Please take note as the information below is subject to change.
Post Livestream Update
- Added minor tidbit with PSO2es.
- Added PSO Concert tidbit.
ARKS Festival
Say おどったろう in chat sometime between now through 8/26 maintenance to receive these wonderful items from the live broadcasters and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi at a later date:
- Mitsuyoshi Hair
- Momoi Hair
- Ichitaro Hair
- Light & Fluffy Chignon
- Mitsuyoshi Glasses
These items can be retrieved from the visiphone some time in a future maintenance.
★ Emergency Quest Boost Poll ★
- Viewers selected [A Profound Invasion] for the Emergency Quest Boost.
- The Boost will occur after the ARKS Dance Festival on August 16th @ 22:00 JST
- +200% Rare Drop and +200% EXP Boost.
- Extra +10% if you attend the Live Event.
PSO2's 3rd Cosplay Contest
- Congratulations to Shoumatsuya for winning the Cosplay Contest
Otsukimi Lobby
- Otsukimi Lobby (~10/14)
- Traverse the clouds in the lobby.
- Otsukimi Bingo (~10/14)
- Otsukimi Xie
- New Bingo Rewards
Early September Update
- Collaboration with 7th Dragon 2020-II
- Hacker & Lucier costumes, hairstyles, & accessories
- A variety of other costumes and parts.
November Update
- 7th Dragon III code: VFD collaboration.
- Samurai, (Female) Fortuner, and (Female) Rune Knight costumes, hairstyles, and accessories.
- PSO2es Collaboration too
Early September Update
- New Kuron Emergency Quest for a limited time
- Luna Nyau summons Gal Gryphon?
- New weapon Drops.
Late September Update
- New Scratch (Mega Dimension Heroine)
- IF, Uranus Uzume, and Purple Heart's costumes, hairstyles, and accessories.
- SEGA Hard Girls Accessory and Room Items
- Weapon Camos too.
Late September Update
- More items at the Ragol Memory Exchange Shop
- Fomar and Fomarl Repca.
- New Client Orders for Ultimate Naberius & Ultimate Lillipa! (Hans & Franka)
Late September Update
- Ultimate Naberius Readjusted.
- Adjusted enemy behavior, stats, and drops.
- New ★12 weapon drops.
- Get ★13 "Nemesis" weapons by trading in Garrel crystals.
PSO2es Updates
- New ★9 ARKS Quest.
- We finally reach to the story's conclusion.
- What will be the fate of Seraphy and Dr. Cohen.
- New Boss: Blu Ringahda
- Please wait for a followup report on future story developments.
PSO2es Event & Updates
- Emergency Quest Ranking Event.
- PSO2es limited costume (King Rappy Suit) & Rare Items
- Rank high or achieve certain scores to receive Operation Stars and get all sorts of items.
- Improved the contents of the Tutorial
- PSO2es My Shop feature will finally support ★12 weapons and 11★ units
- Relaxed interlocking EXP Cap from PSO2 to PSO2es.
PSO2es Event And Update
- PSO2es first ★12 chip will be a weaponoid designed by Yuji Himukai!
- ★12 chips will appear for a limited time in certain scratches as a "Seasonally Rare Chip"
- New Weaponoids, characters, PAs, and Technics will be added in the future.
Episode 3 Roadmap
Fall 2015
- New Story Quest
- New Dark Falz
- New 12 Person Boss Battle
- New Anime Collaboration Scratch
- Limited Quest
Winter
- New Video Game Collaboration Scratch
- New Time Attack Quest
- New Mining Base Defense
- Extreme Quest Expansion
(And a new legend begins…)
~ PSO2 The Animation Preview ~
~ End of Episode 3 ~
Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode 4
- Reborn: Episode 4 will be coming in 2016.
- New Title Logo coming along with the release.
PSO2 2016 Announcement
- PSO2 has been announced for Playstation 4. It will be playable at this year's Tokyo Game Show!
Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode 1&2 Setting Material Collection (Tentative Title)
- Contains illustrations and explanation materials to the world of PSO2.
- Interviews with the main staff.
- Item Codes are also available.
PSO 15th Anniversary Concert: Sympathy 2015
- Yuji Naka (PSO1 Producer) and Takao Miyoshi (PSO1 Director) will appear as guests.
- Additional performers: Shouta Aoi and Emi Nitta
Getting stream news from Bumped:
Pros: Everything's translated for you! Get all the news you need to know!
Cons: Miss the other three hours of fun stuff, like the ARKS Grand Prix Exhibition Match.
those three hours are sleep time I wish I had back, after staying up for the broadcast. I don't understand why they felt a need to spend that long on a variety show; aren't those all over japanese TV anyway?
I think so, I wouldn't know much about Japanese TV. I admit, at least an hour and a half was pure filler, I had to go find something else to do while the stream killed time. ARKS GP Exhibition Match was definitely the non-news highlight of the night, though.
Players came from all over Japan. Since we didn't get a Grand Prix yet, this event had to be worth coming for.
Someone who doesn't understand japanese/know the culture would find it boring (especially if you are only watching for update stuff) but people who came (me included) had a really fun time.
Was happy watching the Broadcast on Twitch and seeing how happy people were about what the Hyperdimension Neptunia vs SEGA Hard Girls Collaboration was going to give.
And of course, good Hairstyles always end up being expensive. Be prepared to farm
Now that collab to me was very disappointing…I was expecting Neptunia's look itself, Noire's (my favorite character and also she has a lot of protagonist in the franchise) Blanc and Bert and maybe Iffy as well (i dont mind purple heart tho) instead… yeah we got that but at least we are getting a collab witht hem so hopefully we will getting actual stuff from neptunia next time
Possibly. The only reason we think there was only Purple Heart, Uzume and IF's costumes and whatnot is because those are the main characters in the Spin-off game for the Neptunia side.
I don't pay too much attention to the AC Scratches that come out and whatnot, but do they ever go back and do another Scratch except add more items? The only series I can think of was the Fate series, but as I recall, not all of the Fate series is connected (The Illya ones being separate,) but not sure if SEGA has gone back before and done it for others besides that.
I think the part I find most disappointing is that they had neptune in her original costume on the promotional picture for the colab, and yet, the costume isn't even going to be in it. It's really upsetting that they would bait like that. Probably won't even get a neptune voice either, just a purple heart voice which is really already in the game since battleship yamato.
Maybe Sega will finally move their ass in localizing PSO2 now that it is also on PS4
Yeah… As long as it doesn't mean "US/Euro version = No access anymore to JP servers like with SEA versions".
Inc DF Double and DF Matoi?
Is not DF matoi, is more like "Profound darkness"
Will the "updating in real time" tag be removed once all information is finished updating?
oh my god no
please why xion's outfit has to be an item code
why
why
why
*cries i a a dark corner*
Owell, that stuff will presumably be tradeable so it's not like *all* hope is gone.
'Course the prices will be up somewhere around the heliopause…
that's exactly my issue orz
gotta start saving right now
is there a specific time to say おどったろう? do i have to say it during the concert?
You can say it anytime as long as you do it before august 26th's maintenance.
i've said it in chat on multiple characters, in multiple areas, and haven't received anything. what am i doing wrong?
The items will be delivered as a campaign reward at the Visiphone after a future maintenance.
Can someone post the japanese name for "Episode 1&2 Setting Material Collection" so I can search it on amazon.jp this September? Thanks
[ ファンタシースターオンライン2 EPISODE1＆2設定資料集 ]
Please keep in mind that the book's title is subject to change.
Well, I have to admit I was "fearing" some wrong good news like "US/EURO Servers are coming to service!" (Which will remember what happened to SEA zone to everyone, be happy), but finally here are some real great news! Some won't be happy and say some things like "Yeaaah well the game exists since 2012 and you just remembered that the first PSO was a console game and no PC, you stupid", but that means we have still a long time to play with again. Let's enjoy it.
This is awesome, hopefully now I can play with my sister on my PS4 rather than my cruddy laptop!
Doubtful – unless you live in Japan since PSO2 is only coming out for PS4 in Japan, not USA/EU.
…the code:VFD thing -does- say samurai(male) as well as female.
slightly disappointed to not see vanisher in the costume list for that, but eh…runeknight and fortuner should do the job.
not having a vanisher weapon as a spear/launcher camo seems like a wasted opportunity to do something unusual.
that male cast set is totally a Windam, though.
the jp commentary I'm hearing about the neptune/seha collab comes off kinda disappointed, even if it's understandable why the selection is as meh as it is.
the comments on the anime… yeah, they're not impressed. nor am I, really. not that I had expectations because game adaptations tend to be unimpressive anyway.
by the way, in case someone was wondering about the text on the teaser, I got a friend to translate it:
"This winter, everything will end.
The ultimate lifeform has been born
Resist against the destiny of extinction
[Double]
The existence that surpasses DF
The traveler of time
What will they see at the end of it?
And then, a new Phantasy will begin"
Wow. I cannot express with words just how unimpressed I am with that anime trailer.
and then sega made me disappointed that there won't be Vanisher stuff in the code:VFD collab, just by putting up the little "class teaser" clip: https://youtu.be/g-KGhOykz-Q
nice, relatively orthodox armor that wouldn't have stupid footwear, and a partisan/launcher camo (of all combinations to have…) would be nice.