I'm looking for anyone who currently plays the SCHTserv version of Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst, or is interested in trying it out. Phantasy Star Online is a quite amazing game, with a wonderful variety of weaponry and other items that make running around killing monsters hoping to get specific rares with variable stats enjoyable. There are no official Sega servers for this game anymore, but SCHTserv is the largest private server dedicated to keeping this game alive, unspoiled, and hack free. It's a quite active server, with easily near 300, or even over 300 players on during the day at once during the busy hours, and even more during big events. Yes, they have events, and make new quests sometimes, and even now still work to improve the game and fix longstanding problems.

With the most recent update the game has become even better. As if getting a new, shared bank that links all the characters on your account wasn't enough a while back, materials and grinders can now stack to 99 instead of being unstackable, meaning for me at least that my days of inventory hell on my 2 busiest accounts is over forever. They also increased the material use on all Newman race characters to 200, balancing character stat growth issues that they had before. In addition, the change that excites me the most of all is that while at the moment all quest reward items have been removed and some specific quests removed from the game, these were all being used as the target of hacking exploits to gain items. In the future, every item removed from being obtainable by this change will be added into the drop charts of the different character section ids, meaning a whole new depth to the rare hunting and a reduction in some of the redundant and terrible filler weapons some enemies can drop. Best of all, it means that many weapons that could not have any variable percentage attributes on them or hit will now be able to have it!

Add to this the fact they already combined many redundant caster oriented shields into just a few far more powerful ones and made many caster weapons have significantly improved boosts to make forces actually able to deal comparable damage on their own and the server is looking better than ever. There is also a generally updated every 2 or 3 months list of reward items in the game's casino where you can trade accrued tickets you can collect every day to get often unobtainable or usefully attributed items. In addition, every month a specific 6 hour time slot is chosen for the same day of the week that month to have doubled rare and rare monster appearance rates, making for a good time to get in that hunting you've been meaning to do!

I have played this game since its original incarnation on the Dreamcast with V1, and will continue to play it even after the now announced to be free to download and play Phantasy Star Online 2 by Sega comes out. I love to teach others and introduce them to the game and help them get the game running, so feel free to comment or note me if you would like to learn how to download the game and give it a try out. Do note that while I sometimes hand out free rares and stuff, I am very cautious about doing so as if I spoil you then you will likely become irritated that you don't get instant rewards later when killing monsters trying to get rares. This game will not reward you if you do not have any patience, and it's important to teach a player to learn to enjoy working for his or her own rewards at an early stage or they will quit the game early on.