The items in Fresh Finds yesterday were made tradeable by mistake, which has happened a couple of times in the past after updates, so it was brought down as they're not supposed to be tradeable. It likely won't be up until they can fix it, which should likely be today.

I got it to work by uninstalling the game and reinstalling the game. I don't get the error anymore and GameGuard downloaded on the first try. I did have Steam in Administrator mode when I downloaded the game and had the game folder excluded in Windows Defender from previous fix attempts, but I'm not sure if that made any difference.

I'm having the same issue with the Steam version. Running Administrator mode did not fix the problem for me, I tried doing it to both Steam and PSO2Launcher.exe with no luck. I also ran the Check File feature of the launcher which didn't help either.

I've got the Microsoft Store version installed on a separate hard drive and noticed my Steam version was missing a GameGuard folder as well as having less files in general in than the MS version in the pso2_bin folder. I tried copying the files over but while I could get the game to launch that way, it was looking for a Microsoft account but couldn't find one so I was stuck on the title screen and unable to do anything and had to close the game through the task manager. If I removed a file called MicrosoftGame.config it would no longer load GameGuard or start the game. I also tried putting the file back in but deleting the GameGuard folder, which caused the game to download it again, but removing the config file once again causes GameGuard to not start.

@SirArion said in script error/game not launching after clicking play (steam):

The problem is the launcher version 06.00.07. It cant seem to update past that for whatever reason.

Once upon a time someone posted a link to download the Launcher update manually from SEGA but I can't find that link anymore.

That's the same version as the Microsoft Store version of the game and that is working fine for me. I get no error and GameGuard and the game launches as expected.

When I try to install PSO2 from the Microsoft store it gives me a list of hard drives to choose from; however the only one I have that is big enough to hold the game doesn't appear in the list. The only thing that really stands out to me for why it isn't showing up is that my other hard drives are formatted as NTFS and are internal drives while the other is an external drive and Exfat formatting.

I know the drive can run PSO2 as I've been playing the Japanese version on it with no issues and changing the JP installation to NA using the edition.txt will cause the game to load the English patcher and launch, although it still looks for the Sega ID rather than my Xbox Live account.

Looking at other apps on the Microsoft store it does seem like most (that I've tried) will recognize the external hard drive but there's a small number I've come across that don't, so it isn't a universal problem with the Microsoft Store.