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SEGA of Japan Doesn’t Want Foreign Players in Japanese PSO2 Servers



There seems to be some level of fear and despair with SEGA’s recent announcement on the Japanese Phantasy Star Online 2 website stating that they revised their Terms of Service to state that players connecting to the Japanese servers with an outside connection from another region are prohibited from doing so. While there is no mention of an IP Blocks, either way SEGA of Japan has made themselves clear that they do not want foreign players to play on the current (and only) server.

Foreign players are pretty upset about this. Not only did some already spent real money on the game, SEGA has had a history of not releasing content updates in any timely fashion, usually with the Japanese servers having more than 6 months of content ahead of the other servers.

Again, I like to point out that there has not been any mention of an IP Block, and chances are that you will be able to walk into the game and be just fine once the servers come back up after tonight’s maintenance. At the same time though, those players outside of Japan that have played on the Japanese servers now have something to fear that they can be banned just for connecting to the game.

[Source: Bumped.org's Phantasy Star Fan Blog]

Author: MogKnight

Hanh "MogKnight" Nguyen does Editor-in-Chiefish things for The Mog Blog. Forever on a mission to find a Game Boy Micro for less than $60 dollars, Mog spends the rest of his time stuck in Bullet Hell. You can contact Mog via email, Twitter, or Google


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  • http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/ Matt S

    Ouch. Time to take up Final Fantasy XIV instead :-/

    • http://www.themogblog.com/ MogKnight

      Oh god! Don’t say things you can’t take back!

  • http://www.facebook.com/soulslayer34 Joel Tucker

    the reason for this incident is the hacking on ship 2 and the constant need for maintenance most of the hackers are from outside japan there have already been reports of ip bans on notoriously bad countries. other ships don’t have this problem just ship 2. its not that they don’t want us to play its that they are trying to separate the good from the bad

    • http://www.themogblog.com/ MogKnight

      Judging by what Sakai said, it seems like we’re “okay” to stay as long as we’re not causing problems. Though the problem has spread beyond Ship 2. There are plenty of Japanese players against the idea of preventing Non-JP players from playing, but it’s a total shame that a few bad seeds are ruining it for the rest of us.

      Though on that note, it’s a good thing that exploits like this are being discovered right now. Once the international servers pop up, it’s going to be a huge problem if these things aren’t patched out.