Gosh, this looks so complicated. On the one hand, kudos for keeping the game intact so that there will not be Phantasy Star Online 2 Meseta a riot over changes people don't like. However on the flip side, since they are remaking base PSO2 visuals anyway, I wish they would just go 100 percent and synchronize personality models entirely. Giving old players some free fashion items and unlocks will be enough to bribe everyone to accept the new system.

Synchronizing 100% personality models doesn't sound easy. The problem is that the older outfits and layer wear are modeled to match the old pso2 body. To be able to synchronize it, they'd have to recreate from scratch (haha pun) 8 years of cosmetics. That's unlikely to occur. I mean that I'd be willing to shed a certain percentage of those makeup to help keep things intact across versions. As long as there's a continuous feed of cool new things to replace it, I do not mind. I always rotate out my older appearances anyway. As long as the character versions translate 1:1 it'll still feel just like mine.

I would imagine a large complication to this entails a lot of the makeup from the Western side of things that were exclusive to collaborations, promotional events, and events that no longer exist. The instance I can think of is that the Dragon Hunter Frontier Z collaboration where I could envision the clothes and weapons could definitely be provided a visual upgrade together with everything else but I do not exactly know how the licensing or how the lawful side of this collaboration functions where I'd wish it was as easy as Sega going through and updating the assets but I don't know about how much Capcom is involved in that procedure.

The same applies to collaborations such as the Final Fantasy XIV collaboration with Odin (which still exists as far as I know) where I don't know just how much Square Enix is involved in that for Sega to have the ability to upgrade assets . When it was only just Phantasy Star-related items (like character outfits, cameos from other games, or alternative Sega-related possessions ) I could envision that this probably would have been achieved, or would be done. But from the Global version we already don't have the existence of Cougar NX therefore that I don't exactly know if there are other complications regarding Sega's own properties that might also contribute not to buy PSO2 Meseta upgrading everything they could within reason.