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😂Sounds like a great experience and means for motivation! Time to hone your skills and gear!

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Firstly, thank you so much for the contribution and the continued support! Wait though, when you said you dropped Wingard Almati, do you mean like you accidentally sold it? Or you're saying it dropped for you & now you don't have to buy it? If it's the former, you can buy back recent items you've sold from one of the NPCs. Though this would likely do you no good at this point, if you've sold other stuff since then. As, I think the list goes to like 20 or something (Overwrites). Indeed though, I absolutely think they delivered very nicely with DFD R2. DFD was already a waltz in itself, and they added just a perfect level of extra to it to make it even more exciting/fun to do. My own personal quarrels with the drops absolutely does not take away from how fun this fight actually is! They did a really good job on this one!

@@Spikesxu Nah, it’s the latter. I made that mistake super early on so thankfully, I learned about buy back before any major repercussions 😂😂.

@@soulrpg4273 😂😂

Nice! I personally can't bother myself with rushing to get the title, least the drops aren't all that great. It'll happen, but I'll just let it happen naturally. Nonetheless though, it is indeed a fun fight!

Agreed! It's a very fun fight overall!

Most definitely. Dread Keeper V's in Ordinal would definitely help out, as there's not really a strong means in which to currently obtain them at the moment. And indeed, there has surely been speculation & comparison as to the potential similarities of the two systems!

An interesting idea.

Yea, I mean. Gotta give them that. They doubled down on what they said they'd aim to do in making the game easier to play. Can't fault them there.

Yea I do think that 2025 is going to hold some pretty interesting things ahead. The story got really good there too at the end of the last chapter. And it left for a vast book of potential to go in a wide range of directions. Naturally, if 2025 doesn't hold something pretty significant in the form of a huge patch update/area, that'll be worrisome. But we definitely do indeed know that they're cooking something (and realistically they have dropped pretty big updates every year. Whether that be the initial introduction of the regions or things like Creative Space, etc). I'm in no means dissatisfied with the game. But naturally, there are always things to improve on and discuss, as is the case with any MMORPG, especially one that's of vertical nature. Here's to a good year ahead!

Definitely understandable.

Hello! Can you elaborate?

@@Spikesxu i dont know if its a regular thing, but usually the NGS Headline is suppose to be around 50 minutes. This Headline was around 30 minutes. Again, I dont know if it was like this before. Just asking out of curiousity

​@@BladerArt Ah I see. Thank you for the elaboration so that I could give a proper response! So, the NGS Headlines often vary in length. 30 minutes isn't unheard of & definitely falls within the norm. However, naturally, here lately we've had Headlines that have been longer. The last 3 or 4 probably, so a 30 minute one definitely feels short. Which, to be fair, it is. This is simply because there's just not a whole lot of meat on the bone for September. We can expect the Headline for October to be longer, as we know we're getting some new systems so there will be more meat on the bone. October-November include a number of things, including a Techter Expansion, a 95 Cap Increase & the new item lab feature. So we can expect the next two Headlines to be a bit bulkier.

@@Spikesxu ok I see. Thank you

Firstly, welcome back! A few things I'd like to touch on. The negative points the game has received are largely due to its toxic community over the years. Unfortunately, NGS Global was plagued pretty heavily in its early days by toxicity, that it is just now starting to kind of rebound from. A lot of people who hold on too tightly to the old game, so they want the new game to burn. As if that benefits anyone. Etc. The most recent content update was this week, in the emergence of Dark Falz Dalion Rank 2. In regards to not feeding their player base well & the amount of content, I wouldn't necessarily say this. There are definitely dry periods, but there are also very lively periods. This is normal for a Vertical MMORPG. And truth be told, there is a lot of content in the game. However, it's sometimes underutilized or made to be too easy, which then enables you to go through it way too quickly. This, however is directly from them listening too much to vocal people in the community. They've increasingly made the game easier and easier, but sometimes they don't balance it out correctly with retention methods. In regards to Scratches and AC Tickets. This is a prime source of interest in the game, and of course a great source of revenue. At the end of the day, employees have to be paid. Families have to be fed. The game is F2P and the entirety of the game can be played as such. Unfortunately, F2P does not pay for server fees & development fees. So revenue has to be made somehow. Which brings me to the Personal Shop. The Personal Shop being limited behind Premium isn't that big of a deal, all things considering. Considering that the game is F2P. As a F2P you can still purchase things from the Personal Shop, and you'll get 3-Day Use Personal Shop Passes that you can utilize at opportune moments. I was without Personal Shop Access for the first year & a half of playing this game, so I do fully understand the differences & how to navigate the system. it's 100% manageable, you just have to be more conscious about your decisions and when to use your personal shop pass. In regards to Leciel Exploration. This is actually one of my favorite contents in the game as well. So I always love when it's revamped and they give it a lot of forefront relevance to the current gameplay loop. Nameless City is fun but indeed could use some work. Truthfully there's a handful of things that could be added or done different, but fact of the matter is that, that's the case for every MMORPG. And it all vastly & largely depends on the target audience and what that game is trying to achieve. As, it's important that every MMORPG is not a copy clone of one another. AKA, like we've seen every MMORPG cookie cutter WoW. It's important that we have innovation and that companies take chances within the MMORPG sphere. In regards to Content Creators coming together & demanding more, I believe you place too much power in Content Creators to have such a pull. Ultimately we have a louder voice yes, but at the end of the day they'll do what they need to do. Also, even amongst content creators, there's going to be vast differences in what we may deem as being "needed" from the game. So this is much easier said than done. At the end of the day, PSO will be just fine. The Phantasy Star franchise has been around since the 80s, and the PSO franchise since 2000. It has too loyal of a fan base to ever completely disappear. Also, in regards to PSO3, there's no real rush to make a PSO3 if it's just going to follow the same format that PSO2 did. Or in larger view, the same format that they used for 21 years. Because PSO2 followed the same format as every PSO before it back to 2000's PSO debut on the Dreamcast. NGS was 100% necessary for the evolution and relevance of the franchise. Especially in regards to attracting new players to the franchise. But naturally, there is always much more work to be done. I hope you found this response useful!

@@Spikesxu Hello, not gonna lie i have seen this response before with only few changes. The game has received negativity whose fault was it? Sega's fault, dont blame the community has an escape goat, cause if they went negative there were reason. NGS early days were a disaster and again Sega's fault, nobody elses, again nothing to do toxicity, was just incompetence. People dont want the ngs to burn they want the game to be better and improve which it hasnt so far. The game is always on a dry period, you cant say it has a lively period, the game doesnt have lot of content has u mention, cause if there was i wouldnt have literaly done every content in past 3 days and i wasnt rushing. One thing we on same page is that the game is way too easy, there is no challegend anywhere, Uq's has expirience i died couple times on the highest level uq atm to learn his pattern then after that felt like i was squashing a bug with no challenge, cause devs should have added random patterns. without a doubt the game took some directions cause they heard the wrong part of the community. The scratches i understand is the bigger part of the monetization yet, since people dont know, pso2 ngs doesnt pay the bills, they barely make any money with them, majority of the money comes from other projects. Now for people to understand in any situation the player has no reason to pay for servers and development costs, has cause we are not the ones running it, idk where we get that ideia, that is not how it works, when there is like monthly fee its money to invest in certain things to improve and probably hire extra people to keep quality etc, Sega had a team back pso2 and most got fired, not cause of money issues was due to cutting costs has they thought we gonna pull pso2 long development again, Personal store is a big deal, you dont see it cause u a premium player and falled for it, cause they removing a source of a players to make income and sustain the economy, the economy of the game is a disaster cause its run by morons that make things high price cause they are aware there barely any players and only few got premium, also auto sell feature another yet free feature to be and was labeled payed, people dont seem to understand this are factors to throw away players, you guys think in every damn corner we gotta pay. This game without a doubt is being run has sinking ship with no leadership, they have no clue how to proceed, the Story is lacking alot, full of gaps, quality is bad, there is not improvements anywhere, the game without a doubt should a top f2p mmorpg, but due to lack of brains they throwed the game under the bus, people giving the excuse of "toxicity" cmon that is not the reason of failure, the game could have done many thing differently and improve, but the game atm is only trying to achieve the attention of scratch people nothing else, the game lacks innovation, creativity and without a doubt pso2 ngs is no longer a game that captivates people due to company ideias, has the game it is it wont revive unless they invest money into it, to improve quality etc, cause the game is same level of quality has pso2 and was expect to have higher quality, this game doesnt grow its cause of the company, again not cause of toxic community that excuse is lame one. Content creators has a voice which majority of the community doesnt have, you can make a difference but you choose not to, cause you guys afraid, you rather submit to have a mediocre expirience even spend money on low quality effortless things, you and other should be expressing how bad the state of the game is, otherwise the developers will think everything is fine and good, cause i can see you guys are also frustrated with the state of the game and yet choose to swallow it cause you afraid of something. When i state pso3 is a point of trying to revive the franchise and a new start, since ngs is already in a bad state and its not gaining players only losing, "NGS was 100% necessary for the evolution and relevance of the franchise. Especially in regards to attracting new players to the franchise", this for me doesnt fit and you know it has it wasnt a evolution it was just a change of instance to open world and it didnt bring relevance to franchise only brought the popularity into deephole cause of devs choices, this could be sayed it was a test failure and we need to improve it but again they have no leadership to make the game only the scratches. I might feel like im negative, but im just pissed seeing a franchise i love and its not treated well by its developers, i think there a few million ideias to improve but developers just to lazy to choose. Cause if tommorow a new mmorpg same type of game has ngs came out with same or more content and have customization like ngs, everyone would drop ngs, cause most likely the new game would want to grab players which ngs fails up to date.

No one is forcing you to use the MARS system. The whole point of the system is for it to be optional. They're implementing one LTQ out of the other dozens, that specializes in MARS. One LTQ. Otherwise, MARS is completely optional on every level & aspect of gameplay. Also, all the classes/weapon types have already been added to the game. There is no real point in adding Successor Classes such as Hero, Phantom, & Etoile, given how the game works. If a new class is to be released, it would need to be something unique with a different approach. With that being said, welcome back to the game.

@@Spikesxu No, I don't mean new classes. I mean add more to the class skill trees. More techniques, or PA's? I forget what they call them to be honest. Then we would have more options with our class weapons. I thought they were adding more that require the use of MARS? Maybe I was wrong. 🤔

​@@TsDwelling Ah I see. Over the time that the game has been out, they have continued to add to the class trees as well as Tech Art Customizations which allows for customized unique gameplay dependent on the individual. So it's not as if they have not continued to add and build on top of the games mechanics. Naturally, this will continue to happen, as is the case in all vertical MMORPGS. There will always be rebalancing and additional aspects to the key gameplay elements. If you actually took a deep dive at what was available at the beginning of the game, versus what's available now, you'd actually be surprised as how much has actually been implemented. Though naturally, in a vertical format MMO, people will always want more. As, is the nature for vertical format MMORPGs. And in regards to your MARS question, MARS was always implemented as an optional & add-on to the core combat. It was never meant to replace it. MARS is completely optional. Even in the new LTQ that promotes using MARS, I'd imagine you can still clear the boss without it just fine. It'd just be more challenging, as it appears it's optimized towards MARS gameplay.

@Spikesxu I think you scared him off, welp there goes 1 cookie out the cookie jar 😂

@@DatBoiRatchet No need to say more. I find it funny that for someone who took the time to speak about how people are being toxic in the comments has toxic people in his community. Ugh....so tired of people like this.(I know no one can control what people do in their community, it's just so ironic)

I'd imagine we'll see DKVs in some of these events and of course in the seasonal shop soon. The thing about accessibility in regards to augments, is that it's not that they don't understand. It's that, there has to be a balance. Because if you hand literally everything out, it crashes the whole market. Whole market crashes, no one can obtain meseta. No one can obtain meseta, you lose a lot of players. So there's a constant ongoing balance to be had in regards to augments. Of course, sometimes they miss the mark, sometimes they don't. I believe now it's easier than ever to obtain augments though. But naturally, DKV's do remain extremely limited, as the only ways to obtain them without crafting, are in Rwh Maqead & Rayjord Gorge. Which, whilst being incredibly easy to obtain, considering the ease of defeating the mobs that drop them, is extremely limited. Especially considering it's only a couple mobs per zone & with 5 minute cool downs. So I hear you there.

I definitely hear you. And thanks for letting me know what the 30 kill title is! Indeed though, I think a lot of people would've been pretty excited to see even 10 transfer pass vouchers in there. Hell, even 5 would've built some excitement lol. Definitely an interesting period ahead and there's a lot riding on next month & the new enhance feature.

Hello! Well it's not just a trade. That's the thing. Or well, I'm not entirely sure. That's the confusing thing here lol. The choice to move things to the Item Trader, makes for a really confusing element as to how this new feature is supposed to be implemented. There's too many unknowns right now and the gap they've placed on us with the early Exelio & Ektasis leading up to the system, to ponder what these unknowns are, I don't believe is good for the game. Especially if the new feature does not live up to expectations. From what we understand, the system is supposed to be intricate & what is what we're supposed to be using moving forward on future weapons & units as well to enhance them/give them more user-specific additional abilities. However, the choice of wording here left for a lot of questions. Ultimately I don't want (& won't) to jump to any conclusions, but choice of words used in that segment definitely left for a lot of unknowns.

Eredim was indeed a super welcomed addition and really allowed the playing field to become more leveled especially with casual players, as you immediately gained access to 3 top-tier end game augments for free. Which heavily takes the load and pressure off of the augment grind that may feel overwhelming for some! And the free aug transfer from them was indeed a bonus! Definitely a welcome addition!

I'm not sure if they necessarily need them to be back to back, as that takes away from the "limited time" feeling that seasonal's give. It makes them feel less special, if you get what I mean. But LTQs without seasonal points or tickets to chase after or something of the sort, often feel somewhat without. With that being said, there's still lots of materials in LTQs which is why I did bring up how beneficial they can be for less-veteran players.

@@Spikesxu the seasonal rewards would be limited time which is all that matters. if they take a break for a couple months or so you just stop playing until the next one. an immediate event with new rewards would give people a high incentive to move straight on to the next one.

@@somfplease "New rewards", is where an issue comes into play there. Having events constantly back to back like that with 100% up time, makes it virtually impossible to do that. There's only so many things they can realistically put in as rewards. As well as facing an immediate saturation of the game by doing so. It's the same thing as if you go to the a store & all the items are always on sale. Well, if they're always on sale, that's just the normal. Which takes away from them being on sale to begin with. Or per say, if there's a festival that runs year-round, eventually everyone dries out of it. You can't replenish the freshness of the festival fast enough to keep people feeling like the "festival" is a festival.

@@Spikesxu seasonal items can't be sold in the personal shop correct? which means if you miss them they are gone forever unless they do a AC/SG scratch revisit. theres too much focus around playing shop in ngs. Its sega. if they can't come up with a bunch of interesting different themes/festivals every couple of months i don't know what to tell you. I started playing first descendent and its such a refreshing change to how all the gear and stuff is handled. i've been having some good luck with drop rate as well. gearing isn't a nightmare like with ngs.

​@@somfplease Hello! So for clarity on the seasonal items, seasonal items can be sold in the shop. Seasonal Items normally include things like augments, materials, & things of the like. The only seasonal items that can't be sold are specific items that they make not sellable. Such as seasonal weapons that are specifically made to be not tradable (which is never the case but I think we saw it once or twice in the past), or accessory/phasion/mtn items that they may include. Which essentially are just the likes of getting something from an SG Scratch. 95% of things in the seasonal shop can be placed on the Personal Shop, however. In regards to them coming up with festivals/events every few months, they do. The issue that we're discussing here were if they were running them back to back. That's the particular focal point that I'm responding to here. For instance, they get clever & unique with super popular festival events such as the Sonic LTQ that many people love. Or the Nazun's Quiz LTQs. They tend to get fairly creative at times with the LTQs. The issue comes with incentive to run LTQs if they so choose to place an LTQ outside of a Seasonal event. In regards to The First Descendant, it's a completely different type of game with a different type of gameplay cycle, needed resource management & focus, as well as intended player base. So it's not realistic to compare the two, as it's comparing apples to oranges.

Sometimes the luck of the draw is favorable, sometimes not so much. That's for sure. We'll surely see Exelios appear in everything upcoming though, so they'll become even more accessible. Surely they'll be drops in the LTQs AND Ordinal Tower. Judging by the direction they've taken.

@@Spikesxu who knows. not sure what they are waiting for. they didn't mess around with eridem on it's release. it was awesome. maybe they fired that guy.

Oh absolutely! That's why I made sure to mention how important these LTQs were for newer players and how beneficial they are. As, for those who may not have all these materials already sitting around, they're really good to allow for less-veteran players to have opportunities to get up to speed!

Breeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhggggg

Indeed. All is speculation at this point, but the two month gap between releasing these gears and the actual system that makes them relevant, definitely left room for way too much speculation & want. Especially considering that they made Exelio & Ektasis extremely common drops. If they were going to allow for a 2 month gap, it would've been much wiser to make the drops not as common, to allow for a chase while waiting for the system. As it currently stands, we're in a period where you can essentially farm these items & get max fixas with two days of grinding, then essentially be scraping for things to chase for 2 months. Which I don't personally believe was the best of decisions for player retention.

@@Spikesxu I like that they are making baseline weapons/units easy to obtain. The rarer they are the more expensive they are on the player shop. When they are too expensive a lot of players just skip that series and make due with what they already have. Better to make the baseline items easy/cheap to get. Then give players confidence that investing in improvements for that item will carry over to the next upgrade. I think Sega identified that too many players were not investing in their gear and this is the plan to change that. Sept is a deadzone though, I feel you on that.

Absolutely! This month is pretty nice for phasion, that's for certain!

😂That's one way to look at it! And happy birthday in advance! I hope it's an amazing one filled with laughter & joy!

​@@Spikesxu thanks for the birthday wishes, and tomorrow I will turn 42. I'll just be staying at home with my wife and children, that's all the happiness I need. Also I was in a UQ with you about a week ago. I was the one that said I loved your content. Keep up the great work on your videos. Been subbed since you popped up in my feed. Have a good weekend and may RNGesus bless you with great drops.

@@Dark_Zeraora Sounds like an absolutely perfect birthday to me! All the joy & happiness you need right there! And yes, I do recall this encounter! Thank you for supporting and continuing to support the channel/content!

You're welcome!

It's moreso an image move. Technically speaking they weasel these things into their contracts and the users, knowingly or not, sign these contracts. Most, unknowingly, because people refuse to read nowadays. As, it's not the "cool" thing to do. Because we like to regress ( But that's another topic for another day 😂). But nonetheless, you're bound by these legal agreements. If Disney "wanted" to, they could've strong armed this and doubled down. But then that'd be detrimental to their image. Because it gained so much traction in the public media, they made an exception. Had it not gained traction, this would've 100% stayed exactly where it was & have gone to arbitration. With the individual (Piccolo) likely receiving little to nothing.

@@Spikesxu Image is certainly a factor of course and this situation does carry a particular level of public distaste that may not be a feature of other similar disney scandals. But terms of service cannot be written up with utter impunity- they would still need to be argued and decided to be valid in legal proceedings. They were asking to get the case thrown out due to ToS- if it wasnt thrown out, that precedent would exist- and Disney's slimy ToS might not be able to protect them from litigation in future instances with less scrutiny and eyes on them. So if they had to risk it theyrd rather not do it on such an egregious and public wrongful death claim. At this point, including the image reasons you outlined, makes more sense to just try to settle and throw some money at Mr. Piccolo and let all of this go away.

His last name is LITERALLY Piccolo! It would've been a disservice to everyone to not have thrown that in there 😂😂

Hello! You can turn off All-Ship Matchmaking by clicking the Configure Matchmaking option when you're accessing the quest of your choice. You then un-check the All-Ship Matchmaking option at the bottom. This will disable the All-Ship function and instead put you in blocks that only exist on your current ship! Hope this helps! And have a great rest of your day!

Definitely fair! Winning! 🥳🥳

Sounds like a solid game plan to me!

A lot is riding on the implementation of the new item lab upgrade feature. That's for absolute certain! Will make or break things, quite frankly.

@@Spikesxu we will see. it will be a pity if the screw this up because it's such a unique and great game. I'll probably go back to offline solo open world games if that is the case. not much else I really like in this genre.

All-Ship Nameless was virtually unplayable until they addressed it this morning. Felt like you were playing on a dial-up modem 😂

@@Spikesxu yeah it was terrible reminded me of NGS launch not quite that bad. surprised Sega fixed it without a emergency maintenance

@@Spikesxu on console it was just an infinite loop in the wormhole. I also learned you can move the little light in the wormhole around and fly around. heh.

@@andysnyder3844 Most definitely lol. All-Ship Matchmaking is a separate server though, so it does make sense that they would be able to perform tweaks on it without impacting the main servers.

@@somfplease This is a key feature of PSO games that so many people don't even realize! You'd be surprised how many people don't know about this lol. The load-in screens have always been the worm holes in all the PSO games, dating back to Dreamcast. And there's always been some form of interactivity that the user can do with them! How neat, right!? lol. If you click the mouse you can fire off more little lights. I'm not sure if this is the same on console (being able to fire off more lights by pressing a button).

To each their own, indeed.

Most definitely. Blue Protocol is a game that has brought a lot of happiness to me and by far is the best & most interesting story I've seen in an MMO in an EXTREMELY long time. Blue Protocol's story and execution of the stories is other-worldly. On the scale of Final Fantasy-tier stories. And that's coming from someone who's always been a fan of the FF franchise and in the past played FF11 for over a decade. Blue Protocol would have easily become the next great MMORPG had it been allowed to grow. But the big dogs over at Bandai weren't ready to eat those sunk costs & get their returned investment later down the line. Which to be fair, is understandable. The thing that sucks, is that Blue Protocol was more or less the last lifeline at the MMORPG genre, PC-Focused traditional sense, to continue to live on anew. Blue Protocol was a masterclass in its own right and the attention to detail in all of it, especially over the last year of updates, has been nothing short of astonishing. Had Blue Protocol existed outside of today's internet landscape, it would've been one of the most beautiful things to watch grow. In hindsight, I wish they would've just developed the game around a $12-15 month subscription like traditional MMORPGs. Naturally though, in today's world, that's risky for a new game without previous franchise exposure. So realistically, going the F2P route was surely the only option. But I doubt we'll see another MMORPG on the scale of Blue Protocol any time soon. We 100% won't see another game with such flawless story execution as it had.

Hello! Games like TOF, ZZZ, Genshin, Honkai Star Rail, etc etc are not of the same genre as games like NGS, Blue Protocol, FF14, etc. Not even remotely so. The latter are actual MMORPGs in the traditional sense. And the costs incurred to run & develop are entire galaxies apart. Whereas games that follow the model of Genshin, TOF, etc, are simply solo games with limited online capabilities. They require a constant online connection, as they're server based, but they are not "MMOs" of the traditional sense. There is a vast difference between Mobile games that are on PC, and traditional PC Focused MMORPGs. In regards to NGS, one big thing that allows/allowed NGS to be successful is that it piggybacked off of Base PSO2. This allowed costs to be cut and assets reused. BP did not/does not have this luxury. Virtually all the successful traditional-sense MMORPGs such as FF14 were able to grab a foothold before the emergence of Cancel Culture & peak-toxicity of the online scape that we currently live in. Hence, FF14 being around since the early 2010s. We have not seen a strong traditional MMO emerge for an extremely long time. One could speak on the PoE installments, but the original PoE came out in 2013. Which further backs up this point, as the franchise was able to garner a foothold before the emergence of our current societal norms.

@@Spikesxu those games aren’t MMO but they are in the Venn diagram of games that online games compete with each other. MMOs, Diablo games/Damage Simulators, Gatcha Waifu games. These more or less compete for the same player bases. If your games has worse characters creation than NGS and BDO, you can’t compete, if you game offers a better on rails experience like HSR, Nikke, and TOF, you can’t compete, if you game’s combat isn’t as good as easiest competition in NGS you can’t compete, if you can’t sustain as trad MMO like FF, WoW, GW2, and ESO, you can’t compete, if don’t offer a systemic synergy like LA, D4, POE you can’t compete. BP was or is the worst or very close to the worst at every one of these niches and gameplay pillars.

@@mramisuzuki6962 That's a very strong personal opinion and we'll just agree to disagree here and keep it moving.

There was never any complaining about money problems. In no instance did the devs ever mention or complain about money problems. It however doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the only reason the Big Dogs over at Bandai would abruptly end service on a game, is because of cost issues. That being said, had they not banned the influx of non-jp players (like every region-specific game does in the existence of existence), it would've just made the game unplayable anyway. There is a very strong reasoning from a business and community aspect into why such decisions are made. Especially when your original plan is to have a Global Release/release outside of the original designated region.

No offense to the western player base, (or maybe complete offense), but keeping western & Japanese player bases separated in large community-driven MMOs are 100% for the better. It wasn't always like this, but the current state of the west is completely unhinged. What is accepted & tolerated between the two cultures & countries has grown increasingly apart from one another. The societal "norms" are night and day. These play 100x heavier when it comes to an online environment. With that being said, this is not an unfamiliar practice in gaming. As, it's fairly common & more-so the standard to have different regions in online games. And has always been common practice to ban people from outside of that region.

Most definitely. MMORPGs can not exist in today's world the way that they were able to thrive so greatly before. Not new ones especially. As, it's virtually impossible for them to grab a foothold. Especially in the era of Cancel Culture. So it's definitely important to cherish every moment.

Indeed. The thing about MMORPGs is that the basis & foundation of them has always been the community in which revolves around them. Which then can in turn enhance or decrease the gameplay aspects by leaps & bounds. It's what they're inherently grounded in. The thing is, the current online landscape, fueled & largely shaped by the west, is in a complete dumpster fire of an existence. Until society changes, new promising high-level MMORPGs will likely cease to exist, thrive, or be able to gain a foothold on a global level.

The ever changing gaming landscape is indeed a tricky one. Especially when it comes to MMORPGs.

NGS experience was indeed intended to be an evolution of the franchise. One that was completely necessary. I wouldn't say Base was "fan service", however. As, it just simply followed the exact same format as the previous games dating back to 2000. At the time of its (PSO2 Base) release in 2012, this made sense. However, releasing another PSO that followed that same format as all the prior PSOs had, at the time NGS was released in 2021, would not have been the correct thing to do. Base had a phenomenal 9 year run and was a fun game. That being said, I do get what you're saying in regards to its Global launch being a type of fan-service. Especially considering it was released only a year prior to NGS's release. Realistically, PSO2 Base had exhausted everything left for the franchise to do with that format that they'd been using since 2000. Could we see a return to that format in the next installment (PSO3)? Sure. But at the very least, it was necessary for them to step away from it in order to reevaluate & allow the franchise to grow. Especially in an everchanging market/gaming landscape. Indeed, both experiences are unique in their own, and that's perfectly ok!

As of right now, Scylla is the only one that has received balance adjustments. Of course, this could possibly change in the future, and the MARS system will surely be built upon further down the line in the future, which will naturally see adjustments of sorts.

@@Spikesxu have they always announced a buff or nerf?

@@somfplease Yea, things as major & impactful as nerfs/buffs to key gameplay elements are always announced somewhere.

@@Spikesxu hmm ok. good to know. thanks.

It's a good thing that my content is not focused on having people agree with me, but instead, on constructively discussing points from a logical & objective viewpoint! 👍🏿 Wish you the best on your journey to find a game that's able to satisfy your very unique & specific needs!

An individual of culture, you are. To have noticed what it was I was singing.

I see what you did there. "Scylla" "Sil ly ". Ha-Haaaa~~ 😂

See! I knew someone would know in the comments! lol. Thank you Katy for the clarification! That makes sense now, as I am familiar with the clicks that it makes.

Hello! Next week will indeed bring a lot more as we enter into a new weapon series! So if you're all prepared and feeling pretty strongly about where you're at right now in terms of items, gearing & what you wanted accomplished, then indeed this could potentially be a good time for you to take a relaxer! In regards to the Eredim series, do keep in mind that you can already transfer Eredim augments to any weapon for free. They are the only weapons that work like that, as they did so to help give a strong introduction to the aug transfer system upon its release. So you will indeed be able to freely transfer your Eredim weapon augments to the new series. Let me emphasize that this only works for free if you are transferring from an Eredim to another weapon. This would not work in reverse if you were transferring a different series to an Eredim.

​@@Spikesxu your right about free aug transfer. i keep forgetting how awesome eridem is. lets hope they continue the eridem tradition going forward.