Month: November 2014

With online play quickly becoming a must for any game touting multiplayer options, these arenas can quickly become less than entertaining if folks choose to quit a game early due to losing, inappropriately modify their game, or otherwise ruin the experience of their fellow competitors. Developers are quickly inserting precautions that either keep these issues from coming up or punishing those that would abuse workarounds for petty or malicious reasons.

In Super Smash Bros. for 3DS (as well as its upcoming console sibling), Nintendo has implemented systems that lay down temporary bans from online play for a number of infractions, including going idle on a regular basis, targeting a single player repeatedly, and more. While certainly noble, issues have begun to rear their ugly heads and impact the service.

Reports began to appear over the weekend that players were heading online, only to find that they had been banned from netplay for 71,582,459 minutes, which rounds out to just over 136 years. Though obviously a bug, little information could be gleaned as to why this issue was occurring. One popular opinion has to do with the way the game processes the numbers associated with a ban in the first place, but nothing concrete has been established.

Fortunately, it appears as if this glitch is already being corrected. A fan on Twitter who was previously afflicted with this lengthy timeout has since found his account restored and able to play online, so it’s possible Nintendo has already figured out a way to fix this problem.

A similar banning bug, involving Princess Peach using her turnip special in online modes that don’t allow items, surfaced some time back and was fixed by Nintendo, who issued an apology soon after. Let’s hope this is corrected just as quickly.

Have you ran into this issue while playing online? Feel free to sound off in our comments.

Source: Reddit via Destructoid