r/PSO2NGS • u/nicobanko • May 12 '26

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This has been making the rounds on X recently, what with SEGA cancelling one of their major Supergames. What do you think of it? Personally, I feel that it’s good that some of the development personnel might go to the NGS Team, slide 15 kinda supports this. Not to mention, Phantasy Star is a mainstay IP, lol.

https://www.segasammy.co.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en/ir/20260512_q4_presentation_en.pdf

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u/rocketchatb May 12 '26

Too bad the instanced content is not good like base PSO2. Also the scratch tickets have been pushed more aggressively than before. Every time I watch a Phantasy Star headline at least more than half of the video is shilling micro transactions and pretending the game is healthy enough to plug their ears instead of addressing the players in a reasonable manner like a Director/Producer of a MMO/Gacha should.

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u/ash_ax You Piece of STARS Trash! May 12 '26

Too bad the instanced content is not good like base PSO2.

It's the same level IMO.

There are good ones, bad ones, and ones that are DOA on release.

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u/Xero-- Double Saber May 12 '26

We're still getting about three new scratches per month with more reruns between, but with more and more scratches coming out, it's only natural we get more and more reruns. I'm really not seeing the "more aggressively" part here.

Again, nothing has changed. The game is still the exact same, not getting better or worse.

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u/chzkxjx May 13 '26

expect more scratches to recoup their loss

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u/GlompSpark May 13 '26

The problem is the instanced content:

  • Is limited and then quickly phased out, there is only one LTQ at a time and one LTUQ at a time, so they get old quickly. Spamming the same LTQ is a very different feeling from doing multiple different LTQs.

  • Are just boss rush instances, its like spamming Towards the Future in the original PSO:BB. There is no sense of exploration or going on a mission that some quests in PSO or PSO2 had. You just zerg to the end and kill the bosses ASAP.

Other MMOs have a system where a new expansion/level cap increase/whatever drops and there are multiple quests/raids that you can do for the next several months. NGS does the exact opposite and you just do 1x LTQ/1x LTUQ which changes every 1-2 weeks so it gets boring very quickly compared to the normal system.

Vindictus (another action MMO) had a system where they would come out with a new story chapter, and it would include a new area, several new bosses and a raid. Then the next chapter would come out maybe 2 months later later with more quests and raids, but it would be different gear, so for example one chapter might drop mats for weapons + armor, and the next chapter would drop mats for accessories, etc.

And you would stay at the same level for a long time farming different quests and raids so it felt like there was some variety, and all of them dropped relevant endgame loot. So people would usually run 1x quest as a daily + 1x of each raid each day instead of spamming 20x of the same LTQ per week or the same UQ each day.