@Zarozian Labor of love ? wake up my friend. IT has been profitable, however they made a deal with Microsoft for exclusivity. Microsoft basically owns PSO2 in the west.

IF they loved this game, and had any ability, they would release on all platforms, but good luck with that one.

I'm not the smartest, and i might be a little stoned, but I just had a thought. Might the problem be with people who don't own any games from the Microsoft store ?

I have no reason to think that, I'm just throwing it out there for people smarter than me.

Good luck Kiddos. The deal PSO2 made was for Microsoft Exclusivity in the West (hence Xbox (Microsoft), and MStore (not Steam))).

We're stuck with Microsoft for better or worse, unless PSO2 suddenly has an epiphany applied to their honor and integrity, but good luck with that one . Even then It's probably SEGA's choice, so PSO2 prolly doesn't have much say, let alone the Devs you gonna find here. (hence the total silence).

It's Microsoft you need to appeal to.

@Obviously223 Its 100% financial, no question. Before questioning why, ask the question who owns Xbox ? Microsoft. Who owns/ is directly responsible for PSO2 release in the west ? Microsoft(xbox). Why is it exclusive to windows 10 ? who owns Windows 10 ?

It's really not difficult to see where the head of the serpent is.

They didn't release on steam because the deal was for exclusivity in the West. For better or worse we're stuck with Microsoft on this one.

@Vaiden7120 Devs don't care about you. Admins don't care about you. Threaten wallets or you threaten nothing. Microsoft is the only one who will do anything for you, and only with enough blowback. Articles are already all over the place about how shit this release has been. send them a message or contact their "experts" and tell them whats up, say you'll never use Mstore again if they don't fix it (not that anyone does anyway).

Yea, its completely moronic. Lord knows it was financial. Probably an issue with how steam takes its cut. That being said, microtransaction %'s being taken by steam is better than nobody buying microtransactions because they have no faith or respect in your game/company.

My suggestion would be to go to the microsoft store app, click "talk to an expert" and as soon as a chat bot opens up just type "real agent" or "real person". Rather than listen to them blather on, simply state what the game files did, how they duplicated, how much space they are taking up, and how you feel.

And just basically say that dudes response doesn't mean anything, and their actions do, but in a nice way. Basically "I don't need to hear anything, my respect/future purchases will be decided based upon the actions taken by the respective companies to solve this issue".

The guy i spoke to was very understanding and eager to hear what I had to say. I doubt anything will be done but its worth the 5 minutes; And threatening company pockets is pretty much the path to success in 2020 cause respect doesn't mean much. You can't really appeal to your needs and expect them to do anything; Rather you have to threaten their future business. You may think it doesn't add up but they'll realize when 100 people are messaging them with this and "threatening" to forward the information, they take notice.

This is very bad PR for both companies. So if you like you can also contact games journalism companies. Most of them likely won't post negative articles just to help gamers, but its worth a shot.

Microsoft is the company with a face and name here, and Microsoft has much more stake in the game, with much less to gain out of the deal. They'll be the first to act, if anyone.

I'll be forwarding this so just ignore it if you see it in other threads.

My suggestion would be to go to the microsoft store app, click "talk to an expert" and as soon as a chat bot opens up just type "real agent" or "real person". Rather than listen to them blather on, simply state what the game files did, how they duplicated, how much space they are taking up, and how you feel. Relate to them that the files are now missing (they won't do anything about that, but if you use the tech support on windows they can probably help you out, though they are slow and dumb); And finally just basically say that dudes response doesn't mean anything, and their actions do, but in a nice way. Basically "I don't need to hear anything, my respect/future purchases will be decided based upon the actions taken by the respective companies to solve this issue".

The guy i spoke to was very understanding and eager to hear what I had to say. I doubt anything will be done but its worth the 5 minutes; And threatening company pockets is pretty much the path to success in 2020 cause respect doesn't mean much.

That's messed up. This thing is like an evolving virus

@SmexyZombies thats so wild... its like an evolving virus Like seriously what the hell.