PSO Server Closure Update!

Tweeg posted the following bit at the Dreamcast-Scene.com Forums:

PSO Server Closure Update!

The closure of the official servers has not gone as expected.

As scheduled, Sega did close servers yesterday at 9:59:59 AM EST, but not all of them. Only the Japanese servers were closed. At present the EU servers are still online and fully functional.

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Players who were fortunate enough to be present during yesterday's closure got to see the largest turnout for PSO in years, as the number of players online peaked at around 700!

So far today there has been a consistent minimum of ten players online at any given time on the two remaining EU servers.

Source: Dreamcast-Scene.com Forums

Since I'm in home now, I will connect. I hope it will not die :(

oh well is the euro down now?

Yes they are. There was a shutdown "attempt" at approximately 5 am UK time (April 1st) and both Iapetus and Rhea were down for like 4 hours. They became fully functional again, but as you can read here, they went down again at 7:45 am UK time. And this time it looks like its for real. Really sad. At least I managed to play a lot more this month.

Can somebody update the news post please?