Honestly from a new player's perspective, I can see people being super turned off by the stupid pace of the game in its current state. Assuming we really are just getting the JP version untouched, players will be showered with 1,000,000 EXP tickets which will catapult you towards the level cap. Bingo rewards give everyone decent high level poverty gear, on top of the player shops. You could honestly see most of the major stuff in the game in a couple of weeks, if you even choose to do so (is there any reason to do certain free fields?)
I have 500 hours on one character I've been playing since the beginning, 300 hours on another which was made 3 years in, and less than 100 hours on a character made within the last year, and all 3 characters have roughly the same amount of EXP. Granted A LOT of my time on the earlier characters was spent shit posting in the lobbies.
That said, the core gameplay still feels amazing and I love the game. I'm certain at least some people will love it too, even if not a lot.
People into PSO1 expecting something similar might be disappointed (I was). People into MMOs in general might enjoy it.
Fair warning to everyone who wants to play this after playing PSO1
PSO1 is Dark Souls without a roll. PSO2 is a character action game where you are constantly zipping around the stage cancelling animations.
(if they aren't censored).
Is this my only hope to get some female costumes with pants
There's at least two of us now. How bad is the gacha part?
Clothes/accessories are bought using lottery tickets which cost real money. However clothes can be bought on the player shops using in game money. The mining/fishing are more blatant gacha systems (stamina systems, levels, etc) but I just ignored the whole system. I haven't spent a dime on the game.
Is it true they butchered the lore in PSO2 since the TV anime came out?
I didn't follow it too closely, but Ep 4 takes place in a post apocalyptic Vegas and follows some anime high school girl
Then later on Alis from Phantasy Star 1 shows up, except now she's half naked and looks like garbage