I will not forgive SEGA after Phantasy Star Online 2 not releasing to America for no good reason.
Seriously, its not "There isnt much people interested in Phantasy Star Online 2" because there is a ridiculous number of people using fan-translations.
I think that's why they didn't to be honest. They were originally not okay with other countries playing on their Japan servers, but then eventually figured it was less effort for them to just have us do the translation work ourselves and continue to play on their servers. SEA was a different story because there was money involved. Another publisher was interested in hosting the servers for SEA.
And it's probably best this way too. Imagine having a really low level cap, and only the basic 6 classes. That was the SEA server while Japan had the bouncer class and more than twice the level cap. They were pissed that they were IP restricted out of the Japan servers.
this pretty much
considering how sega NA handles mmorpg styled games (*cough cough* spiral knights* cough cough*), a NA release of PSO2 would have just been a pay to win stuffshow most likely.
furthermore, its not like they can really release it in NA anymore without it costing them a forgetton on licensing previous collabs and redistributing them, aswell as catching up 5 episodes (5 years) worth of content. People wouldnt play on a NA server anyways cus majority of the english community is playing on ship 02 anyways and have already invested money/time into it.
if you really want PSO2, just go
here and download the tweaker+english patch, its pretty much fully translated so there's really no significant difference.
I've been playing PSO2 on the JP servers non-stop for the past 10 months, its really not to hard to play as an english speaker thanks to the patches (also the JP community doesnt seem to have the same consistency of starfishs as the English community does so I personally like being mixed in with them)
