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I'll have you know I worked hard to beat Phaleg, these days with Lv100 it's nowhere near as difficult but nobody's a cheater for hard earned effort.

PSO Alliance Quarters is so nostalgic.

Everyone has this issue, it was never a thing in PSO2 and only started after launch of NGS. NGS will require more time to mature, I imagine the Winter Update will fix these issues, as my wife and I both suffer from regular crashes, it's just something everyone has to put up with for the time being regrettably.

Agreed, great writeup but unfortunately the point was lost on certain people.

@Rain-Gnyu If you love something then don't be afraid to criticise it, NGS requires your input and criticism to improve, simply believing things are fine and that everyone is doomsaying won't improve the game, it's broken and you have to accept it so you can help fix it.

SEGA's attitude towards advancement has always been very strange, the Peter Moore & Yuji Naka confrontation has always been one of my favourite stories: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-04-07-why-peter-moore-once-told-segas-yuji-naka-to-f-k-off

@Raikoh said in Market Economy Still Escalating:

It's just frustrating that waiting four months for the particular thing I've wanted since the JP markets had it pre-NGS only to get slapped with an impossible wall

This right here, is exactly the situation you, I and others are all in.

Even as a Premium player, I said to my wife "I bet my hairstyle's not going to release until after everyone's left the game, making it impossible to purchase", nobody, especially not myself wants to risk their money buying AC to scratch at very low rates when there is an uncertain future for PSO2 NGS, so the availability is severely limited and this just hurts everyone, but you can't blame anyone for not wanting to scratch when there's no incentive and the fear of losing it all due to mismanagement sometime down the line.

The only true party at fault here is SEGA on every front, there's no sugar-coating the slow-to-act nature they've taken and their handling of NGS as a whole, Red Container farming in the beginning they let drag on until it was too late and even told players it was okay providing they don't sell the Meseta, this put a massive dent in the overall economy and discouraged players from playing the game because of it, the players have suffered and morale is at its absolute lowest it has ever been, I've been here since 2012 and this is the worst dwarfing the Episode 4-5 and Hero fiasco from PSO2, which was also under the direction of the current NGS director coincidentally.

SEGA were hesitant until a few weeks ago to even address player concerns and the next upcoming event is a copy paste of the previous two, they have chosen not to obliterate the current roadmap and throw something great at us, instead choosing to pretend that everything will get better come Winer.

Nobody's interested in playing until Winter update, so nobody's scratching, even then it's a stretch to say folks are interested because none of us want a copy paste of Aelio where we run around in Retem's broken laboratory ruins until we hit Lv35 and then AFK in the lobby because there's absolutely nothing else to do.

The problem will be solved when SEGA solve it, which won't be until after Winter because that's the choice they've made, and whether it fixes the problem remains to be seen, I'm sorry that you're upset about not getting your favourite hairstyle, I'm in the same boat and I feel exactly as you do, having the right look for your character can really make or break a game for some people and I understand how important it is, the best thing you can do is send a support ticket and voice your concerns, I fully believe these are forwarded to the JP team.

https://support.pso2.com/hc/en-us

Sad faces all around.

With less players the prices will remain high due to the lack of availability, with less Meseta in circulation the prices will eventually go down, but we need more players to help stabilise things and more gameplay elements to waste Meseta on.

As a Premium player myself, I would be all for some form of cap on earnings and gameplay elements that use Meseta such as requiring Meseta to use Ryuker Devices, which in turn would encourage more exploration, other games do this and it works.

t's just not fair for players that cannot afford the ridiculous prices, when something isn't fair then players aren't having fun, if players aren't having fun then they won't play and that doesn't do anyone any favours, including Premium players as we have nobody to sell items to.

PSO2 Classic prices are outrageous even today with Cradle not as common as it used to be, NGS prices are matching the nonsense and SEGA throwing more ways to make Meseta at players isn't exactly helping in all honesty, you need to take Meseta away from players in order to rinse the wealth from players and help stabilise the market, make Meseta valuable in terms of gameplay so that the fashion side of things isn't the primary thing to spend Meseta on.

Director has this backwards mindset that throwing more of something at a problem will fix it, the only way to fix it is to take away the problem and make things more accessible.

Pretty much above, less players means less scratchers means less items to go around.

The issue we're currently facing is that the uncertain future is pushing even big spenders away, SEGA need to focus on getting more players into the game, which will in turn bring in spenders both big and small, which would help plenty.

There's also the slight issue of player expectations vs reality, 12m hairstyles just aren't going to sell, all you do is create a cycle where only those with large quantities of Meseta can purchase anything, you the seller must also pay 12m for a hairstyle and the cycle will continue without end because nobody wants to appropriately price items.

We can only hope that some of these items come back in later scratches, I've had the Side Fringe Short Hair for almost ten years and I'll be very upset if the N version just ends up a 20m hairstyle on a game where most players are barely scraping 2-3m.

I can afford its current price, but that doesn't mean I should buy it, it's not worth it as a player.

I fell through the Map in Resol.

Hey, it's probably best to submit a support ticket here:

https://support.pso2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I'm unsure if the bug reports are even being monitored on the forums any more, which speaks volumes really.

Best of luck to you.