With March coming to an end and PSO2 NA getting closer to its Spring release, I figured why not look to the past at 'what could have been'? The following are several content relating to the original 2013 release that was planned for PSO2!
Website
Ahh yes, the original website that act as a time relic of the past. The Flash version is unfortunately gone (at least to my knowledge) but the full HTML version of the site is accessible here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140325225339/http://www.pso2.com/us/html/
In addition here are links to two of the pages that went normally inaccessible (Legacy and Community):
https://web.archive.org/web/20150726140155/http://www.pso2.com/us/html/legacy.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150726140156/http://www.pso2.com/us/html/community.html
Forums
Despite the fact the old PSO2 website always had its "Community" button unselectable and it lead to a page that was pretty much unfinished, it appears SEGA had already prepared a Forum subsection for PSO2 already complete with background artwork and all!
https://web.archive.org/web/20131128152606/http://forums.sega.com/forumdisplay.php?323-PSO2-(West)
Blog Post
On their website, SEGA had a blog where their community teams would postnews on upcoming events and game information. Here is a bunch of posts regarding PSO2's initial announcement.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130704205757/http://blogs.sega.com/category/phantasy-star-online-2
Twitter Account
This was the old Phantasy Star Twitter account that was usually used for PSU stuff but is also used for the franchise in general and would have been used for PSO2 news as well.
https://twitter.com/phantasystar?lang=en
SEGA of America Flickr Account
SEGA of America used Flickr for image hosting the various images used in their blog posts. You can also find lots of pictures from the time PAX was playable!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/segaamerica/albums/72157630320151030/with/7457414004/
BONUS: PSO2 2020 Mousepad
Not really an archive of anything from the past... but here's a 'remake' of sort of the PSO2 mousepad given away at PAX 2012 but with PSO2 2020's assets: