Hosting and making an MMO is not affordable. Even if the dev work is currently done, you still will need to get a translation team, client supportservers and servers to sponsor the game. What happened to SEGA that they had to cut financing for Phantasy Star Online 2 Meseta the localization job? Our first hint is that Atlus was at risk after its parent company filed for bankruptcy back in June of 2013. The company to purchase Atlus was none other than SEGA. Cue the milking of hot names Persona 3 and 4. It might be that the localization job for PSO2 was cut in favor of purchasing Atlus and funding their projects. Irrespective of what actually happened, we can observe that SEGA has otherwise been on a downward trend financially over the last ten years. It is possible to have a look at the published financial reports on your own. While PSO2 continues to be among their most successful titles, it does not cost as much to keep it in JP compared to hiring a new team and establishing new infrastructure to receive it localized. It could be a massive threat for SEGA to try and force the game to the west. The need exists, but with all these foreigners already playing the JP servers, SEGA may have become complacent and determined it was not required to attempt to make that push. The failure of this SEA server didn't assist with this choice, even if the cause falls upon Asiasoft's poor handling of the match.

We know that the foreign inhabitants about the JP servers is tiny compared to the people playing on the NA servers, but hindsight is 20/20. Speaking of 2020, enter Microsoft. A number of decades ago, Microsoft opens up Azure for gambling. While we do not know who , it is quite obvious that there was an agreement between the two businesses: Microsoft can fund the PSO2 localization job in exchange for SEGA utilizing and analyzing Microsoft's platform. The rest is now history. SEGA did not wait because they wanted to.

I also heard a rumor that the gains out of buy meseta pso2 Alien Colonial Marines were to help finance pso2 from the West, but we all know what happened to this game. Granted, this is only a rumor, so take it with a grain of salt. Waitif thats true, does this mean we could attribute PSO2 NA's original delay on Randy Pitchford!? Because I am all for it! Wait what? I thought that game funds were stolen to fund Borderlands instead of that game I discovered, that is stupid.