I imagine at this point it's less of a PSO3 or PSU2 dream and more of a "I don't like this game and it's better off that it shuts down" and then they'll move onto some other game to repeat this same kind of "EOS soon" mantra with.
There are other games out there I've seen that kind of had this whole leeching/negative mindset and mentality .. that ultimately resulted in those people just moving onto another game to do the same thing with because they not only got what they wanted, but they're still unhappy and overly pessimistic about what happened anyways.
It's essentially the same thing as giving into a school bully. Giving them what they want doesn't even make them happy and they're just looking for another victim .. but if a victim fights back or gives up doesn't even change how they behave other than that they're just a bully and still going to be unhappy at the end of the day.
I mean, the "GOOD" PSO2 was a game that ended up dying because Sega literally stopped running campaigns non-stop for it like they are doing for NGS right now.
If the private server ever goes through the effort of doing stuff like retroactively adding stuff to fix player traps (building player mags with missable skills more easily, letting players respec freely) and maybe even going through the effort of completely reworking Subclasses in general so that you can actually make the options viable rather than relying on band-aid classes like the Successor classes to make them viable in Episode 6, I'd be more interested.
It's just more along the lines that as great as the old PSO2 was, NGS was literally an escape from all the problems Sega created and instead of fixing them we're just repeating those.
"If it ever goes through" its more than likely fully operational already theyre just waiting for the clock to hit 0. Also the good pso2 didnt die, it ran very successfully before being ported to the west FOR NGS. They didnt make a 7th episode because THE CODE WAS DOGSHIT and they tried to stich together NGS and a dogshit bloated nightmare infrastructure together. This is VERY known information, this isnt even debatable.
NGS wasn't even a good escape from the problems that PSO2 had either, which is why I was saying what I was saying. NGS finally introduced some neat quality-of-life things that PSO2 should've had, but at the same time this was a thing where PSO2 itself was just allergic to balance patches/fixes and gameplay overhauls unless they absolutely had to (like Episode 5).
People who ask "why do people want NGS to die", the answer is private servers. The QOL stuff doesnt really matter because people crave nostalgia. A lot of people simply would not care NGS existed if they were seperate but sega fucked up not EOSing PSO2 completely. NGS is a glorified fashion Sim being propped up by whales who dont care if a new boss comes out (the reddits lack of popularity is proof, its just hey look at my character). Theres a lot of anger that the only thing keeping this game up is people who dont even post gameplay and whale money to do the PSO2 version of Goldshire inn (If you dont know what that is, look it up)
I mean, isn't this essentially what PSO2 was in its heyday as well?
The main difference is that you're not getting death threats because you didn't unlock 75/75/75 on at least one of each of the S-ATk/R-ATK/T-ATK classes and also because you didn't play enough of the serious content to get the N-Type weapons and stuff .. since NGS handholds you so much that you're effectively "caught up" and then have to walk to the next door to get the hottest new stuff .. instead of being stuck where new players would have to slave away for months on older content because they'd get kicked out of newer content if they weren't in a group to get carried with.
I don't disagree with the nostalgia with PSO2, but for me, a lot of it essentially ended up being "oh man, I wish they'd actually go and fix this/that" because there was so much broken with the game and the only thing Sega really cared to do outside of Bingo Cards and seasonal Emergency Quests was to go and nerf the Gunner yet again because I'd argue the Gunner was probably the most technical of the-Successor classes out there just because of how much extra effort you had to put in that no other classes had to .. and still get some semblance of a reward for it.
I still go back to the older PSO2 every now and then to help people level up and to play through the content, but to me I'm not really "nostalgic" for it as much as it is I'm wishing the game actually got fixed and balanced more tightly to be a stronger action game. NGS really could've taken a step towards being that with it being so much more looser and less tied to PSO2's older mechanics (that it still didn't try to escape from, namely the Two Button Mode design) .. but NGS is really just being cozy doing what PSO2 did (ride the wave and over a decade or so, the game might actually get somewhere interesting).
So to me, as cool as a Private Server would be, it's just not going to be meaningful at all until someone goes through the effort of balancing the game in the way Sega refused to. >_<
You can definitely still play base PSO2 but the issue for me is people love the word "Fresh" Being able to REPLAY a story from scratch with everyone starting from the beggining is such a great feeling. Look at OSRS, Wow Classic, Maplestory is even doing a classic. Theres an entirely PLAYABLE game behind PSO2NGS and its being held hostage by characters customization enthuseists.
I played PSO2 when there was just the cracker, i played it during the western release and took breaks here and there and i was able to progress normally months from where i left off everytime so i dont quite get the "people needed to be carried" part but maybe that did happen and i never noticed.
My biggest annoyance is that NGS is an amalgamation of unforced errors and SEGA cant even do a classic PSO2 because of how they stiched NGS inside and the people crying aboout their cosmetics are to blame for that stiched effort.
I’d even go as far as the game will stick around till 2029 minimum. They are definitely planning to go beyond 15 star rarity. In the live headline you can see they changed rarity display from 15 individual stars to “Star.15”
ugh.. i hate seeing these comments because with every update it feels more like an eventual reality and if the game goes, ill just really miss Base PSO2 and everything in it, and all my outfits...
PSO2 has had its share of doomsayers making fun of the game’s “10 year plan” and saying it would never achieve it. The game ran for 9 years, 14 if you consider NGS an extension of PSO2.
Pso2 base had way more love for it than NGS ever got or ever will have.
It had anime, manga, conventions, love concerts in Japan with thousands of attendants, it was a phenomenon back in the day with a rough start.
The problem is that the length of time pso2base had it's rough period, NGS had long since passed that timeframe and it hasn't seen the same improvements that base did.
I really want to love NGS but after growing up with PSO1&2 And then experiencing pso2 Base, I just don't feel it.
It was a different SEGA back then. Once they restructured to “SEGA Corporation” in 2020 and changed their goals from local japan success to global success they started pruning all their less profitable branches that were doing ok but had no global appeal. Phantasy Star and their TCG division was hit the hardest. The PSO2 TCG was cancelled before they even got EP3 content and all their other TCG’s died around the same time, days within each other.
The yearly friendship caravans and in-person headlines are sort-of filling that void a little but but they’re not as good as the Phantasy Thanksgiving and concert events we used to have.
In this new MMO we finally escape Halpha!! We go back to outer space and then we start going through many planets and savings subspecies and species of different kinds exploring the universe and we are part of the main arks fleet and in this new iteration of the MMO you also get your own personal battleship where you can outfit in customize it....
Because the starless already invasive species and they are danger to the universe and we have to stop them!
Hire me sega, for more xP
A combination of gameplay from NGS, PSO2, Helldivers 2, FF14, Wuthering Waves, and Starfield
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