MMOCulture reports that Phantasy Star Online 2 will operate in full service in Southeast Asia on May 29, by way of an announcement from Asiasoft. Asiasoft is the company handling operations in the chosen Southeast Asian countries, and recently conducted a closed beta for PSO2. Lucky players with beta keys will be able to access the first English servers on May 27. Asiasoft has singled out PSO2 beta session’s number of activations as the company’s highest for a regionally launched title, with 100,000 activations. They expect 300,000 more from these select countries within the game’s launch. Do keep in mind that Asiasoft community managers have expressed the company’s intentions to block foreign IP addresses, similar to Sega of Japan’s stance on their own servers.
There is still no apparent movement forward on a Western release of the game. The MMOCulture article points out some significant statistics for the game’s userbase as of early 2014: 3 million registered ID’s and a record of 107,000 concurrent playing users at once. An impressive note, and keep in mind that these numbers only represent (mostly) Japanese players or Japanese accounts. Sega certainly has confidence in the game within Asian territories, if expansion of operations and continued content are any indicator.