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Phantasy Star Online 2 Bans 1600 Players Over Toxicity, Symbol Art Changes Coming | MMORPG.com

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edited September 2021 in News & Features Discussion

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Over the past week, Phantasy Star Online 2 has banned over 1600 players for toxic behavior. The NGS Live Operations Team has taken a stand against what they deem as "hateful behavior and toxicity" which has concluded in the suspension and punishment of hundreds of accounts.

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  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,463
    edited September 2021


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  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,675
    How has the game been since the new genesis thing? I kind of haven't heard much about the game in the past month or 2.
  • oddspecoddspec Newbie CommonPosts: 4

    Dattelis said:

    How has the game been since the new genesis thing? I kind of haven't heard much about the game in the past month or 2.



    super slow lvl cap is 20 half the classes from the original arent added yet gets boring fast they r slowly adding stuff but looks like it will be a long time til it has an endgame
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  • UngoodUngood Member LegendaryPosts: 7,534
    This is a really fun and great game.. that for some godforsaken reason, I just could not get into, and I have no idea why.
    Egotism is the anesthetic that dullens the pain of stupidity, this is why when I try to beat my head against the stupidity of other people, I only hurt myself.

  • eoloeeoloe Member RarePosts: 864
    "Phantasy Star Online 2 Bans 1600 Players"

    Is there some players left?
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  • eoloeeoloe Member RarePosts: 864

    Ungood said:

    This is a really fun and great game.. that for some godforsaken reason, I just could not get into, and I have no idea why.



    Yes this is a fun game, until after few hours you reach end of content.
  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,167
    eoloe said:
    "Phantasy Star Online 2 Bans 1600 Players"

    Is there some players left?
    There are a lot of players and obviously you didn't actually play this game very long if that is your opinion. Anyone who played it for any length of time will know how populated this game is. I played it even when I had to play it on the Japanese servers so I have a very good idea how strong the fandom for this game is. 
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  • ItsThatGuyItsThatGuy Member UncommonPosts: 30

    kitarad said:


    eoloe said:

    "Phantasy Star Online 2 Bans 1600 Players"



    Is there some players left?


    There are a lot of players and obviously you didn't actually play this game very long if that is your opinion. Anyone who played it for any length of time will know how populated this game is. I played it even when I had to play it on the Japanese servers so I have a very good idea how strong the fandom for this game is. 



    JP is much more populated than Global and always has been.

    You're acting like Global has a healthy population when nearly the entire playerbase is in agreement that it does not. Have you ever actually been to the forums or the Discord? Do you pay attention to what people are saying?

    You are either extremely ignorant of the situation or you are being intentionally misleading because you don't want to discourage potential players from trying the game, which is it?

    Focusing on bad words and pictures, rather than the RMT issues which are ripping the game apart limb by limb (which is what JP is focused on because they aren't staffed with a stable of social justice warriors obsessed with trying to feel and/or appear virtuous to everyone around them rather than doing their jobs) is a serious mistake and the only people who think it is a good plan are those who don't understand the severe detriment that the RMT situation has had and continues to have on PSO2.

    You seem very emotionally invested.

    It's a video game.

    You need to learn to relax, try screaming into a pillow.
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  • maskedweaselmaskedweasel Member LegendaryPosts: 12,195

    kitarad said:


    eoloe said:

    "Phantasy Star Online 2 Bans 1600 Players"



    Is there some players left?


    There are a lot of players and obviously you didn't actually play this game very long if that is your opinion. Anyone who played it for any length of time will know how populated this game is. I played it even when I had to play it on the Japanese servers so I have a very good idea how strong the fandom for this game is. 



    JP is much more populated than Global and always has been.

    You're acting like Global has a healthy population when nearly the entire playerbase is in agreement that it does not. Have you ever actually been to the forums or the Discord? Do you pay attention to what people are saying?

    You are either extremely ignorant of the situation or you are being intentionally misleading because you don't want to discourage potential players from trying the game, which is it?

    Focusing on bad words and pictures, rather than the RMT issues which are ripping the game apart limb by limb (which is what JP is focused on because they aren't staffed with a stable of social justice warriors obsessed with trying to feel and/or appear virtuous to everyone around them rather than doing their jobs) is a serious mistake and the only people who think it is a good plan are those who don't understand the severe detriment that the RMT situation has had and continues to have on PSO2.

    You seem very emotionally invested.

    It's a video game.

    You need to learn to relax, try screaming into a pillow.
    Sounds like you're the one that needs to calm it down. The population is actually pretty good on global, thousands of players are still logging in daily.  Why would he want to go to the forums or discord when you can just login and play with people? My server still shows high population on the weekends. 

    The issue right now is that the population is split because NGS and legacy share the population. When you're in the city or ship it's not uncommon for instances to be full. NGS will even out more when they add content, the RMTs have nothing to do with it.
    kitarad[Deleted User]gastovski1Lydon



  • MorbeousMorbeous Member UncommonPosts: 87
    These forums need to start banning people for toxic behaviour. So much of it going on
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  • maskedweaselmaskedweasel Member LegendaryPosts: 12,195

    kitarad said:


    eoloe said:

    "Phantasy Star Online 2 Bans 1600 Players"



    Is there some players left?


    There are a lot of players and obviously you didn't actually play this game very long if that is your opinion. Anyone who played it for any length of time will know how populated this game is. I played it even when I had to play it on the Japanese servers so I have a very good idea how strong the fandom for this game is. 



    JP is much more populated than Global and always has been.

    You're acting like Global has a healthy population when nearly the entire playerbase is in agreement that it does not. Have you ever actually been to the forums or the Discord? Do you pay attention to what people are saying?

    You are either extremely ignorant of the situation or you are being intentionally misleading because you don't want to discourage potential players from trying the game, which is it?

    Focusing on bad words and pictures, rather than the RMT issues which are ripping the game apart limb by limb (which is what JP is focused on because they aren't staffed with a stable of social justice warriors obsessed with trying to feel and/or appear virtuous to everyone around them rather than doing their jobs) is a serious mistake and the only people who think it is a good plan are those who don't understand the severe detriment that the RMT situation has had and continues to have on PSO2.

    You seem very emotionally invested.

    It's a video game.

    You need to learn to relax, try screaming into a pillow.
    Sounds like you're the one that needs to calm it down. The population is actually pretty good on global, thousands of players are still logging in daily.  Why would he want to go to the forums or discord when you can just login and play with people? My server still shows high population on the weekends. 

    The issue right now is that the population is split because NGS and legacy share the population. When you're in the city or ship it's not uncommon for instances to be full. NGS will even out more when they add content, the RMTs have nothing to do with it.
    Uh, no, the population in PSO2 is not good...
    Basing this off of what exactly? In comparison to what? Seems fine every time I log in.



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  • HarikenHariken Member EpicPosts: 2,680
    A lot of immature morons play this game.
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  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,167
    I don't visit the highly populated hubs. I stay away from the art display artist. I enjoy the game far better that way. 

  • maskedweaselmaskedweasel Member LegendaryPosts: 12,195

    kitarad said:


    eoloe said:

    "Phantasy Star Online 2 Bans 1600 Players"



    Is there some players left?


    There are a lot of players and obviously you didn't actually play this game very long if that is your opinion. Anyone who played it for any length of time will know how populated this game is. I played it even when I had to play it on the Japanese servers so I have a very good idea how strong the fandom for this game is. 



    JP is much more populated than Global and always has been.

    You're acting like Global has a healthy population when nearly the entire playerbase is in agreement that it does not. Have you ever actually been to the forums or the Discord? Do you pay attention to what people are saying?

    You are either extremely ignorant of the situation or you are being intentionally misleading because you don't want to discourage potential players from trying the game, which is it?

    Focusing on bad words and pictures, rather than the RMT issues which are ripping the game apart limb by limb (which is what JP is focused on because they aren't staffed with a stable of social justice warriors obsessed with trying to feel and/or appear virtuous to everyone around them rather than doing their jobs) is a serious mistake and the only people who think it is a good plan are those who don't understand the severe detriment that the RMT situation has had and continues to have on PSO2.

    You seem very emotionally invested.

    It's a video game.

    You need to learn to relax, try screaming into a pillow.
    Sounds like you're the one that needs to calm it down. The population is actually pretty good on global, thousands of players are still logging in daily.  Why would he want to go to the forums or discord when you can just login and play with people? My server still shows high population on the weekends. 

    The issue right now is that the population is split because NGS and legacy share the population. When you're in the city or ship it's not uncommon for instances to be full. NGS will even out more when they add content, the RMTs have nothing to do with it.
    Uh, no, the population in PSO2 is not good...
    Basing this off of what exactly? In comparison to what? Seems fine every time I log in.
    Super simple, my eyes.

    You know what really gets new potential players hyped? When you have to download unknown software from your community to fix the developer's mess.

    That and the fact that the average players went from 3.5-4k players in May to 16k in June during PSO2NG back down to 3.7k players as of today. Slap on 1,600 bans and... you're gonna have a bad time. 

    But look at the bright side, due to the fact that they've lost 75% of their players since NG's launch, people who attempt to play it won't be met with the horrendous server instability that plagued the game at launch. Couple that with 1,600 player bans and you'll be running buttery smooth!

    And lets be brutally honest, the vast majority of players don't play the game, they just spend the majority of their time trading that pornographic clipart with one another. Every time I entered a hub they'd be sitting there spamming it and asking for trades.
    But most players don't have to download unknown software, most players are playing on XBOX, myself included.

    Plus the server instability got a lot better only a couple weeks after NGS launch, even when the servers were full. I may not be hitting queue times anymore, but lets be real, its because they launched NGS with 20 levels worth of content and half the classes. 

    I still see tons of players logging in but many of them are back on the old PSO2 waiting for NGS to get new content. There really isn't much to do on ngs at the moment.

    A lot of players to hang out in the hubs. The symbol chat spam can be cool but it can get offensive real quick. It seems like those kinds of players just wait around for the urgent quests. 

    I thikn once ngs expands things will get better, right now ngs has less than a quarter of the content of the original. Thats the real problem, they are splitting the community up between two versions and the new version is the loser because they launched it too soon.
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  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,167
    edited September 2021
    ^^^
    I am on the old PSO2 too. Still working on my summoner.
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  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,990
    Only 1600? That is probably just the tip of the iceberg.....One of the multiplayer games I play has so many foul mouthed idiots its not even funny.....Constant racial slurs, vulgar sexual references, and constantly bullying and attacking others verbally...What has our world become?
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  • eoloeeoloe Member RarePosts: 864
    edited September 2021
    LOL, my intent was not to derail this thread that much nor being really serious :)

    However, lack of content in PSO2 NGS is a common and especially valid complain about it. I played this game, and I honestly loved the mobility and the combat (less the aesthetic). I also liked the idea of the open world even it is under-exploited.

    Then I stopped, not because it was bad or because of the competition, but simply because it felt dull with the same content over and over.

    IMO, PSO2 NGS needs few more years of content development to reach the level of its ancestor.
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  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,463

    Morbeous said:

    These forums need to start banning people for toxic behaviour. So much of it going on



    These forums would never come close to the Steam forums. Spend one day there and you will be happy to be here.
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  • RuXuxRuXux Newbie CommonPosts: 2
    You know what's funny.... They just probably banned the rest of the people still playing this game. I mean they became toxic cause there is seriously not much to do in this game. Unless you $$gamble$$ on fashion you like, or create toxic symbol art. It's sad to say, Even tho there is a winter update coming or fall I don't think it's going to last until then
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