@Pariah-Chan said in Pulling the plug on PSO2?:

Didn’t Microsoft pay for the port or buy pso2 tho?

Yes, MS funded the western release, which is also the reason PSO2 was released on their platforms first. No one seemed willing to step up before that.

That's their big plan? Demand players waiting for content/better fashion to drop money now? Good luck keeping a playerbase with that attitude.

@HermitST said in Friendly reminder to not support the upcoming scratch:

@Pariah-Chan I have come close to boycotting the game entirely a few times. I am hanging on by a thread at this point. The game has already become a chore. It's just the same repetitive tasks every day. It's not fun, especially material gathering. How can any developer in 2021 think that going to same spots everyday to collect materials would be an enjoyable experience?

Sega is lucky this is a niche series in the west, because if this was an EA, Activision, Bethesda or Ubisoft game, they would be getting bombarded with complaints and every gaming news site would be reporting on it.

If Sega's intention was to make me start playing other games I put on hold, then they are succeeding at that. To light a fire under their asses, I was quite the spender in old PSO2. But with NGS, there's no desire to buy AC, no motivation to log in beyond the free sg scratch. I'm very disappointed with how it's turned out, but the devs seem absolutely convinced this is the way to go.

@VanillaLucia said in NGS Headline - June 29:

@BrokeSadMillennial I feel if it wasn't clear already to Sega, their priority is still their Japanese playerbase so if these are the players who are upset it is very likely Sega will cater to them rather than to "us."

I do feel that we could have already had something like Divide Quests in a Cocoon format (revisiting areas from Oracle with their context removed, for example to fight waves of enemies), or perhaps even something like Warframe's Sanctuary Onslaught could be fun for rewards, loot, and experience as an alternative to the Combat Zones.

Regarding the catering to JP thing (which is mostly understandable), at least if some concerns overlap, it's better than nothing.

Symbol arts, player IDs, shop description blurbs, not having to crowd around Misha, item search, a few other things I might be forgetting. It's a decent list of stuff missing from the PS.

As Sega has been completely silent about the Zutomayo collab on the global side of things, don't expect it to come over. Licensing stuff is a very complex matter, but at the very least, they could offer an alternative collab to offset the "loss". I wouldn't count on it too much though.

Hopefully the guy who responded like that to the question about materials is getting crucified. There is no way that made it through play testing unless their guinea pig looked at it for two minutes, then decided it was good enough.

Did nobody play test the respawn timers before release? It's quite ridiculous that players are losing out on dailies and the like because the game won't perform its intended function.

"current spawn rates for materials are adequate" my ass. They fumbled the implementation of this material gathering system badly.

630s, severe lag and a lack of content constitute fun? It's damaging to the game's image and Sega should have remedied the servers during that emergency maint.