When it was announced that the Xbox 360 Phantasy Star Universe servers would be shut down, many expected that they could simply jump over to the Japanese PC servers. If Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst was any indication, the PSU servers in Japan would stay up long after the US/EU servers shut down.
Not this time.
Sega of Japan has announced that the PC servers for Phantasy Star Universe will be shut down on Thursday, September 27, just three weeks after the Xbox 360 servers go down for good. This will end all official online support for the game worldwide.
After Sega gradually phased out PSO support in the United States, Europe, and Japan, the end of PSU seems rather abrupt by comparison. Perhaps this is an admission that the game was not as good as Sega had hoped it to be. In any case, this means that the focus will now be on Phantasy Star Online 2 only, which hopefully translates into regular content updates and better support.
The Phantasy Star Universe era is about to come to an end. Hopefully the era of PSO2 will be more enjoyable and far less frustrating!
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