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Rai @lemmy.dbzer0.com

I'm dead, right?

My game was refusing to connect, giving a connection error. I tried closing stuff, reopening, restarting my phone, everything I could. The final solution I saw was uninstall everything and reinstall it.

I did that. I tried to recover my data using an Apple account. No dice. I tried using my Nintendo account. No dice.

Was my stuff all local? Is it gone forever? I use my account to supplement my partner and trade with them, I didn’t really battle ever. But is all my stuff completely gone? I feel like it is.

4 comments

  • That sounds bad… if you have your client ID or your friend ID, maybe you can request help for the support to recover the account info, at least to know where to reconnect to try and get the account back…

    Good luck!

  • Do you use a VPN? It seems like the last month or two they've really gotten heavy handed with blocking users on VPNs and it manifests exactly as you described your initial issues. All you need to do if that's the case is change your VPN location until the game stops bothering you about authentication.

    Now that you deleted everything it's a little trickier. Your data should be linked with some form of recoverable account- Apple, Google Play, Nintendo, etc. That would be whatever you linked it with when you created the account. Assuming the VPN thing is your issue it's just a matter of cycling through locations until the game will let you in, and then redownloading the data after logging in.