Category: PSO2 JP Campaigns

 Tonight's patch will introduce our first major event of the new year and an AC scratch. Everyone must work together in unlocking the panels to receive the rewards.

January 22nd Maintenance

• 1.22.2014 @ 11:00 ~ 17:00 JST
• 1.21.2014 @ 9:00PM ~ 4:00AM EST

January 22nd Patch

• Launcher: Version 02.02.00
• Client: ver. 2.0311.1
• Patch Size: 19MBs (PC) / 18MB (Vita)

Other campaigns and boost events will be added during and after maintenance.

Random Drink EX Bug Compensation

Those with premium sets active after maintenance on November 13th, 2013 through maintenance on January 15th, 2014 will receive:

• +100% Tribooster

January 15th Emergency Maintenance Compensation

Those with premium sets active when emergency maintenance started January 15th, 2014 will receive:

• プレミアムセット１日 1-day Premium Set

All players will receive:

• +100% Tribooster
• 500 FUN ticket
• +250% Rare Drop Booster

 

Boost Event 

Boost Event

1.26	「Advance Quest」＋200％ EXP and Rare Drop Boost

Emergency Quest Advance Notice [Japanese Standard Time]

Black = ARKS Ship Fire Swirl
Blue = Chaotic Emergency Quest
Brown = Mining Base Defense
Purple = Falz

1.22	–	–	20:00	22:00
1.23	10:00	16:00	–	23:00
1.24	–	14:00	21:00	23:00
1.25	–	14:00	21:00	23:00
1.26	12:00	–	21:00	23:00
1.27	11:00	13:00	21:00	23:00
1.28	11:00	13:00	21:00	23:00

 

Emergency Quest Advance Notice [Eastern Standard Time]

1.22	–	6:00AM Swirl	8:00AM Base	8:00PM Chaotic
1.23	2:00AM Base	–	9:00AM Swirl	–
1.24	12:00AM Swirl	7:00AM Chaotic	9:00AM Base	–
1.25	12:00AM Chaotic	7:00AM Base	9:00AM Swirl	10:00PM Chaotic
1.26	7:00AM Swirl	9:00AM Falz	9:00PM Base	11:00PM Chaotic
1.27	7:00AM Swirl	9:00AM Base	9:00PM Base	11:00PM Chaotic
1.28	7:00AM Swirl	9:00AM Chaotic		–

Interrupt Ranking Advance Notice

Marathon Practice: Lillipa (SH)

• January 26th @ 19:00 JST or 5:00AM EST.

 

 Client Order Campaign #40

Clear some client orders from Xie to receive several items.

Campaign Period

• 1.22 ~ 2.5.2014 Maintenance

Qualifying Client Orders

(1) Clear Xie's Client Order 共闘祭での一幕！Unity Festival Act 1  to receive:

• +50% EXP Boosters (x2)
• Grinders (x30)

(2) Clear Xie's Client Order 宴もたけなわ、大一番！to receive:

• +50% Rare Drop Booster (x2)
• Grind Risk Reduction (+1) (x2)

Prize Distribution Date

• Feb 12th, 2014 at the Visiphone

 

Three Big Campaigns [New Registrations]

Players who sign up with a new account for Phantasy Star Online 2 will receive several prizes. Take this opportunity to invite a friend to enjoy Phantasy Star Online 2 together!

Campaign Period

• January 15th (Maintenance) ~ February 12th, 2014 (Maintenance)

Campaign Qualifications

Everyone who registers a new account for Phantasy Star Online 2 will receive:

• 進化デバイス／緑ぷよ (Evo. Device / Green Puyo)
• セレスタレイザー／ナハト (Celesta Laser / Nacht) [Gunslash]
• 獲得経験値＋５０％ (+50% EXP Boosters) x4

You must create a new account to qualify. This account also must have a character who has logged into the game during the campaign period.

Prize Distribution Date

• Early March at the Visiphone

Three Big Campaigns [Buy AC]

Players who purchase the qualifying amounts of AC during the campaign period will receive several prizes.

Campaign Period

• January 15th (Maintenance) ~ February 12th, 2014 (Maintenance)

Qualifying AC Amounts

(1) Purchase a total of 500+ AC during the campaign period to receive:

• 1000 FUN ticket

(2) Purchase a total of 2000+ AC during the campaign period to receive:

• Ability Affix Success+10% (x2)
• Grind Risk Reduction (+1) (x4)
• Grinders (x50)

(3) Purchase a total of 5000+ AC during the campaign period to receive:

• White Rappy Suit Costume

Prize Distribution Date

• Late March at the Visiphone

Three Big Campaigns [Add Friends]

Players with certain amounts of friends by the time the campaign is over will receive several prizes.

Campaign Period

• January 15th (Maintenance) ~ February 12th, 2014 (Maintenance)

Qualifying Friends

(1) Players with four or more friends at the end of the campaign will receive:

• +50% Rare Drop Booster (x2)

(2) Players with twelve or more friends at the end of the campaign will receive:

• +50% Tribooster (x2)
• Half Doll (x1)

You must log in at some point during the campaign period to qualify.  Those with four or more friends prior to the start of the campaign also qualify.

Prize Distribution Date

• Early March 2014 at the Visiphone

 

 PSO2 Movie Contest

This time, players will record and upload videos to Nico Nico to participate in our newest ARKS Museum contest!

Contest Details

The ARKS Museum is accepting submissions uploaded to Nico Nico in the following three contest divisions.

• Character Appeal: Create a promo-like video introducing your cool character! Tag = キャラクターアピール部門
• Fun: Do something fun! Sing! Dance! Anything Fun!
  Tag = おもしろ動画部門
• Super-Play: Create a video showing off your fastest time attack runs! Make a video showing how you defeated a boss in an interesting or unusual way! Show us your Super-Plays! Let's see some jaw-dropping entertainment!  Tag = スーパープレイ部門

Contest Recruitment Period

• January 15th ~ February 19th, 2014 @ 16:00 JST

Contest Report

• Early March

Winner Brackets: [Award of Excellence] and [Producer's Prize]

• Winners will receive a Gold Medal of Thanks, 5000 AC ticket, and a grind success (100%). Winners may see their videos shown in the ARKS Lobby monitors in the PC version. The item codes will be sent to the email address listed on the SEGA ID account. Please be sure that the email address is correct.

Submission Guidelines

• The work submitted must be created by the entrant.
• The video must be related to Phantasy Star Online 2. In-game or live-action footage is acceptable.
• Video editing and enhancements are acceptable.
• Visual materials, BGM, and sound effects related to Phantasy Star Online 2 can be used in the video.  Free or Original resources can be used as well.
• The video can be up to 5 minutes long.
• Videos must be submitted to Nico Nico Douga.

Tag Criteria

Videos must be submitted using two tags. Tag#1 is required. Tag#2 must be one of the three divisions. (Please remove the quotation marks and avoid using the English descriptors.)

• Tag#1 = "『PSO2』動画コンテスト" (PSO2 Movie Contest)
  
• Tag#2 = "キャラクターアピール部門" (Character Appeal Division)
  
• Tag#2 = "おもしろ動画部門" (FUN Division)
  
• Tag#2 = "スーパープレイ部門" (Super-Play Division)

Process

• Upload a video that meets the submission guidelines to Nico Nico Douga.
• Tag the video using both the 『PSO2』動画コンテスト tag and one of the three divisions shown above. For example if you are posting in the Super Play division you must include both the 『PSO2』動画コンテスト and スーパープレイ部門 tags. Please lock both tags.
• Fill out the required Submissions Form.

Relevant Links

• Contest Details Page
• Submissions Form
• Nico Nico Douga Video Upload
• Videos: Character Appeal Submissions
• Videos: Fun Submissions
• Videos: Super Play Submissions

Nico Nico Douga's entire interface can be translated to English by changing the 言語 Language settings at the bottom of every page.

Disqualifications

Works that fall within the following situations may find themselves disqualified.

• Works that did not adhere to the submission guidelines.
• Adapting, altering, republishing copyrighted works created by a third party.
• Works that did not adhere to Nico Nico Douga Terms of Use.
• Works considered to deviate from the theme.
• Works that infringe upon a third party's copyright, intellectual property, personal credit, and privacy.
• Works submitted to other contests or won previous contests.
• Works deemed inappropriate, or against public morals.

For full contest details, read here.

Submission Form

• SEGA ID: Already Filled
• メールアドレス: Email Address
• プレイヤーIDネーム: Player ID Name
• プレイヤーID: Player ID
• キャラクター名: Character Name
• 投稿するイベント名: Event Already Filled
• 部門選択: Division (#1 Character Appeal) (#2 Fun Division) (#3 Super Play)
• 投稿作品名: Title of Submission
• 投稿作品: Paste the NicoNicoDouga video URL
• 投稿規約について: Tick to agree to terms.

 

ARKS Museum [Character Portrait]

Example Submission

The ARKS Museum is now accepting submissions of photos utilizing the Character Portrait feature on the PlayStation Vita version.

Submission Period

• January 15 ~ March 5th, 2014 @ 16:00 JST

Contest Report

• Late March

Winners

• Winners will receive a Gold Medal of Thanks, 1000 FUN ticket, an EXCube, and Grind Success (100%). The items can be picked up from the Campaign item menu at the Visiphone.

First Picture

• You may use characters saved in the "Portrait Data" menu or NPCs.
• Please avoid personal identifiable information where much of one's face and body can be seen in the photo.
• Please gain consent of other persons who appear in the photo.
• You may set the character posing and speech bubbles in the Screenshot.
• The photo must be taken by the entrant themselves.
• Avoid editing or cropping the photo.
• Please submit a JPG up to 1MB in space.
• The photo should be taken in Landscape orientation.
• Please refrain from publishing this photo on blogs and social networking sites.

Second Picture

• Display the Player ID Name above your character's head.
• You can set what appears over a character's head in the Quick Menu.
• Please take this photo in a place where the player id name can be seen.

Important Points

• The submission is disqualified if it is sent to anywhere other than the exclusive submission form.
• You may submit only one set of photo for the contest. Resubmitting a new set of photos will overwrite your previous entry.
• Once the submission period is over, you will not be able to append any corrections or submit additional photos.
• Works deemed against public morals, as well as, infringes on a third party's copyright will be disqualified from the contest.
• The copyright of the submission will belong to SEGA.
• If SEGA later deems an entry was inappropriate even after it was published, they will have no choice but to withdraw the submission.
• SEGA may stop the contest for any reason.

Relevant Links

• Contest Rules and Information
• Submission Page (Vita Only)

No January 1st Maintenance

• No Maintenance! Have a Happy New Year!

PSO2's final update for 2013 released on December 25th, 2013! We received a new team room, story quest, and a New Years AC scratch. On New Years day, we're getting the New Years Lobby and Revival Scratch. If you typed in the secret phrase prior to 12.25.2013's maintenance, you will receive a 2014 FUN ticket on New Years Day.

Christmas Day Maintenance

• 12.25.2013 @ 11:00 ~ 17:00 JST
• 12.24.2013 @ 9:00PM ~ 3:00AM EDT

Compensation Rewards

• +100% Tribooster for the Connection Issues on 12/24
• 250% Rare Drop Booster if you signed in between 12/11 ~ 12/13 emergency maintenance.
• 250% Rare Drop Booster if you played Merry Christmas on Ice 2 before 12/13's emergency maintenance.
• +100% Tribooster for 12/13's emergency maintenance.

In Regards to Ship Transfers

• It may be possible for server connection issues to arise whilst a character is transferring to another ship. As Sega works to correct the server connection issues, they have decided to temporarily suspend the Ship Transferring service after tonight's (Dec. 25th) maintenance. They will announce the reopening of this service some time in the future. If you wish to transfer to another ship, you should do so before maintenance begins. Sega is also considering distributing some form of compensation in response to this issue, the details will be announced some time in the future.

 Boost Event and Emergency Quest Advance Notice

Item Grinding / Affixing Boost

A +5% success to both item grinding and affixing will apply between December 28th @ 0:00 JST ~ January 5th @ 23:59 JST!

 

General Boost Event

12.26	「Seabed Exploration」＋50％ EXP!
12.27	「V. Caves Exploration」＋50％ EXP!
12.28	「Advance Quest」＋200％ EXP and Rare Drop Rates
12.29	「Sanctum Exploration」＋50％ EXP!
12.30	「F. Continent Exploration」+50% Rare Drop Rate
12.31	「Quarry Exploration」+50% Rare Drop Rate
1.1	All Quests receive ＋100％ EXP / +200% Meseta
1.2	All Quests receive ＋100％ Rare Drop Rates
1.3	All Quests receive +100% Rare Enemies
1.4	All Quests Receive ＋50％ Rare Drops and Rare Enemies!
1.5	「Advance Quest」＋200％ EXP and Rare Drop Rates
1.6	「Tundra Exploration」＋50％ Rare Drop Rates
1.7	「Sub. Tunnels Exploration」＋50％ Rare Drop Rates

Timeslot Boost Event

12.26 @ 15:00 ～ 16:30	「Seabed Exp.」＋50％ EXP and +100% Rare Drops
12.26 @ 21:00 ～ 22:30
12.27 @ 15:00 ～ 16:30	「V. Caves Exp.」＋50％ EXP and +100％ Rare Enemies
12.27 @ 21:00 ～ 22:30
12.29 @ 15:00 ～ 16:30	「Sanctum Exploration」＋50％ EXP and +100% Rare Drops
12.29 @ 21:00 ～ 22:30
12.30 @ 15:00 ～ 16:30	「F. Continent Exploration」＋100％ EXP and ＋50％ Rare Drops
12.30 @ 21:00 ～ 22:30
12.31 @ 15:00 ～ 16:30	「Quarry Exploration」＋100％ EXP and +50% Rare Drops
1.4 @ 15:00 ～ 16:30	「Forest Exploration」＋100％ EXP and +50% Rare Drops
1.4 @ 21:00 ～ 22:30
1.6 @ 15:00 ～ 16:30	「Tundra Exploration」＋100％ EXP and +50% Rare Drops
1.6 @ 21:00 ～ 22:30
1.7 @ 15:00 ～ 16:30	「Sub. Tunnels Exploration」＋100％ Rare Enemies and +50% Rare Drop Rate
1.7 @ 21:00 ～ 22:30

 

Emergency Quest Advance Notice [Japanese Standard Time]

Brown = Mining Base
Red = Cradle
Green = Christmas
Purple = Dark Arms

12.25				21:30	23:30
12.26			14:00		23:00
12.27			14:00		23:00
12.28	11:00		14:00	21:00	23:00
12.29	10:00	12:00	14:00	20:00	23:00
12.30			14:00	20:00	23:00
12.31			14:00	20:30	22:30
1.1					23:00
1.2				21:00	23:00
1.3			14:00		23:00
1.4	10:00	12:00	14:00	20:00	23:00
1.5	10:00			21:00	23:00
1.6			14:00	20:00	23:00
1.7			14:00	20:00	23:00

 

Emergency Quest Advance Notice [Eastern Standard Time]

12.25			7:30AM Base	9:30AM Base
12.26		12:00AM Base		9:00AM Base
12.27		12:00AM Base		9:00AM Base	9:00PM Cradle
12.28	12:00AM Xmas	7:00AM Base	9:00AM Base	8:00PM Base	10:00PM Cradle
12.29		12:00AM Christmas	6:00AM Cradle	9:00AM Base
12.30		12:00AM Base	6:00AM Cradle	9:00AM Base
12.31		12:00AM Cradle	6:30AM Base	8:30AM Falz
1.1				9:00AM Base
1.2			7:00AM Base	9:00AM Cradle
1.3		12:00AM Falz	9:00AM Base	8:00PM Cradle	10:00PM Falz
1.4		12:00AM Base	6:00AM Cradle	9:00AM Base	8:00PM Base
1.5			7:00AM Christmas	9:00AM Base
1.6		12:00AM Cradle	6:00AM Base	9:00AM Falz
1.7		12:00AM Christmas	6:00AM Cradle	9:00AM Base

 

Quna Live Concert

12.25	21:00 7:00AM	23:00 9:00AM
12.31	20:00 6:00AM	22:00 8:00AM

 Login New Year's Gift Campaign

Everyone who logs into the game sometime after maintenance on December 25th through January 8th will receive several prizes. In addition, if you log into the game for a certain amount of days between December 26th 0:00 JST through January 7th 23:59 JST, you'll win even more prizes.

Campaign Periods

• Campaign Period 1: 12.25 ~ 1.8.2014
• Campaign Period 2: 12.26 @ 0:00 ~ 1.7.2014 @ 23:59 JST

Qualifying Conditions

(1) Everyone who logs into the game during Campaign Period 1 will receive:

• +100% Tribooster

(2) Everyone who logs into the game a total of three days during Campaign Period 2 will receive:

• 1000 FUN Ticket

(3) Everyone who logs into the game a total of five days during Campaign Period 2 will receive:

• EXCube

(4) Everyone who logs into the game a total of eight days during Campaign Period 2 will receive:

• 250% Rare Drop Booster

In order to qualify, your character must be present in the Arks Lobby. If you stay signed in over midnight, you must re-login to qualify for that specific day. (Keep in mind that midnight in Japan occurs at 10:00 AM EST.)

Prize Distribution Date

• The Tribooster will be sent to the Visiphone immediately if you log in during Campaign Period 1.
• The FUN Ticket, EXCube, and Rare Drop Booster will be distributed Early February.

Spend AC and Get Items! Campaign

Spend certain amounts of AC during the campaign period to receive several items.

Campaign Period

• 12.25 ~ 1.29.2014 maintenance

Campaign Qualifications

(1) Spend 100 AC or more during the campaign period to receive:

• Two +50% Rare Drop Boosters

(2) Spend 2000 AC or more during the campaign period to receive:

• Six +50% EXP boosters and a Gind Risk Reduction (+1)

(3) Spend 5000 AC or more during the campaign period to receive:

• A yellow Rappy Suit

You can spend AC in any of the following ways:

• By playing AC Scratch
• By purchasing an AC Scratch Ticket
• By purchasing an item from the AC Shop
• By purchasing a Scape Doll
• By using AC contents in the Beauty Salon
• By adding a skill tree using AC at the Class Counter
• By resetting a skill tree using AC at the Class Counter.
• By using AC to create another character.
• By moving across Ships

Prize Distribution Date

• Mid February

Client Order Campaign 37

Clear Franka’s and Revelle’s client orders during the campaign period to receive several prizes. 4

Campaign Period

•  December 25th ~ January 8th's Maintenance

Qualifying Client Orders

(1)  Clear Franka’s Client Orderガルフルの肉の調達 Supplying Galful Meat to receive:

• +50% EXP Boosters x2
• Grind Risk Reduction (+1) x2

(2) Clear Franka’s Client Order ヴィド・ギロスの肉の調達 Supplying Vid Gilos Meat to receive:

• +50% Rare Drop Booster x2
• Grind Risk Reduction (+1) x2

(3) Clear Revelle’s Client Order ブラッディ・スカフォード・III Bloody Scaffold III to receive:

• +50% Tribooster x1
• Grind Risk Reduction (+1) x2

Prize Distribution Date

• January 15th Maintenance