A bit of MMO news to talk about here. After 8 years of being only available in the East, the most (?) popular MMO in Japan has finally become available in the West. Phantasy Star Online 2 will be available for pre-download at 11pm PDT tonight and goes live around 5 am EST on Wed. The game itself is free though of course there is an item store for cosmetics and the like. The game is already out on the X-Box for about a month now if you'd rather play it there.
It has a techie/scifi/anime kind of feel to it. I've only seen a couple of let's plays of it and its looks a bit intimidating at first-your character is based on a hub-very sci-fi in nature where there are a ton of quest givers/stores/other systems to deal with and there's at least one more zone off that hub where you can/have to go for more of the same. There are 8 years of development here where they have come up with new quest types to give/items to use/game systems to discover. Can't really tell you much about how combat works.
Game will be available for PC through the Microsoft store and maybe the PSO website?
PSO2 - Phantasy Star Online 2 - Official Site