Elon’s messing up the game — literally. Two extremely popular online games, Arknights and Genshin Impact, have warned that players who use Twitter to log in may be affected by Twitter’s pending API changes.
PSA: Twitter’s API changes may make it difficult to log in to your favorite games
The developers of both Genshin Impact and Arknights have warned players that if they use Twitter to log in to their accounts, they might lose access.
The developers of both Genshin Impact and Arknights have warned players that if they use Twitter to log in to their accounts, they might lose access.
Image: Mihoyo
“We are in the process of confirming the impact of the Twitter API adjustments on game account login and the corresponding resolutions,” read the tweet on Genshin Impact’s official Twitter account. “To prevent possible account login problems, we recommend going to the HoYoverse Account page to link your email address for account logins.”
Arknights’ tweet suggested similarly. “We STRONGLY recommend players binding their game accounts with the Yostar account if have not done so in case of any contingency.”
It’s not known if the changes Musk intends to make to Twitter’s API will affect all such services that use it to authenticate and log into accounts. But if you’re someone who does use it, not only for these two games but for anything really, it’s worth linking affected accounts to something like an email address to prevent disruption.
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Most Popular
Most Popular
- Our long national sunscreen nightmare is almost over
- Kaleidescape’s movie player blows streaming, and your wallet, away
- Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
- Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
- Hue’s wired wall modules bring non-smart lights into its ecosystem
