Nintendo Switch blocks players on early NEO: TWEWY Copies

During the weekend, NEO: The world ends with you fans discovered that Square Enix was accidental early game leak to people who pre-ordered it on Switch. Now, with a week before its official release, access to the upcoming action RPG has been canceled.

The news began to circulate among online gamers earlier today.

“Nintendo remotely revoked all digital licenses for the game after Square Enix accidentally sold eShop codes early,” wrote Switch homebrew tinkerer OatmealDome. on Twitter. “The players were sent off in the middle of the game with the error code 2819-0003. This is, as far as I and others know, a first for the Switch. “

Nintendo and Square Enix did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fans who played the game earlier than expected are now wondering what will happen to their access and will save their progress once the game is officially released.

“I was playing the game fine yesterday,” said Reddit user Shanook28. Kotaku. Today, after they got home from work around 4 p.m. ET, it was a different story.

“It appeared with a message ‘Check if you have permission to use this software’ (this had never been done at another time I had started it over the weekend), then appeared with an error message stating that I did not have permission to use the software with a link to the eStore to pre-order.

Some fans had already pre-ordered NEO: The world ends with you when Square Enix started sending digital codes early, but once the news spread, other fans took note and started pre-ordering the $ 80 version of the game to get early access, filling out fan wikis and spoiler forums for the long-awaited 2007 Nintendo DS Game sequel well ahead of its July 27 release. Now that they’ve been stranded, some are trying to get refunds, but based on anecdotal evidence on Twitter and Reddit, success has been mixed.

But the game is about 50 hours, and it’s also not clear whether the lockdown means players’ save data is no longer locked.

“I’m about an hour or two from the end of the game, and now I can’t play it anymore,” said Shanook28.