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[Marcus Estrada]

Phantasy Star Online 2 just finally launched in Japan and with that out of the way Sega was finally able to announce the game for other regions. Today via their official blog Sega announced the game will be coming to North America and Europe. For us NA folk, we should expect to see the game in early 2013 and as a free-to-play title, just like in Japan.

In PSO2 you'll still have the ability to choose the classes you're familiar with but now there's a very fleshed out character creator too. With it, you can change body size, facial structure, and basically the general things you expect from a modern character creator. Beyond that you can add multiple layers of accessories so feasibly you could have cat ears on top of cat ears. Why you would want to do that isn't known, but hey, you have the freedom to!

As was mentioned earlier, the game is going to be a F2P title. What does this mean, exactly? Unfortunately Sega are currently not ready to discuss the specifics of this. However, it's probably a safe bet that the model will work out about the same as it does in other MMOs.

So far this announcement is only for the PC version of the game. Japan also received a Vita version but so far Sega has said nothing about this. Hopefully we will also receive that version as it would fuel PSO addictions heavily if it could be played on the go.

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[Marshall Henderson]

I dunno about cat ears on cat ears, but I made a character in the Japanese version who had three pairs of glasses stacked up.

I don't know Japanese, but there's apparently a voice-acted story, action-RPG gameplay, and a sci-fi backdrop, so it's basically tailor-made for me.