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Persona 5 Tactica briefly went live on Steam today

Someone possibly forgot something in the backend

Marco Wutz

Persona 5 Tactica briefly went live on Steam today
Persona 5 Tactica briefly went live on Steam today /

Persona 5 Tactica, which is set for a global November 17, 2023, release date on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, was out for a few minutes on Steam today – over a week early and obviously erroneously so.

The game’s store page for some reason showed November 8, 2023, as its release date and the buttons for purchasing the title changed from the “pre-purchase” text to the regular version. In that period of time, the purchasing process went as normal, but playing the game wasn’t actually possible. During the installation process, Steam showed a message reporting a failure due to the app not being released.

Steam page for Persona 5 Tactica showing a wrong release date.
Persona 5 Tactica was briefly released today on Steam due to some mistake in the backend / Steam

Someone quickly noticed the mistake and changed the November 8, 2023, release date to a “coming soon” message. Afterwards, things seem to have become a little chaotic over at Steam, because a few minutes later a new release date for Persona 5 Tactica was shown: January 1, 1970. That obviously wasn’t it either. What would you even have played it on back then, a Datapoint 2200? Unlikely. Imagine where we could be today if the tech of those days had been capable of creating something like this, though. Ah, the dream.

Persona 5 Tactica Steam page showing another wrong release date.
Things got more wrong before they became better / Steam

Rejoice, though, because after that rather embarrassing parade of mistakes, someone finally remedied the situation and put up the correct date: November 17, 2023. 

Everything is now as it should be, but it’s been an exciting afternoon for fans of the JRPG series developed by Atlus and published by Sega.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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