@Meta77 In some countries it is illegal to put items on sale when they haven't been on sale at a regular price for a minimum of time. Among those, UK, Germany and Canada. PSO2NA is offered in Canada.

Bethesda got dragged through mud for this in it's F76 Christmas sale. I'm not a lawyer but I wouldn't be surprised if it applies to also digital products.

I'll take a personalized message calling me an idiot over copypasta with threats any day.

@Chiryuu2609 said in Any Specific Release Date For Late May?:

why our mods on the forum are not toxic :(?

Both are toxic cesspools. If you write anything critic about the game here, angry fanboys write TL;DR rageposts at you, report you, followed by

95 posts since 2 Mar 2020? Holy crackers Batman, 1.5 posts per day, what an enormous amount of energy! How do I ever find time to accomplish anything in my life, truly one of greatest life's mysteries.

That said, I'm glad we're on the same page agreeing the game is dying. Press F in the chat

@ErinXh said in Playerbase:

Offtopic: I do wonder if the countries of Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are to be considered 'European' or 'Asian' or maybe both.

There is no official definition of Europe/Asia border so depends who you ask. Personal opinion, no.

From MMO perspective those countries are often not included in EU localization, instead being bundled together with Russia and their local localizers like mail.ru

@Chiryuu2609 said in Playerbase:

@Havox3 You see, americans are generally richer than european so they can pay more, hence not the priority to the Microsoft.

The difference isn't as large as you may be thinking. We're still talking billions of revenue.

@Chiryuu2609 said in Playerbase:

I understand your point but I doubt it's really something important, it may be important to like 5% of players, most players of f2p games don't pay single dollar :D.

A 2019 study in mobile freemium games shows 10% of paying players spend 64.5% of total revenue. On PC/consoles the landscape isn't there yet but we're rolling downhill also, EA/Ubisoft have started putting microtransactions into their AAA-singles. You may be interested into reading about whales, there have been some quite fascinating studies and articles on this topic.

@Chiryuu2609 said in Playerbase:

I'm not sure about EU vs NA, but if I understand correctly there are no EU server and people have lags, that's the problem(?)

No, a high ping is not an issue for PSO2 and there is no IP block so everyone can play on same ships, that part is fine. The part handled poorly is inability to purchase PSO2 shop items outside USA or Canada directly, without jumping hoops with giftcards.

USA + Canada 328 + 37 = 365 million people

EU + UK 445 + 66 = 511 million people

Now granted, yes, not everyone would want to play if it's only translated to English as some countries are very nationalistic about those things, plus a couple countries would probably need to be excluded because of lootbox regulations, but even then, it doesn't a marketing genius to see ignoring this amount of potential customers completely is not good business.

@Chiryuu2609 without going on a TL;DR post, biggest issues imho are, in no particular order,

Poor communication. To some degree I find dank rappy memes on twitter endearing, but they can't substitute actual thing.

No EU/UK version, EU whales can't whale directly without fiddling with giftcard codes. Ironically SEGA EU twitter specifically said they won't forget about PSO2, and then did exactly that.

PC version delayed 2.5 months behind Xbox and locked to Win10/Microsoft Store.