It really wasnt. How can you justify the monthly fee when they changed so little. They somehow made the gameplay even more repetative, focused too much on giving the game a good story, which ultimately they failed at. I still have nightmares over the voice acting. The games music was also dull.

I enjoyed PSO back in its day, but I had had enough after a few years and felt PSU was just a rehash. Asking me whether I want to pay to play PSU online is like asking me whether I'd like to pay to play PSO online again. The answer to that is no. Even then, PSU online just didnt have the spark that PSO did. And people nowadays are far less fun to play online with than back in the Dreamcast era.