I'm in the same boat as Archetype Luna, except I have a lot of playtime (about 4000 hours) on the JP server, though I did quit playing at the end of Ep4. Going back seem like such a pain. I've missed out on so much content, so many events and exclusives and whatever that will probably never come back. But if stuff like this SG scratch is what we've got to look forward to, should I just suck it up and bail right now and crawl back to JP? Is it even worth continuing to invest in NA? Surely this isn't sustainable, and it's not like Sega has a great track record of backing up western releases. What if it ends up like SEA, and all our work just gets invalidated anyway?

Heck, I even already own the Ep4 Matoi outfit I badly want on the JP server. Grinding out the SG for it was pure pain. I can't fathom doing it again on NA, except now I'm twice less likely to get it because of the diluted pool, and it's only running for one third of the time.

Seeing that this scratch has come back has made me quite upset and honestly kinda wants to make me migrate back to JP, since one of my favourite outfits in the game is in this one and I already bled myself dry trying to get it on the JP side years ago... except now I'd have to do it again, but now it's even worse because this is two SG scratches smushed into one—diluting the drop pool even further—and running for only one third of the time. Plus... y'know, everyone with the extremely valid point that earning SG on the NA servers is ridiculously difficult compared to JP. I just... man, what a disappointment.

@I-UsagiTsuki-I said in Cougar NX isn't present in the new Challenge mode...:

You are going to said, we gonna skip Knight Gear Boss from Shining Force, who is again a Sega game?!

Knight Gear is already ingame right now. You can fight it in one of the stages of Elite Training: Heaven & Earth.