I didn't know about that update to the Level Skip. Level 75, all of the gear and all of the Leciel augments? That's ridiculous. Sega are basically saying "don't play our game, just give us money". It's also like you say, they will have instant access to end game content and be matched up with veteran players without any experience with the game themselves. This will just create a bad atmosphere between new or casual player and old or experienced players because new players will inevitably slow older players down. I'm not blaming those new or casual players either, they are taking advantage of the tools Sega are giving to them. This is all on Sega. The augments they have been selling for SG of late is a joke. They have sold the entire line of current end game augments. Halpninale/S Mastery/S, Highael Domina/S, Gigas Maste/S, Gladia Soul/S Deft/Spi/Sta/Gua Triplble/S........The entire line of the best augments in the game. It's basically 10 of each capsule plus a 30% augmentation success booster. All of that grinding people have been doing, and for what? for Sega to say "screw you, give me money" As for the enhance fixas, that annoyed me the day it was introduced. The definition of creating a problem just to sell us the solution. I can't understand why those that have been playing the game are fine with all of this.
Because this game is modeled to cater Japanese heavy working condition, it's pretty hefty sum yet it cannot replace skill. This only to make people to decent level so they can play with others.
@@gkagara Sega should hire you to defend them, you have an excuse for every terrible decision they make. It has nothing to do with having players play together, it's a combination of the new player experience being terrible and Sega seeing an opportunity to make more money.
@@hermityt1 nah you can opt to not to use this lot of way to catch up, you give overreacting to everything they do, feature is there but doesn't need to be used. This feature can be used by long time player they can open another character in another ship not to worry about doing all over again.
New player experience. - Little story content - level up(boring and repetativ)in yellow with high level players for hours. - Almost no content -No low level UQ -No low lrvel LtQ -ect. But you can have Fashion and skip items.
Thanks for covering this: I just checked and the skip is still on their web site advertised today. I was planning to check out NGS again now that I have a PC to run it again, but I'm not returning if Sega's committed to an experience so bad you are incentivised to pay to avoid it. I know of the seasonal event boosts as well, but this screams "we'd rather have your 1200AC so we'll make sure events are low-effort to get more skip revenue". (Whether that's true or not, it doesn't matter to me when there are still so many choices. I'd rather spend time looking for a developer who wants the whole game to be fun.) Anyway, thanks and here's a tip since the coverage saved me a big download.
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That point where people will not need to get the latest augments from market hits hard. With each update, it's been getting increasingly difficult to sell raw loot (that isn't unicorn rarity). Everything's been getting devalued harder and harder, and raw meseta generation (ie: no market trade) has increasingly become the main source of Meseta for me. Meanwhile, scratch items on the market have become increasingly expensive, and there's no real way for someone playing casually to have something worth selling: I don't consider running hours and hours of Duel Quests/Combat Zones a good use of my limited time, I like variety. Heck, will those even remain good money? I get there's going to be crafting IV caps now, but that's not really going to help the market: it will just add more saturation to it. And then again, it doesn't really matter, because LC caps and S caps exist. At this point, all I could think about is adding New-Type Weapons/Unitts, in order to destroy the current gearing situation, as a way to fix both the endgame and new player gearing experience.
How to make money on people who don't play the game? 1. Sell them skip progress function! 2. They enter the game, engage in endgame content and rage quit cause nobody want to babysit them. 3. Repeat till reviews "Overwhelmingly Negative" 4. ??? 5. WHERE'S PROFIT?
As always, great constructive criticism. Not destructive or negative. Great points and you're right. We need to start talking about this more. Sega needs to hear it! Heavenly represent!
They need to do that. Without NGS they are nothing. Take Keroppi for exemple; compare the views of NGS videos against everything else on his channel. If I was him I'll do the same thing.
@@Nomadic_Gaming Yeah i know. I just used him as an example since he's is one of the biggest. I don't hate him or anything like that, but what I said about him serves to the rest of them. without NGS viewers they will lose revenue and importance. That's why they act like that.
Fat chance. If you don't spend you aren't contributing to anything. Compare to the JP side of this game Globals revenue is a drop in the bucket. JP is keeping the game alive.
I recently joked with friends that I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Death of the Game: PSO2 NGS within 2 years. I was joking. The "New Player" packs and constant "Support Item" scratches remind me of what most dying MMOs do before they go downhill hard.
Base game is P2W too, grand stat capsules are AC only, and very limited these days to buy from player shop. It is what it is Sega doesn't care what anyone thinks about it anyway
Every time I game does this is a good signal of how bad the game is going, I honestly rather play something else at this point, this game has disappointing me beyond belief, what a shame.
I agree with you! I think the issue is that they are trying to lower the drop rate for gears and augments, hoping to keep players staying in this game long enough. However, fewer and fewer players actually care about hardcore gearing anymore. I remember invest 20M into Relik series back in Retem, but I was able to make those meseta back from farming Ret Purples with friends. Ever since then, they made farming less and less relevant to a point that players can invest in hundreds of hours farming, without really getting anything back from it, to a point that when they pull out the data, players performance are lower than what they did expect, so they need to hand out band-aid gears to lower the gap between hardcore and casual players, which further more hurt both casual and hardcore players (because why would I farm if I can get something similar easily if I just wait?) Leciel Exploration is a right move, the difficulty and reward is relatively fair compared to many other contents. Most players are getting reasonable gears in most contents now. Even if I go solo queue Solus I am happy with 90% of pubs, which is nice. But I do think the october update will be a soft gear reset again because we are going into rank 5 augments era.
SEGA giving everything even remotely good terrible drop rates isn't anything new. That's pretty much historically what they've always done. But their drop rate philosophy is something that longer works in our modern world. People don't have the time or patience anymore to grind for months to get some piece of gear or a powerful augment. They could be playing other games that actually reward the effort they're putting in and respect their time.
@@WhostolemymusicBy the time you do get the gear Sega already drop a better one with equally terrible drop rate and the cycle repeats itself this is why people would rather save up money for fashion instead of dumping money in gear
I've been thinking for a long time how it feels like certain sectors of the gaming market have really lost track of the value when it comes to the journey, rather than the destination. A lot of players have too. I think back to how much fun it was starting the original PSO as offline players who knew nothing about the game. Started the game with a regular Saber, then found a Dagger and wondered why it was stronger than the Saber. That seemed odd. Then I raised my ATP stat enough to equip it and found out that it was in fact twin daggers, and the Saber's regular 3-hit combo was replaced with a fancier six-hit one. It was a really cool small-scale moment, and I can't help but notice that there's very little emphasis on these kinds of individual steps anymore. They're just seen as a waste of time in the way of whatever 'actually playing the game' is considered to be. Players already know exactly what the deal is with endgame stuff and complain when anything tries to slow them down, whether it's story meant to be appreciated, or gameplay meant to help them learn. As a result, games keep reducing these things. The story doesn't expect anyone to listen and the gameplay doesn't expect anyone to learn. Beyond that even, there seems to be absolutely no appreciation for failure in gaming anymore. So much focus on 'getting good' NOW and keeping up with everyone. With all this pressure, it's unsurprising companies got the terrible idea to start putting a price tag on that success.
yes it is. there is no in between... either spend 80+ hours a week trying to farm bis before its irrelevant or just buy it all in 10 minutes i love the game but this causes serious damage
Knew it would come to this ever since they introduced it back in Retem. Glad I stopped playing this aggregiously monitized garbage game. Plus this game is catered so much to FOMO its insane. Thank the whales and players that say this is ok. You are part of the reason this franchise is the way it is.
And this is same game who you cannot play a new thing because it's required four people which 70% of the time people doesn't bother to join for the MMO game because back the day booster aren't obtainable in a normal means god-tier and trash booster and let me tell you region Meg buff won't carry over in any quest you been on is frustrating why sega added such a crucial for open world that's aren't been used for any quest
Its a weird one because, on one hand, I think the current way to get some of the end game augs is straight up ridiculous unless NGS is your job and or the ONLY game you play. Halphinale taking 10 runs of dark falz and grinding 10 copies of 4 other augments for ONE capsule, let alone the 10 you will need to STILL have a 70% fail rate is way too much meanwhile we have the exact other side of the stick where if I wait a month or two I can get a S version instantly from a SG scratch or something with a 100% success rate and be done in like 40 seconds as opposed to like 40 hours. id say at least we have the happy medium of LC versions which you can get decently easy and are like 90% just as good as the full thing, but then we have the EXDI capsules which are purely from scratches and are just the straight up best
I hate this, every single one of these options. Like “Hey I’m gonna start playing this game I wanna get into & just pay to not play the game!” I’m sure the thought process for this was for it to be for people who may have already done the grind on another char/account but that’s not what it’s gonna be used for. All of us who’ve done the grind the long, hard & slow way are being spat in the face with this. It’s just absolutely disgusting.
I'm not too plussed about the AC Support Scratch items since those are essentially designed to be exchanged in the market Addi/Exdi/etc augments being unique means you're still tasked to fill out the rest of the slots anyway--it's a cherry on top of your gear you could just save N-Meseta for But none of this can be extended to the SG Support Scratch, those are all account-bound S versions of existing things, so… yeah. Star Gems are not normally worth buying because most of the time what you get in exchange for it usually just fluff, but with this scratch up right now these are not the normal circumstances.
Create the problem and sell the solution. How I love when devs do that. It really shows their love and dedication for their playerbase and game. (In case it wasn't blatantly obvious, I was being sarcastic.)
I dont enjoy levelling at all. I'd be happy if the max level was 20 (like at launch), just so many enemies, equipment and areas remained relevant. I get more satisfaction from my skills improving, rather than some random number increasing.
With NGS, the level really is just about getting extra battle power to get into content. No skill points with them like in base game as the trainia give all the skill points instead. They could completely rip out levels and it would almost be like nothing was lost
I think about to quit.. i did my dailys the last few days and played something else. I feel trolled from Sega with every Second i spending and playing NGS.
I hate this SG scratch. I think their intent here is to attach end game progression to SG. So basically they will release 3 bosses (Solus being 1st one) that give SG, and force everybody to progress through SG scratches. It's a desperate attempt to milk the whales and will ultimately kill the game if they go down that path.
Ouch, beyond the fact they're being overgeared to bring them up to current endgame, it's taking away the reason to actually play some of the more interesting content available at present. Lecial's not for everyone, but I've definitely enjoyed seeing puzzles instead of pure combat.
Thats the point I am trying to make. The game is designed in a way to make these options feel like a godsend, making players want to spend money on them
i think that no free to play game should ever have pay to skip or pay to win or pay for convenience or anything. the only thing they should sell is comsetics
Steamcharts keeps on hovering around that 2k mark. With all the abuse, I'd thought the numbers would have fallen honestly. I want to see where they are 2 months from now.
Bahahaha, it's the last day of the month, so just a few hours ago it was showing 2.3k monthly. I guess I got to see those results faster than I intended and that roadmap is looking like arse.📉
@@emanuelporter806 Okay fine, I'll use MMOPopulations data then, that states that there's 0 players in the last month. It's a goofy request, but I can acquiesce. I'll tell everyone the game has 0 players currently. I am nothing, if not a people pleaser.
@@emanuelporter806 Why isn't it a valid source? It's the most popular platform, something that has been verified. So if the games concurrent player numbers are low on Steam, then it's only reasonable to say it's also very low on other platforms.
I think it's a great thing. It makes it a lot easier for people who don't feel like doing combat to easily catch up in the story and see the later hub areas. Just imagine all of the roleplaying that could be happening in the Kvaris hot springs if it wasn't locked behind combat.
Brother i went back to Maplestory after like 15 years and WOW. Idk why i left. I bet a lot of people from PSO originated from MapleStory, and i can tell you. That game understands how to reward you for your time. The events feel like events ( you get end game stuff) and the Reboot server turns off trading and it's more all on your own but balance. That feeling Old Base PSO gave us is MapleStory x5, if you don't mind the flat 2d gameplay, which is not an issue. Not to sell MS, but i know everyone is struggling and this may be the game to give you that itch you wanted, until or if Sega decides to fix this game.
I do play Maplestory alot too at least back then when it was close to BB. But sadly i think it was just too much of a grind nowadays that i cant even play such a game anymore. I knew SEGA can easily fix this game, woth existing systems and assets really. But they did not do it, and its either they were forced to do mid content to reduce workloads or they are lacking manpower or knowledge on making the game good as the game is hard to develop on.
@@AzariusR Thats where your wrong. If you played closed to BB, then you are like me. I quit when mechanics came out way back LOL, it is 1000% easier to grind, 10000% more rewarding, especially now ( alot of come back events) Trust me, if you played during the OG days, and you're older and have less time to grind. New Maple is where it's at. I joined Reboot personally. No trading, at your own paste, it's amazing. Hope you end up trying it out, don't wait around for Sega to figure things out. Come back to PSO when of if they do. Good luck
I really dont think level skips and story skips are really a bad thing, WoW, and even final fantasy has it despite ff being very story focused. as for SG/AC support scratches they have been doing those for like 5 whole years back even when it was jp only and no one really cared. the problem with them is that the game hasnt been out long enough to warrant them
i just find it funny the game have option for you to pay to not play the game , if anything they just gonna create influx of player that have nothing to do which result in more content demand a lot more frequently , which then makes the dev pressure to put out content fast or the game died, and fast content usually end up with bugs or just poorly made with lots of stuff unpolish, so idk for me it just feels like the game is shooting themselves on the foot with this
This is based on perspective but: Notably for the Story, the team must've had to put up with how bad it actually was and straight-up preferred new players didn't go through it, Especially given the regions & UQs are locked behind progression of it. Outside of just the story & especially these Augs; it could be speaking to the direction the team wants to take the game, which is a social haven 1st, grindy MMORPG 2nd. If you're too busy to touch Creative Space or post Screenshots because you're farming Leciel Exploration or Duel Quests to make your end game gear, then say no more, just scratch. Once you're done scratching for those augs, you can start scratching for PHashionable cosmetics & build parts. 'PHashion is true end game'.
This system is called "We need to make all the pocket change we can get before it's too late". There's 2 options... They are actually stupid enough to believe people are playing this game for anything other than a porn side game. OR they are stupid enough to believe that people aren't playing the games content because of a 1 day grind. Glady I found a new replacement game, so now I can just watch hate videos and watch them burn slowly.
I think they already moved to another project but they can't say to the public yet. It's clear as day, you just need to take a look into the roadmap to see it. It's sad to watch that are some people in denying, if you complain about the current state of the game they attack you with "Ok doomer" I like this one "If you don't like just quit" Because they can't refute any of your arguments. It doesn't matter what content they put in the game the player base on global is leaking. What they gonna do? push the plug on global and stick with japanese whales? If they are not making a new entry for the series I'll be very surprised. It's already too late to fix this mess.
I'm completely F2P in NGS, and I have gone through all the vex in the world to get armors and weapons to +70 and yes its time gated. This are things that come with F2P titles, Sega did not start this trend. I came from playing Overwatch and we all know what happened there so guys I think its time.
It was always a waste of time. Fully augmented gear is just a tiny step above the cheap stuff. It's better to just wait for the next seasonal event and buy that gear with points. Then you can play other games instead of spending your time farming the same stuff over and over until you go insane and start whining about how Sega is releasing content too slowly. Sea of Stars is great btw.
@@NuchiAsaki "Then you can play other games instead of spending your time farming ".......this must be the only game in existance where the players defend it by saying you should play something else because it has nothing worth sticking around for. I mean, you're right in the sense that there is nothing worth sticking around for, but you're wrong for thinking it's a positive.
They (SEGA) are basically coping with the last days of PSO as a F2P era, it is simply not sustainable to have this demanding game not be P2P. I've said it before and it seems like the only solution to all their allocation of resources into these P2W-schemes which gives the vibes of a soulless grinding MMORPG much like the hundreds of dead MMORPG games that are no longer maintained. I would definitely pay to play the game if it means that the development is no longer focused on these damn scratch items but rather the evolution and continuation of the Phantasy Star Online franchise. People pay for Final Fantasy, it's not a big deal, we as a playerbase just have to be louder and demand quality from the company.
The slow release of content and focus on scratches isn't because of limitations of the free to play model, it's what they want for the game. Story and combat content are not meant to be the focus. This is primarily a social MMO. Trying to get them to release more content is like trying to make lemonade out of a watermelon. Making it pay to play and making less scratches would just mean you would be paying a monthly fee for current NGS but without scratches.
I thought this was bad, then I realized sega needs money. I whaled for 3 years and spent about 2g on the game. Then I saw the writing on the wall and realized nothing will change. I may be participate more when they realease ngs on the iPhone 15. sega get on it, you made a mobile game for consoles. Idc as someone has to pay thier bills and the covid gravy train is gone. So before this game becomes hyenas, a cancelled finished game, they need to either go full console or full mobil. This middle of the road shit is garbage. Fuck, genshin got it right why can't you sega.
It benefits both SEGA and the players to allow them to start the game and progress normally. I'm not a fan of the level 70 skip. Over time normally one would make mistakes, learn the game, amass minerals, meseta, and food all of which will help down the road. Starting from the beginning will casue players to play longer because once you get to end game there is less to do. Places like Kvaris should be explored. By skipping to level 70 one skips many enjoyable aspects of the game that many have already experienced.
I agree! I love it when Sega creates the problem and sells the solution! There's definitely nothing wrong with spending money to skip over all the grind that the veterans been doing for a long time! 💀
Pay 2 skip means they designed something really bad and wants you to pay for it to skip it instead of them fixing it. Honestly, any game dev who comes up with boring mindless grind like PSE bursts should stop. I've been playing Path of Exile for quite some time now after being inactive for so many years. This damn game has so many interesting game mechanics that game developers can take inspiration from. Yet for some reason, they still come up with the most brain dead mechanics.
I find this game very difficult, the augments and grinding weapons and armor is overwhelming to me. 😳. I do enjoy the story and some game play, but dying all the time, and spending alot of time at work. I don't really have much time to learn. I also thought about quitting. Idk 🤷♂️
You could give the Ranger class a try and use the rifle's weapon action to dodge attacks. It grants a very generous invulnerability period, as long as you get the class skills "Slide Shot Advance" and "Rifle Grenadier Advanced" from the skill tree. Very useful against enemies that seemingly attack non-stop, like Bujin.
But you got to remember this is a casual game not a hardcore game what do you think they're going to do with a casual game microtransaction everything but you guys were defending this all the time but now suddenly it's hurting the game goes don't make no sense
Your are about 5 years late on this topic. FF14 has story skip & job jump pots. The catch is you have to buy a story skip individually for each expansion. While job skip puts you 10 levels behind the current level cap.
Every single topic you covered was extremely exaggerated. Just by seeing how much SG you have you use 2k every banner release. Not a smart move there. You are speaking from a solo player perspective if you were in an alliance with people that helped you would enjoy playing a lot more. As for making augment capsules it's extremely simple to make Halphinale and Giga Maste that's why the price tanked. You don't farm 40 capsules for an entire set for those types of augments. You get at most 10 and use augment protection until it sticks. Lastly on the aspect of PSO being an MMO it never was so stop trying to compare it to other MMOs it's an ARPG.
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This reminds me of TERA's overabundance of gameplay skips before it died.
I really liked Tera. Wish it wasn't dead, but regardless, you are right :(
@Bryophyta oh you mean the parties of people lobby grinding? Yeah I guess I'll discard the fact that I spend 30 minutes queuing for dungeons
I didn't know about that update to the Level Skip. Level 75, all of the gear and all of the Leciel augments? That's ridiculous. Sega are basically saying "don't play our game, just give us money". It's also like you say, they will have instant access to end game content and be matched up with veteran players without any experience with the game themselves. This will just create a bad atmosphere between new or casual player and old or experienced players because new players will inevitably slow older players down. I'm not blaming those new or casual players either, they are taking advantage of the tools Sega are giving to them. This is all on Sega.
The augments they have been selling for SG of late is a joke. They have sold the entire line of current end game augments. Halpninale/S Mastery/S, Highael Domina/S, Gigas Maste/S, Gladia Soul/S Deft/Spi/Sta/Gua Triplble/S........The entire line of the best augments in the game. It's basically 10 of each capsule plus a 30% augmentation success booster. All of that grinding people have been doing, and for what? for Sega to say "screw you, give me money"
As for the enhance fixas, that annoyed me the day it was introduced. The definition of creating a problem just to sell us the solution.
I can't understand why those that have been playing the game are fine with all of this.
Because this game is modeled to cater Japanese heavy working condition, it's pretty hefty sum yet it cannot replace skill.
This only to make people to decent level so they can play with others.
@@gkagara Sega should hire you to defend them, you have an excuse for every terrible decision they make. It has nothing to do with having players play together, it's a combination of the new player experience being terrible and Sega seeing an opportunity to make more money.
In short Sega is like "eff u give us money"
@@hermityt1 nah you can opt to not to use this lot of way to catch up, you give overreacting to everything they do, feature is there but doesn't need to be used.
This feature can be used by long time player they can open another character in another ship not to worry about doing all over again.
@@gkagara We get it, you support making gaming worse. Thanks for your input.
New player experience.
- Little story content
- level up(boring and repetativ)in yellow with high level players for hours.
- Almost no content
-No low level UQ
-No low lrvel LtQ
-ect.
But you can have Fashion and skip items.
Thanks for covering this: I just checked and the skip is still on their web site advertised today.
I was planning to check out NGS again now that I have a PC to run it again, but I'm not returning if Sega's committed to an experience so bad you are incentivised to pay to avoid it.
I know of the seasonal event boosts as well, but this screams "we'd rather have your 1200AC so we'll make sure events are low-effort to get more skip revenue".
(Whether that's true or not, it doesn't matter to me when there are still so many choices. I'd rather spend time looking for a developer who wants the whole game to be fun.)
Anyway, thanks and here's a tip since the coverage saved me a big download.
That point where people will not need to get the latest augments from market hits hard.
With each update, it's been getting increasingly difficult to sell raw loot (that isn't unicorn rarity). Everything's been getting devalued harder and harder, and raw meseta generation (ie: no market trade) has increasingly become the main source of Meseta for me.
Meanwhile, scratch items on the market have become increasingly expensive, and there's no real way for someone playing casually to have something worth selling: I don't consider running hours and hours of Duel Quests/Combat Zones a good use of my limited time, I like variety. Heck, will those even remain good money? I get there's going to be crafting IV caps now, but that's not really going to help the market: it will just add more saturation to it. And then again, it doesn't really matter, because LC caps and S caps exist.
At this point, all I could think about is adding New-Type Weapons/Unitts, in order to destroy the current gearing situation, as a way to fix both the endgame and new player gearing experience.
Sega: "Yeah. Big numbers bad, so NGS won't have big numbers likethe original Pso2."
Also Sega:
*Raises level cap to 80 before chapter 2*
How to make money on people who don't play the game?
1. Sell them skip progress function!
2. They enter the game, engage in endgame content and rage quit cause nobody want to babysit them.
3. Repeat till reviews "Overwhelmingly Negative"
4. ???
5. WHERE'S PROFIT?
As always, great constructive criticism. Not destructive or negative. Great points and you're right. We need to start talking about this more. Sega needs to hear it! Heavenly represent!
I guess you can ignore this game for 10 years and miss nothing important lol
💯 facts
Fo sure
Just gonna miss the real end game “phashion” oh wait they will just put ac scratch items in the mission pass 🤡
If it even lasts that long.
This dude always makeing good ass video respect bro keep doing what you doing
i love this channel for the sheer honesty vs the “toxic positivity” and all smiles and nods some other creators put up trying to cape for sega
They need to do that. Without NGS they are nothing. Take Keroppi for exemple; compare the views of NGS videos against everything else on his channel. If I was him I'll do the same thing.
@@MadruguinhaDo72 wasnt referring to him but w dif creator
but i do like calling kero out when he blatantly tries to create market runs
@@Nomadic_Gaming Yeah i know. I just used him as an example since he's is one of the biggest. I don't hate him or anything like that, but what I said about him serves to the rest of them. without NGS viewers they will lose revenue and importance. That's why they act like that.
Update: As of today, yet another Halphinale/S and Mastery IV/S is available from the AC Shop for 800AC 😐
LOL!!
Everyone could just not play this game until they listen to the community. Hurt pockets gets attention.
Fat chance. If you don't spend you aren't contributing to anything. Compare to the JP side of this game Globals revenue is a drop in the bucket. JP is keeping the game alive.
I recently joked with friends that I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Death of the Game: PSO2 NGS within 2 years. I was joking. The "New Player" packs and constant "Support Item" scratches remind me of what most dying MMOs do before they go downhill hard.
Oh really? Then I guess Final Fantasy 14 is on deaths door because majority what PSO has implemented they have done it years ago.
Well...Nerdslayer got sponsored by them and tagged the video #DOAG lol
Base game is P2W too, grand stat capsules are AC only, and very limited these days to buy from player shop. It is what it is Sega doesn't care what anyone thinks about it anyway
Every time I game does this is a good signal of how bad the game is going, I honestly rather play something else at this point, this game has disappointing me beyond belief, what a shame.
Seems like Sega management finally gave up on this game.
spot on
to anyone defending sega, stop; you deserve better, this is not ok.
I agree with you! I think the issue is that they are trying to lower the drop rate for gears and augments, hoping to keep players staying in this game long enough. However, fewer and fewer players actually care about hardcore gearing anymore. I remember invest 20M into Relik series back in Retem, but I was able to make those meseta back from farming Ret Purples with friends. Ever since then, they made farming less and less relevant to a point that players can invest in hundreds of hours farming, without really getting anything back from it, to a point that when they pull out the data, players performance are lower than what they did expect, so they need to hand out band-aid gears to lower the gap between hardcore and casual players, which further more hurt both casual and hardcore players (because why would I farm if I can get something similar easily if I just wait?)
Leciel Exploration is a right move, the difficulty and reward is relatively fair compared to many other contents. Most players are getting reasonable gears in most contents now. Even if I go solo queue Solus I am happy with 90% of pubs, which is nice. But I do think the october update will be a soft gear reset again because we are going into rank 5 augments era.
SEGA giving everything even remotely good terrible drop rates isn't anything new. That's pretty much historically what they've always done. But their drop rate philosophy is something that longer works in our modern world. People don't have the time or patience anymore to grind for months to get some piece of gear or a powerful augment. They could be playing other games that actually reward the effort they're putting in and respect their time.
@@WhostolemymusicBy the time you do get the gear Sega already drop a better one with equally terrible drop rate and the cycle repeats itself this is why people would rather save up money for fashion instead of dumping money in gear
I've been thinking for a long time how it feels like certain sectors of the gaming market have really lost track of the value when it comes to the journey, rather than the destination. A lot of players have too.
I think back to how much fun it was starting the original PSO as offline players who knew nothing about the game. Started the game with a regular Saber, then found a Dagger and wondered why it was stronger than the Saber. That seemed odd. Then I raised my ATP stat enough to equip it and found out that it was in fact twin daggers, and the Saber's regular 3-hit combo was replaced with a fancier six-hit one. It was a really cool small-scale moment, and I can't help but notice that there's very little emphasis on these kinds of individual steps anymore. They're just seen as a waste of time in the way of whatever 'actually playing the game' is considered to be. Players already know exactly what the deal is with endgame stuff and complain when anything tries to slow them down, whether it's story meant to be appreciated, or gameplay meant to help them learn. As a result, games keep reducing these things. The story doesn't expect anyone to listen and the gameplay doesn't expect anyone to learn.
Beyond that even, there seems to be absolutely no appreciation for failure in gaming anymore. So much focus on 'getting good' NOW and keeping up with everyone. With all this pressure, it's unsurprising companies got the terrible idea to start putting a price tag on that success.
Thanks!
yes it is. there is no in between... either spend 80+ hours a week trying to farm bis before its irrelevant or just buy it all in 10 minutes
i love the game but this causes serious damage
Knew it would come to this ever since they introduced it back in Retem. Glad I stopped playing this aggregiously monitized garbage game. Plus this game is catered so much to FOMO its insane. Thank the whales and players that say this is ok. You are part of the reason this franchise is the way it is.
They treat this game like mobile game. New event raid (same enemies /different color), event gear, new getcha then nothing.
And this is same game who you cannot play a new thing because it's required four people which 70% of the time people doesn't bother to join for the MMO game because back the day booster aren't obtainable in a normal means god-tier and trash booster and let me tell you region Meg buff won't carry over in any quest you been on is frustrating why sega added such a crucial for open world that's aren't been used for any quest
Its a weird one because, on one hand, I think the current way to get some of the end game augs is straight up ridiculous unless NGS is your job and or the ONLY game you play. Halphinale taking 10 runs of dark falz and grinding 10 copies of 4 other augments for ONE capsule, let alone the 10 you will need to STILL have a 70% fail rate is way too much
meanwhile we have the exact other side of the stick where if I wait a month or two I can get a S version instantly from a SG scratch or something with a 100% success rate and be done in like 40 seconds as opposed to like 40 hours.
id say at least we have the happy medium of LC versions which you can get decently easy and are like 90% just as good as the full thing, but then we have the EXDI capsules which are purely from scratches and are just the straight up best
I hate this, every single one of these options. Like “Hey I’m gonna start playing this game I wanna get into & just pay to not play the game!”
I’m sure the thought process for this was for it to be for people who may have already done the grind on another char/account but that’s not what it’s gonna be used for.
All of us who’ve done the grind the long, hard & slow way are being spat in the face with this. It’s just absolutely disgusting.
I'm not too plussed about the AC Support Scratch items since those are essentially designed to be exchanged in the market
Addi/Exdi/etc augments being unique means you're still tasked to fill out the rest of the slots anyway--it's a cherry on top of your gear you could just save N-Meseta for
But none of this can be extended to the SG Support Scratch, those are all account-bound S versions of existing things, so… yeah.
Star Gems are not normally worth buying because most of the time what you get in exchange for it usually just fluff, but with this scratch up right now these are not the normal circumstances.
Great video
I have 3k SG because I almost never use it so I got lucky with the SG support scrach.
Word up, same here x)
You should have more than 3k if you never use your SG. I hover around 10k and that's because I purchase material storage.
@@emanuelporter806 I get material storage too. Now after this banner I only have 145 sg left lol.
@@emanuelporter806 also I must not play the game as much as u
@@yourstruly9978 At most I maybe 30min - hour daily.
Create the problem and sell the solution. How I love when devs do that. It really shows their love and dedication for their playerbase and game. (In case it wasn't blatantly obvious, I was being sarcastic.)
So why would i want to pay for not playing?
How many times can you use the LEVEL SKIP FEATURE, can it be done with every class or just 1 time per account?
Every class
I dont enjoy levelling at all. I'd be happy if the max level was 20 (like at launch), just so many enemies, equipment and areas remained relevant.
I get more satisfaction from my skills improving, rather than some random number increasing.
With NGS, the level really is just about getting extra battle power to get into content. No skill points with them like in base game as the trainia give all the skill points instead. They could completely rip out levels and it would almost be like nothing was lost
I think about to quit.. i did my dailys the last few days and played something else. I feel trolled from Sega with every Second i spending and playing NGS.
I hate this SG scratch. I think their intent here is to attach end game progression to SG. So basically they will release 3 bosses (Solus being 1st one) that give SG, and force everybody to progress through SG scratches. It's a desperate attempt to milk the whales and will ultimately kill the game if they go down that path.
Ouch, beyond the fact they're being overgeared to bring them up to current endgame, it's taking away the reason to actually play some of the more interesting content available at present. Lecial's not for everyone, but I've definitely enjoyed seeing puzzles instead of pure combat.
ppl like to pay, ppl like to win, SEGA wanna get paid
Its also faster for skipping multiple characters on all ships. Considering i leveled/geared(more or less) all ships, this is a godsend.
Thats the point I am trying to make. The game is designed in a way to make these options feel like a godsend, making players want to spend money on them
@CriticasterQ I see the point you are trying to amplify. They created the problem and the solution.
i think that no free to play game should ever have pay to skip or pay to win or pay for convenience or anything. the only thing they should sell is comsetics
Steamcharts keeps on hovering around that 2k mark. With all the abuse, I'd thought the numbers would have fallen honestly. I want to see where they are 2 months from now.
They have fallen. September had the lowest player numbers yet.
Bahahaha, it's the last day of the month, so just a few hours ago it was showing 2.3k monthly. I guess I got to see those results faster than I intended and that roadmap is looking like arse.📉
Stop using Steam chart as a valid source. This game is on 4 different platforms.
@@emanuelporter806 Okay fine, I'll use MMOPopulations data then, that states that there's 0 players in the last month. It's a goofy request, but I can acquiesce. I'll tell everyone the game has 0 players currently. I am nothing, if not a people pleaser.
@@emanuelporter806 Why isn't it a valid source? It's the most popular platform, something that has been verified. So if the games concurrent player numbers are low on Steam, then it's only reasonable to say it's also very low on other platforms.
I think it's a great thing. It makes it a lot easier for people who don't feel like doing combat to easily catch up in the story and see the later hub areas. Just imagine all of the roleplaying that could be happening in the Kvaris hot springs if it wasn't locked behind combat.
NGS ver. 2, It's a F̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶P̶l̶a̶y̶ Pay to Skip
Brother i went back to Maplestory after like 15 years and WOW. Idk why i left. I bet a lot of people from PSO originated from MapleStory, and i can tell you. That game understands how to reward you for your time. The events feel like events ( you get end game stuff) and the Reboot server turns off trading and it's more all on your own but balance. That feeling Old Base PSO gave us is MapleStory x5, if you don't mind the flat 2d gameplay, which is not an issue.
Not to sell MS, but i know everyone is struggling and this may be the game to give you that itch you wanted, until or if Sega decides to fix this game.
I do play Maplestory alot too at least back then when it was close to BB. But sadly i think it was just too much of a grind nowadays that i cant even play such a game anymore.
I knew SEGA can easily fix this game, woth existing systems and assets really. But they did not do it, and its either they were forced to do mid content to reduce workloads or they are lacking manpower or knowledge on making the game good as the game is hard to develop on.
@@AzariusR Thats where your wrong. If you played closed to BB, then you are like me. I quit when mechanics came out way back LOL, it is 1000% easier to grind, 10000% more rewarding, especially now ( alot of come back events) Trust me, if you played during the OG days, and you're older and have less time to grind. New Maple is where it's at. I joined Reboot personally. No trading, at your own paste, it's amazing. Hope you end up trying it out, don't wait around for Sega to figure things out. Come back to PSO when of if they do. Good luck
Im olaying the game for less than the month casually and I'm already almost max level, buying to skip the game doesnt even make sense
I really dont think level skips and story skips are really a bad thing, WoW, and even final fantasy has it despite ff being very story focused. as for SG/AC support scratches they have been doing those for like 5 whole years back even when it was jp only and no one really cared. the problem with them is that the game hasnt been out long enough to warrant them
And look at the WoW community crying out for classic a more 'simple' time without all the microtransactions
wow has sub too?@@cartoonvideos5
@@cartoonvideos5 Then don't buy the mounts in the store. There's plenty that can be acquired in game that overshadow what's in the store.
i just find it funny the game have option for you to pay to not play the game , if anything they just gonna create influx of player that have nothing to do which result in more content demand a lot more frequently , which then makes the dev pressure to put out content fast or the game died, and fast content usually end up with bugs or just poorly made with lots of stuff unpolish, so idk for me it just feels like the game is shooting themselves on the foot with this
This is based on perspective but:
Notably for the Story, the team must've had to put up with how bad it actually was and straight-up preferred new players didn't go through it, Especially given the regions & UQs are locked behind progression of it.
Outside of just the story & especially these Augs; it could be speaking to the direction the team wants to take the game, which is a social haven 1st, grindy MMORPG 2nd. If you're too busy to touch Creative Space or post Screenshots because you're farming Leciel Exploration or Duel Quests to make your end game gear, then say no more, just scratch. Once you're done scratching for those augs, you can start scratching for PHashionable cosmetics & build parts. 'PHashion is true end game'.
This system is called "We need to make all the pocket change we can get before it's too late". There's 2 options... They are actually stupid enough to believe people are playing this game for anything other than a porn side game. OR they are stupid enough to believe that people aren't playing the games content because of a 1 day grind. Glady I found a new replacement game, so now I can just watch hate videos and watch them burn slowly.
I think they already moved to another project but they can't say to the public yet. It's clear as day, you just need to take a look into the roadmap to see it. It's sad to watch that are some people in denying, if you complain about the current state of the game they attack you with "Ok doomer" I like this one "If you don't like just quit" Because they can't refute any of your arguments. It doesn't matter what content they put in the game the player base on global is leaking. What they gonna do? push the plug on global and stick with japanese whales? If they are not making a new entry for the series I'll be very surprised. It's already too late to fix this mess.
I'm completely F2P in NGS, and I have gone through all the vex in the world to get armors and weapons to +70 and yes its time gated. This are things that come with F2P titles, Sega did not start this trend. I came from playing Overwatch and we all know what happened there so guys I think its time.
we need the game to die
im just new and i love the game im lucky my guild help me and gave me event equipment
New Genesis is just the modern day gatcha game
it always have been.... Go play BASE PSO2 you will be geared and reach end content in less than a month and that shit took them 8 YEARS
this is the reason why I stopped playing NGS. Those pay to skip stuff are straight up P2W. If you think otherwise, it's just copium.
Makes farming augs a waste of time for sure.
It was always a waste of time. Fully augmented gear is just a tiny step above the cheap stuff. It's better to just wait for the next seasonal event and buy that gear with points. Then you can play other games instead of spending your time farming the same stuff over and over until you go insane and start whining about how Sega is releasing content too slowly.
Sea of Stars is great btw.
@@NuchiAsaki "Then you can play other games instead of spending your time farming ".......this must be the only game in existance where the players defend it by saying you should play something else because it has nothing worth sticking around for. I mean, you're right in the sense that there is nothing worth sticking around for, but you're wrong for thinking it's a positive.
@@hermityt1 What makes you think I am defending the game or that I think that's a positive aspect of it?
@@NuchiAsaki u can't even beat solus
@@Chad-oh5ik you can't even beat lunus
Who would want to play a game like that? Give me money and I will make you max lvl wt!?
They (SEGA) are basically coping with the last days of PSO as a F2P era, it is simply not sustainable to have this demanding game not be P2P. I've said it before and it seems like the only solution to all their allocation of resources into these P2W-schemes which gives the vibes of a soulless grinding MMORPG much like the hundreds of dead MMORPG games that are no longer maintained.
I would definitely pay to play the game if it means that the development is no longer focused on these damn scratch items but rather the evolution and continuation of the Phantasy Star Online franchise. People pay for Final Fantasy, it's not a big deal, we as a playerbase just have to be louder and demand quality from the company.
The slow release of content and focus on scratches isn't because of limitations of the free to play model, it's what they want for the game. Story and combat content are not meant to be the focus. This is primarily a social MMO. Trying to get them to release more content is like trying to make lemonade out of a watermelon. Making it pay to play and making less scratches would just mean you would be paying a monthly fee for current NGS but without scratches.
So pay to play and get hit or miss content or pay to play and get cool stuff.?
I thought this was bad, then I realized sega needs money. I whaled for 3 years and spent about 2g on the game. Then I saw the writing on the wall and realized nothing will change. I may be participate more when they realease ngs on the iPhone 15. sega get on it, you made a mobile game for consoles. Idc as someone has to pay thier bills and the covid gravy train is gone. So before this game becomes hyenas, a cancelled finished game, they need to either go full console or full mobil. This middle of the road shit is garbage. Fuck, genshin got it right why can't you sega.
It benefits both SEGA and the players to allow them to start the game and progress normally. I'm not a fan of the level 70 skip. Over time normally one would make mistakes, learn the game, amass minerals, meseta, and food all of which will help down the road. Starting from the beginning will casue players to play longer because once you get to end game there is less to do. Places like Kvaris should be explored. By skipping to level 70 one skips many enjoyable aspects of the game that many have already experienced.
I agree! I love it when Sega creates the problem and sells the solution! There's definitely nothing wrong with spending money to skip over all the grind that the veterans been doing for a long time! 💀
I like professor ❤
dead game.
Pay 2 skip means they designed something really bad and wants you to pay for it to skip it instead of them fixing it. Honestly, any game dev who comes up with boring mindless grind like PSE bursts should stop. I've been playing Path of Exile for quite some time now after being inactive for so many years. This damn game has so many interesting game mechanics that game developers can take inspiration from. Yet for some reason, they still come up with the most brain dead mechanics.
Material Storage should be added to Premium... I'm just saying.
Someday but I've got more than enough SG for material storage for several years.
Eh I don’t Necessarily care they want money for a free to play game
I find this game very difficult, the augments and grinding weapons and armor is overwhelming to me. 😳. I do enjoy the story and some game play, but dying all the time, and spending alot of time at work. I don't really have much time to learn. I also thought about quitting. Idk 🤷♂️
You could give the Ranger class a try and use the rifle's weapon action to dodge attacks. It grants a very generous invulnerability period, as long as you get the class skills "Slide Shot Advance" and "Rifle Grenadier Advanced" from the skill tree. Very useful against enemies that seemingly attack non-stop, like Bujin.
Thank you, ill work on trying to get more skill points so I can add that. 🥰
I'm a say it again. SEGA is doing this to cash in one last big hoorah before closing and shutting down the game lol. 2024 PSO2 is finito imo GG.
pso2 has been p2w for like ever. from support scratches to just whaling fashion scratches to get instant meseta. but meh there's worse p2w games
But you got to remember this is a casual game not a hardcore game what do you think they're going to do with a casual game microtransaction everything but you guys were defending this all the time but now suddenly it's hurting the game goes don't make no sense
Your are about 5 years late on this topic. FF14 has story skip & job jump pots. The catch is you have to buy a story skip individually for each expansion. While job skip puts you 10 levels behind the current level cap.
Every single topic you covered was extremely exaggerated. Just by seeing how much SG you have you use 2k every banner release. Not a smart move there. You are speaking from a solo player perspective if you were in an alliance with people that helped you would enjoy playing a lot more. As for making augment capsules it's extremely simple to make Halphinale and Giga Maste that's why the price tanked. You don't farm 40 capsules for an entire set for those types of augments. You get at most 10 and use augment protection until it sticks. Lastly on the aspect of PSO being an MMO it never was so stop trying to compare it to other MMOs it's an ARPG.