Solo Barren Blossom should've been gone even before NGS came out, I believe it was only available as an actual UQ during its initial release when it was on the schedule. AFAIK the only way you can access it is by buying triggers, which should still be around (though I haven't checked).

As for the persona UQ, what difficulty were you doing it on? I know that ultra hard has an extra phase at the end, and iirc the 4-man trigger version of the quest goes through all masks, but the 12-man version of the quest only goes through 2 of them (which are chosen at random).

Yeah, a big thing to keep in mind here is that the Global Mission Pass only existed how it did because it had a ton of PSO2 backlog of content it had to push through, those items weren't made for the pass. So it makes 100% sense that the new mission pass kinda sucks in comparison, in regards to outfits/accessories offered.

The only thing that makes me sad about it is that the pass doesn't offer SG. Part of what was nice about the old pass was you could either get a minor amount of SG from it (if you never bought Gold), or if you bought the Gold pass you'd make back exactly enough SG to buy the next time's Gold as well. Now, you don't get any SG, so I guess you have to hope that you get SG from the Special Scratch or something to recoup the SG cost.

That owns.

Which page did this show up on? Either way, I don't think you're reading that correctly, because "cost value" would be a real strange way to refer to monetizing the Salon more (when they can already have SG/AC for that).

I think it's likely that this is something like the cost value that accessories have, to determine overall "graphical intensity" of a character. Would be interesting to see if it's all rolled into one value though or if each type of thing has its own cost type or what, though. Would suck to have a situation where using cool motions ended up using so much cost that you couldn't use the 4 accessories you wanted, or whatever.

The mods aint gonna respond because the forums are already end-of-life and if they considered it actionable, he'd be gone ages ago.

Just don't bother effortposting at the guy, he's not exactly arguing in good faith.

I for one would like to applaud SEGA for this week-long campaign testing the waters of scheduled UQs, which they were totally, 100%, going to do on their own without any player feedback.

Gonna give this a bump in case anyone sees it before the forums shut down. It'd be nice to see an opaque/"old style" of these tattoos show up in a future mission pass or a scratch or something.

Going off the first reply (since I'm not gonna watch the whole video), I will say that it's a bit of an issue, but I don't think it's the problem of the players or theorycrafters/etc. There's a line of thought that's had a decent amount of stuff written about it / GDC talks about it /etc that breaks down to "if you give them the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game and then complain that you let them do it", which generally applies more to farming/grinding/cheesing mechanics, but I think can apply here too. It's on the developer to make something interesting that the players can't just sideline in favor of some stupid cheesy gameplay that nets them better rewards.

Exploration and discovery are fun and all, but especially in online games, there's always going to be a semblance of competition/desire to be on the top, which means people are going to try to progress their character as much as possible, meaning less extraneous stuff, aka exploration/discovery. Breath of the Wild works because it's a single player game, so you can go at your own pace and not feel like you're falling behind anybody else/wasting your time, but in PSO2 there's always a sensation that says to a lot of people that they're wasting time if they're not grinding for gear.

There's nothing particularly wrong with NGS's open world at the core level, there's just no reason to interact with it, and if there's no reason to, you can't really fault players for skipping it. You gotta force the player to stop doing the boring stuff, but that's the job of a developer, not the duty of a player. For example, add rewards around the world (similar to redboxes/alpha reactors) that you can find via your mag radar, but importantly, with the caveat that it's actually random per player so that people can't just access a website to find their locations, and make that a weekly thing or something like that. Outside of meseta items you could also do stuff like make single-player teleporters that take you to special hardmode weekly solo cocoons/fights or something like that, so that high-end+whale players would still have reason to run outside of the city even if they were swimming in cash.

One time I was in South Aelio and saw some chat bubbles of some people getting into some spicy stuff. I found out they were on the other side of some bushes 20 feet away, but I didn't want to intrude on them.

Godspeed, South Aelio ERPers. I hope you haven't been banned.

I was never a big spender on SG scratch, so I like it as it is atm honestly. The daily scratches are nice, and even in PSO2 when I wanted a specific item, I resigned myself to having to get a choice ticket most likely, in which case the tickets being almost half cost makes that price a lot lower (2000sg vs 3200sg)

Of course it'd be nicer if old items weren't in the pool, but as long as they make sure that the total % chance of old items remains about the same, I wouldn't complain too much myself. Even in old SG scratches I'd consider most of the items duds, even if they were new, because they wouldn't be the specific 3-4 or so items I'd be looking for.