Phantasy Star fans rejoice! The open beta of the upcoming Phantasy Star Universe is coming to Live Marketplace this weekend. There is no exact date listed for the beginning of the beta so, start looking for it on Marketplace tomorrow -- or you can feverishly check every five minutes, like me. The download will only be available for two days, so get it while the gettin's good. There is one caveat and a concern, though. The caveat: you must have Xbox Live Gold to participate -- though you'll only need Silver when the retail game ships.
PSU ships on October 24th. Until then, happy hunting.
[Thanks, Simon]
Update: Contributor vid33nyc1 pointed us to a handy Q&A thread in the PSU forums that cleared up some questions.
- The beta will be available in the US, Europe, and Japan.
- Whatever happens in the beta, stays in the beta. No levels, items, etc. will carry over into the retail version.
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10-12-2006 @ 1:49PM
delerious said...
Hopefully it's up at 12AM-6AM, because I'm going to be gone all weekend.
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10-12-2006 @ 2:30PM
spambot said...
PS sets out once again to claim my soul. I escaped once, but I don't know if I will be able to resist a free beta test.
Wait... it IS free, right?
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10-12-2006 @ 2:30PM
KineticOnline said...
I wonder if an account on trial gold will work for the download?
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10-12-2006 @ 2:34PM
Richard Mitchell said...
"Wait... it IS free, right?"
Yeppers. It's free. Still no sign of it, though. Can't wait.
And KineticOnline,
I see no reason why a trial account wouldn't work. I don't think the system really sees a difference. Besides, what would be the point of a trial if you couldn't try everything, right?
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10-12-2006 @ 2:50PM
vid33nyc1 said...
Whatever you do in the beta will not carry over to the retail version.And major nelson just posted they will be doing maintanence on live on the 17th so who knows if the beta is coming out this weekend.
http://boards.sega.com/psu/viewtopic.php?t=43
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10-12-2006 @ 8:18PM
Chris said...
This could be the game to get me hooked on MMOs again. I wish it was better looking though. I'm not too into the anime look in games.
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10-14-2006 @ 6:48AM
DannyOB@360insight said...
i've never been sucked into MMO's yet, almost, ALMOST with CoV (then the beta ended ubeknown to me). But i'm really willing to give this one a try, possibly one of the most anticipated demo downloads so far i think.
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