So their fear is very valid, of PSO2 Meseta contents being altered too much like oriental (SEA) release, but he does need to observe why why it failed in a wider view, not simply only PSO2's instance. "We noticed a great deal of players say they have been waiting eight long years for this launch. [laughs] So we were really happy about that."

SEGA did not just wait to bring PSO2 to the west. Keep in mind that there were plans to localize the game early on, but for one reason or another the job was scrapped until lately. The pso2.com page was busy as early as 2012, revealing teasers and other details on the game with a big"COMING SOON" plastered on the webpage. SEGA announced plans to localize PSO2 only days following the JP release, expecting to launch in 2013. Come last year, all of a sudden SEGA announces PSO2 coming to the west onto Microsoft's platform. With a bit of digging, we can piece together what may have occurred.

Making and hosting an MMO isn't affordable. Even if the dev work is currently done, you still will need to get a translation group, client supportservers and servers to host the match. What occurred to SEGA that they needed to cut funding for the localization project? The enterprise to purchase Atlus was none other than SEGA. Even with all the company being held alfoat by SEGA, the business required to earn revenue. Cue the milking of hot titles Persona 3 and 4. Irrespective of what actually happened, we could observe that SEGA has been on a downward tendency financially over the past decade. You can have a look at the published financial reports for yourself. While PSO2 has been one of the most successful titles, it doesn't cost as much to keep it in JP compared to hiring a new team and setting up new infrastructure to get it localized. It would be a massive risk for SEGA to attempt to force the match to the west. The need exists, but with all these foreigners already playing the JP servers, SEGA may have been and determined it wasn't required to attempt to create that push. The failure of the SEA server didn't help with this choice, even when cause drops upon Asiasoft's poor handling of this match.

We now know that the foreign population on the JP servers is tiny compared to the population playing the NA servers, but hindsight is 20/20. Talking of 2020, input Microsoft. A number of years ago, Microsoft opens Azure for gambling. While we do not know who approached who, it is quite clear that there was an agreement between both businesses: Microsoft can finance the PSO2 localization job in exchange for buy Phantasy Star Online 2 Meseta SEGA utilizing and analyzing Microsoft's platform. The rest is now history. SEGA didn't wait because they desired to.