Phantasy Star Online

(Working In Progress)

About

Phantasy Star Online ( ファンタシースターオンライン Fantashī sutā Onrain), or PSO for short, is a MMORPG series by Sega and a subset of the Phantasy Star series.

Origin

The development of Phantasy Star Online began after Sonic Adventure was made. Sega’s Chairman, Isao Okawa, had a strong belief that internet gaming would come to be important, and the company’s Sonic Team division was instructed to develop an MMORPG title. As there was no precedent for online gaming on console, the developers looked to the PC RPG game Diablo made by Blizzard for inspiration on the game’s mechanics. During the development, the game was initially known as The Third World and had a vague sci-fi theme, before art director Satoshi Sakai produced a piece of concept art featuring a dragon. The decision was made to link it to the Phantasy Star series and name the MMORPG series Phantasy Star Online.

Spread

Phantasy Star Online receive very high scores and it is one of the greatest games played of all time. It also has a community site^[2] dedicated to the Phantasy Star series that’s been on the internet for a very long time. Even though the online versions are shut down, there’s a website called SCHTHACK^[1] and it is a free program to play all the Phantasy Star Online games online for free in a private server. Very popular for fans of the Phantasy Star series, and 4chan’s /v/ board.

Phantasy Star Online 2

The highly awaited Phantasy Star Online 2 was released in Japan for Windows in July 4th, 2012 (Independence Day), and is due to be released for iOS and Android in late 2012 and for PlayStation Vita in 2013. The release date for the North America^[3] and Europe version will be in early 2013.

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