Do MODS even check these forums?

[Cody Cat]

They still have yet to remove their Forums website on the OFFICIAL WEBSITES Pin. Posted back in August 2020. Will there ever be any actual Forums? They haven't updated this in 2 years. Pretty sad.

[Rogue]

Nope, there's an official discord though... https://discord.com/invite/pso2ngs

[X2dZ]

The old forum formats like Steam are mostly dead in the age of social media so I doubt.

[DRIFTER]

while there may be community mods nothing posted on this forum makes it back to sega. either the surveys or their official discords are the only way.

[UrbanMech]

It looks like they recently hired someone actually (new username and is posting more often/again) but I think Global Sega has a new policy with how they interact with the community and have gone the way of staying silent WHICH to be honest is pretty standard.

Not sure why you would want a moderator though. Usually brings conflict between the team and community in a poor game situation like this where it's not doing too well to put it short.

As for a new community manager it honestly doesn't matter either. With the previous community manager it didn't look like anything got done. Not saying he wasn't doing his job, he probably was but I don't think the main people at JP really read through or care much about global feedback. The feedback in question was about English translation btw and why I feel this way since it was left untouched.

But we probably still have one working. Just is either quiet lurking or doesn't use Steam forums anymore.

[Requimatic]

Everything about Global is pretty much a dumpster fire at this point.

No official forums, official channels of communication being sOcIaL mEdIa with power hungry mods and fragile twitter dwellers that will ban you for asking a simple question or providing constructive feedback.. it's like how to kill an MMORPG 101 up in here.

But, looking at where Sega of America is based at, and moderated from, it's really no surprise.

Pair that with the abhorrent lack of content that's worth repeating and.. well, here we are.

Sadly, I don't think NGS has much of a future on this or JP side. Hate to be a doomsayer or something along those lines, but it's the cold, hard truth of the matter. Player count is likely less than 10000 daily, even with the additional PS4 players, and that's not nearly enough to keep a game of this magnitude alive for very long.

How the last fiscal quarter was profitable is beyond me; we must have literally rich whales playing. Makes me wonder if most of the profit came from the JP or NA side, to be honest.

But anyway. Maybe now that the PS4 port is actually done and over with we'll see an uptick in quality content and not just a dozen AC Scratches a month (despite those being inherently easier to create than real content) with half of the items being reused from previous Scratches.

[Gilver Redgrave]

Originally posted by Shirokami:

recruiting actual players to get it managed for free.

To be honest i know a few people that would work for Sega while being ingame anyways and given a few AC as payment. I mean if Sega gives me some AC i would stay in town a few hours a week and ban people that post lewd pictures right away. If i am online anyways why not ?

[Gilver Redgrave]

Originally posted by Shirokami:

I would do it for free

Working for free ? For Sega ? How very Nintendo of you.

[Gilver Redgrave]

Originally posted by Shirokami:

Not for Sega, for the game's community. Volunteer.

If you want to work for the community you need to permaban the current Director.

[Just Life]

Originally posted by Shirokami:

Originally posted by Gilver Redgrave:

If you want to work for the community you need to permaban the current Director.

Oh yes. And fire the whole moderation and community team from Global.

If you don't know, the Director of NGS was the person behind the worst Base PSO2 update in Japan. It was so bad that not only was there a huge backlash, a lot of players out right quit and it nearly killed Base PSO2.

To give an example of how bad that update was, he wanted the Hero class to be the only viable class in the game in order to make it "easier" to balance the game. All other classes was left behind in terms of power and QoL. If you aren't a Hero, you are a hindrance to your party and yourself. The main story Episode was also the worst in the series. There was also a game mode that was introduced that no one liked and was left to rust with no QoL. If there was a bad idea or if there is something that shouldn't be done, he did it.

With NGS people had mix feeling about it since he was the director. Lack of content, polish, and short sightedness witnessed during launch reconform their doubts.

[Just Life]

Originally posted by Shirokami:

Originally posted by Just Life:

If you don't know, the Director of NGS was the person behind the worst Base PSO2 update in Japan. It was so bad that not only was there a huge backlash, a lot of players out right quit and it nearly killed Base PSO2.

To give an example of how bad that update was, he wanted the Hero class to be the only viable class in the game in order to make it "easier" to balance the game. All other classes was left behind in terms of power and QoL. If you aren't a Hero, you are a hindrance to your party and yourself. The main story Episode was also the worst in the series. There was also a game mode that was introduced that no one liked and was left to rust with no QoL. If there was a bad idea or if there is something that shouldn't be done, he did it.

With NGS people had mix feeling about it since he was the director. Lack of content, polish, and short sightedness witnessed during launch reconform their doubts.

Yes I was there, I remember my Sword HU hitting like 30-40k on a PA and Hero holding weapon Action for a 700k+ hit with the same weapon lol

I guess I misread the tone of your response in the quote. I took it as "If you're going to fire the lead, may as well get rid of everyone else while you're at it" type of response.

Is the moderation and community team from Global that bad? I've only heard of the drama they had with the Rappy Brust team and how they accused them of for a lack of a better word that comes to mind, hacks to find the location of Alpha Reactor Core.

[Lapinoire]

Originally posted by Just Life:

All other classes was left behind in terms of power and QoL. If you aren't a Hero, you are a hindrance to your party and yourself.

Just gonna make a slight correction on this.

Fighter and Gunner were still king in damage during the dawn of Hero. If parse was anything to go by, a competent gunner or fighter player still outdamaged a competent hero player. This was only true if you played with any elite teams back in pso2 JP.

For the most part, though, yes, it is true that hero basically killed class variety outside of techer, ranger, fighter, and gunner.

[Just Life]

Originally posted by Lapinoire:

Originally posted by Just Life:

All other classes was left behind in terms of power and QoL. If you aren't a Hero, you are a hindrance to your party and yourself.

Just gonna make a slight correction on this.

Fighter and Gunner were still king in damage during the dawn of Hero. If parse was anything to go by, a competent gunner or fighter player still outdamaged a competent hero player. This was only true if you played with any elite teams back in pso2 JP.

For the most part, though, yes, it is true that hero basically killed class variety outside of techer, ranger, fighter, and gunner.

I forget, was this during the Gunner/Summoner nuke everything with a Maron time?

[Lapinoire]

Originally posted by Just Life:

I forget, was this during the Gunner/Summoner nuke everything with a Maron time?

Su/Gu Maron Chain(alongside zanverse) was nerfed during the first balance patch in episode 5 because Sega didn't like certain teams using 11 SuGus and 1 Techer to insta-nuke Mother and Deus in ~2 minutes. That's when Chain became main class only lol. Nabarta and Maron no longer worked with chain.

[Gilver Redgrave]

Originally posted by Just Life:

I guess I misread the tone of your response in the quote. I took it as "If you're going to fire the lead, may as well get rid of everyone else while you're at it" type of response.

If Shiro and i talk about the currrent director you can see it as running Gag. I guess everyone here talking about that guy can be seen as running Gag by now.

[pso2mod4]

Hi all. Yes, we do browse these forums intermittently, but you can mainly interact with us on the official discord https://discord.gg/pso2ngs. We have specific channels there for bug reports and feedback, and that information is collected and shared with the whole team.