Yeah, when I heard about this from Kotaku, I was very happy.
And the fact that it's coming out onto PC first instead of one of the consoles makes me even happier. And I'm sure it will come stateside. SOA has to acknowledge that there is a fairly decent following of Phantasy Star.
I'm hyped. PSZ was more or less what I wanted from a PSO-style title, but the limitations in terms of buttons, memory, and graphical capabilities were what held it back. Make it like a PC version of PSZ, give me PSO-style controls, a Quick Menu (for items, techs, and equips), and at least PSU-level graphics with PSO aesthetics and my money is yours, Sega.
I'm going to assume no one checked out the beta or just happened to forget.
Anyways, one of the people I subscribed to on youtube happened to get a hold of a beta key, so he's been documenting his time spent.