Phantasy Star Online 2 site goes live in Asia

Who cares? This is even less relevant than the NA version because the company in charge of it is notorious for making games even more Pay to Win than they were in other regions. I saw someone on PSO World mention that in another game they localized, they made it so that costumes could only be rented for 30 days with real money instead of being able to buy permanently them with real money or with ingame currency. Some people are even speculating that they'll change the EXP curve back to what it was with the original 41+ curve where every single level was DOUBLE the EXP for the previous level and if they had kept that curve then people at the current 65 cap STILL wouldn't have enough EXP to be at lv 50.

Just stick with the Japanese version. The english patch works great and there's virtually no reason to even consider any other version.

Edit: Also, if anyone is interested in playing Japanese PSO2, here's some guides and helpful tools to do that:

Registration Guide: http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=210236

English Installation: http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=208170

PSO2 Tweaker, to get the current updates and install the English Patch, among other things: http://arks-layer.com/index.php

Story Patch: http://arks-layer.com/story.php

Just English patch the JP version. Sega is doing a great job of running it, so I wouldn't try a third party localization team, even if they offer English or closer servers. In my 200+ hours of PSO2, I never had any major issues with the JP servers because I was in the US, except for the database issues that affected everyone.