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@merchantHelios @AngryWraith @brimshae the new anti-cheat is normally a worse one, but they are seemingly running a custom version because it's actually less intrusive than gameguard is. it literally only runs when the game is running and performance increases across the board. a lot of people saw that they were changing the anti-cheat to this worse one and got freaked out and never looked any further into it. as of right now though you can still use gameguard if you really want to.

also, this is just the steam playerbase. it is also on xbox and ps5, and on the xbox store and epic store on pc. there was some handshake issue with a patch last week on xbox so the game was offline on microsoft services for a while, which actually tanked the player base and you could really tell.

as someone who actually plays daily, and usually at really weird buttfuck hours in the middle of the night, i've never had any issues finding parties to do current content with. a lot of people say the game is dead but man, they have no idea what a dead game really looks like. the player base isn't great, but it wasn't crazy to begin with. as you can see from the graph, a ton of people hopped on NGS right when it came out and since it was pretty barebones they never touched it again, just moved on to something else. i think pso2 global had like 4 or 5 thousand players usually, something like that. if NGS didn't exist i'm pretty sure a lot of people would be bored of pso2 classic now as well.

imo like 95% of the criticisms against this game are fucking retarded and people only talk about it because they're addicted to hating things on the internet and getting good boy points for agreeing with everyone else. the game IS different from PSO2, but people really approach it with the wrong perspective and a lot of their grievances apply to pso2 as well, especially before global happened since they packed like 8 years of content into 1 for that.