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"Event" is the generalized name given to a period of time in which at least one limited-availability event occurs. Events can typically be split into two categories:

• "Seasonal" events, such as Christmas or Halloween. These events are usually predictable in nature and have prepared festivities such as town decorations and/or themed monsters.
• "Promotional" events. These are non-seasonal, often one-off, events or promotions. An example of this would be if Sega were to give a free room decoration to everyone who logged in on a given day. These events were observed in Blue Burst, with the "Maximum Attack" events.

Seasonal Events

This list is continuously updated as we experience new events in Phantasy Star Universe. As the game ages the list should thus become a comprehensive archive of past events and festivities:

Halloween

The Halloween event is well known as it occured on the JP Phantasy Star Universe from October 20th and lasted until November 9th.

Known festivities included:

• Modification of lobbies to include special Halloween decorations and music.
  • A video of these has been made and posted on YouTube.
• Rare Rappy Latan enemies that drop a Halloween-themed Rod called Pumpkin Head.
• A complete room theme for 5000 meseta.

This event was not run in 2006 for the English servers. The first and only maintenance before Halloween itself passed and the event was not added. Some users believe that it did not occur for various reasons:

1. Unfairness to non-American regions, as due to release date differences the event would be exclusively available to North America and importers.
2. The game was set up and released too soon before Halloween for there to be time to set it up.
3. Sega America are likely more interested in game and network stability among other issues than running a non-essential event.

The Halloween lobby theme is included on the For Brighter Day soundtrack, on Disc 2 (the "Neudaiz Side").

Christmas

The first event to hit both the English PC/PS2 and Xbox 360 versions, but the second for the Japanese PC/PS2 version. It was introduced alongside Update 002 in the maintenance on December 8th 2006, and was concluded during "Update 004a" in the maintenance on December 26th 2006.

The components of this event were:

• Modification of lobbies to include special Christmas decorations and music in the GUARDIANS Colony, Parum and Moatoob.
  • Apparently the Communion of Gurhal as Neudaiz' primary faith does not celebrate Christmas as there was no change.
• The rare Rappy enemies are celebrating, becoming Rappy Noel. Their sightings are still rare, but alongside the usual Rappy Feathers they can drop the room decoration Christmas Tree.
• The reform ticket Christmas, buyable in the Room Decorations shop in Clyez City 2F for 5,000 meseta and was available only during this event.
• The room decoration Wreath buyable in the Room Decorations shop in Clyez City for 10,000 meseta was available only during this event.

The Christmas theme heard most notably in the cities of Clyez, Holtes and Dagora is found on the Phantasy Star Universe soundtrack For Brighter Day, on Disc 3 (the "Moatoob Side").

New Year

The second event to hit both the English PC/PS2 and Xbox 360 versions, but the second for the Japanese PC/PS2 version. It was introduced alongside "Update 004a" in the maintenance on December 26th 2006, and was concluded during Update 005 in the maintenance on January 11th 2007.

The components of this event were:

• Modification of lobbies to include special New Year's decorations and music in the GUARDIANS Colony and Neudaiz.
  • Apparently Parum and Moatoob were still recovering from Christmas, as there was no change.
• The room decoration Bamboo buyable in the Room Decorations shop in Clyez City for 1,000 meseta was available only during this event.

The New Year theme heard most notably in the cities of Clyez and Ohtoku is found on the Phantasy Star Universe soundtrack For Brighter Day, on Disc 1 (the "Parum Side").

Winter

A somewhat unexpected event, this is the third consecutive event on the English Phantasy Star Universe servers (both PC/PS2 and Xbox 360). It was introduced alongside Update 005 in the maintenance on January 11th 2007, and is still running. It is expected to last until Update 006 on January 18th/19th.

The components of this event were:

• Modification of lobbies to include special New Year's decorations and music in the GUARDIANS Colony and ?
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• The room decoration Snowman buyable in the Room Decorations shop in Clyez City for 2,000 meseta is available only during this event.

This event makes extra use of the theme named "Christmas" found on the Phantasy Star Universe soundtrack For Brighter Day, on Disc 3 (the "Moatoob Side").

Valentine's Day

Another much-expected event to occur first during February 2007. This was also included throughout the Episodes of Phantasy Star Online, and For Brighter Day contains a lobby-suitable theme named after the likely event on Disc 2 ("Neudaiz Side").

Others

The above are just the most obvious seasonal events. There are sure to be other, less predictable events. The soundtrack contains a few tracks which could be used for (and thus hint at) other events, including Carnival (Disc 1), Marriage (Disc 2), Cherry Blossom and Comedy (both Disc 3).

Promotional Events

On the English PC/PS2 version of Phantasy Star Universe, there have been no Promotional Events, and there are none planned in the forseeable future. However, there is one Promotional Event imminent on the XBox 360 servers, and there has also been one noteworthy event on the Japanese PC/PS2 servers.

Sonic (XBox 360)

The XBox 360 version is to run a "Phantasy Star Universe Demo Weekend Promotion" commencing Saturday, February 3rd, at midnight PST and concluding Monday, February 4th at midnight PST.

Users who play this demo and join the PSU Xbox Live community are to receive the Sonic decoration. Unfortunately for existing account holders, this does require a new Phantasy Star Universe account, as evidenced here, and thus existing accounts cannot simply sign up to play the demo for "their" Sonic figure.

It is unknown how the Sonic decoration will be delivered, though presumably it will be added to shared bank of the new accounts, as was the case with the JP Sonic event (below).

More details on this event can be found here.

Sonic (JP)

The Japanese PC/PS2 version has had one Promotional Event thusfar, and that was to award a free Sonic decoration to the shared bank of all players who registered their SegaLink accounts before July 31st, 2006 (one month before the game's release).