Hi folks, newer member here. First post.
Not new to pso, started playing on Dreamcast, been playing forever it seems, logged in a few hundred hours here on the this server. My adult kids and I use the lol rooms. My main is Cosmo.
I voted No.
Two things come to my mind.
First is that I don't want ep4 drops to change. And I play a Pinkel ID. To me ep4 is about perfect.
Second thought is that I think people misunderstand why most player don't play ep2. In my opinion loot drops have very little to do with it. Ep2 is simply not fun. Ep1 is all about the player vs monsters. No gimmicks, no crap. No mobs that cloak. No mobs you can't shoot. No mobs that burry themselves in the ground. No mobs that reflect damage back at you. Like it said no crap. Ep2 has a lot of that type of stuff.
Look the popular quests are ones were the players line up against overwhelming number of mobs and just fight. Stuff like max attacks, XRD, and TTF. Why? Because they are just fun to play. We all sit around three people in the same room(home), and enjoy the hell outa those runs. Straight up fighting, no long talking to npc garbage, no walking(and rewalking) back and forth, no gimmicks.
When ep2 was designed they forgot what made PSO fun to begin with. It became almost a player verses environment experience. And lots of mobs with gimmicks. It lost that magic. I suggest that is more the reason most people don't play ep2, then drop charts.
I love to play PSO, I like to collect rare drops. But I won't play something that isn't fun...just to get some otherwise meaningless digital item/drop. Too many other games out there to play.
What to do with ep2?
I don't know. More XRD quests. Straight line fighting. I have zero problem adjusting the ep2 drops. But I have a big problem with removing ep1 or ep4 drops in order to place them in ep2 for the sole purpose of forcing people to play ep2 more.
Now, that being said. I fully understand that I am guest here. And am very happy to be even be able to play the game. It is your game, Matt, your show. This is just my two cents.
OG