Phantasy Star not online
This weekend saw the launch of the Phantasy Star Online for the Xbox 360 – a week of free play (apart from next Tuesday when Xbox Live goes off for a day for ‘maintenance’). When I got home from work on Friday the demo was ready to grab, so I started the download. Several hours later close to a gig was there, and I started the game.
Well, I tried to. I couldn’t connect. Perhaps the game doesn’t begin until Saturday, I thought, so I tried on Saturday.
I couldn’t connect.
Sunday – no joy.
It seems I’m not the only person with this problem – Joystiq reports the same, and a simple search on Google reveals the same.
I suppose it could be the sheer weight of people trying to get online, but since the game is due to be released in a week this better not be the problem. Except now it has coloured my opinion, making me think the servers won’t be able to cope. Good going Sega – with this and the utter garbage that was released as the Sonic demo you are doing a great job at not selling your games.