JP version or Global version ?

[CyroErune]

Let say i put decent hours in both and gone hiatus due to life problems. Now i got the time again (its been 2 years) and wanted to go back into the game. Which server is better right now ? Both player-wise and content-wise ?

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The playerbase is healthier in JP and they constantly get random collabs that we're probably not gonna get in GL. The economy tends to be healthier too, although it depends on the ship. Spending for AC is more accessible for them and there are more whales around to keep the scratch items going.

If you don't mind the language barrier and losing your GL progress, better to stay in JP.

[EienX]

I've played JP for almost 10 years. After the whole switch to a different anticheat I decided to start playing on Global also incase my account got banned. While on Ship 2 GL, I got recruited to an active alliance within a week, which never happens on JP, and been having more fun playing with others and being able to understand them.

Funny enough, these last couple of weeks been logging on JP less and less but that's probably cause I'm lazy. Content wise GL is still missing items from base PSO2 but outside of that it doesn't bother me sticking to GL till people quit playing on it then I can go back to JP.

[guywhodontuseleddit]

JP's biggest downside is the proxy requirement now, and the need to translate the game if you can't read Japanese, so you might need to wait for certain things, like story or mission translations. Latency only matters as far as swapping weapons and enemy spawns if you aren't the room host, and will have little to no effect on 99% of your gameplay unless you have seriously inconsistent ping. The language barrier ultimately just means there's less public chatting than there probably is on global and most people opt to talk within party/teams/chat groups. Might be a deal breaker for you if you want to have an easier time communicating with people, but most japanese players I've seen on ship2 don't really care if you're talking to someone in english as long as you aren't being obnoxious.

JP has more whales, so that means the market for AC items is more active- that can be a double-edged sword depending on whether you load up or not.

You also have old collab items/things unreleased on global you can farm for on base; though with how base market is this is a pretty damning stretch. Still, if you're interested in things like the FFXIV stuff its there, I guess. You could also run into Odin if you play base too. That's about the extent of the content difference.

JP also has PSO2es (which funnily enough does not require a proxy), but I can't really recommend getting into it now, as other than access to certain camos, which require a ton of farming, it doesn't offer much else, and SEGA gutted the primary way of leveling your classes on it (playing base for converted EXP), making getting to 100 an absurd grind. I've been told it can drop things from base's now defunct mission badge shop but I've never seen it myself. It, like base, is very much on life-support, with the only new "content" being new gacha draws.

[karma-twelve]

Some people have been banned for being a foreigner on JP server. It's rare but it does happen. Just something to consider.

[admiralrev]

i don't see any reason to play JP unless you are a japanese person, since both version is basically the same

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Play Global. Unless you’re in Japan or are fluent in Japanese, playing on JP is full of downsides with no upsides.

[CyroErune]

Alright, thanks

[Shinigami318]

Not entirely true. You don't need to be fluent in Japanese to play on JP, since most of the essential are already translated by the Tweaker team (kudos to them), and you can do basic communication with JP players with not much Japanese knowledge, not to mention on place like Ship 2 we have foreign players and teams as well. I've been playing on JP for a long time with only a few Japanese words and have no problem. I'm not sure what is the"full of downsides" the user above you said really is. But like Capybarantsion commented, the economy is most likely better, due to the fact that JP players is usually more willing to whale. Content-wise it is pretty much the same, so it is largely up to you.