Phantasy Star Online 2: UPDATE: Region Lock Reinstated

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UPDATE (July 22, 2015) Our own Bill Murphy has confirmed that the region locked dropped late last week has been reinstated on SEA versions of Phantasy Star Online 2. Sorry to say, this means that playing on these servers means using a VPN.

MMOsite.com is reporting that the region lock has reportedly (and inexplicably) been removed from the SEA version of Phantasy Star Online 2. Players can now access the game without the use of a VPN.

Check out the Phantasy Star Online 2 site for more.

Kothoses

Thanks for the headsup, if this is Legit and not just a short term thing I think I will take a look at this while waiting for the next FFXIV story patch

nhat

Pso2 is amazing, a true sequal to to pso1. Gameplay is smooth and you can switch weapons anytime, anywhere

venatis

I was looking around various websites for information on whether or not this is true, apparently some are able to get in without IP block, whilst others aren't. The big fan sites don't even have threads about this, that I can see anyway, so it'll probably be temporary. 

BillMurphy

I LOVED PSO on my Dreamcast way back when. So while this is more Diablo/Vindictus with Phantasy Star visuals than a full open world MMO I wished for, I'm still hyped. Downloading now.

rojoArcueid

I wish Sega remade the classic Phantasy Star classic RPGs with today's tech.

 

I would totally try PSO2 if available without VPN, but i dont see the appeal in the repetitive Vindictus style of games with no content.

DimoSupremo

installing now, fingers crossed!

FlyByKnight

I loved PSO on consoles as well, but lets not forget that the MMORPGization (or whatever you wish to call it (it's actually a lobby dungeon crawler with a few areas where many players can see  each other)) of Phantasy Star has completely butchered and murdered a rich, generation spanning storyline.

 

The storylines in the online sequels are absolutely atrocious, with the most recent being super convoluted and absolutely childish.

 

As you can see from my avi I take Phantasy Star very serious. It was the first RPG series I ever played completely through.  I'd love to see a developer pick up the pieces and create a new RPG or MMORPG that exists within a proper universe of Phantasy Star.

 

Not this mess:

https://youtu.be/8pse0o28Gtc

 

Sigh =(

https://youtu.be/vbRORnX_MQk

madsmiley78

Downloading now; been waiting to play this for a long time, so hopefully it works.

AriesTiger

I played one of the Phantasy star games on the PS2. I remember it was extremely fun.

Braindome

Skyforge is filling the void quite nicely and honestly the multiple class system on a single character is something I would consider a great advancement. I played PSO for years and was eagerly anticipating PSO2's release but really bad timing as Skyforge is alot like it and evolved in many ways, kinda weird but for the first time ever I actually don't care about PSO/2 and would prefer to play Skyforge anyway.

Day late and a dollar....or couple short Sega, action MORPG's are making large strides and between Skyforge and the possibility of Monster Hunter Online and many more it seems that PSO might share the same fate as Sonic, extremely outdated and not making enough advancement to even be relevant AT ALL anymore.

Sega just lost touch with western audiences so bad, so long ago, at this point even the last little bit that has kept hardcore fans holding on has been extinguished. Forget it Sega, too late.....don't care....that's hard for me to say as i've held on and held out for way too long.

Purutzil

Interesting. Playing on the Jap server with the English patch (which btw sega... I'd not be forced to do if you actually tried and gave an english release) I did enjoy it, even as simple as it was. Being focused more on missions it has both good and bad things about it. Over-all I did find it good as pick up and play type game.

 

I might give the SEA version a shot if we find out for sure the region lock is off for good, I dislike investing into a game personally though when its not for my specific region since I'd rather play on the version for my area. Then again Sega has been terrible in general, specifically with PSO2 so I might just give up and settle with SEA.

Omali

Originally posted by Purutzil

Interesting. Playing on the Jap server with the English patch (which btw sega... I'd not be forced to do if you actually tried and gave an english release) I did enjoy it, even as simple as it was. Being focused more on missions it has both good and bad things about it. Over-all I did find it good as pick up and play type game.

 

I might give the SEA version a shot if we find out for sure the region lock is off for good, I dislike investing into a game personally though when its not for my specific region since I'd rather play on the version for my area. Then again Sega has been terrible in general, specifically with PSO2 so I might just give up and settle with SEA.

Southeast Asian version has an english translation.

nhat

Error on the link within mmosite so dunno how true this is, need more confirmation

 

Update: They fixed the link

DimoSupremo

Tried playing after installing, and after getting multiple errors before even getting to character creation I am going to throw in the towel.

MikotoMisaka

It's workin pretty well for me, hopefully it stays like this

time007

but there is no english translation right? its still in japanese?

Jigkiro

Naw, it's in English. Not too sure how proper the English is in it, but it's for the SEA areas that speak a bit of English like Singapore and whatnots.

ohgodtherats707

Did you ever play the one on PS2 ? had a fun story mode

Jigkiro

Can't say I really cared for the one on PS2/Xbox 360. I did however, LOVE the first Online installment on Gamecube.

Mikeha

Downloading now.

time007

downloading now too!

time007

nice they make you create a 2nd password, but they when you are creating it, the ten-key is shuffled and you only have to type it in once! so its a mystery to the user too! no one will be able to get into it! not even you!

(why shuffle the ten key when you are creating the pass word??????)  i didnt catch that is was shuffled until I had to reinput it when logging in later.  well who knows what 2nd password i used.  most places make you enter the password twice...

i get the extra protection but yeesh dont jumble the dang ten key at creation

Milander

(hrms) Ok so where the heck do I get it? I mean, do I have to sneak through the JP site and find it or what?

 

cheyane

The link is in the first post.

 

Singapore and Malaysia are former British colonies. I am a Malaysian we have more than a little English since we study the language and use it in everyday life and a lot of people in my country are multilingual. Although I live in Italy now I studied English as one of two main languages which were compulsory the other being Bahasa Malaysia. I also studied Jawi which was the written form of Malay. Being Indian some of us also have to study in Tamil as in Malaysia they also insist each ethnic group study their own mother tongue that is Tamil for Indians and Mandarin for the Chinese. There are also Tamil and Chinese schools in Malaysia since those are the two of three races in Malaysia with the Malay being most populous. Of course there are minorities like Eurasians and Ceylonese and Malayalee but by and large the Indians are mainly Tamils.

 

So Singapore and Malaysia don't just have a little English ; just for clarification  

Jigkiro

I didn't mean any offense, ofc. ; ; I just know I've played a few games on some SEA servers, and not everyone could speak English very well. But then again, there were quite a few that could speak it better than some Americans that I would know.. So like I said, I didn't mean to offend or anything, just wasn't sure how the game was translated. :P