<strong>Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst to close 1 year after the console originals...</strong> <img src="/images/BlueBurst.jpg" alt="BlueBurst" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - November 20 2007 - 3:11 PM ]</font>

<P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ragol.co.uk Forumer </FONT><A href="http://www.ragol.co.uk/forums/member.php?u=1560"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">FireFox276</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">&nbsp;has sent in news that the last official version of <EM>Phantasy Star Online</EM> that's still going from SEGA - <EM>Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst</EM> - is to closedown at the end of March 2008.</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posting on the official <EM>PSO: BB</EM> forums come the following as the reason for closure:</FONT></P><P align=center><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"</FONT><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><EM>To give players some insight into the goings on of PSOBB, I've drafted up a brief explanation that covers the why concerns for the game closure. The reason for closing ultimately falls on two core reasons: <BR><BR>1. PSOBB is not making any money, in fact Phantasy Star Universe is the only reason it has been going as long as it has. Even with the lack of updates (no development, localization, or management costs), the server and bandwidth costs exceed the amount of money generated by paying subscribers. <BR><BR>2. Persistent billing issues and server timeouts (error 906, etc) cannot be resolved by our billing server team. We've been working on them for months and they simply cannot be resolved, I would go into more detail, but the end result will always be the same. <BR><BR>As a company offering a subscription-based service, we cannot charge people for a broken service, and we can't offer a free service without offsetting the cost. The sad result is a closure of the game.</EM>"</FONT></P><P align=right><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- </FONT><A href="http://boards2.sega.com/psobb_board/viewtopic.php?t=77148"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From the official <EM>PSO: BB</EM> Forums</FONT></A></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hunters' Licenses will no longer be able to be bought from 6th December 2007, while all subscriptions will end on January 9th 2008, making online play on <EM>Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst</EM> free to all users who have had at active account with the game at some point in it's lifetime from January 9th until March 31st 2008 when the game will closedown for good.</FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">During this final period of <EM>Phantasy Star Online: BB</EM>'s play, XP &amp; Drop Rates are to be increased should you finally wish to get your hands on the goods and levels you always wished for!</FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For those also wondering, yes March 31st 2008 also marks the 1 year anniversary of us losing SEGA Dreamcast &amp; Nintendo Gamecube <EM>Phantasy Star Online</EM>.</FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The discussion on this topic has already started on the forums - </FONT><A href="http://www.ragol.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=11673"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">click here to be a part of it</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">.</FONT></P>

<strong>An apology...</strong> <img src="/images/Ragol.co.uk.jpg" alt="Ragol.co.uk" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - November 20 2007 - 2:52 PM ]</font>

<P align=center><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="http://www.ragol.co.uk/images/ragolbanner.jpg" align=baseline border=1></FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Apologies for the lack of updates on any part of Ragol.co.uk, PSUniverse.net &amp; the Ragol.co.uk Community Forums. My time has been taken up so much so by university work and outside interferences that absolutely no updates have been made to the site by me in the past few months!</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Because of this the website &amp; forums traffic &amp; usage has obviously dwindled in numbers recently. Unfortunately i can't guarantee that the opposite will happen in the coming months, but at least until June you probabily won't see much difference in the website. However, if you're still with us, thanks for sticking it out and i hope you're still either enjoying <EM>Phantasy Star Online</EM>, <EM>Phantasy Star Universe</EM>, or discussing it in our forums!</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Of what little i can offer, updates will be here for christmas, so be sure to be with us around then, until now be sure to continue discussing all things <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> at those lovely ol' <A href="http://www.ragol.co.uk/forums/">forums</A>!</FONT></P>

I bring news that the official Blue Burst servers are going to be shutdown on March 31st 2008. This is a sad bit of news I must say.

Source:
http://boards2.sega.com/psobb_board/view...hp?t=77148

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new thread to discuss everything about these games, from the best power-up to the best boss fight and ect...

prime 1 (100% in around 6:24)
prime 2 (100% in around 4 hours)
prime 3 (81% in 10:42)

all those where on easy mode, and "hypermode" on prime 3 is giving me RSI i swear (1 hour 10 mins on ONE boss x.x)

hey ragol i have not posted on this forum in a wile but i would really like some advice.

i recently started some new charaters with some of my friends and we are playing multi mode and i wold like to go on to hard mode after clearing an episode. but here is my problem you don't unlock ruins in multi mode when you clear mines you have to get there in single player, but if i were to do that there would suddenly be a huge ap in levles and i want to keep every one within 4 levels of eachother.

so any ideas.

oh yeah

here are the levels, classes and controller placement we play with

player one, me-FOmar lvl 12 ID purplenum
player two, friend 1- RAcast lvl 12 ID oran
player three, friend 2 - FOnewm lvl 13 ID viridia
player four, friend 3 - HUcast lvl 9 ID greenill
player four(sub), friend 4 - HUmar lvl 5 ID yellowboze

all of them are pretty much complete new bee's and friend 3 likes to run off on his own so we have a substitute who is little smarter even if he is not in the level range i want.

This gave me a giggle, thought I'd share it.

First off, thanks for your help guys I can now have the PSO fun again (Although is not the official server, but oh well, FREE GAMEPLAY )

Well I don't usually try to solo Olga Flow but I tryed today with my HUne lvl 131 in Ult, the battle went really well except that for first time I never seen that his Flowen convert/Aura mode never fades, I used to wait for it fades since I tried both TECH and normal attacks and cant inflict damage. Is there anyway that you can damage it or revert that mode without the need of scape dolls in soloing?

My current equips for this battle since I don't carry more than 5 weps are:

Holy Ray+40(Is a must for me against Olga)
Jizai+40(Can 5K damage in charged rage, perfect when Im between Olga's Feets)
Double Cannon(With good % stats)
Daylight Scars+25(I use them to kill Sinows in the way =D)
Charge Vulcan+25(I got no more grinders =P)

I think I may need another type of weapon, specially those elemental damage inflicting but I truly dunno how to defeat it without using dolls.

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