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Phantasy Star Online 2 Import |OT| YOUR MAJESTY
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On one hand, it was possible to play PSO from outside Japan and I bet there was a similar point in the user agreement. On the other, who knows how their views on that have changed...
Guess we'll see after today's maintenance.
Guess we'll see after today's maintenance.
Well, even if there's an IP ban, you can always use a VPN, like the DQX people.
They only changed the TOS to how it was back in the closed beta, and plenty of players from outside of Japan played in the closed beta with no problems, including me.
yo_soy_el_topo
Member
I bought 500 AC, but have over 140 hours on the game. Definitely worth it even if it does happen. But i really really hope it doesn't. There is nothing else to play!
spyhunterzero
Member
Looks like the patch is up.
I guess I'll be downloading it in a bit to get it ready for tomorrow. Sucks if they do implement that IP ban.
AzureSkies
Member
Like always, Kotaku is now taking rumor as fact:
http://kotaku.com/5932792/phantasy-star-online-2-is-now-japan-only-sorry
http://kotaku.com/5932792/phantasy-star-online-2-is-now-japan-only-sorry
That's Kotaku for you.
Anyway, luckily the patch downloaded pretty fast, can't wait for the update to go live.
Ugh, Kotaku.
Details of today's update. DAT WL!
It's funny how they've made the 3rd and 4th story quests easier, but yeah, they were really hard. Especially the solo Vol in berserk mode...
UPDATE IS LIVE, WE CAN PLAY!
It's funny how they've made the 3rd and 4th story quests easier, but yeah, they were really hard. Especially the solo Vol in berserk mode...
UPDATE IS LIVE, WE CAN PLAY!
We cleared all the new quests with wunder, Aeana and Vivid. Was fun, although the "new" (mostly recolored) enemies were a bit weak.
The biggest letdown was the recolored Kyatadoran as a first boss with the same set of moves.
Quartz Dragon, on the other hand, was much better than the Snow Banshee/Panther although it can wipe a whole party if you're not careful.
13 screenshots from the new field added to my PSO2 minus album:
The biggest letdown was the recolored Kyatadoran as a first boss with the same set of moves.
Quartz Dragon, on the other hand, was much better than the Snow Banshee/Panther although it can wipe a whole party if you're not careful.
13 screenshots from the new field added to my PSO2 minus album:
Diablohead
Member
A little worrying if a lot of new areas are just going to feature recoloured enemies, i'd prefer less areas with a more unique approach and different bosses.
There are 3 new dragon enemies, 1 new darker type and 1 new boss, but I agree, a bit more would be good. We can hope for that in the Autumn "large scale update", I guess.
they are not and fucking hell hours later kotaku still hasnt updated their article stating things that never happened, lol games journalism indeed
Regardless it was quite an ominous statement to release, especially given the mention of proxy techniques. Why do you hate fans of your game guys? Let us enjoy your efforts!
This is especially so for everyone who's buying AC. "Shut up and take my money" indeed...
I don't want to be the devil's advocate, but isn't that more of a legal thing? When you look at the long 4gamer interview with Sakai, he mentions that the legal systems of different countries approach selling virtual items differently, so they can't just make the Japanese servers a worldwide ones. They probably don't want to kick the non-Japanese players out, because if they wanted, an IP block would be the quickest way to do it, right?
In my opinion this is more of a safety measure for SEGA than anything else.
not really, they had the exact same statement on PSU and PSOBB and never IP blocked them, regardless everyone is online and playing the new area happily today and Kotaku's article is still complete bullshit that never happened
While I can completely see some law being behind their actions I would have to question it due to other companies having global servers in the past. Aren't PSN and XBL both open to all regions, for example?
Either way if they want to have statements and conditions to cover themselves then that's fine, as long as it doesn't adversely impact the end user experience then I'm all for it!
dr. apocalipsis
Banned
I though there were no Grants Disks drops yet. But I have bought a level 9 Gigrants for 5000 meseta, and there are more, and much more expensive, disks at MyShop :S
The new update added them. I saw a lv 10 one posted on PSO-World, the guy who found it said he got it in Dragonland.
dr. apocalipsis
Banned
Just dropped a Lvl 10 GiGrants disk here in my first run ¬¬'. Anyway, 5000 meseta didn't hurt much, could be worse.
There is a ton of lvl. 10 disk dropping. Time to raise to lvl 15 techs
There is a ton of lvl. 10 disk dropping. Time to raise to lvl 15 techs
spyhunterzero
Member
At what level do I have to get to start getting more quests from the quest counter? I'm only level 8 and I've finished the level 7 Quest but nothing else shows up.
spyhunterzero
Member
The free forrest mission is a pain in my ass. I just need to do the one where you kill the spiders in 10 minutes, but I always get screw over with the last 3. Anyone have any tips for finishing it.
I'm online right now if you need help. Sent you a friend request.
spyhunterzero
Member
Thank you to all that helped out on that mission I think I'm going to cry now lol
I think I'm going to cry now lolspyhunterzero
Member
Emergency Mission going on now on Ship to for any one interested
Think ill log in then and hope I can get a burst going... as usual 20's crowded so im going to block 21 today
djplaeskool
Member
Bah, didn't download the patch before work.
May not make it...
May not make it...
spyhunterzero
Member
Got my first Tekker weapon from the emergency mission. My god is it expensive to identify. It's going to cost me all of my money. But will it be worth it. Yay it was my first Red Star rare item.
br0ken_shad0w
Member
Slowly leveling up my force because at least I'll get force and ranger items (ones I actually want) instead of hunter items.
StarCreator
Member
Gah, just ran the Catdragonsa mission for the first time with a couple teammates. I literally drained them of all their moons in the fight. It was enough for me to finally invest in a decent arm unit (bought a アーム／クロスアメインβ on teammate's suggestion and manipulated it so it now has Ability I and Ragne Soul), but I doubt this is really going to be enough to make this fight not extremely painful at the current level cap.
http://pso2.jp/players/news/?id=293
Don't know if it's been linked yet, but here's the official news post. They updated the terms of service to say that access from outside of Japan is now banned, as well as access from outside of Japan through a Japanese address (i.e a proxy or VPN).
These are bad news for the people playing (or good news for VPN sellers)
Wonder if this has to do with the servers being crowded. Seems shady though, since because of timezones, primetimes differ quite a lot. FFXI had international servers too, and it wasn't that bad (plus it was 10 years ago ! it's not like tech has stagnated since).
Don't know if it's been linked yet, but here's the official news post. They updated the terms of service to say that access from outside of Japan is now banned, as well as access from outside of Japan through a Japanese address (i.e a proxy or VPN).
These are bad news for the people playing
(or good news for VPN sellers)Wonder if this has to do with the servers being crowded. Seems shady though, since because of timezones, primetimes differ quite a lot. FFXI had international servers too, and it wasn't that bad (plus it was 10 years ago ! it's not like tech has stagnated since).
It was posted here yesterday and appeared to be nothing more than a Terms of Use change. No IP block is currently present and all the people from outside Japan can connect without problems.http://pso2.jp/players/news/?id=293
Don't know if it's been linked yet, but here's the official news post. They updated the terms of service to say that access from outside of Japan is now banned, as well as access from outside of Japan through a Japanese address (i.e a proxy or VPN).
These are bad news for the people playing
Wonder if this has to do with the servers being crowded. Seems shady though, since because of timezones, primetimes differ quite a lot. FFXI had international servers too, and it wasn't that bad (plus it was 10 years ago ! it's not like tech has stagnated since).
The only thing you need to unlock free caves is to do a koffee client order that requires to do the kartagot and caterdran quests in a certain time limit and to get 2 quest items.
The time limit used to be 12 minutes for the kartagot quest and 16 minutes for the caterdran quest, but they changed it to 20 minutes and 25 minutes respectively.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Did they also change the time limit for the desert drilling quest? Because fuck that random ass spawning code bullshit.
djplaeskool
Member
Every game service in Japan (that doesn't have global service available) has this clause.
It's up to Sega to actively enforce it, however it does give them a TOS clause to hang their hat on in case of banning over other violations incurred by foreign users.
StarCreator
Member
Everyone should be doing the COs by the new, uhhh, heavy-set NPC standing near the salon in the 2nd floor of the shopping district. If you complete all five of them you get a unique weapon of some sort. No idea how long this will be around.
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