Original PSO2 was great and where almost all my playtime is, NGS is a generic dollar store MMO that isn't worth anyone's time.

Base PSO2 is abandoned with servers being mostly empty, no grinds to maintain players and loads of pre-NGS events cleared everyone out after they got all the drops and massive EXP boosts to 100% the base game. All seasonal and timed stuff has been cut out and no longer runs which leaves many things out of reach of people who didn't play originally.

Looking at NGS:
- Combat feels bad compared to PSO2, it's not responsive and hitboxes are bad - feels terrible to be hit by stuff that didn't make contact with you when the original was near pixel perfect with consistent iframes and responsive dodges
- Monetisation is crazy now, it was borderline unacceptable in PSO2 but now it's been cranked up past 11
- Story is terrible and bare bones even by bad MMO standards
- Only 2-3 full days of content, literally ran out of stuff to do after a week
- Reselling cosmetics that had been created and sold previously but don't work with the new NGS body types because of unknown reasons (probably greed looking at the new cosmetic changes), it's disgusting

Unless they give up and toss NGS in the bin where it belongs and go back to work on base PSO2 - stay away from this dumpster fire.

NGS devs/management need to realise they made an unsalvageable game and cut their losses soon. The steam charts paint a real grim future and while other launchers and JP exist, we're toeing the line where games with this few players end up getting shut down.