Will the Steam version of PSO2 save the western release?

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Will the Steam version of PSO2 save the western release?

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>decent combat surrounded by a soulless soul-sucking game
no

>start playing game
>dece so far
>learn that there is barely ANY pvp at all

Dropped.

Oh damn its on Steam, that might actually make me play it. Does it have a release date?

Euro release?

Should I play this or XIV?

No reason not to do both, PSO2 is F2P & XIV is F2P up to end of Heavensward on August 11th. PSO2 has got that grindy combat and XIV is essentially giving away their highly critically praised story.

Depends, do you like cute catgirls or cute robogirls?

I'll install it and try.

>Will the Steam version of PSO2 save the western release?

Provided this release doesn't have as colossal of a fuckup as the Windows Store release, sure. NGS's announcement however does already secure its future somewhat. And given how some already fell for the scam that is the current Dark Falz SG Scratch, I bet PSO2NA doesn't have to worry about being short of whale oil.

This does more or less confirm Episode 4 for next week but I do hope they don't pull off something equivalent to the early Nemesis/Slave release down the line.

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>use steam to go dl it through windows store anyway
lmao

Only the ps4/switch versions can save the western release
What the fuck was sega thinking msking the ultimate nip MMO a dudebox in exclusive

apparently 5th august

Only one of these allows me to play as a cute robo catgirl.

What is even Xbox these days? There doesn't seem to be a given audience targeted for it.

Excited to finally be able to play it because I was not going to fuck around with the Microsoft store. Hopefully it even has a little bit of the comfyness/charm of PSO

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>xiv
>highly critically praised story
do xivfags really believe this? it's generic jrpg plot at it's finest

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HW is considered XIV's best story and they're giving it away.

>PSO2
>switch
>in the west
It won't work, it's all cloud based.

current audience is console players who want to play PSO2 but not on PC

Did they fix uninstalling the windows store version?

>Hopefully it even has a little bit of the comfyness/charm of PSO
lol FUCK no. It's more akin to one of those generic action hack n slash korean clone gacha games

Is it gonna be censored like the windows store?

If its free to play I'll have to see for myself, but that is disheartening

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what is the point of playing this when PSO2NG is going to be a thing?

you keep your chars for NG

The combat is much better but the unique setting is kind of lost in favor of trying to be compatible with as much shit as it can

Is this shit playable on windows 7?

Will my character carry over to steam?

user your fashion transfers over and FASHION is the fucking endgame in games like these

>Is it gonna be censored like the windows store?
What's censored, only thing I remember folks talking about was the boob jiggle and that's totally still in. We got the lewd outfits and stuff too.


fashion, weapons and gear transfer

To collect cosmetic shit now since meseta won't carry over. Weapons and armor will but they'll probably get outclassed immediately.

unironically yes
the western release was doing fairly well even WITH all of the bullshit surrounding the windows store

I think the only thing that is changed is the minimum height slider. There is some lazy/poor translation in a few areas. Japanese audio plays when it should be English. Flavor text on item descriptions is mainly gone.

Theres no confirmation that fashion travels

Is the Miku event still going on or is it gone forever? I wasn't touching the microsoft store.

the tweaker really did a good job of bypassing the bullshit. i managed to play on the windows store version normally for a month before my game fucked up and needed to be reinstalled, but that whole month the threat of it happening was hanging over my head

much nicer to fire up the custom launcher and know it's just gonna werk

Only JP release. You can thank Microsoft for that.

I hear they increased minimum height

Oh they might have, I didn't make midgets so I wouldnt know.

it's damn near official and anything else is just doomposting
>untradable/bound fashion goes over (Hairstyles, Accessories, CAST heads, Untradable Outfits and Outer/Base/Inner wears, etc.)
>PSO2 is getting the same graphical upgrades to match NGS
>Trailer shows basic outfits from PSO2 in NGS
hell you could even argue that New Genesis is called PSO2:New Genesis and not PSO3 specifically so that they don't have to go through licensing hell to reuse all of the collab fashion

>Steam release
>August 5th
Well I'll be. Now I'm sure Episode 4's releasing on that day too.

>Still arbitrarily locked to Win10 for no reason other than strongarming people into moving over and providing passive datamining revenue
Hard pass, yet again

wait so you can play ARR and HW for free?