Official Site:Â Phantasy Star Online 2
Studio:Â SEGA
Launch Date:Â May 27, 2020 in North America;Â July 4, 2012, in Japan
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Hybrid B2P
Platform: PC, Console, Mobile
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Phantasy Star Online 2 promises closed beta testing dates ‘soon’
Calm down, Phantasy Star Online 2 hopefuls! Why would everyone be so antsy about a lack of any firm dates for the game's closed beta...
Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you want to play in 2020?
There's nothing like a new year -- and a new decade! -- to encourage one to make grand plans that may or may not...
Betawatch: Yes, Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally taking beta signups
It seemed like it would never happen, it's been years, but the unimaginable has happened. As we reported this week, Phantasy Star Online 2...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2020
With 2019 drawing to a close and a new decade of MMORPGs waiting for us just a few days away, the Massively OP writing...
Wheeee Phantasy Star Online 2 is now accepting closed beta signups in North America
One of the big surprises of 2019 - and also one of the most welcome ones - was the revelation that Phantasy Star Online...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v3.0
Behind history are people and stories, some of them well-known and some of them obscure. It has been my mission in The Game Archaeologist...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2019
After 10 years of covering MMORPG news, I can assure you that I am still fired up to keep doing this. One of the...
Massively Overthinking: What MMO were you hoping to hear much more about this year?
Going through our coverage of 2019's MMOs, I realized there are a bunch of games that have previously been on our "anticipated" lists that...
The Daily Grind: What future games give you hope for MMOs?
There is no doubt we have definitely moved into a different era of MMORPG development, with super-huge AAA-budget titles and releases being a thing...
Perfect Ten: Solo prequel games to MMORPGs
When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...
Perfect Ten: The fantasy MMO zone atlas
There are, let's face it, a limited number of different ways to design real-adjacent zones in any fantasy game. At the end of the...
Phantasy Star Online 2 is getting a new mecha-themed class in Japan
Now that Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to North America (really, they mean it this time, until they don't), it feels a little...
Bandai Namco says it has ‘no plans’ to release Blue Protocol in the west ‘at the moment’
Ever since Bandai Namco announced anime MMO Blue Protocol earlier this July, MMO fans have been champing at the bit for more info as...
Recapping Black Desert’s massive E3 and Heidel Ball announcements
I said this morning that I thought Black Desert stole the show for E3 players - apart from the Phantasy Star Online 2 announcement,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 224: Black Desert, Bless Online, and boats
Carlo, Bree, and Justin discuss Black Desert, Bless, Phantasy Star Online 2, E3, LOTRO, SWTOR, GW2, POE, City of Heroes, and boats.
The Daily Grind: Are you going to play Phantasy Star Online 2 next year?
The surprising E3 news that Phantasy Star Online 2 was finally, finally coming to western shores in 2020 made all of our eyebrows shoot...
E3 2019: Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally coming to the US in 2020
All right, so it has already been seven years and basically everyone who was excited about this game has probably long since given up...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v2.0
While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...
Wisdom of Nym: Hunting the monster in Final Fantasy XIV
Patch 4.36 sure seems as if it's has been dragged out. Realistically, that's not what has happened at all; the time between patches has remained...