@AngryRhombus563 said in Where the content sega?:

@JoycieC How many of those had their GPU's bricked :3

I know it's a joke, but it was found that it's specifically the EVGA 3090s. Some sort of fault with manufacturing. I am not aware of GPUs being bricked aside from 3090s (and if you got a 3090 for gaming I really kind of think you're an idiot).

@Rain-Gnyu said in I got a question for the GMs! Is all the community thread post going to be deleted never to be seen again?:

@Yuria said in I got a question for the GMs! Is all the community thread post going to be deleted never to be seen again?:

@Rain-Gnyu said in I got a question for the GMs! Is all the community thread post going to be deleted never to be seen again?:

Looks like some YouTubers have also changed there name. I wonder why?

There's only one PSO2 Youtuber I know off of the top of my that changed their name and they even included the reason as too why in a video. There's nothing with rebranding your name to change things up.

Nope! The You-Tuber has ruin his identity! Looks like the You-Tuber trying to erase their history. People are taking notice and down voting the channel, the lost sponsorship and decrease subscription.

Also shaving your head for subscription is not a good look to me, my personal perspective opinion.

These You-Tubers were doing so good until they bit the hand that was feeding them.

People are downvoting because they have an archaic world view and are bigots. If the individual identifies as a different gender then they can do what they want. If that impacts you then you need help.

@HermitST said in MMOloda SHutting down PSO2 section after 9 years:

I can't believe people actually want Sega to be bought by another company.

You people think things would actually be better under new ownership, but this wouldn't be the case and you would eventually come to the realisation that the games under the Sega name have lost all of their charm and everything that attracted you to them in the first place.

SEGA games lost their charm after Dreamcast shut down. The Phantasy Star series has felt behind the times since PSU. SEGA has a history of making dumb decisions. While I get a lot of people tend to hate buyouts, I do think SEGA's IPs would be better managed by a company like Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo.

Hell, EA would do better. Anthem had more meat to it than NGS does.

I've seen some confusion and misinformation about a few things regarding XIV, so I thought I'd clear some up.

FFXIV you can indeed talk to your Free Company (Guild/Alliance) if you are visiting another world on your datacenter (Datacenters are like jumbo-servers made up of smaller individual servers, and you can hop around within the datacenter but cannot visit a different Datacenter). You can still communicate with your Free Company if you are visiting another world, and you can form a cross-world party. You cannot invite a player to your Free Company, however, unless their character's home server is the same as the FC's. Linkshells don't work unless you are on the home server, and just like FCs you cannot invite someone to the Linkshell unless they are on the home server. Crossworld Linkshells however do allow for you to invite people outside the home server, and they work regardless of the world you are on.

As far as item drops from mobs, they do exist but only in the open world, and the items that drop are usually simple crafting items or vendor trash (think like bones, a claw, etc.). Enemies in instances and story missions however typically don't drop anything, and I've noticed the later into the game/higher level zones the enemies drop less.

Loot in FF is primarily based around getting treasure coffers after boss fights (whether those be dungeon bosses, raid bosses, etc.), which in general drops 1-2 equipment pieces for a random class, tokens to trade in for stuff, minipets, or mounts (varies depending on what you are doing). You also, when you are max level, earn tokens for completing a plethora of content which can then be traded to a vendor for max or near max stat gear. The max stat gear in this game can only be obtained through vendors (or in the case of the relic weapon, a long quest chain), and is character bound on acquire.

While there is some RNG involved with dungeon gear or when a mount drops in the raids, there's a built in pity system where you get tokens to get the thing you want.

Here's an example. Currently the best non-relic weapon is the Diamond weapon, which you can receive for completing the Diamond Weapon Extreme trial. It's a boss fight (kind of like a boss fight Urgent Quest, but you can start it on demand when you have a full party), and typically takes about 12 minutes to complete if you don't wipe. Once successful, a treasure chest spawns near the exit, and inside you will receive 1 random Diamond weapon, a low chance for the mount to drop, and the chance at some diamond-specific crafting items to drop. The party then rolls Need, Greed, or Pass to obtain the items. You cannot have more than one of the same Diamond weapons in your inventory, and once you obtain the mount you can no longer roll for that mount in the future. You also obtain 1 Diamond Totem (that will go up to 2 Diamond Totems if it hasn't already) per win. 10 Totems traded into a vendor will let you hand pick your weapon. 99 Totems lets you get the mount.

Armor is a bit easier to obtain. All level 80 content gives tokens to trade in for near-max stat gear, and completing the nier raids gives you coins which you can use to upgrade that gear into the strongest gear outside of Savage armor (Savage is extremely difficult content that a lot of players avoid, so most people don't go on to complete it... but it is obviously doable).

Lastly, as far as selling stuff in FFXIV is concerned, most items will sell if the price is reasonable. I've never encountered an issue putting something up and it never selling. It also doesn't take long to sell something. By the second day I've sold everything lol.

@ENERSHA420 said in Gathering respawns? Really Sega? Really??: you are really full of sh*t man

Kettle, meet pot.

So here's the thing with how I view everything.

• Once upon a time, people played games that rarely got updates. In fact, there was a time when a game simply did not get an update. So what did people do when they ran out of things to earn/unlock/level/whatever? They kept playing through content they had already seen and done. Why? Because they enjoyed the game itself. The game was fun whether they were getting something new from it (items, levels, or just the experience of seeing something new) or not. The current generation seems to not share that same sentiment. If they're not unlocking something, seeing a number go up, or constantly being provided something they didn't have before they are going to complain.

As has already been mentioned, PSO1 was very light on content and heavy on rare drops. You didn't have a lot to choose from in the way of cosmetics (in fact there were no cosmetics after you made your character), and instead the emphasis was on finding a new cool looking weapon. There wasn't even a gear treadmill. It was just about collecting. I was honestly very surprised when I played PSO2 for the first time to learn that the game wasn't like PSO1 at all. Disappointed even.

• I don't think it is out of the question to suggest Covid may be partially (emphasis on partially) responsible for how much content exists. Japan has also been having another surge as of late in Covid cases, to the extent there is pressure to postpone the Olympic games yet again. Even games like Final Fantasy XIV, which tends to release new content more often and in greater quantities than most other MMOs (or games in general), suffered significant setbacks to the extent we did not get a Halloween even last year, and some other events were repeats or merged. I do not know if SEGA had the capacity to enable their employees to develop the game from home instead of the office, and considering they shut down their arcades recently (which accounted for much of their revenue), they may be tight on funds.

• Believe it or not, games are not always designed with the no-lifer in mind. This game (and many free to play games) tend to cater to people who only spare about an hour a day, if that. If you've been spending more than 3 hours a day since NGS launched, then it is unrealistic to be angry at how much content exists currently.

• As mentioned before, here is a breakdown for what, exactly, Japan had when PSO2 launched.

1. Hunter, Ranger, and Force, with a level cap of 30.
2. Free Exploration, Arks Quests, Emergency/Urgent Quests, Story Quests, and Client Orders.
3. The first update, which dropped in July 2012, was the Underground Mines. The game launched with Forest, Caves, Tundra, and Desert.
4. Hard Mode was the highest difficulty.
5. The next Major update was a full year later, in July 2013, which added Braver, Deuman, and Episode 2.
6. Episode 3 released in August 2014, with Bouncer, Casino, skills and zones.
7. Episode 4 released in January 2016, and added the summoner class.

I think you can see what I am getting at. You are going to see a similar update schedule here, except they are already going to be releasing new classes and increasing the level cap sooner than before. The playable content you have now is on-par with what existed before, except it's all merged together. So Client Orders, the story, and even urgent quests are all a part of the free exploration.

You can expect to see the skill trees be expanded incrementally, new zones to be added, and more content to come our way. But if you want to have "all the things" you had in old PSO2, you are looking at a minimum 4-5 years I think. It might be quicker depending on how easy it is for them to make new stuff in NGS, but I think people really need to stop throwing tantrums and making these doomsday posts.

I may have got a few things mixed up here or there as it has been a while, but seriously. Be a bit more mature about things. The entitlement is astounding.

So none of this is really surprising.

• They wouldn't tell you they would shift focus to NGS away from PSO2 while still trying to sell you cosmetics, premium, etc. Hardly any business would tell you to stop buying something. It's why rushing to get all of those augments, max stat 15 star weapons and 13 star gear was kind of silly if you thought there'd be more PSO2 stuff. Some of you are acting like it's some sort of horrible thing that a sequel disguised as a standalone expansion would make your old gear obsolete.

• PSO2 is 10 years old. It doesn't matter that we got the game late. That is irrelevant, aside from SEGA had promised the game back when it was initially announced and never gave any updates on the status of a Western release.

• They are not going to make PSO2 all that appetizing because they want to shift gears to NGS, and they want their players to move to NGS. A large reason for them transferring all cosmetics over is to provide further incentive for people to shift to NGS themselves.

• This shifting of focus to NGS in addition to apparently permanently ceasing all development and updates of PSO2 means, given SEGA's Phantasy Star history, that PSO2's servers are going to shut down probably in a year or two. I suspect within 3 years only PSO:NGS will exist.

And yes. Western servers for both PSO2 and PSO:NGS will probably shut down before the Japanese servers. That happened with PSO Dreamcast, Xbox, and then Gamecube and Blue Burst PC. Then PSU shut down the PS2, then the PC servers and shortly after that the xbox servers.

I have been experiencing lag spikes lately and getting error 630 often. It seems to come and go but is really discouraging me from playing. I know the issue has existed since release and has never been fixed.

Out of curiosity, others getting the error, are you using xfinity?

@Yggranya There's this thing called immersion. People who can get immersed in a story usually will find a character or two they identify with.