Fantastic FAQ, answers a lot of my initial doubts.

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Gosh, this seems so complex. On Phantasy Star Online 2 Meseta the one hand, kudos for maintaining the original game intact so that there will not be a riot over fluctuations people do not like. But on the flip side, since they are remaking base PSO2 visuals anyway, I wish they would only go 100 percent and synchronize personality models entirely. Giving old players a few free style items and unlocks will be enough to bribe everyone to take the new system.

Synchronizing 100% personality models doesn't sound easy. The dilemma is that the old outfits and coating 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 decades of cosmetics. That's unlikely to occur. I mean that I'd be willing to shed a certain proportion of those makeup to keep things intact across variations. As long as there's a continuous feed of cool new things to replace it, I don't mind. I always rotate out my old appearances anyhow. As long as the character versions translate 1:1 it will still feel like mine.

I would imagine a large complication to this involves a lot of the makeup from the Japanese side of things that were exclusive to collaborations, promotional events, and events which no longer exist. The example I can think of is that the Dragon Hunter Frontier Z collaboration where I can envision the clothing and weapons could definitely be provided a visual update alongside everything else but I don't exactly know how the licensing or how the lawful side of this cooperation works where I would wish it had been as easy as Sega going through and upgrading the resources but I do not understand about how much Capcom is involved in that procedure.

The same applies to collaborations like the Final Fantasy XIV cooperation with Odin (which still exists as far as I know) where I don't understand just how much of Square Enix is involved that for Sega to have the ability to update assets there. If it was only just Phantasy Star-related items (such as character outfits, cameos from other games, or other Sega-related properties) I could envision this probably would have been achieved, or would be carried out. But from the Global variant we already don't have the existence of Cougar NX therefore that I don't exactly know if there are other complications seeing Sega's properties which may also contribute to not upgrading everything they could within reason.

I can envision that likely out there we'll still see somebody wearing those older collaboration things even if they aren't rigged up to the very same criteria as new cosmetics in a similar manner and that there would have been outrage if it had been made obsolete or PSO2 Meseta for sale unusable. Collabs that have experienced their cosmetics removed nevertheless have their resources exist on the sport so those will probably still be accessible for jp players.