Hacks and the like..

Even in Closed Beta there were a ton of english players discussing hacking and exploiting the data in Ship 2 Block 20. In fact it's this reason Sega Japan doesn't really like the American player base all that much...

According to them the English market is more full of cheaters, and hacks than their own. I don't know how true this honestly is, of course.

I can't tell you what the Japanese players were like on PSO2 since I couldn't really talk with them at length. Just know a lot of the english players I met were very...asshole-ish and narrow minded.

It wasn't the playerbase you needed to worry about in PSO, it was being FSODed and losing all your stuff.

Unless they finally come out with an english patch I'll unfortunately hold off as well. It's perhaps simple enough to guess your way through, but occasionally in RPGs I like to read things.

So far I haven't seen anything as bad as NOL, PKing, or FSOD.The "hacks" that you may have read about so far were people moving the NPCs around the blocks and making them generally inaccessible/unreachable. Not exactly game breaking, but it certainly was annoying.However it is also incredibly easy to just move to another block on the ship where the NPCs weren't tampered with. To be short I haven't had any problems with hacks or exploits so far and I've been playing exclusively on Ship 2 since the start of the open beta.