In 2 words; Microsoft Store.
Unfortunately it's going to keep happening until PSO2 gets released on another platform. It's well known the store app is garbage for games in general (Others games have issues as well) and will probably never get fixed. Until then, any time your PC reboots, there is a good chance the app portion of things will mess with the launcher file and force a reinstall.
Just pray the "other platform" release is sooner then later. Hell, I'd even take Epic Store (which i currently refuse to use) over this garbage of a product that is microsoft store. If anything, they should be giving the playerbase compensation for this garbage experience cause by their failure of a delivery system.
@GM-Sohee said in This game is an ABSOLUTE MESS:
Hi! We apologize for the technical issue. Please know that we are working hard to fix all of these so everyone can install and play the game at peace. We humbly ask for more of your patience and understanding as we know how frustrating this can be. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience you guys
It's a bit more then just an inconvenience when you have to look up guides to try and scrub your PC of dead data due to your store deleting and moving files without our authorisation. Nevermind the less savvy people that can royally mess their PC by accident doing this. Windows better supply us with a tool to scrub our PCs clean of the dead data it caused once this shit is over, most people still have lost space after searching everywhere for stray files thanks to your untested release on a store that has no excuses whatsoever to exist in such a garbage nonfunctional state.
When you uninstall the game, windows only removes the 11G installer. What was downloaded with the game patcher; the actual game files, stay on your machine. As for where those files are, it depends on which drive you installed on. If it's a separate one from your windows drive, removing the WindowsApps folder content on that drive would take care of majority of the dead file. However, IF IT IS ON YOUR C DRIVE, DO NOT DELETE YOUR WindowsApps FOLDER AS YOU'LL DELETE FILES NEEDED TO RUN YOUR PC. In that case, you have to manually get permissions to even touch anything. Then you need to find MSIXVC, Mutable and MutableBackup folders and remove the dead PsO2 related files. Some are also found in your ModifiableWindowsApps folder if your uninstall dint scrub them all off.
The game likes to delete some crucial files whenever a computer gets rebooted, so you end up with a bunch of dead files you have to manually remove to not lose 70 or so gigs. THEN you have to redownload/install. It's a disgusting problem that is currently present with the store/PsO2 interaction.
It can delete itself even on the C drive, just more common on other drives that the OS isn't on. Either way, get ready to re download it constantly till we stop dealing with the shit store.
They've just put an official statement a little bit ago actually, with some basic fixes for some errors. Rest is still "being looked into".
If you deleted a previous install manually, you have to recreate the WindowsApps, Mutable, Mutablebackup, etc folders.
Played the game fine yesterday, now it's giving me this bullshit error. Single admin account too, unless you consider the hidden windows one another. Think I'm done with this game. Get it the fuck out of the windows store already, cross play is not worth this bullshit store system screwing half the playerbase over.
