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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    a literal, unironic troony game. built from the ground up for them.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Playing it as we speak

      And the only game with playable Gunpla
      And a Sci-fi MMO
      And a mix of Magic & Science Fantasy
      And a grind game
      And a chat room

      It'll get worse on June 7th when they release player/alliance housing

      You know what, I played ngs this evening and I didn’t hate it as much as I did when it first released.

      If you find the right people to play with and ignore the politics it’s alright.

      It's because they've made actual improvements to the game. Took them two damn years, but it's slowing getting better.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        oh my god I can mindlessly grind more levels PSO2 IS SAVED

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          There's Dual Quests if you don't care about mindless grinding.

          NGS is a grinding game like Black Desert or Lost Ark. People love that shit even if you don't.

          The only people that still play this are overdosing copium and can't escape their sunken cost

          I just play because there isn't another game with a similar combat system. The melee counters, the fact that Ranger kinda plays like a TPS/FPS, and the fact that the "Mage" class has a timed block with a counterattack mechanic is wholly unique to NGS.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Black Desert and Lost Ark both have vastly better gameplay than NGS
            >t. played all of them against my better judgement

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Black Desert and Lost Ark

              lole NGS might've shat the bed but it's still better than both of those games.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is there content on this game? Or is it just cosmetics still? And are the na servers still controlled by trannies?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I think you know the answer to those.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          No, Yes, and Yes.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Is there content on this game?
          They've added dungeons like Cannon Ball Rumble and Ordinal Tower

          Outside of those, there's Dual Quests. They're 1-on-1 fights with each boss in the game. Drops are pretty profitable.

          Story is also improved. Chapter 5 was like 1000% better than anything they've put out before.

          >Or is it just cosmetics still?
          That's still endgame

          >And are the na servers still controlled by trannies?

          Always will be

          Black Desert and Lost Ark both have vastly better gameplay than NGS
          >t. played all of them against my better judgement

          Hard disagree. Say what you will, NGS' combat is the best combat system in any MMO without PvP.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >the recent story has been better than literal dog shit
            Wow!

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            lmao shut the hell up, not even the most deranged, copium addicted morons have touched cannonball bullshit or ordinal tower since the week they were introduced outside of afk'ing them for arks record badges

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              They drop expensive cosmetics. It takes you running them over-and-over again, but you will make money.

              Combat is dumbed down as frick from base pso2, removal of JA was removal of any skill required. now it's just pressing the same button over and over with most jobs having no more than 4 attacks. How can you act like this is good combat, you are a braindead casual ARPG moron.

              Let go of your redundant rhythm game mechanic in my action MMO, old man.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >JA are a rhythm game mechanic
                way to out yourself as a massive fricking flaming homosexual moron. have a nice day unironically.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                seething is not a valid argument

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not arguing with a moron, that is a complete waste of time. Anyone who defends this pile of shit is fricking mental. Also, you're clearly a trashy NGS secondary that has never played base PSO2, so it'd not like you'd remember when the game had any depth to the combat anyway.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Also, you're clearly a trashy NGS secondary that has never played base PSO2

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                lol, have a nice day right this second

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                this is the saddest post I've ever seen

                REALLY? and you still think how you do?
                [...] is right. open up wide, sega's gonna drop a big one right in your mouth soon I'm sure.

                >My argument was proven invalid, and I can no longer defend my beloved rhythm game mechanic so I must hurl insults.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Not any of those anons but sega has literally sucked every single ounce of action gameplay out of the game besides muh counters in NGS, there's absolutely nothing to like about that shit. JA's are just the tip of the iceberg. NGS is watered down dogshit, in fact it's embarrassing that they bothered developing the simple action mechanic because it almost cannot get any simpler.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                have a nice day Grizzermacht.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >one of the most unhinged schizos out of all of /pso2g/

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The problem is that replace it with anything. You barely need to time your attacks as the parry frames are so forgiving and most classes can just cancel into parries now. Instead of something like DmC the game is more casual and forgiving than nu-GoW.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                this is the saddest post I've ever seen

                REALLY? and you still think how you do?
                [...] is right. open up wide, sega's gonna drop a big one right in your mouth soon I'm sure.

                dilating status: in progress

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                this is the saddest post I've ever seen

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                REALLY? and you still think how you do?

                you are talking to a /vg/ NGS general spastic, do not bother. sega could release a feature where they literally shit in your mouth and these people would still play it, they've been playing the exact same game with "new content" being reskinned bosses/areas since NGS was released.

                is right. open up wide, sega's gonna drop a big one right in your mouth soon I'm sure.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                you are talking to a /vg/ NGS general spastic, do not bother. sega could release a feature where they literally shit in your mouth and these people would still play it, they've been playing the exact same game with "new content" being reskinned bosses/areas since NGS was released.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Combat is dumbed down as frick from base pso2, removal of JA was removal of any skill required. now it's just pressing the same button over and over with most jobs having no more than 4 attacks. How can you act like this is good combat, you are a braindead casual ARPG moron.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            DID HE JUST CALL CANNONBALL AND ORDINAL DUNGEONS?!

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              He did. he also thinks they are relevant content, even though both were dead on arrival.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Cannonball is the equivalent of the slingshot aiming mini game in oot, except in oot it's a 2mn minigame while in NGS it's been pushed for more than a year as a consequent piece of content.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nah, the slingshot minigame is way more rewarding than Cannonshit ever was.
                Never mind the fact that Cannonshit is boring as frick and is literally pointless in any way shape or form.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Frick off Xan.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >And the only game with playable Gunpla
        NGS Casts look awful. PSO/early-PSU gen are proper human-sized mecha.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    You know what, I played ngs this evening and I didn’t hate it as much as I did when it first released.

    If you find the right people to play with and ignore the politics it’s alright.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      What politics? The only issue people have with the game is the lack of end game content while Sega keep pumping out gacha crap.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I dunno there was a thread the other day where everyone was talking about some mod banning a bunch of people or some shit.

        Like I said, I ignored it and had fun.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          you probably ran into the mentally ill freaks from the ngs general thread who dedicate their whole life to ngs, they have been having schzio meltdowns about the GMs for years even though no normal player will ever run into them

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah that’s most likely.

            I do however think it’s a shame that the missions aren’t more popular. I’ve put in about 15 hours and I haven’t teamed up with anyone outside of my friends.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            unsalvageable disaster, so bad that it not only killed itself but its predecessor too because sega are staffed by morons everywhere and not just in their insane troony gm team
            unironically it has probably killed the phantasy star franchise unfortunately

            >even though no normal player will ever run into them
            yeah, sure, deliberately changing the tos so you can't say things in private chat with your friends is definitely behaviour of people who will not get involved :^)
            kneecapping your na playerbase, which was already small, by systematically banning half or more of them because you've got mental problems seems like positively excellent behaviour from a game mod.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              never happened
              only racists got banned
              deserved

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I dunno there was a thread the other day where everyone was talking about some mod banning a bunch of people or some shit.

        Like I said, I ignored it and had fun.

        One of PSO2's game moderators is a nutjob who lurks in Ganker threads in order to stalk anyone who posts here, in addition to reading any and all text chat anyone has ever sent in the game (public or private, NGS or PSO2) just so he can come up with excuses to ban random people.
        I don't know if that person is still employed or they got gone with how much of a stink has probably been brought up regarding their activity, but as long as you don't reveal your in-game identity and understand that none of your chats in-game are private, the "politics" will not affect you.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Wow. What a sad little homosexual.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I will never understand why they buried old pso2 underneath the trash that is NGS. it's impossible to even play old pso2 anymore, the playershops are dead, there's no one running anything, it's a non-entity that no longer serves any purpose being there. at first, it only served as an excuse to have no content since you could "just go back and play old pso2 lmao" and to soothe whales who dumped so much money on scratches so they wouldn't feel like it was all a waste.
          but it was. it was completely a waste.

          I would never play NA servers because of this shit and tweaker's proxy no longer works for JP, so that ontop of me fricking hating NGS anyway, I've called it quits with this game for good. No, I will not just get a vpn to play pso2, this game is trash.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >I will never understand why they buried old pso2 underneath the trash that is NGS
            Because they've Pso2 basically ran it's course as far as new content goes and updates go, it's literally a 13yr old vita. If you want more content for it, that's literally what NGS is supposed to be, a segway into newer stuff for pso2, from graphics, Qol, and even gameplay. Even understanding all that you'd think they'd have had a plan to make sure the transition would be way smoother than what we got, But when you known Sega as long as say since the 360/ps3 era, at the very least, you know full and well how easy it is for them to shoot themselves in the foot.(( Like sacrificing this game's release reception, dev plans, and budget, for Sakura wars, "allegedly"))

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Personally I didn't give a frick and wished they'd just shut down PSO2 and start over. They had ruined it way before NGS anyway.
              But of course I also wanted NGS (better yet, PSO3) to actually be good. Oh well.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Again, in a sense them starting over is NGS so that's kinda redundant. There best course of action is to keep building on this because if NGS dies, that's it for Sega, there reputation as a game company would be finished.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Again, in a sense them starting over is NGS
                Feels too much like PSO2.5 but sure.
                >There best course of action is to keep building on this
                Nah, it's inherently shit, and the team has no idea what they're doing.
                >if NGS dies, that's it for Sega, there reputation as a game company would be finished
                Deserved it.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              NGS runs like shit and every update causes it to get worse.

              Meanwhile base: Smooth as butter beyond the initial load.

              I'd rather they target the Sony Velveeta Shells and Cheese over the Sony PlayStation 5 if THIS is the best they can do with the NGS engine.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                you can't tell the difference over 24fps anyway

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          are you talking about that trannie CM or someone else?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            gwiz

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              More like whizz.

              As in peepee

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous
        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          PSO2 was okay, but Ep4-5 were ass. Too bad it was shown the upstate farm.

          NGS on the other hand, I came back to after two years since Aelio and it's just...still really dry. Combat over-rewards countering attacks for virtually every class, nothing interesting happens with the open world or itemization, Zephetto is probably the only remotely interesting character in the story, and the grind for augment capsules and fixa are boring as frick. And now they want you to make an even more specialized set for just one subset of quests. The frick are the devs doing.

          Gwiz? Recall him also saying on stream something along the lines of wanting estrogen to be borderline mandatory for kids too. But even with the troony shit aside, he's also playing his part in the problem why Phantasy Star is poorly handled in the west and is a legitimate tumor who banned people without giving them a valid reason or explaining why (including someone who posthumously got their entry picked by Sega in a Designer Dreams contest).

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Combat over-rewards countering attacks for virtually every class
            that's how pso2 has been for all of its later episodes and when a class has no viable counters you get memes like jet boots that take twice the time to clear sodam compared to the average class, or gimmicky weapons that only exist to counter specific boss hitbox types and is shit against the rest

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              At least scion class counters played into other mechanics like maxing out a focus gauge that you would spend for big damage in other ways, ngs classes have 0 depth and counters are all that matter at all, like on that shitty nu-gunblade class you can literally just sit there and mash weapon action and clear everything in the game. Not to mention ngs devs seem completely afraid or averse to adding any real mobility or utility to classes.

              oh my god I can mindlessly grind more levels PSO2 IS SAVED

              You don't even grind levels, every level cap update they just dump a side quest on you that will bring you up to the new cap immediately.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >that shitty nu-gunblade class you can literally just sit there and mash weapon action and clear everything in the game
                Why am I not surprised they wouldn't learn anything from what made Luster >fun?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Bro I could go on for hours about how shitty Slayer is and how it's an absolute disgrace compared to Luster.
                They tried to copy Swift Slash and Swift Shot into slayer but they're so fricking bad that you don't even spec one of them in your skill tree because it's clunky, low damage, and no utility.. while the other people automate by using macros and specific subpallete setups so they can literally hold down the one photon art worth doing while they aren't countering shit. It's actually infuriating how fricking poorly designed this shit is.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              And all yet those scions had more mechanics going on, like built-in weapon swaps to encourage meter gain and marker buildup. Even the simplest one in Etoile (who lacks sidestep counters!) has more personality than any of the NGS classes, and Slayer can barely hold a candle to Luster as-is. Multi-weapon was probably the closest thing to making NGS combat potentially any more interesting but in practice is just either a shortcut from making another weapon entirely or solely just to grab a weapon action.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not just a game moderator, one of the community managers for the game and apparently has significant pull with the game designers. Also not just a lurker in Ganker threads, an actual jannie (for free) in /vg/.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      lol reddit homie define cashgrabs by "its fun with friends" again
      you guys never learn and own every console possible

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        …what…?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        i gather from your post that you have no friends

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          im not forcing them to play any fotm slop

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >fotm
            >game and discussion been around for a fricking decade
            newbies are so fricking dumb lmao

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I haven’t paid for anything in the game and am enjoying it. I just finished retention region. The story with the song was shit though I’ll give you that.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Thoughts on Phantasy Star Online 2?
    >Shows photo of New Genesis
    which one do u want my thoughts on

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I enjoy it. I haven't played in a whilen but the last time I did, I watched FULL EPISODIC anime on the big screens with other players in that one snow region headquarters. Was some really comfy times.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I miss jp pso2 episode 1-3 so much bros...

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I miss the traditional dungeon stuff.

      I dunno why they decided to add that ball throwing mission in ngs.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Garbage, it's so bad that Sega no longer shows Phantasy Star on their website because NGS killed the IP.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Avoid playing with anyone from the alliances Oyasumi, Toblerone, Daikkuri, Tendoku, world with me or Stardust Drive.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Avoid playing with anyone in this game in general because they are all extremely lonely trannies, they will cling to you like flies on shit and try to groom you into erping with them.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, most normie players are chill. Those /vg/ alliances are full of unhinged, hostile groomers.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          If you play a male character, you're safe.
          If you play a female character, they will try to suck you into it without question.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Sounds kinda hot tbdesu Not even trans

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Rent free

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the best customization and one of the best and smoothest controls in an action game wasted on a game with little things to do

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    thicc anime thighs and tiddies.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's ass and ugly.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The same I have every morning in the toilet before flushing

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The only people that still play this are overdosing copium and can't escape their sunken cost

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's ok. I started playing it earlier this year and it just never clicked with me

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >2 fricking months straight of the same tired, formulaic seasonal event

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Game is shit.
    Will always be shit.
    You will never be a woman.
    No amount of cope will change that.

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the og was good until summoner
    ngs is trash

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's shit but I still log in at least once a week

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >once a week
      >He doesn't know
      Enjoy your gimped mesta production now. They fricked over weeklies in the attempt to juice user numbers.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        don't care

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          So long as you know they're fricking you over, that's ok.

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    troony game and you should have a nice day right now

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's so fricking bad that I'm just waiting for EoS so that the private server dev releases the base PSO2 private server.

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    worst mmo i've ever played. Why not just make a new psu?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They're seemingly hellbent on never doing anything they've done before, it must be some moronic japanese honor thing or something, like iterating or copying anything that worked before is an admission that they can't create anything new and good. Every single thing they've ported from base pso2 into NGS has had glaring, fundamental problems from them trying too hard to reinvent the wheel.
      Take Duel Quests, for example. Your gear you farmed so hard to make doesn't even work in the quest, they start out dickstompingly hard instead of having a functional difficulty curve, etc. Meanwhile, years ago they developed shit like solo ultimate masquerade and sodam fights that were actually almost perfect in design, difficulty curve, reward, etc.

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty okay if played in small doses. Ganker's community is nothing but mental illness, don't even bother communicating with anyone.

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Joined late last year due to a friend returning and another who played. The latter barely plays at all anymore due to the toxicity of the community, the former is barely a friend anymore because of the group who scalped them from our alliance, and grooms them into their perfect little pet.

    New Genesis is full of c**ts dressed in the skimpiest outfits they can find, idiots who make the most insane outfits they can, or weebs trying to be <Anime_Protag_Here>.

    NGS also has virtually no endgame content, combat is repetitive, depending on class and weapon, either fun, or extremely boring. Grinding is tedious for minimal returns. You want an actual story? Frick you, we ditched that in classic PSO2 - Sega. All the depth classes had in PSO2 got yeeted to be mindless and newbie friendly.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I would agree that the community is some of the worst parts of it
      it's literally filled with homosexuals, trannies and spics, a deadly combination for any online game, let alone an mmo.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >All the depth classes had in PSO2 got yeeted to be mindless and newbie friendly.
      I just remembered how versatile Rifle originally was with how it has a PA for every kind of boss and some mobbing ones if your launcher sucked.

  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Actually sad to see this game gets a decent amount of threads and posters, and it's just overwhelmingly negative every single time. Full of people who just want/wanted it to be good but sega has failed them on every single level for years now. I see the same thing when I play other games and mention pso2.
    They've got a fricking guaranteed-win formula for a game; stylish action, space monster hunter, with big booba waifu character creator. Monster Hunter: World, which released in 2018 and hasn't had an update since 2019, wasn't designed as a live-service retention-focused game AND has a sequel out with similar player count numbers, still gets 4-10(ten)x more daily peak users than this piece of shit. If I was in management higher up at sega and I seen how terribly the team on this game were handling this I would fire every single person on the project.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The dev team somehow is on some advanced cope and thinks the game is not shit and praises eachother constantly for their work, and even thinks the current director is good. They will never admit any fault with the game, and they do not play it in the slightest. The game will never, ever improve due to that. It's over.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        If that were true they wouldn't be holding Q&A struggle sessions at the end of every Headline stream, nor would they even bother doing streams like bi -monthly in the first place.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Q&A where they cherrypick questions and avoid negativity
          >entire headline streams of "Sugoi!!" and clapping over and over while they reveal the game still isn't getting new content for 6+ months
          yep, they're doing great.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'm not saying they aren't doing thah, what i'm saying is if they were truly as arrogant and unwilling to learn as you claim, they wouldn't be bothering with that in the first place. The fact that could be cherrypicking questions and doing all that postering, means they know they are not in a good spot.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              It seems clear to me they are extremely out of touch with absolutely no awareness of their game. That's the only explanation for the state it's currently in and the awful decisions they make. Whether the devs themselves genuinely are aware or not, I can't say. One peek online should probably make the player's dissatisfaction clear, and I doubt it's any different with Japanese players and their discussions of the game.
              I remember a time in old pso2 they had to apologize to the playerbase for calling them whiney on a stream and gave out some meager compensation ingame for it, so it could be sega just actively dislikes their own playerbase, but that's me talking out my ass
              Anyways, I really don't fricking know what's going on in their heads tbh, it's not like they have had any degree of transparency even with the streams.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >and I doubt it's any different with Japanese players and their discussions of the game.
                Funnily enough, I heard the 5ch NGS threads are still quite active only thanks to people coming to them to keep shitting on the game. So exactly the same as here.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                What is most likely going on, is that the Sega higher ups are doing there damnest not to step on eggshells with the dev team so they don't just up and leave all together, because this most likely became the mess it's been in the first place thanks to Sega siphoning their budget for a failed 300billion yen gacha game and left the team to deal angry revolt of the players at release, and then there's also them having to deal with HMZK too. It's been slow but it seems like they are at least finally getting there budget back and are hopefully working out a new road map to follow.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >It's been slow but it seems like they are at least finally getting there budget back and are hopefully working out a new road map to follow.
                It's too late, as I said its unsalvageable anon.
                It would require an ff14 2.0 style relaunch, and even then their brand and marketing has been decimated for it, so the game they re-launch would have to be legitimately exceptional. Is anything about it currently even close to exceptional? Not at all. Tiny little improvements here and there, more garbage copy pasted 'content', more scratches, are not going to ever salvage the wreck. It's a start over again situation if you want any hope of ever being good

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's currently Sega's most profitable game outside of pachinko machines.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                LMAO how are people still repeating this bullshit
                You got it wrong anyway, it's their 2nd most profitable FREE TO PLAY game..
                Do you know what the 3rd is?
                A mahjong game from 2013
                Give it up moron, the game is a fricking failure

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                What's the first?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Some hatsune miku game nobody outside of hikikomori coomers in japan has heard of

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's mobile gacha cancer, of course people have heard of it. Unfortunately.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                the fact of the matter is that the biggest accolade people can give ngs is that its 2nd in a competition of 2, if even that

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                that means literally nothing anon.
                1. they have no massive amount of live service games to compete with
                2. its a 0 effort gacha scratch ticket creator that 50 morons buy hundreds of. that doesn't make the game good or garner it a real playerbase, it just means they've got 50 morons they can keep milking
                and 3. it also takes upkeep. does yakuza take upkeep? does their 2013 mahjong game take any budget or real upkeep? hell no.
                they cratered pso2, and the choices are give up and build on a new bit of land, bury whats been built in the crater over and start over on the same bit of land, or option 3 continue pouring resources and money constantly into the massive crater praying that someday people will start enjoying being in a massive hole
                new genesis is legitimately worse than 14 1.0 was, the only difference is 14 blew a massive budget on itself, whilst new genesis had its massive budget funnelled into a gacha game instead that itself also cratered
                gj sega

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I still know moron whales that get excited for pso2 scratches.
                It's fricking sad.
                All it takes is a new skimpy bikini and they're whaling hundreds of dollars worth of scratches.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The majority of the players in pso2g alliances scratch for a few hundred bucks EVERY new scratch.

                Yes, and that's the choice sega can make. They can cater to those couple dozen players and accept the death of their game and ip, or they can try and fix it. And I mean try, not the 'try' they're currently doing lol.
                The reality is, private server pso1 is better than any official server for any pso currently playable. Can sega make a game equivalent or better? Probably not honestly, pso2s monetization and the entire game, every aspect of it, being designed around "how do we piss them off with inconveniences so they want to buy stuff from us to make it stop" automatically puts it below pso1 or any private server experience. A pso2 pre-ng private server would do better than sega releasing their own pre-ng server simply due to their shit cash shop centric design. How clueless do you have to be to try and make people pay to respec their talents, or to actually have storage and inventory space when you designed the game to drop them 50 fricking items at the end of every UQ

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >base pso2 private server
                we need this so bad, it'd be so fricking based.
                imagine what a good game pso2 could actually be with that monetization shit removed.
                custom content would be sick too. more endless modes?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Imagine endgame gearing that actually made sense, shit like the mission badge capsules being earnable from in-game grinds instead of time-gated bullshit or just not at all anymore, being able to actually find Sein Burn and that one all-class bow, etc.
                Kinda doubt many people would be into it but I actually think ladder resets (infrequent and separate from the main, permanent ship) could be fun in a game like pso2 if the 85+ exp curve and gearing wasn't quite so grindy.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                First reply is back, in all industries, image matter more than quality: NGS failed too hard and murdered itself and the brand, no matter how good (as if), ver2 ends up being it's never ever seeing PSO2 numbers ever again as the game has already been dismissed as a dumpster fire in the collective consciousness.
                From there I only see two moves, either keep the servers alive with minimal low budget updates, or close NGS soonish to recoup all costs on another game instead to rebound while it's still in the cards.
                I think they're going for 1) for low effort money

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                First reply is right*
                God I hate autocorrect

  24. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I’m playing it until blue protocol releases. Or wayfinder.

    Thank frick for those alternatives.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I wish I could find something to replace base PSO2 for me, nothing really scratches that action combat itch besides stuff like DMC and Bayonetta.
      Personally I don't think games where the vast majority of your character's actions have lengthy cooldowns compare at all but to each their own.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I like those kinda action games but it’s a shame they are pretty much single player orientated.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah that's why I say I can't find anything that replaces PSO2 for me despite liking those games a lot.. having some semi-regular content updates and also some casual side content, plus the ability to really customize your character and housing, is kinda important for longevity and personal investment.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Speaking of which, get in here.
      https://www.youtube.com/live/aYUa6X_Ow-M
      I kept telling myself I'd never actively play another online game again, but now I'm not sure. The NT was pretty comfy.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        FFS JUST ANNOUNCE AN OPEN BETA ALREADY

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          PLS

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          JP won't have it, had too many closed betas already. Global might, but who knows if it's even coming out this year after all the delays.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Make sure to watch the Sony showcase tomorrow 😉

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I don't even care, will either play on JP or not at all.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                But…tomorrow…Sony 🙁

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Make sure to watch the Sony showcase tomorrow 😉

            But…tomorrow…Sony 🙁

            fricking lol

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Gawd dammit

              Gawd fricking dammit

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              No hope for anything by Scamco and Amazon.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Nobody but morons care about the amazon version.

  25. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why americans are so fricked in the head? Unironically. South america is not like this at all.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        why does Burgers live in yuromutts head?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Anamana
      Fashion isn't that bad to get started with, why does he still look like a broke, mismatch b***h?

  26. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Literally a dead game. The amount of blocks has been steadily getting pulled over the past two years.

    They think their Minecraft-Forge hybrid mode is going to save the game since they don't give content: It won't.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The blocks fluctuate based on user counts.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The blocks fluctuate based on user counts.
        >Blocks being pulled
        >Because no players
        >ANON THEY PULL BLOCKS BECAUSE THE PLAYER BASE IS DECLINING!
        Yes, thank you for reiterating my point, you giant moron. What are you trying to add?

        The game is dying. There was like 70+ blocks at launch. Now there is about 25 and lowering. Hell, the "Aelio for newbies" is only 5 blocks and none of those are full.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          No I mean they have a default number of blocks and add more when there are more people.

          GAWL.

  27. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why don’t they make a yakuza online where you and your friends take on npc gangs

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      because they rely on the Yakuza IP too much as is, any more and they'll end up Like Konami where they didn't do anything but cash in on Metal gear when literally everyone INCLUDING Kojima was telling them green light stuff other than Metal gear.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Kinda like how Bamco is now with everyone saying they need to stop the prioritizing Tekken.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        The stuff they DO green light flops (RIP, VC4). But being fair that stuff (VC4) they frick up handling it (releasing VC2 on Steam despite a PSP game and finally officially translating VC3).

        Sega self-inflicted all their troubles. Just like NGS could be a good game if they didn't release it in early access phases and properly had content (Retem at least on launch) and optimization (to where running around in world doesn't have the game go from 60FPS to 15FPS because it can't fricking load the world outside of chunks and the chunks are so fricking small for the region that you get drops going AROUND THE GODDAMN REGION).

  28. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Trash game. Only reason to play is for CASTs and e-girls(Japan only).

  29. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the first PSO was better

  30. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that reddit and discord janitors were instructed to purge this video off their platforms on the grounds of transphobia and hate speech.

    Frick the gr00mer community managers and their unpaid clique of jannies

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      transphobic chud. hope he dies.

  31. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Ameritards derailing the discussion into leading people to believe NGS is failing because of a global only troony mode and politics.
    You are and will remain second class citizens, ameritards.
    But to get back to the topic: NGS is a fricking terrible game with terrible design decisions.
    You ever saw a dungeonless mmo? That's NGS

  32. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dead game about to get desecrated by BP release on 14th June.
    >but muh global release delayed
    No one cares about global gays

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I can't wait for BP to reduce pso2's playercount to single digits and for sega to realize how badly they fricked up.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Literally nothing will change.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          You're fricking delusional. Every pso2 player I know is eyeing BP right now. Every single block on pso2 will be empty on BP launch day.

  33. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Loved it. Wish we could get a proper sequel

  34. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Even on jap server it's in pretty sad state of affairs.
    troony apocalypse on global is just an icing on shitty cake.

  35. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The majority of the players in pso2g alliances scratch for a few hundred bucks EVERY new scratch.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Futureless trannies, leave those to their own shit they'll all be dead in 10 years when they realize they're old with nothing ahead of them

  36. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >did not finish floor 100 solo
    >did not finish lvl 200 tpd
    >did not finish floor 999 masketta man
    your opinion literally does not count

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      basically zero people care about that challenge content shit. it's an mmo, not some solo garbage

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Good thing they keep forcing incredibly long, boring, forced solo only content, with the latest optional content also being solo only, eh? Really making good use of the "online" part of the game.

  37. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Have a JP character that I havent logged in since ep4 I think? The one that introduced Hero. Do I get anything If I use the same char to play in NGS?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      No. Your appearance will carry over, but you'll stand out so much in lowres old pso2 stuff, it looks ugly in ngs. old units can be used but they are dogshit in ngs even if you had top affixes in old pso2. You pretty much get nothing in ngs from having played before.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >You pretty much get nothing in ngs from having played before
        It almost feels like you get punished for having played base game because you'll have a bunch of base game items in your storage taking space. One of the biggest reasons I hate the fact that NGS is attached like a tumor instead of just being a new, separate game. At the very least they could have given their loyal fans that played before NGS some free storage space but they're just too out of touch.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Ugh... I have so much base stuff in my storage I can't bring myself to throw away. I grinded so hard for some of that shit but I know I won't ever use any of it again. It's depressing.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Thank you for playing Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis.
            Trust me though I know exactly how it feels. I even have some stuff I'd still like to do in base game (d100 sodam and maybe endless on different classes) so I'm even less likely to clean it out. Really feels like shit that they couldn't at least make the storage separate for each game or something.

  38. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Garbage. Just play PSo1.

  39. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the only trannies that play this are from /vg/. They use horsewiener futa mods and take screenshots on /aco/ all the time. Truly deranged.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      American problem, anybody that can use a computer has been playing on Jp since 2012

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Chat full of dumbasses vs chat full of shit I can't read, on top of trash content, this game has absolutely no value

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          dont forget having extra wait time after some of the weekly 6+ hours of maintenance for the tweaker people to wake up and run their shitty auto translate bullshit
          oh and isnt the shithead who stole from people trying to buy AC running that shit? oh boy im just itching to rely on them

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Skill issue

  40. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    ywnbj

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ynbat2

  41. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    072046
    don't ever reply to me again homosexual

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cope seethe mald troon out

  42. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Absolutely terrible game.
    It’s receiving a patch that’s going to buff every single class in the game, because ONE class was doing good.
    They have no idea what they’re doing, even now.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >why i can't be the only good class everyone must be below me
      have a nice day moron

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        You are adorable.
        You don’t fix bad balance by buffing every single class in the game. Your moron containment field “game” will continue shooting itself in the foot

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Never heard of balance by the bottom huh.

  43. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lets me make cute robot girls with lots of freedom for customization, no other mmo does that at the moment.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      have a nice day Shiro.

  44. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is an obese man in his 30s

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        and thats a good thing

  45. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Im amazed the game is not shut down yet. I cant think of a compelling reason to play this even over shit like Genshin Impact

  46. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's the best dress up game on the market + it's free but that's all the pros it has going for it. The market is bogged to hell and forces you to scratch or to bog as well. I've made over hundreds of millions bogging compared to what this game gives you for drops to sell. Treat this game as what it is, a dress up game. Oh and stay away from the active player base, they're all mentally ill

  47. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Peak PSO2 was playing weekly TAs, Endless/Challenge mode groups and duo HTPD runs in the big japanese discord server. Nothing will surpass that level of international brotherhood and cooperation. NGS wishes it could hold a candle to PSO2 on both a content and social level but it can't when it offers nothing and drove everyone away. Also F for the kino streams JP used to get and the big IRL events, we lost the entire Phantasy Star IP at this point to westerners and SEGA chasing NFTs/SUPERGAME.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      there really is no multiplayer action combat game that can even begin to compare to peak pso2
      i really regret not playing more when it was alive

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Everyone I met since 2012 that I managed to keep in contact with from JP is just playing other games, hoping and waiting they throw away NGS and make a proper successor to PSO2. That's both sides EP1~3 enjoyers and the EP4~6 enjoyers. Literally nobody likes what NGS did to the core gameplay. Most play PSOBB/PSUC in the same groups for a fix but it's looking pretty bleak seeing how SEGA is.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm in the same boat. Every last one of the OGs is retired from the game while the NGS newhomosexuals shit up the alliance. I don't think there will be much to come back to even if PSO3 happens.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >HTPD runs
      What's that?

  48. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It was so good.
    Then it became so bad.

  49. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    NGS is the series weakest game, come play psobb with /vm/ instead.

  50. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Vanilla PSO2 was janky and bloated, but it was also teeming with content and soul. NGS feels cleaner and streamlined, but also sterile. I still play it on occasion, but I liked it more when it was just PSO2.
    Oh well, at least I still have my cute robot girl.

  51. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It Is SHIT, but I still play it religiously.

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