While I think people are overreacting in just how angry they are about maybe missing out on some cosmetics, I do agree they messed up and that the pricing and needing 40 pulls for a guarantee is pretty tone deaf and ignores the early stage that the game is in right now.

I don't think the SG should be free-flowing or anything, the game still has to make money whether people like it or not, but right now it's really punishing for F2P especially since you need to hoard your SG for more important things.

One thing I do want to say, because I've seen people crapping on people using items from this scratch, keep your criticism towards Sega and leave the players alone. You don't know if they did one or two scratches or dropped a hundred bucks and it shouldn't really matter to you if they did. Let people be happy.

@Morgothryuzaki said in IMPORTANT READ THIS!!! 100% Fix that works PSO2 Tweaker Can solve your Problems https://arks-layer.com/ It worked for me and many others. (NEW!! WITH VIDEO FROM Stone Legion - Let's Play):

Guess what??? Since that new update my game doesn't boot anymore and I have to wipe my fucking HDD AGAIN. I'm starting to have enough of this shit.

Yeah, I appreciate what the Tweaker is doing but until it can work independent of the MS Store I'm not re-installing the game.

@Prinz-Velvet

User Account Control: https://articulate.com/support/article/how-to-turn-user-account-control-on-or-off-in-windows-10

Yeah it's happening to a lot of us and there there's been no fix yet. Some people are saying they've had luck with disabling UAC before installing and leaving it off.

C:\Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps is where you'll find the main files.

The problem for most people is being caused by the backups in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps

You'll find junk folders with "oyxna" in the name somewhere as well as Mutable and MutableBackup.

Unfortunately you'll have to jump through some hoops regarding permissions to delete those, assuming your Windows will cooperate with you at all since some people aren't having any lucky. There's a few threads on the issue like this one with some instructions on what to do: https://forum.pso2.com/topic/2830/can-t-uninstall-delete-system-owns-the-files-and-won-t-let-me-even-as-admin/11?page=1

I'm assuming it's 100% financial. Microsoft put up the bucks for things like the English dub and provided the most intensive part which is the online backbone through the Xbox Live services so it's unsurprisingly exclusive to their craptastic storefront. Sega really had no interest in supporting an online infrastructure themselves for North America for PSO2 or they would have done it 8 years ago.

Just from how the marketing was handled it already seemed like the PC release was just an afterthought to try and make a few extra bucks anyway and the console version was what they were really after.

Well thanks for giving it a shot anyway. I need to accept that this is probably stuck as an MS Store exclusive, move on, and forget about playing it.

@Azhereus3727 said in I gave up but...:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ya5rhsx7k0cexpt/PSO2NA_Launcher.7z/file

It didn't worked but if anyone wants to try here's the link I'm done with this game and this Microsoft Store apeshit.

What's the issue exactly? If you have to log into Xbox Live that's fine, the problem is the Windows Store creating all the junk backup data.

Yeah that's the plan, no way in hell am I re-installing after the stress this just put me through today.

@SmexyZombies said in Can't Uninstall/Delete - SYSTEM owns the files and won't let me even as admin:

After uninstalling PSO2, deleting ModifiableWindowsApps, deleting onyxa files, and deleting Mutable/MutableBackup folders: 270 GB of space remaining.

I gave up after trying all morning and took the nuclear option with a reformat. I wouldn't call that a "fix" either though it did fix it. My trust is gone now unfortunately. I'm not sure there's anything they could do to fix this for me as a consumer at this point short of releasing it outside of the Windows Store. I'm glad I put off spending money on the first day.