MS Store has hijacked the files and changed the permissions on the folders so the exe's no longer function.

There are guides on how to fully uninstall the game and delete the hidden files that the game stores backups of hogging lots of space.

The game can break randomly at anytime, its best to leave it alone for now and wait until they fix it. Too frustrating otherwise.

DO NOT INVEST ANYTHING MORE INTO THIS GAME RIGHT NOW.

@Ryck027 I'd leave it alone for now til they sort out their mess.

There's no guarantee it won't break again.

@craft-dragonfox You have encountered the same problem I did this morning. MS Store moved the game files, changed the permissions on those folders and now the game .exe cannot run.

When I researched it I ended up just installing that crap, wasted hours of my day. The launcher is broken, MS Store is broken.

Good luck.

@CosmicDiva I've heard people using the Tweaker are facing issues at random too so i'll pass for now

@Grave-Knight I don't know man, this game burned me hard today.

@Tesonael I just want to clean up my PC of this mess and move on at this point. Files are being deleted but the space still hasn't been reclaimed. So I still have some more figuring out to do.

@Tesonael How was this allowed to happen though? I waited for the PC Beta wondering why they were so quiet about it compared to the console.

Now I know why, they knew this shit would be a mess and that they hadn't figured it out yet but wanted to make as much money as possible!

@Grave-Knight Yes while browsing the forums I found out that files are also stored in Mutable and MutableBackup.

It is presently deleting 220Gigs! I cannot believe it. I am moving on from this game immediately and making sure no one I know plays this trash.

Installed the game a week and a half ago and was surprised I had no issues with that lengthy process.

Playing it for a week testing classes to see which I'd main.

Settled on Bouncer, deleted one of my old chars to make room for the bouncer main. Created him, logged off to sleep.

Wake up this morning to get in a quick hour or 2 before work and the game refuses to open culminating with an error about how pso2startup in the Mutable folder cannot be accessed by the game.

Why? Because somehow the permissions for the folders all related to PSO2 got messed up SOMEHOW.

The game can't run, I spent the next 3 hours googling, changing permissions, even scanning my computer for malware and nothing. Finally got the game to respond when I clicked Play and it tries to REINSTALL from scratch which took 12 hrs to complete last time after the 11gb download.

So fed up and frustrated I click "uninstall" and the contents of the folders I was dealing with disappeared but guess what?

The 50+ gigs of storage has not been restored and I can't find any files in the locations to even DELETE.

How does this travesty of a launcher for a 12yr old game even make it to market with the XBOX/MICROSOFT tag on it.

This is lazy BS, I was about to spend money on this game only to be met with this. Imagine if I had spent money last night and COULDN'T LOG IN TODAY?!

My computer is fully updated with this Windows 10 junk as well.