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Wii U Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 - Notice regarding the ending of the current maintenance (www.nintendo.co.uk)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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In March 2023, Nintendo paused network services for the Wii U games Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 to address a vulnerability related to online play. The issue has now been fixed, and so we will resume online play for these games based on the schedule below. Please accept our sincere apologies for the extended waiting period.

  • 3 August 2023 Resume service
    • To resume online play, downloading a new update will be necessary for each title per the release timing noted above.

If further issues occur which make it difficult to continue supporting online play, we may have to discontinue the online play service for the Wii U games Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 at short notice. Should this occur, please note that offline play would continue to function normally.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh! That took forever and a half, considering that the Switch and 3DS titles suffering the same vulnerability got fairly quick patches, though I suppose the Wii U was the first of these consoles to be discontinued, so was lowest priority. Good to see that people's fears that this was just a stealth way of shutting down these games' online play were misplaced, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd say they're halfway there. They basically ended their announcement with "next time, expect us to shut it down forever".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's the important quote. It took them an important effort to patch. I suspect original admins are not here anymore.