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This. Serving cryptic error codes over issues that do have a proper wording is a big no.

  “Using unauthorised accessories compromises your gaming experience. For this reason, the unauthorised accessory will be blocked from use on 11/12/2023,” read the pop-up on the console. It then advised the player to return the product to the store or talk to the manufacturer.

It seems the proper wording is displayed along the code, though, just the article elaborates later. If you think the existence of such code itself is the problem, you're just trying to make someone's life needlessly slow and harder.

Interesting how they render the date, there will be players in the UK who will see that and think they can use their controllers until the 11th of December. I don't know why they didn't just use "12th of November, 2023"

That assumes it renders the same in all locales. Most likely it doesn’t.

Even if they do something locale-specific, Microsoft has a knack for fucking specifically dates up. For me Windows keeps falling back to using the backwards US way even though I keep correcting it to use the international way. I think this is because I prefer the US keyboard layout (I've no need for a GBP sign above the three, hash is much more useful), something causes that to leak out.

Also even if they have that nailed, it's still no guarantee. I'm not an Xbox owner but presumably you have a profile with a region (for payments/billing, tax etc) and a selected language. I'd be willing to bet a lot of Brits, Canadians or Aussies have selected "English (US)" language without really thinking through.

We'll see, but I think there will be quite a few confused people in a couple of weeks time regardless.

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