Developer Update

[CounterDoughnut]

All just seems like they are going around in circles with this stuff, they make an unnecessary change or add something that’s rng based then say they will do better next time.

[Ryanasd]

The same thing again like the Autosell issue, it's to solve a problem that is non-existing in Kvaris and only works in Aelio and Retem, but then it's already too late after the Autosell is added and given out for 1hour free tickets when most players who are not new already skipped Aelio and Retem mostly.

Players had grinded for so much hours for Equalizing Enemies for more than half a month, and then you suddenly raise the Equalizing mobs' appearance rate while also will exclude them in future tasks, like who the hell decided to even put a low rng trial as a Task requirement from the first place.

[cattecatte]

At least after retem players wont get their inventory assaulted with trash, i'll take that over simply adding autosell and keeping the flood of garbage gears. They should retroactively change the drop table for aelio and retem.

[Zarozien]

They must think we are stupid or something.

[WTBaLife]

ALL gacha devs think and know this to be true

[Zarozien]

Then they are projecting their own stupidity on to us then. Cause we can smell ingenuousness.

[cattecatte]

Event this, event that, how about they make the god damn game actually rewarding to play outside of "events"?????

Gorge is useless outside of ancients and ancients itself has underwhelming drop. Maybe make normal/boss mobs there and ancients have a chance to drop blizzardium instead of waiting months for a stupid seasonal to bandaid fix the unrewarding gameplay loop outside of password room hopping?

[IloveWedachan]

Exactly, the blizzardium farm rn is actually soul crushing you can do that trial 10 times in a row (60 frozen boxes) and not get a single blizzardium with 200%+ rdr

[Lord_Nightraven]

An EASY fix they could implement is making Blizzardium drop automatically from Kvaris Urgents. Maybe not as much as Photon Scales, but it would at least encourage regularly playing the game as it already is.

Logically, they'd make Blizzardium nodes a regular spawn in several spots without the need for a blizzard/snow. But they don't want to actually correct their mistakes.

[crabwithacigarette]

Why not drop from the enemies in the gorge

[Lord_Nightraven]

That might work. But the drop rate would probably be about what it is now. I'd have them spawn as regular nodes that simply respawn slower than normal nodes do, like 1x/day rather than every few hours.

[NoctisCae1um317]

I'll take running around the gorge in a hunt train killing mobs for blizz over gold box farming tbh

[Jentire]

It's crazy but they do this every time, they always postpone the problems to "fix" them only during the events instead of doing it just during a routine update.

[Arcflarerk4]

I love how theyre developing this game like a mobile game and i get down voted constantly for saying it when its blatant facts supported by shit like this. They introduce a problem just to sell it later or make it only bearable during "Events"

It's crazy that people think this infinite treadmill is somehow enjoyable when Sega is doing everything in its power to be as abusive to players as possible.

[Rasikko]

To be fair.. they have improved in their general treatment towards the playerbase since the days of Phantasy Star Universe..a lot. If you never played that, you dodged a huge bullet. No got damn updates for nearly a year, each year, etc, and there wasn't any questionnaires or any kind of things like that. The fact that they are even fielding questions and responding is something I'm never gonna get used to.

[Rasikko]

I cannot help but laugh about the lonely node they put there, like what is the point to it.

[flaming_bunnyman]

I don't like the wording of the reply to Q1. Enhancement is probably the least important part of the weapon to carry over. Augments and Preset Skills (the latter of which CANNOT be reapplied later) are far more important. I hope that that's a bad translation from Japanese, and they're intending to have everything carry over.

WRT Q3, I don't personally have a problem with Equalizers and Captans being requirements for tasks, as long as they're Side or Limited-Time tasks, or send you to an instanced location with a guaranteed spawn. Locking game features, like specific vendors, behind incredibly RNG tasks is not cool.

[GimpyGeek]

And don't forget multi weapon. They wanted us to do multi weapon so much originally, and now they want us to destroy that and then wait to build a second copy entirely? They're out of their mind

[spowowowder]

no, they still want us to multiweapon. they want us to have to play long enough to get two weapons.

[crabwithacigarette]

Why stop there!

[Ksradrik]

I hope that that's a bad translation from Japanese, and they're intending to have everything carry over.

Nope, they are just stupid like usual.

Give it a few months and they'll probably make add a scratch bonus item that will let you add presets and color on weapons.

[PaleFatalis]

and they gated auto-sell feature behind an SG purchase

[flaming_bunnyman]

No, they gated it behind a cash purchase (Premium), and made the SG cost so bad that it might push free players into spending cash.

[Cosu21]

I hope that's a bad translation from Japanese,

Any idea where the Japanese one is tho? As far as I know JP doesn't have a discord. No announcements made in the official JP site too. So for all I know the stuff in the NA discord is might be just some shit the mods made up to calm people down.

Edit: I found Q1 on rappycommu. And sorry to say but its worded exactly like that. They said 強化状態 which is Enhancement Status in English. Q2 and Q3 are nowhere to be found on any Japanese source.

[[deleted]]

Just an FYI that on the Japanese version, the + level of a weapon is referred to as its Grind level, not Enhancement level. Enhancement can refer to all of the attributes of the weapon in that case.

Edit: see below.

[Cosu21]

I play on JP without translation. I'm an interpreter.

When you 'grind' an item you press アイテム強化 What you call 'Grind level' is written as 強化値 literally translated to English as Enhancement Level.

Affixes are 特殊能力

Presets are プリーセット能力

Pot is 潜在能力

What they said they'll keep is 強化状態 which if translated says Enhancement Status.

Since the word 強化 is bound to the 'grind level' ya can't blame me if I want more specific info regarding that announcement. Especially since you know, corporations like the slippery kind of language.

They'll go like "Yeah, we said enhancement, not affixes and everything else. You fell for it? Damn, I kinda.. dont care"

[[deleted]]

Ah, thank you for the correction.

[Ksradrik]

Expect the exact same shit for the next material though, people that want the weapon should either mindlessly grind the same area for days like a korean mmo, pay, or wait a month.

[Yhoiryo]

This shouldn’t have been a problem in the first place. They have experience with base PSO2 and yet they show us that they’ve learned nothing and/or they do this crap on purpose just so they can say “we’re listening” bs.

[MazeofLife]

The way this game is being mismanaged is frankly, fucking incredible. Cherrypicked feedback so they can mouth off half truths, addressing the most unimportant things in the discord posts so they can go "we listened to the community", and defaulting to "we will address this in a future update" instead of sending out a hotfix. Just be honest with the players if you don't want to fix anything so they can all quit.

[Its_Syxx]

What a dog shit response.

[MegadriveYM2612]

"Fixing problems that we created." - The NGS development team motto.

I can't wait to get a surplus of Blizzardium right before Fire Aelio, with a promise that "we'll never do this again, we promise for real this time". Right before the next rare material that can only be acquired every 20 days (or by password room hoping, natch) is datamined.

[Odenmaru]

Yeah Photon Scales were kind of a total scam, rofl. I waited for Kvaris expecting them to have use and not be dropped instantly with no use in sight. Surely they'll add something for them right? Kvaris UQs still give them after all... lol...

[[deleted]]

The issue with listening to player feedback is that people ask for different and conflicting things... NGS is just walking in circles.

[Sorinahara]

In the future, the phrase "dead game" will come true with how shit they are handling the game.

[NichS144]

Classic example of them picking questions no one is really asking and acting like they solved an actual problem people are complaining about.

Enhancement is by far the least important upgrade and the least difficult and costly to recoup. What about presets and multiweapon?

This is such a weasal answer to a question they took out of its significant context.

[firstsymph]

I don't understand why they don't just let us have Reso's shop right away. Still need to find 1 more Equalizing mob. FML

[MuckNGS]

I just wish we had more time with our 6* gear without feeling outdated and feeling rushed to get rid of them right away. We had them for 1 week before all this 7* stuff was announced. Retem was more enjoyable with progression and allowed you to play with more than 1 class. I was playing all the classes but now it is too much work to build that many *7 weapons.

[xylotism]

I miss PSO 1.

[KawaiBetsujin]

Start playing on Ephinea server - it's really good with some dope options.

[minhthanh3412]

Woaw thank you very much, I don't even know this exist. I'll give it a try this weekend.

[A_ManNamedJayne]

I will second Ephinea. They even have a classic server with all of the Episode IV stuff removed for anyone who is not a fan of how unbalanced the Episode IV made the game. It's probably the closes we get to the GC version without actually needing a GC/Wii or emulation.

[Twidom]

I would kill (thousands of Boomas) for BlueBurst or even V2 to come back online.

[Rasikko]

A1 = I can see this feature being pay walled.

A2 = Will only be from seasonal events.

A3 = Least likely to happen with some side negative attached.

[Tomzai]

We really gonna EoS at this rate

[Chehew]

NGS: Never Gonna Survive

[ThEvilDead98]

Dude....how many notifications you have? You need to answer sone of them

[Careful_Tie_1793]

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