Phantasy Star Online 2 Open Beta

There was a pre-open beta event that commenced over this past weekend. It consisted of two days of limited hours of play to test the servers to see if they were ready for the real open beta. Anyway, I got an e-mail from Sega this morning saying this (translated from JP→EN, of course) :

There were a lot of people who participated in the pre-open beta test on Friday, June 15th and on Saturday, June 16th. We thank you for your participation.
We express our gratitude from our hearts.

We would like to inform you that the time and date of the opening of the next open beta test has been determined as following.

Thursday, June 21st, 2012, starting at 16:00 (That is 3:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -5))

The data of the characters created in the pre-open beta test will not be able to be used in the open beta test, but the characters
created during the open beta test are planned to be carried over into the official service.

Meanwhile, the downloaded files that were used for the pre-open beta test can be used for the next open beta test
as well as the official release, so we advise you not to uninstall these files.


We are waiting with all of our hearts for everyone's participation.

Or something...


There was another, very long, segment of text under that that talked about the statistics and whatnot of the pre-open beta. Apparently, it had 41,500 participants online at the same time on the 16th.



If you're interested in playing this game, the open beta starts this Thursday. You can sign up at the official site, which you can find here : http://pso2.jp/players

 Registration Guide

Step One.


-Click the following button to be sent to the registration page.



-Once you're there, you will be asked to put in your e-mail. Once you've done that, click the button to the right of the e-mail box to be sent an e-mail for verification.



-Go to your e-mail. You should see a new e-mail titled 【SEGA ID】メールアドレス登録のお知らせ. Inside, you will have a link for verification. Click on it.




Step Two.


-Enter your information as following :




-After you have entered all of the information as desired, click the "登録する" button at the bottom of the page. When you've done that, you will be sent to a page to verify the details of your account. If all is entered as desired, click the 登録する button to proceed. If you wish to go back and change something, click the 修正する button below the register button.

Step Three.

-When you've decided everything is correct and you click the 登録する button, you will be sent to a page that tells you your registration is complete and that it has sent you an e-mail welcoming you to Sega's services. At the bottom of the page, there is a button that says, "サービス利用登録." You must click this to select which Sega games you wish to play. When you click it, you will be sent to a page that has a list of games. Scroll halfway down the page. There will be one named ファンタシースターオンライン2. Find it and click the サービス利用登録 button.




-After that, you will be sent to the Phantasy Star Online 2 terms of use agreement page. Click the button that says, "利用規約に同意して登録" to agree to their terms and services. After that, you will be redirected to a page that says your registration is complete.

Congratulations! You can now download and play Phantasy Star Online 2 when it goes live!

If you don't want to wait, you can download the game client here : http://pso2.jp/players/download/


Have fun!