Can only play fall of the samurai

[The Sience]

Bought Shogun 2 from Humble Bundle a while back, haven't tried to play it until recently. I own it all, but for whatever reason, I'm only able to play Fall of the Samurai. Any fix to this?

[Moridin]

not 100% sure but if you uninstall it all, then install the base game first, before any of the DLC then the game should work.

[easytarget]

The more likely explanation, one that has come up at least a thousand times before this is:

You don't own Shogun 2, you own FOTS. As a result you can only run FOTS, S2 and ROTS are grey'd out in the menu for a reason, because you don't own them. Buy them, activate the key and viola, they'll show up in the menu.

[Moridin]

unlike easytarget, i just checked the OP's game libaray which states they have the base shogun 2 game.

due to a rather stupid desicion on Creative assembly or Sega's part Fall of the Samurai is a stand alone game, however it also takes up the same location as Shogun 2 vanilla. the only way to fix it if you got Fall first is to uninstall Fall and install Vanilla Shogun 2.

[easytarget]

ooh la la, mordy is getting fiesty today

[The Sience]

Did not work unfortunately, only installing the base game leaves all campaigns greyed out.

[76561198399654400]

Originally posted by easytarget:

The more likely explanation, one that has come up at least a thousand times before this is:

You don't own Shogun 2, you own FOTS. As a result you can only run FOTS, S2 and ROTS are grey'd out in the menu for a reason, because you don't own them. Buy them, activate the key and viola, they'll show up in the menu.

Those who serve this "more likely explanation" don't have experienced the problem by themselves.

Fact is :
- When you purchase Shogun 2, Steam installs FOTS on your comp.
- When you try to purchase Shogun 2 (again) Steam says that you HAVE it already installed.
- When you try to purchase a DLC (e.g. Rise of the Samourais), Steam says that you cannot get it because you DONT HAVE Shogun 2 installed.

That is a simply a contradiction, a non-sense, a mess, an ISSUE.
That is why so many people are complaining about it, including me.

[easytarget]

Yeah, we've been aware of this for years, it's been fun the whole time watching peeps like you start up threads about it every time a sale comes along.

In fact there are three or four more of them started just today.

Plenty of people over the years have resolved this by buying what they don't own regardless what the store says and activating the key and getting it to work.

Elect to try this or don't makes zero difference to me. You're just part of the regular wave of mouthbreathers who pop into this steam forum during every sale pointing out this same glitch as if complaining in an un-moderated un-observed steam forum accomplished anything.

[76561198399654400]

@Easytarget: I am a slow learner but I finaly got your point (and Moridin's by the way).
Sorry for the troubles. It is just that such mess sounds unbelievable.
Hopefully there will be some decent company to compete with Steam in the future...