PSO2 died for this poor excuse to sell the same or worse costume gacha again. It's fucking funny how everything is worse, but they made a point in making the new costume releases more frequent than in PSO2 while also tampering with the trade and market ability of the playerbase.
The western playerbase is awful, a freakshow doing nothing than ERP and weird ass drama.
Granted, there isn't anything else to do but maybe SEGA would have gotten the message if these self-insert psychos would stop paypigging hundreds of dollars per month on this bad version of a dress up game.

Compared to the final version of PSO2 the combat is worse, classes are worse, mechanics are worse, costumes are worse, story is worse, characters are worse, interactivity is worse, events are worse, random SEGA jank charm is gone, experimental and random content is gone. Character creation is worse and the new graphics style makes everyone look ugly as shit, especially the faces. Some sliders are just garbage compared to before and some clothing interacts the wrong way making everyone look like they wear pregnancy clothing.

I remember the constant cope of "PSO2 also started this way", and here we are. 3 years later and it still the same nothing from launch.
Also I won't forget how the servers actually can't handle more than 10.000 players. They just waited until it dropped and claimed the servers were fixed.
And I won't forget them pushing new costumes and even certain support banners for gear affixing right before this game launched, claiming everything will carry over.
PSO2 costumes look better, but will clog your inventory space, which you have to spend money on to expand, and look lower poly/res. Although most of them still look better, they also disable NGS body models, which also look worse to be fair.
The gear that you could carry over and was very complicated and hard to obtain and affix in PSO2 was made obsolete within 1 hour of playing of NGS.
And they knew this game was coming way before this. In fact PSO2 was only brought global knowing they are releasing and announcing NGS about 1 year later. So they just milked the shit out of it.
PSO2 still exists within the game but it's obviously dead. They also "updated" the engine and it looks worse now.

The cherry on top was SEGA putting the guy who brought us the worst content in PSO2 in charge of NGS and in recent interviews made it pretty evident how little ambition and passion he has for this game.

Reviewed on Feb 24, 2024


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2 months ago

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