Mid-July was an exciting time for US/EU PSU players. In a short period of time, Sega of America did a lot to increase the accessibility of the game for current players as well as former players looking to pick the game up again. The release of the supplemental update was followed by the appearance of vanilla PSU on Games on Demand, and the Ambition of the Illuminus expansion pack was made free for all users.
Personally, I thought that Sega's efforts in the last few weeks of July might be able to turn the game around for awhile. Their service in August has made me think otherwise.
Since the supplemental update landed on the US/EU servers one month ago, exactly one new mission has been added. That content update was followed by a week of no maintenance, and Sega of Japan has already announced that there will not be any maintenance this week, either.
I understand that it's the summer and a lot of people might be away on vacation or whatever. However, the frequency of updates post-supplemental update seems about the same as it did before the update appeared. It seems that Sega continues to express no interest in catching up to the JP servers as they pledged they would back when the PC/PS2 servers closed.
Of course, the supplemental update was pretty significant and there's a fair amount of new content to experience, but many players are beginning to run out of things to do and Sega is not doing anything to keep them playing. Let's hope that changes in the next couple of weeks.
UPDATE: Turns out Sega changed their mind and decided to do maintenance this week to fix a bug with the AMP feature. I don't think that really changes the content of this post, though!
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