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Of us making an attempt to play Theatrhythm Remaining Bar Line-–a Final Fantasy-themed rhythm game—had been unable to resulting from a bug stopping the sport from connecting to servers on February 29, aka a Leap Day. An analogous bug occurred in an EA racing sport, too, forcing gamers to vary the date on their consoles to play.
In case you didn’t know: At the moment—Thursday, February 29—is a Leap Day. An additional day of the yr that solely occurs as soon as (almost) every four years. Usually, Leap Days aren’t that thrilling. However typically computer systems and software program bug out due to the additional day, particularly if the builders or programmers didn’t account for the additional day. It occurs each Leap 12 months, as documented online by folks. This yr, for instance, some fuel pumps in New Zealand stopped working and a few apps broke on telephones. And for some of us making an attempt to play video video games that connect with servers, issues stopped working at present, too.
As first spotted by Twitter consumer @Regulus_Tera on February 29, a user on the Theatrhythm subreddit requested others if their save file was corrupted as their sport was booting up correctly. Nonetheless, they later edited the publish and defined that they mounted the issue by altering the date of their console.
“Edit: An answer has been discovered, for some cause the sport can’t work on February twenty ninth, presumably tied to leap years, and as such it’ll black display endlessly till you modify the clock again to the twenty eighth, and presumably any date after the twenty ninth too.
As soon as the date [is] modified the sport will return to working completely high-quality once more.”
Different PS4 and Change gamers replied with comparable affirmation that the bug was actual and that this resolution labored. Technically, the sport wasn’t utterly damaged as you’ll be able to play offline, nevertheless it was a foolish state of affairs brought on by the Leap Day and one which Sq. Enix might have in all probability prevented.
Elsewhere, EA’s WRC--a rallying racing sport developed by Codemasters—can be affected by a Leap Day bug. Gamers on each Xbox and PlayStation reported that every time they booted up the sport it crashed. This drawback is because of the Leap 12 months and was confirmed by the official EA help account on Twitter, which posted earlier today some steps to get across the bug. These steps? Change your console clock to skip over the additional day.
Whereas some may giggle and roll their eyes in any respect this, I do fear that as extra video games and providers are linked to and rely on the web, these kinds of “foolish” bugs may change into extra painful and harmful. I can’t watch for my AC sooner or later to cease working as a result of Amazon—the one firm on the planet at that time—forgot to account for February 29.
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