Appreciate the video Crit, and glad I can forgo logging in until October maybe even December 2024. If I got taken out to the same restaurant for every anniversary and all that changed was the tablecloth, I'd go find something else. I would see that there was very little effort put into what was executed and I am not valued. Luckily there are other games to play.

I remember old pso2 the Halloween lobby theme xD and the white day theme was so relaxing doing weekly 5 quests with friends for meseta block 2 was basically the worst block back then lol it's just a shame that sega keeps making bad choices with the game now Satoshi Sakai doesn't seem to be at the helm anymore. Times have changed and they will never go back to how they were...

Hey. Can you maybe not misrepresent the decline of players on NGS by intentionally and knowingly showing a graph of PEAK player counts instead of average player counts to make it look like a steep drop instead of the gentle decline that it actually is? Thanks. Some of us actually care about the game and want to see it do well, and your toxic slop only serves to drive potential new players away. The reason the player counts are declining, aside from things being moderately slower recently, is because of the extremely hostile and pessimistic community surrounding it. If everyone is chanting "dead game" and "who cares" 24/7, what is someone casually interested in trying the game going to think when they read comments like that? I can guarantee you that there have been several people who have chosen not to try it after all due to the extreme negativity surrounding it, and that's just sad, honestly. I can understand if maybe you're not happy with the rate at which what you deem to be content is released, and I can understand if you're disappointed by this NGS Headline stream, but I can't continue to sit back and tolerate the active sabotage you, other content creators, and the vicious communities you all collectively foster partake in both with blatant misrepresentation of reality in thumbnails like this one, and with your malice. It's not just you pulling stunts like this either. I saw a thumbnail the other day where someone had taken data from right after NGS launched, then hid the dates for the data to make it look like we had recently lost tens of thousands of players. That kind of foul play doesn't help anyone. If you think the player counts dropping is concerning, then stop intentionally contributing to exacerbating the issue. If you don't care about the game or its player counts, then don't consistently post these long videos about it month after month. Go do something else you and I will both enjoy more than you continuing to rag on the game. If you want to admit to yourself that you do care about the game, as your repeated focus on it would suggest, then maybe try to actually foster a healthier community around it instead of just pushing people away. Thanks for reading. Take care.

I lived through the dryest years of Warframe and it wasn't even nearly this level of bad. When Warframe in my opinion is overflown with content, NGS just gives you stuff... and takes it away. And I'm not even talking about loot drops.

I don't believe theres more than 10 people in the studio , cuz man..

Sega only adds things, when they start to see that, they can't hold off any longer, like Aug transfer should of been there ages ago if not at the start of ngs since the Aug transfer was in base game. They are slowing bringing out enemies, areas, costumes and accessories, along with features from base when it should of already of been available at ngs and bring new ideas and things to ngs that people want and not the card game lol. All we getting is mostly a new enemy, weapon and armor to then grind to level up and spend, only for a few months to do it all over again with not much stuff to do with your character at that level anyways, this is insane people need to wake up!

Been saying this for awhile.. there just doesn’t seem to be any passion or care for the game at all. The game had a bad launch and we gave them the benefit of the doubt. 2 years later hardly anything had changed minus new regions to keep some people satisfied. NGS 2.0 was like a selling point for them to get people to return, and a bit of people did, just to realize the only notable addition was creative spaces. They promise and never deliver. It’s so backwards to me because I don’t understand how a franchise could have regressed so extremely in quality compared to its previous titles. I check in every once in awhile to see if things change and they never do, so I never have hopes for headlines anymore. Unfortunate. Game has so much potential - I’ve seen indie dev teams make greater strides with massive updates in higher quantity than what sega has pushed out. And Sega has MORE THAN ENOUGH resources to make this game incredible, it’s a multi billion dollar company. There’s nothing to do in NGS. Game is soulless. Just has fashion going for it

I think going back in December time to play a bit is the best thing to do. Try play other games, don't have good hopes for Sega fixing this, they just want to milk us and it's becoming more clear as time goes past. So yeah F Sega

man so tired to play this game

Imo Game is ending after March of next year. At least it’s current form. Whether it be eos or a full revamp I think something major is going to change with NGS. Odd that the roadmap encompasses 8 months. I think that’s all the content they have planned at least for this iteration

I've been eyeing PSOBB and PSU Clementine lately also TFD. The players are dipping even in JP server, it's depressing... Man, I genuinely want this game to be better but SEGA seems to dgaf anymore and just doing the bare minimum to keep it afloat.

Sega already knows the game is a sinking ship, playerbase is going down even more, they investing on collab scratchs to fetch more cash, monetization and new payed features, content feels like they just recoloring things and call it content, i mean i will say people will hv to start looking for another game to go, cause pso2 ngs might be here for longer then expected, the only way this franchise survives if they already developing pso3.

I don't know why everyone thinks the Kaiju No. 8 launcher camo is a minigun.. It's just a large caliber cannon with an obviously rifled huge single barrel... is it the recessed portions on the outside of the barrel tricking everyone?? Because that's done on large calibre barrels for weight reduction and more surface area for for more efficient heat radiation.. an example being the Mark 38 Mod 2 25mm gun the US navy uses. It has similar recessions because they want better barrel cooling as it's an Autocannon.

Already quit last Jan. I get tired of this loop. Doesn't care with players.

NGS Casino when

With the character customization being probably the best part of NGS, I don't think the LTQ cosmetic drops are a bad idea. 33:14 you could say the same exact thing about AC gachas, especially the collab ones. You got a limited time to get them and the items you get are chance based. And you even waste money on them. But if they dropped in LTQs, people might actually play the game more.

I have to agree with the closing thoughts I find myself not caring for most of the stuff on that roadmap. NGS just isn't fun anymore and I really wish Sega would invest more money into NGS outside of collaborations. All the money NGS makes just goes to whatever Sonic related thing Sega is working on next.

Game is just becoming a huge disappointment. The evolving weapons can really only be useful until base stats on new weapons come out and surpass them. Weapon chases are not content, especially when they are largely just stat increases and cosmetic changes, but no actual functional differences to make them interesting. Seems like the moment you need to transfer investments in evolving weapons to a non evolving weapon the whole usefulness of them is gone. They continue to drop more and more cosmetics than anybody has a real need for, yet they can't put out new content even though most of the story stuff is just static characters with text dialogue boxes. The MARS system is a rehash of the Dark Falz transformations in base game, but less compelling and less interesting. The bosses and level designs in the base game continue to be better than anything we get in NGS still to this day. They are spending a lot of time on additional systems nobody is asking for, I would have sacrificed line strike, creative spaces, AND the MARS system to simply get more real content. There are still more classes and better classes in the base game which I thought after a couple years now we would be FAR more ahead on than we are. At some point, the community needs to step up and say that what they are doing is NOT ENOUGH to run an ongoing game on and if this is the best they can do, they either need to invest much more into content development or rethink their strategy for this entirely. Like why did they give us NGS only to move backwards on all these aspects? Sega is not showing anyone that they actually care about this game, I would love to know what Sega is doing that they ACTUALLY care about. This game should be SO GOOD.....and it's not, because everything they give us is low effort, and we get these things at an incredibly sluggish pace. time for the content creators to step up and ask for real change for the community because it is clear they are not listening to us, there are mobile games that are treating their players with more respect than this.

Hate to say it, but NGS is kind of boring right now. This update they showed doesn't feel like something I want to do, only makes me want to stay away from the game. Probably the only thing the game has going for it, is the fashion. Glad The First Descendant came out in time, been having a lot of fun in the game (season 1 is kind of lame atm).

Oy. When you were going through the slides with the Line Strike additions, how they have ways to improve debuffs and gain bonuses based on elements and such, I started thinking that Line Strike may have more interesting mechanics than NGS...

Yeeeeah, while I was writing my notes I was like wow there's hardly any slide content outside of scratches </3 Also, agree... yaaaaaaaay.... competition LTQs for quest points (please make it stop...) I'm personally just holding out for the Force or Techter update... to see what they'll do with Talis, really. Great video as always, Crit!

Tbh, I don't know what SEGA wants to do. This drip feeding of lackluster content is just killing the game, and I, for one, have no motivation or incentive to play anymore. I log in, sigh and leave. It's kind of sad, really, because the game has so much potential.

EX search QOL fix in December is hilarious and embarrassing

I’ve finally started to drop off now. Iog in and get the free scratch. Can’t even be bothered to do daily tasks anymore. I’ve gone back to playing psobb on ephinea.

True, but I feel like Open World Survival Games will be just like this in 20 years. I can't stand them now and strictly play MMOs, they are the most robust multiplayer experiences still, some of the most robust co-op pve experiences, and have other benefits. Every game you name in here Valheim, V Rising, Palworld, all bought and refunded on steam, so boring, I played Minecraft idgaf how much iteration you give Minecraft I DONT CARE same thing with Hero Shooters I DONT CARE lol

What kills the game is the slow release of things. When I started at launch and grinded to get 1st, 2nd, 3rd, all the way to 5th generations equipment... if things got released all at once (like normal), I could've skipped around. Grinded for the better stuff. Plus it is bam bam range, bam bam melee, bam bam tech... no tact, no enemy talks, nothing but a big game that doesn't respect the time you put in.

I think the headline 1 out of 10 I know for a fact jp and others will give sega 6 or more.

platfrom steam 1-2k all ship epic ?? microsoft ?? maybe 5-9k ppl in global

Sega could of make this game great but they decided not too. Mmo is dead, because of sega lol

Dang I want that ex MTN.

Looks like another snoozefest honestly

Its xover

No story either so i wonder did someone got fired in sega or something is have been super boring elder scrolls online is going to take me back again the is just to boring...sadly

You do know there are other GAMES to play. You don't have to make this game your 100%, 12 hour shift game. lol

I wish Sega would get bought out by EA so they can get a proper send off that need. Company is run to ground by Sonic games, all the PSO2 scratch money goes to fund Sonic movies and games.

Honestly this makes me laugh reminiscing the times when people back then doesnt care about ep6 contents cuz pso2NGS was coming. Boy oh boy luckily i was not in that camp

this game has so much potential, its just sad we are in a loop. so much room for creativity.

Decided to check this out and saw that they’re bringing in Omega Masquerade from base PSO2 for that 3.5 anniversary in that roadmap. Which is neat..I liked doing those solo fights in base but I can’t expect much else really. Still seems like a downer overall.

I've seen mobile games with more ambition then NGS

Btw this game is now forced Wellbia xigncode3 on PC. Never playing until i pass away i guess

Come play phantasy star online blue burst on private server Ephinea. 1000 times more enjoyable/rewarding than this monetized garbage.... This is coming from someone who put in 3000 hrs into the game (base and NGS combined).

This is why I started playing Elder Scrolls Online again. Feels like PSO is jus dragging itself along. Feels like SEGA doesn't care anymore.

You’re not wrong. I’m probably one of the oldest and biggest Phantasy Star fans. The way the game is right now I’d rather play First Descendant, and that just breaks my heart.

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Tbf expecting something good out of the headline will just lead to disappointment. Even seeing the roadmap up until the end of year lowers my expectations for this game. I'm still sticking around to do dailies and selling stuff for meseta though.

they speed run the headline xD

I still dont understand how 10% is seeming so little of a difference.

I think the main reason why this game died has nothing to do with the game itself, they made it way too hard. People were being toxic and gate keeping legitimate friends because raids are just elitist content, also the bugs and glitches never got fixed until the very end. They just poorly managed everything, not to mention the pay to win stuff too. . . This game would 100% have 1 million people playing it day 1 IF they did the NA release tuned down and no pay to win even if it had no content

this is why they close this game by the way : no enough players can play together, the combo and visual effects are messy, the bugs was never fixed, the mmo's activities was lame, the end game do not exists. And Bandai got a very bad policy about video game i remember that because i talk with the person in charge of the euro market once and she said to me : "If you do not invest 500K to 5Millons into your marketing i can't be a partner with you because it will cost us 5Millions minimum. " So obviously only money since forever for them. IF the game is not a money cow since the start at best 3 month later they will drop the project. And it is 10 times worst if it is a mobile game.

A lot of us had been waiting for this game since it was announced back in 2019, but despite that there were so many red flags for the game's launch that it basically just obliterated anybody's hope and hype for the game going forward. It's almost as if the developers for the game were brand new to making MMOs or something - oh wait, they were.. and no, I am not kidding(I wish I was). So many successful game references they could have taken inspiration from, even mmos that were not as popular that have good systems still implemented in their games. It just baffles me how Bamco could fumble such a title with this gargantuan potential for success before the game could even get a proper chance to breathe. Another gigantic blunder was not releasing globally even in the state the game was in at the time of its release last year since many people would have still stuck around due to the MMO community almost always being desperate for SOMETHING decent and new, especially anime MMOs that aren't gacha. The game would have still clung to a niche community until it became a proper MMO, but even then it should have released 10x better than how it did in 2023. A lot of us saw this downfall coming, and the news on the day it happened spread like wildfire throughout the MMO community. Despite it then being a high chance the game would fail, we were still clinging to some little sort of hope that the devs would pull through and make better decisions.. but man, after seeing their disastrous live streams & sheer lack of professionalism and lengthy wait for anything worthwhile it was just so difficult to hold onto any hope. Those people seriously had no idea what they were doing.. which is sad because so many people were willing to give BP a chance in this gaming world filled to the brim with notable game IPs and legacy game companies pumping out title after title yet BP still caught many peoples' eyes. Very disappointed, but not unexpected.