: Guide and Universe 2: Caelum, will be taken down for approximately one hour today, January 26, at 3:00p.m. PST. For the duration of this maintenance, those two servers will be inaccessible, but all others will remain online. The official announcement of this maintenance can be read here. Also, please remember that this maintenance has no effect on the Xbox 360 servers.
Update: Unfortunately, all PC/PS2 servers had to be taken down to fix the problem. However, all servers have since been restored and the affected missions work properly again.
GM Edward has posted about a maintenance period for Monday at 11 PM PST. This would be 2 AM EST or 7 AM UTC on January 20th. Currently, it is unknown what the maintenance is for or how long it will last. It has been said that more details will be arriving soon.
Update: Maintenance has been rescheduled for January 20th at 10 PM PST. During this maintenance, a new Title Update will be released for the Xbox 360 and a patch for the PC/Playstation 2 servers. Here are some of the details for the update:
According to the official Japanese 360 site as well as GM Edward, we will be seeing the seasonal Winter Lobbies starting this Friday and lasting until February 12th.* The Snowman room decoration will be available in the Variety Shop during this time.* Parum GBR, the current bonuses, and the current discounts are to be removed during this maintenance period.
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In other news, Sega is said to soon announce compensation for the rollback that took place after the December 19th update on the Xbox 360 servers. It will, however, be available to players on both PS2/PC and Xbox 360 servers.
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Discussion is already going on in our forums.
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Update: The official announcement*and update pages have been posted.
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Update: According to the official JP 360 page, the winter lobbies have been extended for one week (until February 19th).
Thursday, January 22, starting at approximately 8:00p.m. PST (4:00a.m. GMT, Friday), all SEGA websites will be down for a security upgrade. Downtime is expected to last for about two hours. During this period, the Phantasy Star Universe servers will be inaccessible, along with the billing servers and all other SEGA websites. Due to this downtime occurring so close to the time of normal PSU server maintenance, it is possible that the game servers will remain down until normal maintenance is complete.
Update: SEGA changed the security upgrade date from January 15 to January 22. Thanks to Neith for noticing the change!
GM Edward just announced that the billing and authentication servers for the PC and PS2 versions of Phantasy Star Universe will be down for approximately 30 minutes on January 7 for scheduled maintenance. Maintenance is planned to begin at 12:30a.m. PST and run through 1:00a.m. PST (8:30a.m. - 9:00a.m. GMT). This will have no effect on the Xbox 360 servers.
During this downtime, PC/PS2 players will be unable to login to the servers or create new subscriptions. However, anyone logged in during the maintenance will continue to be able to play without interruption.
A small update has been announced for this week which will prepare the lobbies for their annual change for the new year as well as implement the compensation for the recent rollbacks. For those who may not know, here are the rewards we can expect to see when the servers come back up from maintenance this Friday.
All of these bonuses will be in place until the servers go down for maintenance on January 15, 2009. Please feel free to discuss this update at the forum.
Update: The Japanese 360 site's post-maintenance notes have revealed a few bits of information that have not been released yet by SEGA of America. First, a bug was fixed in which enemies in block 3 of "Scarred Planet" would get stuck behind walls and piles of rubble, making it impossible for them to move. Second, the Parum GBR has been extended by an extra week. Now the event is scheduled to conclude when the servers go down for maintenance on January 15, 2009. Thanks to S-T-H for the tip!
A number of reports have been flowing in from Xbox 360 players concerning various forms of misplaced data which had been preceded by apparent trouble with the Player Room server. Considering the number of reports and the trustworthiness of several of them, it would be advised to take this into account if you plan on continuing to play for the time being. Once more is known about the situation, we'll be sure to update this posting.
A thread has been started about this in the forum.
Update at 3:00 pm EST: Clumsyorchid has asked that anyone having these kinds of issues respond with their details in this thread.
Update at 5:15 pm EST: The Xbox 360 servers have been taken offline for emergency maintenance.
Update at 6:20 pm EST: The Xbox 360 servers are back online and player data has been rolled back to this morning's save state.
As posted*by the GM Edward, Sonic Team has released details on some incoming tweaks.* They will not be starting with*tonight's maintenance, however will be implemented soon.
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Until January 16th, the following will be active:
The first three are claimed to be compensation for the recent server rollbacks.* The last two are a special holiday treat.
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Further discussion is taking place in our forums.
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Update: Edward has posted on the official forums mentioning that these changes will be delivered during the December 25th maintenance period.
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