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You're welcome! February has a lot of goodies ahead!

3000 would be wild 😂

The thing is, they already did exactly that. Most of NGS's history has been them making the game easier because people complain that things are too difficult or hard. This is why gearing has become so easy. They have heavily target a Casual Audience, and Casual Audiences generally do not like difficulty or time consuming metrics.

@Spikesxu at around 15 minutes in your video it was taking about how people thought it was to easy and Sega said it would be harder later on. I wonder if Sega would reconsider their original plans if people said it was hard and they couldn't make it to floor 40. I was trying to hint this and failed also. do you think floor 100 will be 1 hit kill no tough mind no try shield no waker sub effects no hunter effects just like the gram reaper lv 100 boss will pierce all defenses and buffs instant death attacks and is that what you want?

@@andysnyder3844 Ah I see. Yea I think they've understood that they need more difficult content, because they've spent years appeasing the handout-mentality. And this his put a rift in their historical core playerbase (PSO games have always been more grindier games). The sole intention of Masquerader is to provide that difficult content for players who enjoy that. So they definitely have no intention of making it any easier than they have intended to make it. In regards to Floor 100, it's hard to say. I hope it's one shot though lol. What they consider "difficult" in metrics of being put into the game, vs what I deem as "difficult", are two very different metrics. And if everything was placed at my metrics of "difficulty", it wouldn't be fair to everyone else. Ultimately NGS does target a heavily casual audience, so I do understand that and it's never all about me. But I have thoroughly enjoyed what they've been doing with Masquerader so far, so I think we're looking at a nice Floor 100 fight. I just hope it's scaled appropriately to compensate a high level of difficulty even with all the new augments and level cap increase and gear that we're getting. I hope it's scaled around having all that stuff already & all of it at max. But more importantly. The mechanics of the fight need to be sound. Which, with depths 1-6, they have already proven they have exactly that in mind. Depths 1-6 have been very impressive by the growing mechanics that are continuously getting added to the fight to make it more difficult. So I'm very much looking forward to 100.

Yea I actually had no idea that the AC Character Storage option even existed. Very misleading as to how they presented it within the headline though if they were in fact referring to AC-locked storage that has to be purchased in increments of 50 storage slots.

Yea it would definitely be a massive amount lol and I actually did not know about the AC Character Storage that you can purchase, prior to this comment section (Which is why I love communication & always promote user engagement!). So I do think that it was possibly intentionally mismarketed in a manner that was unclear because you have to drop a ridiculous amount of money to actually get your character storage that high.

Yea I think that they chose to word it strangely to possibly mislead or mismarket it. Which is pretty ridiculous behavior on their end. I actually wasn't aware about the Character Storage that you can buy in the shop, so I think it might be pertaining to that.

Uno

Oh I see! I actually didn't realize that this item even existed! If this is the case of what they're referring to, then this is a very strange and misleading way to market an inventory increase by the NGS Team! I see that it increases it by 50 and it's 800 AC per 50? So you would have to buy a ridiculous amount of these to even get that amount? Seems very scammy.

@oshii666 I agree with you 100%. I max my character storage to in base pso 2. I think they are just increasing the limit 2,000.

Yes I also think you got it. It is just the expandable limit

Hello! Can you elaborate a bit? I'm not exactly sure as to what within this video your response is pertaining to. As such, it makes it difficult for me to give a proper response! Thank you!

@ a major complaint is that SEGA spreads out content they don’t have too, because it’s clearly they want people doing the “one” thing they are releasing that week. The is an issue with a game that is based on the “theme park” mmo style when the game isn’t really a theme park mmo. Rotation of content to never really overlap itself creates a fake burnout feedback loop. If you let players do the stuff they want at the pace they want they feel more comfortable about what they are playing for. Making us spam the UQ, then spam CR, then spam Leciel as we try to piecemeal our gear update is bad design. Just let the players do the things they want and then go back to places they need when they want. This also helps to stop the DOA’ing of content because people can do it at different times while it’s still very important.

@@mramisuzuki6962 Ah I see! Thank you for the clarification!

Thank you for pointing this out. They specifically say "Character Storage from 1000 to 2000" in the NGS Headline. However indeed, Character Storage is 300 Storage currently. With that being said... Take a close look at the graphic. Even in the graphic, Character Storage is 2000. And this graphic (but in Japanese) shows the same 2000 for Character Storage in the Japanese Headline. After going & watching the Japanese NGS Live Stream, I can confirm that they use the words Sen & Nisen (1000 & 2000) in relatedness to the Character Storage as well (with the aforementioned graphic also showing 2000). So now I'm really not sure. It should also be noted that Extended Storage is expired in these graphics shown in the NGS Headline. I question if this was an error that was able to get through multiple checks on both sides, and it's actually pertaining to the 100 Inventory being upgraded to 200 Inventory? The crazy part is if that's the case, this got fumbled pretty much right out the very first door lol. Now I'm intrigued to see what we actually get next week 😂. Maybe it was intentional to get us talking 💀

@@Spikesxu Yeah, they just made it not clear for some reason, which led to confusion. Thanks for looking even japanese headline! At least we getting 100 more places in mission pass storage for our pile of EX augments, which already is good thing. Now they just need to give us more storage for SG.

@ Yea regardless of what the outcome ends up being with the Character Storage, we're still getting more storage either way, so I'm all here for it! And who knows, maybe we actually do end up getting a whopping 2000 Character Storage! Would be quite the gift! And no problem on checking the Japanese version. I try my best to only convey accurate information and to not mislead others, in everything that I do. That's naturally amplified when it comes to my content. As I hold myself to a standard of quality. So I always appreciate when things like this are brought to my attention so that I can investigate and research further!

Absolutely! I've been pretty leisure with it myself so I'm looking forward to the massive amount of stuff I'll have to work towards!

The Big Bang Scratches are MASSIVE! HUGE wins! There is SO much coming in February it's honestly overwhelming. Super excited for it and I'm super excited for the Hunter rework just as you are! Lets gooooo!!!

It's honestly hilarious and promotes you to complete the world quest that clears up the skies & stops the lightning lol

Oh 100%. There's often small mistranslations in the game, but they're usually small grammatical ones that don't make a huge impact & are usually in conversation dialogue. This one was by far a whole different beast 😂

I played PSO2 JP from 2012 to 2015 then picked it up again in 2017. I played the original PSO on the Dreamcast. I imported JP PSO Ver.2 on the Dreamcast @ release. Imported PSO EP 1 & 2 on the Gamecube @ release. Played PSU from NA launch. Played NGS from launch. Have a good day. 👍🏿

@Spikesxu that was a typo, I said I literally didn't play until global.

@Spikesxu lol nice try though, idiot thought he was cooking. My point was it's not solely classic people crapping on this game because it's a bad game regardless of whether classic existed or not. Anyone with a brain can see this. Wasted your time posting irrelevant information that literally changes nothing about the truth to what I said.

Yea PSO games have historically always had abysmal drop rates. If you think NGS is bad, the original Dreamcast version had drops so rare that they were essentially never even seen legitimately but they were confirmed to exist. lmao. My recommendation in regards to super rare stuff in PSO is to let it come naturally. Don't ever go into something & think hey I can grind this for 20 hours with a bunch of RDR & surely get it, right? RIGHT?... Nope 😂. You can get a "general" idea of drop rates by looking at the worst drop rates in the scratch. But then you have to factor in the fact that out of a certain amount of drop slots, only a certain amount can even be populated with 12 star weapon. There's a lot that goes into it, but simply put... MMORPG Logic 101: If the game knows you want it, it won't drop.

This can most certainly be an issue. With that being said, it's also the responsibility of each individual to work as a part of the team if they are running team content. Which means that it is up to each individual to take notice of their equipment and to try to at the very minimum have baseline average equipment if attempting a strong boss that requires better equipment for more efficient clears. Especially in times such as now, where everything is literally thrown at the players for free. In the current state of the game, you have to be consciously making an effort not to have at least average/decent gear. Because everything is so readily obtainable and thrown at the player base for free. You really only see these types of things on Global. As, because of different societal & cultural norms, in JP servers you rarely will ever encounter someone not at least decently geared & queueing into a fight that they know requires better gear. This is pretty much always the case in JP games, as JP has a, "Do Your Best" culture engraved into its society. So while ultimately I don't necessarily agree with people leaving boss fights, at the same time if someone's queueing into Dark Falz Dalion R2 4-Man, and someone is in there with all the free Decem armor unchanged & the free Epith weapon, unchanged. Or with armor or weapons that are missing augment slots, etc etc. Then by all means, I 100% understand why someone would leave that instance and I do not in any way shape or form hold that against them. If playing with a team, everyone needs to pull their weight. No one finds it fair in school when you're placed into a group & that one person doesn't contribute at all, yet they receive an A on the project.

@Spikesxu the issue is that it's possible to beat all the content except hard mode stuff with the gear you're awarded by Sega but for some people that's not good enough. I should note I've never attempted R2 content with death penalizing and strict time limits but tons of people still abandon even though it's easily doable. I should also point out the difference in damage between weapons of the same rank is so incredibly small that I struggle to see a change in the numbers regardless of the weapon or the augments on the weapon. The difference between the unmodified epith weapons and my triselio with the best augments i could muster is like double digits. I have NEVER felt more powerful in this game no matter what I do. It's not like base where I can see bigger numbers and feel the progress. The enemy scaling/ rubber banding makes me feel like I'm just running on a treadmill and getting nowhere.

@@millgiass It's the principle, is what I'm getting at. But yea I'm moreso specifically referring to things like the hard 4 man boss fights (specifically Dalion R2). Where going into those with all the free gear unmodified is just disrespectful to the players around you. If you're referring moreso to things like UQs and LTQs, then yea I agree that should never really happen.

@Spikesxu i don't go into those things ever even with peak gear because I can't react fast enough. The only time I get to do them is when they are softened versions in the uq. I have NEVER beaten a "major trial" so yeah I'm referring to UQ. The amount of times people ditched on Aegis back in the day was insane.

​@@millgiass Ah I see. Yea ditching on UQs doesn't make much sense now. WITH that being said, if you're specifically talking about Dark Falz Aegis when it first released as a UQ, that was an exception to this rule. When DFA first released, it shined a light on the huge gearing discrepancy on Global. However, that has all but been eradicated on the levels of what it was then. But when DFA first released, the difference between doing that UQ with people who were even remotely decently geared, vs people who did not care at all about their gearing, was night and day. We're talking, a 10-15 minute fight, almost guaranteeing taking you 30-45 minutes. It was BAD. And I mean BAD. Back when Aegis came out I rarely ever ran in Public Groups. I 90% of the time ran in premade groups. Because Public Groups were often unplayable for that reason. Going into an UQ and expecting to be out in 10 or 15 minutes, to now having wasted almost an hour in that UQ, was not a good feeling for anyone lol. Of course, that issue does not exist anymore. And the gearing issues have been much better handled and balanced, with significantly greater ease of accessibility as well. The addition of All Ship Matchmaking has further helped to solidify the ease and enjoyability of queuing into PUGS/PUBS. In my experience, very rarely do I see people leave in PUG UQs or LTQs. But with that being said, one or two people leaving in an 8-man UQ or LTQ, in the current state of the game, normally isn't going to heavily impact the time spent in the instanced area.

The thing about vertical driven games is that content becomes quickly outdated. This is unfortunately how all vertical MMOs are. So yea, if you're trying to run Leciel, you are going to wait a long time. With that being said, you should not be waiting 10-15 minutes to do a Leciel run. In that time you could've simply soloed a run. The mobs scale down to 1 person so it's easily clearable. With that being said, you can satisfy the Complete Dailies Task that gives you the 130k Daily Meseta, without doing Leciel. So there's actually no real reason to do Leciel currently if you do not want to. Which is also further the reason why you're not going to see anyone queuing into it until it gets an update which we'll likely see next month. The game is always looking to improve on things, as is the case with every live service game. Specifically MMORPGs which face massively greater hurdles than any other format of online gaming. In regards to PSO3, especially considering how MMORPG development cycles are massively longer than any other genre of gaming. I would say it's safe to say that PSO3 has already been in early works for quite some time now. I'd be surprised if we see it before 2027 or 2028 however. There's also the possibility that NGS is continued to be built upon and that they are working on a new world (I find this unlikely). In which case, the new world & expansion of NGS would actually be the resources that would have been creating a "PSO3". With "PSO3" essentially for the time being, being the new planet. The fact of the matter is that if they want, they can build off of NGS for quite some time. As, the foundation of the game is very strong and the game is profitable for them. It's just that stuff is often underutilized. Only time will tell!

@Spikesxu Thank you for the thoughtful and comprehensive response! I'm hopeful that we see a rebound in the overall concurrent player counts in the next major update. I was in the early alpha testing, beta and then open beta phases -- the mobbed servers, even with nothing to do, gave a sense of excitement and wonder in those first years.

@ Most definitely!

I'm kind of on the fence with this one. While I do think that they could, I don't think it's really a necessity to do so. A 90 Day Material Storage lasts for a long time and the amount of SG you can get in 90 days is pretty massive. Especially when they throw in LTQs like the last one that ended yesterday that allows you to literally get 10s of thousands of SG depending solely on how hard the player wants to go at it. So I definitely hear those like yourself who would like material in premium. But at the same time, I don't really see any real reason why they would be in any hurry to do so.

​@@Spikesxuit's one of the things that I've been requesting as well and would love to see it come, the benefit of having it with premium I then can spend all my SG on other things that I want, oh no longer need to save 720 of it SG, which then would encourage me to spend more on other things.

Long overdue indeed! In regards to the cost of premium... The cost of Premium will never be reduced. This being because, they often have Premium sales during certain periods anyway. If they reduced it, then they would have to further reduce the prices during the sales periods. Or completely get rid of them altogether. Pretty much, if premium price drops, we 100% lose something else in its place. Price drops, we lose out on SG amount we receive, etc etc. They will & have to balance it out. Is the only way that works. So realistically it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to bring the price down. Especially when they for a long time had the issue of people changing their regions to cheat the system & get a premium at a lower price (This is why we can not have nice things. Because there will always be people like that who will ruin it for everybody).

Lol pretty much. But with that being said, hey, they gotta pay their employees, server costs, etc etc. So you definitely gotta incentivize the Premium. Especially considering you can play the entirety of the game as F2P. So it's definitely the correct move.

😂😂 Non Premium users getting the greatest upgrade of a lifetime!

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Thank you! I'm glad that you were able to find it useful and appreciate the quality of the work!

Precisely in regards to gacha games being predatory by nature. And this is exacerbated in targeting the youth due to them not having that level of rational thinking. With that being said, there are laws in place to try to protect these types of circumstances, which naturally, companies will always try to tight rope walk those lines in order to maximize profits. Ultimately it does come down to the parenting, because everything starts at home. However, the country also does hold an obligation to protect its youth. Which is why you see things such as COPPA. One of the bigger issues is that there's not enough systems set in place to protect things like this from happening however. Lets face it, while it starts with the parents, kids are going to be crafty. And kids are often (not always) times going to understand how to navigate the new technology better than their parents. While there were things within the complaint that I went over that I felt were not as big of points, the clear collection of children's information by Hoyo without parental consent was 100% a valid complaint. I do think that ultimately the complaint over all was a valid one, but naturally Hoyo wasn't bending the rules to the degree of what we saw from the likes of Fortnite, per se, as mentioned in the video.

Most definitely. These companies are well aware of the practices that they are utilizing and the loop holes that they will play with to maximize results.

Indeed, a fair evaluation.

I always believed it's important to experience the whole thing, so in all of my Blue Protocol videos, they always involve the entire gameplay that surrounds the stories. Without the gameplay, I feel as if you're missing out on vital information and gameplay elements that really put you in the place of the character and the immersive story being told. I'm glad that this was able to provide you that proper closure of the full experience! The sad part is that, we all know that the story truly had so much more to give. It was one of the most captivating and well executed stories that I've ever experienced. And quite possibly will be one of the greatest stories to ever not be told. Nonetheless, the memories will be cherished.

I'm glad that you were able to find this and that I was able to provide you the closure of the story with this! It's surely a sad day that such a promising game and world has shut its servers. But we will always be grateful for the memories that we made!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you!

I'm not a debbie downer by nature. And I don't play games I don't enjoy. So If I don't enjoy a game, I don't play it or even let it occupy my brain. I've always been mature and wise enough to know that not every game is for me and that just because I may or may not like a game, does not mean that others have to feel the same. I've known this basic fact of life since I was literally a little child. Simply put. It's easy for me to stay positive because the way I think is not focused around the negative, or focused around wasting mine or other people's time. My whole life does not revolve around PSO2 NGS. I'm a logical and constructive thinker by nature. Just because I like bacon, doesn't mean other people have to like it. No one is forcing you to eat bacon, or in this case play the game. The game is not perfect, and I've never once said it was. As, no game is perfect. And definitely no game is perfect for every single person. But the game is fun and extremely enjoyable. For me, and obviously for many others. I wish you well on your journey of growth. 🙏🏿

@@Spikesxu Oh I thought the positive energy was a façade as a content creator!

@@CMACMA-pf6ih Ah I see. Well you were incorrect. I'm glad that we were able to clear that up! Bless!

Not familiar with Sodam. He wasn't around back when I stopped playing PSO2 in 2017. He's another depth climb?

@Spikesxu No, more so, the final form of the final boss of Pso2

@ Ah I see

Indeed! The boss design was very well done and the fact that he continued to gain moves as you went further into the depths was very fun. Some classes definitely have it a bit easier in regards to the fight. Which should always be the case, because each class & weapon type is built different and as such will have its strengths and weaknesses towards certain types of mobs. Out of the 6 classes I played, Twin Daggers was by far the class that took the most focus. Chasing that dude around got very annoying, but was very fun having to dial in a bit harder.

You can yes (excluding the obvious accessories & Hologram which require Rank 10 of each one). The drop amounts do slightly increase for the DP augments though with higher level.

Absolutely!🔥

Nice!

Oh hey! I remember indeed! I'm glad I was able to provide a highlight and some joy to your day! 🥳

Definitely a fair assessment. There's most certainly still a lot of problematic behavior that needs to be addressed in Global.

This is 100% inaccurate. And it is this very exact line of thinking that has destroyed the community.

@@Spikesxu You are literally drama baiting for views.

@ No.

The thing is, MMORPG culture was never one that would go around calling people names and being rude & negative to that degree. Especially not in the 2000s. The sort of behavior we see on Global now is very new to the MMORPG scene. MMORPGs aren't like something like Call of Duty, which people may remember calling names on or some people being fairly aggro, etc etc. Call of Duty & those types of games are of complete different genre and do not exist on the backbone of their community. Those games, you join a lobby, you talk very minimally, you leave a lobby. MMORPGs exist because of their community culture. Because of MMORPGs heavy emphasis on community, if their community is bad, it's going to much more heavily negatively effect the game on all aspects, than it would otherwise in an FPS genre. MMORPGS have always been known for their great communities. People may get frustrated with each other and this or that may happen, but never in my life have I seen anything like PSO2 NGS Global when it comes to the problems within its community. And I have been playing MMORPGs since the early 2000s. Never. Not once. Ever. Even remotely. Have I ever seen the type of stuff I've seen in PSO2 NGS. This largely has to do with current western societal culture however. Which is a MASSIVE dumpster fire right now. It unfortunately translated very heavily into the game for Global.

Really fun game. Global community on the other hand, has been very problematic from the jump. The community behavior is leaps and bounds greater than it used to be though, so progress has been made. But there's still work to be done.

Absolutely. It was a very active time. But the drama and toxicity that was so rampant would also be heavy grounds for people to leave the game or not recommend it to others.

I actually disagree wholeheartedly with this. I play the game daily as well and am on Ship 1 Global. Ship 1 has gotten better by massive leaps and bounds in comparison to what it was some years back, in regards to the community. Naturally, there's still issues there because it's Global. But in regards to the community and what you'll see in public chat, it's gotten tremendously better and much more welcoming.

@Spikesxu ok then if that's how you see things then I'll accept that some people think the game ship 1 is better then before I do wonder if streamers have somewhat different interactions than others I won't say it is or isn't since I disagree with you I'm not inclined to believe you sorry I don't mean to make this in to a big argument out of this as I accept your view there's at least 20 people in my alliance how are long time active players view and made comments recently the past few months that they feel it's getting worse and those 20 people know other people that feel it's got worse I'm not expecting you to take it to heart but I'd like you to know that some people disagree with you the about 20 names i remember there not haters or doom posters they my friends and we all want this game to get better just like you actually now that I think of it to be honest 1 of my friends wants the game to die and pso3 to rise from the ashes he may be a doom poster but he's still i nice guy I think a guy I'm gonna to look in to it before I get cancelled anyhow if you read the msg I appreciate it sorry it's long

@@andysnyder3844 Nothing wrong with disagreeing. You disagreed in a fair and cordial manner with no hostility there, so I don't see any wrong in it. I don't expect everyone to agree with me all the time and naturally people will have differing experiences. Do understand that I pretty much exclusively play with randoms and have always been like that. I like to engage within the community. So I generally have a broader view of things in comparison to people who may only play with people in their alliance or set groups, etc etc. By no means am I saying Global is fixed or is without any issues. I'm simply saying the community is better than it was some years ago in regards to the problematic behaviors. Now does that mean that we don't still have plenty of problematic behaviors? Absolutely not. And at that, new forms of problematic behaviors have arisen. But considering years ago you could log on & it was normalized to see people arguing, bullying & belittling, gatekeeping, erping in public chat, harassing people, & pretty much everything else under the sun. A full blown toxic culture. Or go into an LTQ or UQ and you're almost guaranteed to have someone AFK leeching, not participating, etc. Or have such an issue with AFKers in PSE zones that most people just made password rooms, etc. And this was normalized like just another day at the office. I would say Global community has definitely made heavy improvements.

We are specifically discussing and comparing data points in PSO2 NGS. PSO2 NGS was released worldwide in June of 2021 and thus can be compared as apples to apples with Global. As such, this is where data metrics will begin. As, PSO2 NGS and Base PSO2 are two entirely different games. Malicious Data Metrics for PSO2 NGS did not begin documentation for Japan until June of 2021, when the game was released. This can be confirmed by going to the official NGS JP website and seeing the first listed report date is June 2021. Base PSO2 is a different game that existed for 8 years prior to being released in an expedited format to Global. And as such, does not have data metrics that can be relatively compared between the two regions.

@@Spikesxu Yeah I agree with you its only that from the perspective of a player inside the JP Server, problematic behavior isn't new in this region which I would say it could get out of hand as it is with Global Server which doesn't matter if its PSO2 or NGS. I've experience a JP player gatekeeping me by just being there and it only happened when PSO2NGS was on its prime in Retem. There were even players who will force other players to DC when Deos Gryphon is almost dead in the Regiment of the Wicked Urgen Quest in PSO2. Most likely people from China too.