@Cerventus Yeah but Ive been playing since March. Youve barely been playing a month.
I was at the current level cap on my HERO, BiS units, and lots of progress made toward my 15*(s). Just typing that knowing Im banned is gut wrenching.
I also had some AC and SG, but I couldn't give a whiff about that at this point. As I mentioned, my investment my mostly time and effort.

@meowimdead I read that article, and I admit its discouraging. I was not aware that there was a huge issue surrounding ToS violations. Im a JP vet so I never felt compelled to read the update notes unless I wanted to know the UQ schedule. On a side note, I noticed the article said over 31k accounts were banned for various reasons.... LOL. Holy crap. Sega may start bleeding players so badly they lift the bans just to keep the game afloat.
Id be surprised if this game got 30k players at peak hours. If an account was under investigation, they should have started with stern warnings instead of jumping right to the permabans. Just seems overly severe IMO I cant get over it.

Ive has my Steam and XBL account for ages (7 and 15 years respectively) so making new accounts for the sake of one game is kind of absurd imo. I’d just quit.
But yeah, I too have a great bank with an excellent fraud department and I will have all purchases to Sega refunded if they dont lift the ban. It’s a very heavy handed approach.
I love PSO2 itself and would prefer to continue playing. Most of my investment in the game isn’t monetary. I’ve invested a lot of time in the game this year, namely due to less social and travel plans due to the COVID lockdowns. That’s the most painful part of it. Doing my dailies has kind of become part of my after work routine.

All in all, this is really bad news and I will be livid if they hit me with a lifetime ban. Even if I were like you, @Cerventus, and guilty of RMT, I would still say it’s a bit harsh of Sega to lifetime ban an account that indulged in something they themselves have done very little to remedy (beyond threaten players with bans).

I’ll simply take my money back and walk away from the game forever, and Sega loses a consistent customer and a dedicated player.

@Bakaronii You were banned on 10/20 I presume?

@meowimdead I sent a long-winded ticket explaining the situation. Hopefully they won’t just entirely blow off a loyal player/customer without a second thought.

I was reading old PSOWorld Forum threads of English players on JP version being banned for IP address violations with VPNs.
They also compiled a list of error codes and their translations.
From what I gather, any 800+ error code is a technical ban, but the recourse varies depending on the error message itself.
Mine says my account is currently suspended, and to contact support. That sounds innocuous; I wouldn’t expect that to be the message you get if you were eternally no-backsies permabanned. But then again, it could just be a poor translation.

Can you link to the Twitter response you saw? Or at least give me the gist of what the other player was told?

@Kake-Guy-Joe They really just told you to screw off like that? No further explanation? “Read the TOS.. and thanks for the money, sucker” Pfft. This pos p2w game doesn’t deserve the playerbase it lost, let alone has. The game just got a global release yet I doubt it will have much a loyal following in a few years, aside from the those with weebs on dangerously soy intake and more money than sense.

Yeah me too.
This is garbage.
I played JP and got banned for playing outside of Japan... then the game gets a global release and I get banned for... what?
I’ve spent nearly $100 on AC/SG and this sort of unceremonious banning is enraging and disrespectful to the customer.

I never bought meseta or items with RMT, posted offensive content, or AFK during raids. However, my PC a 7 year old potato at this point, and it constantly crashes while playing. I read the patch notes about this and quitting UQs is apparently grounds for a ban. I’m thinking I may have been wrongfully banned for my occasionally crashing out during these quests; it’s happened more than once.

Is there no appeal process? No warning? I never got an email or any sort of indication from Sega that my account was in danger.

I’ve tried researching this but I’m seeing all sorts of conflicting answers, and many of the threads are years old.
Does anyone have any solid info on this? The error message I’m getting says my account is suspended and to contact support. If it were a permaban, it’s seems a bit abrupt and haphazard; youd think they would word it differently or give some additional information via email.

Can anyone tell what the name of the accessory is that is a planet orbiting the player? I thought I saw somebody run by with it the other night, but when I checked their player looks, I didn’t see anything on them I didn’t recognize... I may have been seeing things.

@Auralee-Divinus Think of New Genesis the same way you think of Challenge Mode, albeit much more involved and expansive, but instead of a rogue-like challenge, NGS offers an evolution to the current gameplay and systems.
Your weapons and armor will be scaled back to compensate for the team-based open world gameplay.

This is pure speculation and this thread isn’t the place for this type of discussion, but Sega wouldn’t make OG PSO2 entirely obsolete. I wouldn’t worry about the aesthetic aspects of the game being effected; nothing I e read has even hinted at this.

@Kyouko-Okita We dont have a lot of info on NGS aside from a few vague teaser trailers. I’ve watched them all, and read all promotional material... and I still consider it an enigma.

This may very well be the thing that kills PSO2 - then again it may just be a huge content expansion that truly refines it and puts it in the map.

I wouldn't understand the reasoning behind implementing a brand new game that ignores all progress within the original, esp at this time, when it’s just being released piece meal for the first time in NA.
Why would Sega release the game/content so carefully and encourage players to invest the time if the ‘true release’ is actually coming in 2021? What would be the point otherwise? Unless Sega are total frauds this will be a huge expansion for the existing game; a free range ‘raid’ game mode, so to speak.

@Anarchy-Marine I actually looked it up and apparently the character storage DOES come with you when they swap ships.
Its still a tough decision though. Take a look at the stipulations here