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DC Phantasy Star online - Official Shut down 31/03/07
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:47 pm
by segadreamcaster
Hi all,
As many of you probably know, the offical Dreamcast Phantasy star online servers (and Gamecube servers) are set to go offline this coming weekend. Its not totally certain what time this will be but it is expected to happen at midnight (Japanese time) so thats GMT+9
If anybody still has access to the servers with their DC I encourage you to come online for one last time to...player numbers are already increasing and it would just be nice to have a good turnout for the closure.
So if you can and you feel like it, feel free to hop on
Cheers, Craig
PS: This post references the PAL EU and Japanese versions of the game only, the US NTSC version officialy went offline in 2003
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:50 pm
by grolt
That's pretty sad. My roommate used to play it quite often, and while I never really invested time in it, I was nevertheless amazed by the world it was able to create. Sad that it is officially "dead", even if it will live anew in user servers. It would have been nice to keep one server online until basically all interest was lost, but kudos to Sega for keeping it up as long as they did.
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:01 pm
by Nightmare a la DC
Wow, this is gonna leave a mighty big hole in the DC online community. On the plus side this may lead to some more BBA's being available on the net (seeing how most owners only used them for PSO), so all you Quake players keep a look out.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:25 am
by segadreamcaster
Nightmare a la DC wrote:Wow, this is gonna leave a mighty big hole in the DC online community. On the plus side this may lead to some more BBA's being available on the net (seeing how most owners only used them for PSO), so all you Quake players keep a look out.
Might be a few I guess, but I expect most will keep them, after all most owners now are enthusiasts, so there may be a small number of extras for sale, but don't count on it...after all the private servers are still available for those with the right versions
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:47 pm
by segadreamcaster
Yeah, today the Japanese servers went offline one by one
A grand total of about 600 players
were online for the event and two japanese servers were completely full
The EU servers are still up at present but are expected to go offline in a little over 12 hours time
so really is last chance now all
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:06 am
by segadreamcaster
EU servers still up at present, were expected to offline 7 hours ago now...but they still remain...wish they would do it if they are going to
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:12 pm
by grolt
Maybe it was an April Fool's joke?
One could only hope...
Are the servers as full as when the Japanese servers went down?
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:06 pm
by Overwatch
I've never played PSO, but I can still go "POR QUE!!!!!!!!"
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:57 pm
by grolt
Overwatch wrote:I've never played PSO, but I can still go "POR QUE!!!!!!!!"
See I thought you just needed to know French to be able to say that...here I've been asking why all along, never having played the game.
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:48 pm
by segadreamcaster
grolt wrote:Maybe it was an April Fool's joke?
One could only hope...
Are the servers as full as when the Japanese servers went down?
No, the servers are nowhere near as full as that...most of the player were japanese and they can no longer connect
The EU server went offline this morning at 4.25am (UK time) but oddly went back online at 9am and have been on ever since...rumour is it has a brand new IP address...nobody knows whats going on at the moment
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:52 pm
by Overwatch
grolt wrote:Overwatch wrote:I've never played PSO, but I can still go "POR QUE!!!!!!!!"
See I thought you just needed to know French to be able to say that...here I've been asking why all along, never having played the game.
Its Spanish for "why!!!" Will we at Saturn League be supporting a server for PSO? Perhaps a private server for members here only?