As for the Bi-weekly AC scrapes, if not to the limited time SG shop you wouldn't actually have to buy the AC scrapes. On JP Whales and F2P had a nice cohabitation where whales could, well... subway and place extras on the stores and f2p would get their stuff via meseta without paying real money. Now, NA has set a bunch of
pso2 sales previously AC items into the limited time SG shop or their stupid"SG packs" making them untradable and unobtainable differently. (discounting one-time stuff like stock expansion/mags/etc.) It comes back to NA's garbage handling on SG.
When I was going through supreme, it took me so long to get through it due to how stingy the drops were in that match but I loved it nonetheless. Next time I picked up it was to get the Xbox with Epiaode 2 & 1, and it had been rekindled. I introduced two of my friends to Phantasy Star Online 2 and we'd split display playing it for hours on end. I was late to the Blue Burst scene but with the Schthack(sp?) Servers upward, and it was fantastic. Since it was an escape from life and to simply relax with, like most RPGs I'd had fun with it. When I look back whatsoever I feel old.
Having played Phantasy Star games because Online I can declare that PSO2 is nothing like the original PSO and it's also not even almost as addictive because it has so many things wrong which the first PSO pretty much nailed (for example the power creep to the endgame was pretty much non existent in the original PSO and items had unique uncompromised exceptional attacks e.g. the Frozen Shooter and Guld Milla).
For me it's 3 things all from PSU as that. 2: All the public areas, for some time you had to work your way through a mission or 2 just to reach the area you wanted, nice that they made a fast move for it. 3: The BS milling system. It was hated by everyone that feeling when you grind out a 10/10 was epic.
Both existed in PSO2 for a time as lower-tier rares(they were wired lances,) but when the NT weapon system came out a huge amount of the 7-9 celebrity rarity weapons obtained only... thrown out. All of those camos in the photon booster shop used to be by grinding the shit out of 25, individual weapons that you could farm. Rather than having them for each individual weapon them compressed to
PSO2 Meseta camos at least.
