As of today, the game no longer launches correctly off of steam, for me at least.
I’ve re-installed the game, restarted my pc, verified integrity of game cache, ran as administrator, ran compatability mode, etc. Just about everything I could personally think of, but nothing seems to work.
When I click Play on steam, the process appears in my task manager as if it was working, but after around 15 seconds the process ends and nothing happens. No Nexon Security, no DB splash, no game launch. Visual Demonstration below.
See What I mean?