A lot of people have assumed for a long time that this was coming sooner or later. Sega of Japan today confirmed that the Japanese PC/PS2 servers will be receiving S3 difficulty missions, beginning in next Thursday's content update with four missions on Moatoob.
With this new information, Sega has made it perfectly clear what their intentions for this game are regarding updates. It seems they've pulled a page from the PSO playbook and are simply going to milk the existing content as much as possible, rather than develop new content such as a new expansion pack or DLC (though thanks to the PS2 I suppose DLC isn't a viable option).
It's widely believed that Sega is running out of new PSU:AotI disc content to provide to the Japanese (and 3-4 months later, US/EU) players. For many, this new development will only further that belief.
Don't get me wrong: I don't have any problem with Sega bringing out increased difficulty levels. A lot of people will probably appreciate it. But it'll get old really fast, and over time will surely cause many more to quit the game. New versions of existing missions are fine, but how about some new, original content to go with it?
I posted a link to a translation of the Japanese update page above, but if you'd like to see the original, click here.
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