Phantasy Star Online Delayed!

Phantasy Star Online has been delayed. According to online reports, Sega's ambitious multiplayer RPG will not be on store shelves in time for Christmas, and, most likely, won't be in stores at all before spring of 2001.

Preliminary reports are citing the game's translation system as the source of the delays. This does not strike RPGamer News as surprising, considering Sega is faced with the brutal task of ironing out translations for each supported language before the simultaneous worldwide release of the multi-player RPG, a daunting task indeed. It is also realistic to predict that Sega could be running into some network problems that are also confounding the situation.

Sega.com is currently showing January 1, 2001 as a release date for Phantasy Star Online, however, expect that date to be moved back as a more concrete date materializes. Sega of America had not returned RPGamer's calls as of press time.