The Open Beta testing period is scheduled to start on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, at 6 PM PST for Xbox One and ended on Tuesday, Apafter the maintenance. As a result of the extended emergency maintenance period during the beta test, SEGA extended the beta test until the end of the day Sunday, Februfollowing a routine scheduled maintenance. Since the conclusion of the maintenance, servers have been stable and operational. An emergency maintenance was eventually issued to address the problems in the data processing program. In order to combat some of the demand, Ship 2 was opened for character creation. Within the first hour, Ship 1 was filled to max capacity and the servers were hit with higher demand than anticipated.

The Closed Beta testing period started for the official western Phantasy Star Online 2 Xbox One servers on Friday, Februat 5 PM PST, and was scheduled to last until the end of the day of Saturday, February 8. Additionally, the game would release contents at a highly-accelerated pace, with the official roadmap planning for the first half of EPISODE 6 to be reached by the end of 2020. A Title campaign was instated with the released, which gives players a chance to earn The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild-themed costume by playing the Switch Cloud version.ĭuring Microsoft's conference in E3 2019, it was announced that a proper Western release of the game would happen in 2020 for Xbox One and Windows, with other platforms planned. However, it's not a full-fledged port instead, it's a cloud-based service where the player is able to stream-play PSO2 through the Nintendo Switch, and thus requires absolutely stable internet connection to play properly. In 2018, a Switch version of the game was launched. In 2018, over five million SEGA IDs have been activated, which was celebrated through a special campaign. These versions were closed down in May 27, 2017.Īccording to SEGA, over one million SEGA IDs have been activated for the game as per October 1, 2012, about three months after the game's launch. A SEGA ID must be registered and activated to be able to access the game servers.Įnglish-language versions for the South-East Asia (SEA) and Thailand (TH) regions were released in May 29 2014. Servers for use with the Japanese PC version opened July 4, 2012. Phantasy Star Online 2 was originally due to be released in late 2011 but was postponed for updates until 2012. Playing the Japanese version of PSO2 and es using the same account will net player bonuses and perks, such as the 'es Storage' feature.Ī major graphical revamp of the game is planned to coincide with the release of its successor Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis in 2021. During the same year at PAX 2012, Sega of America announced that they would bring the game to the west, however, they would not reveal any further information about the project until Microsoft's 2019 E3 conference, wherein the game is released in English on Apon Xbox One and on for PC.Ī mobile 'sister game' called Phantasy Star Online 2 es is available for iOS and Android. It was originally released to the Japanese market on July 4, 2012. Phantasy Star Online 2 (Japanese: ファンタシースターオンライン2) is a free-to-play online multiplayer game for PC, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.

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