Somebody earlier in the thread mentioned about screenshots containing modded or datamined assets. This is most likely the reason foe the C&D.

SEGA have never really cared about PSO2 screenshots being posted on social media and other websites so long as they follow the game's TOS. I checked MMOloda before the images were removed from the frontend, and the front page had clearly modded layerwear on full display. Checking through earlier images, there was UI spritesheets posted there too.

I've been archiving all that I can starting with the earlier images as there is history in there starting with PSO2's first alpha that'll be lost to time otherwise.

@Brittany_Rose_C There are people on this forum and elsewhere who want to find the "smoking gun" that caused the game to be in the current state that it is. "Microsoft forced it out early", "NGS has a skeleton crew", "the episode 5 director has doomed the game" are examples of what I've seen elsewhere. Apart from the credits listed in-game, interviews, and livestreams SEGA do, we've not much idea what is happening behind the scenes.

IDOLA Phantasy Star Saga was in a similar state when it first released where it had a small part of the story available, some other quests to do as well as Idola battles. It's like SEGA want to gauge the reaction to the initial release of the game first before they consider putting more effort (and money) into it.

Perhaps with NGS, they're afraid of creating another Sakura Revolution and are playing it safe? I don't see why considering that PSO2 is one of Sega Sammy's biggest moneymakers. I'm not going to make baseless assumptions though.

It makes me laugh a bit that the design of that page hasn't been updated since NGS was announced back in 2020. It still has screenshots from the first announcement video and uses design elements from the old JP website.

There's nothing particularly wrong with keeping those job listings up to help expand the teams working on the game, and I don't really see it as an indication that the existing teams are too small.

NGS is a far more ambitious project then PSO2 classic ever was. I wouldn't be surprised if SEGA believes the existing teams could do with a boost.

When it's ready

Weapon and Unit descriptions in NGS are completely gone on both JP and Global. Other items like materials had standard descriptions.

Yeah if you're using the Tweaker, if you run into a technical problem with PSO2, it isn't the job of the official PSO2 support team to help you fix it.

@same No really, I'm just a regular guy. All that the reddit moderator role gives there is a yellow name, and grants no additional abilities that a regular user does not have.

I help moderate over on /r/pso2ngs, and that's it.

@Coil said in Regarding to TWEAKER pso2 Can they join the GLOBAL closed beta test?:

Just put a blanket ban on Tweaker, hopefully Denuvo straight up bans anyone using that POS rootkit miner Tweaker when NGS Launches.

Again, where is the proof of Tweaker being that? In addition, who is saying that Denuvo is related to PSO2 at all? The only place it is mentioned is in the EULA, which is standard boiler-plate legal terms that is common across multiple SEGA games on Steam. This part is of interest:

This Product may beprotected (sic) by anti-cheat/hacking software and/or Denuvo Anti-Tamper Protection Technology (“Denuvo Anti-Tamper Technology”).

Emphasis mine.

Methinks people are spreading misinformation, intentionally because they don't like anything involved with Arks Layer or otherwise because they just don't know any better.

The same goes for nProtect GameGuard. The Wikipedia page for it is outdated and does not represent how it behaves with PSO2 nowdays, where it simply loads a kernel driver that unloads itself when the game closes along wirh a few other processes. No service is installed, no files are dropped into system folders. It's still rootkit-like but doesn't embed itself into your install of Windows like it used to.

I wouldn't be surprised if they listed the artists that they did as they're trying to appeal more to the mainstream as well as the niche anime RPG players that PSO2 attracts.

Are you referring to https://www.twitter.com/play_pso2/status/1386825691208065038 ?