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“No Plans” to Region Lock Phantasy Star Online 2’s Western Version For the Moment

With the western version of Phantasy Star Online 2 announced only for North America for now, many have been wondering about potential region locks.

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With the western version of Phantasy Star Online 2 announced only for North America for now, many players from other countries have been feeling a bit left out. Luckily, there is good news.

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Today the official account of the game responded a question mentioning that for the moment there are no plans to lock other regions out of the game.

You can read the relevant tweet below.

The Twitter account also clarified that there is still no information about potential releases in any other region besides the United States and Canada.

We also get a fairly vague but potentially interesting comment about the comparison with the Japanese version of the game.

No further details were provided, so I guess it’s open to interpretation.

The localized version of Phantasy Star Online 2 (with English and Japanese voice acting included) for Xbox One with a closed beta starting next month.

Phil Spencer himself went on record mentioning that the game will likely make it to other platforms, but we have no solid info about that.

In the meanwhile, Sega is preparing to launch the sixth expansion on PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC in Japan, where the game is still going strong, enough to get a physical release.

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Giuseppe Nelva

Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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