The Leap Year Is Proving To Be A Y2K Event For Some Games
For most people February 29, the date that only comes around once every four years, is mostly a fun novelty, but the leap day also has the potential to wreak havoc on tech systems. This year at least two games have had issues on February 29, forcing players to change the date on their console if they want to keep playing.
Racing game EA Sports WRC was one of the games that began seeing issues as soon as console clocks ticked over to February 29, forcing EA tech support to release a tweet suggesting players should change their console’s date to March 1 to continue playing.
According to the support account, this issue is present on both PlayStation and Xbox versions of the game.