Phantasy Star Online 2 Open Beta Announced and Dated for Xbox One

If you're eager to try Phantasy Star Online 2 but you didn't get into the recent close beta, a new chance is coming soon.

[Fluttershy77]

Here's a fantastic reason to own an Xbox

[Teflon02]

Not really, will get released elsewhere seeing it exists on everything but Xbox already. Also my laptop in 2014 was able to run the game at max settings. I'd just play on PC. Alot more convenient.

[Zeref]

Since when is PC more convenient then consoles? 😂

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I'm waiting for the PC version, I've never played Phantasy Star, so this will be my first exposure to it.

[TheHan]

Gonna have to get this game, loved the first one

[Gaming4Life1981]

I loved the first one until someone stole my double saber. I grinded hard to get that on dreamcast only to have it stolen.

[Teflon02]

This one is awesome. I put soo much hours into the Japanese versions. Just sucked that after a while they blocked it outside Japan and you could only get on from PS4 and Vita for maybe 2 years lol

[Father__Merrin]

the exploder/gameshark disc ruined the dreamcast version. i rememeber usernames called Darker when they entered lobby they cast resta and killed you all even tho he was on pioneer 2. good times tho :)

[thesoftware730]

First online game I ever played.

Fond memories of Dreamcast. using dial up to play, amazing how far we come.

[DivineHand125]

Does anyone know if an xblg subscription is required?

[Atanasrikard]

To play on xbox, I would imagine one is required.

[Servbot41]

It's required sadly. I'm skipping on Xbox because of it. Absurd to charge a fee to play a free game when Sony doesn't.

[autobotdan]

Absurd for MS to charge a fee to play a free game when Sony doesn't want to pay money Localize the game to America?

[gamer7804]

it is, but its a free to play game otherwise, not really a big deal when you could get gamespass + gold for like ~120$ for both for 3 years, and have a ton of games to play, no brainer.

[autobotdan]

I'm ready!

[Games1st]

Surprised that Nintendo and Sony slept on it. Good work from Xbox getting it localised.

[TheHan]

It’s not the first Phantasy Star Universe game that’s came to Xbox. They had to shut the servers down to the open Multiplayer servers in the demo because more people was playing the demo then actually buying the game. In the long run Sega was losing money keeping those servers open.