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Longer Phantasy, beta extended til Saturday


Good news for those of you already addicted to Phantasy Star Universe (me), the beta has been extended until Saturday, October 21st. Now you have three more days to die and watch your unhelpful teammates hump your corpse. Assuming you can actually connect anyway. Just to be sure, we connected earlier and the beta is definitely still working.

Some of you may remember that the beta was cut short thanks to a delay and yesterday's Live outage. It's nice to see that SEGA is willing to extend the beta in light of these issues. Anybody enjoying the game so far?

[Thanks, Mike]

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1. I loved PSO, but unfortunately the connection issues have made me unable to try PSU thus far. Hopefully the extension will give me a chance.

Posted at 3:08PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Logan T. 1 star

2. I tried it for a few hours (got to level 8).. not too shabby. As a former WoW player myself it was actually pretty fun. But yeaaa my college years are over and my free time doesn't allow me to play marathon sessions of MMOs let alone the games I already own. *sigh* to be young again..

Posted at 3:31PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Verge 0 stars

3. Verge,

I know how you feel. That's actually why I like Phantasy Star. It's mission based, so you don't *have* to play for hours at a time. As long as you have the will power, anyway :)

Posted at 3:46PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Richard Mitchell 0 stars

4. OMFG I GOT NEWS POSTED!!

*swoon*

So yah. Im completely addicted to PSU

Love the crafting system, and the quests are exactly what im looking for in an MMO, short easily done without a 40+ raid group.

Good stuff. Im enjoying the beta, didnt know about it until I checked XBL marketplace friday, didnt even know it was getting released on the 360 until I saw the beta download. I will be getting my preorder in for this saturday at my local gamestop during the Gears of War preview.

woot woot. =D

Posted at 3:51PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Mike 0 stars

5. Downloaded, played it, fell asleep, deleted download. nuf said

Posted at 4:19PM on Oct 18th 2006 by KineticOnline 0 stars

6. I can't find it on the Marketplace. T_T

Posted at 4:23PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Josh 0 stars

7. "I can't find it on the Marketplace. T_T"

It was only available for download for two days. Better luck next time :(

Posted at 4:25PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Richard Mitchell 0 stars

8. I'd love to play, but last time I was on I got disconnected while fighting a boss, and haven't been able to log on since for some reason.

Posted at 4:42PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Andrew Grossardt 0 stars

9. Where is it?! I've been looking for it in the marketplace and have yet to find it. :-(

Posted at 4:57PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Christian 0 stars

10. Oh man this beta has been so much fun. To be honest, I stoped playing after reaching level 5 though; I was enjoying it so much that I didn't want to grow too attached to my character before the beta world goes away... It was more than enough of a taste to get me hyperactive excited about the game when it ships though :)

Btw Richard, I do believe you mentioned the possiblity of a 360Fanboy PSU clan? if so, sign me up!

Posted at 5:14PM on Oct 18th 2006 by AoE 0 stars

11. Its not on the marketplace anymore guys. It was a limited beta. It was only up for 2 days and then the download got pulled.

Posted at 5:31PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Mike 0 stars

12. I downloaded it and tried playing it once but it got stuck at the "creating character screen" trying to connect to the game network or something (basically right when the game loads up and you hit Start). This was on Monday I believe at around 5pm Pacific time. Not related to the XBox Live downtime. I'll have to try it again today.

Posted at 6:44PM on Oct 18th 2006 by TheBLAHBLAHBLAH 0 stars

13. All I had to do was restart my xbox stop the connection problems. It was rocking when I played it and I am preordering the game tommarow to get the soundtrack

Posted at 12:43AM on Oct 19th 2006 by Webnet 0 stars

14. I wanted to but when I went 4am sunday morning it wasn't on marketplace...and it was suppose to be up over the weekend...that was published here and at their web site.

To bad a giant company like sega doesn't know when the weekend is....can't say very much for them as a company.

Verge...there is always retirement.

Posted at 8:28AM on Oct 19th 2006 by Miko 0 stars

15. I dont feel that PSU is a good upgrade to PSO at all. I want a real MAG, not this P Machine thing. I want my timed attacks back, not the button mashing. I want real upgraded graphics, not this PS2 port. Did any of you notice the redraw distance of things like tall grass and stuff? Terrible.

Plus, I definitely dont have the time to sink another 100+ hours into a new character (already did that twice with the original and once with the GCN version) as I'm a dad now and own a house. Oh well.

Posted at 8:58AM on Oct 19th 2006 by modeps 0 stars

16. Somehow my Xbox360 isn't connecting to Xbox Live somehow, did Xbox Live go down again?

Posted at 8:21PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Pink Mag 0 stars

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