I got selected to participate in the new switch online playtest but whenever I open the software I get an error saying “This service is currently unavailable” and won’t let me continue. Is this happening with anyone else?

Oh wait im dumb it starts on the 28th nevermind forget i said anything

bringing this back somewhat randomly! i'm taking a quick relisten to the ost of the playtest (i'm not telling you where to find it, but it's not particularly hard) and... it's so lovely. invokes a lot of wii series vibes, and they made so many songs!! from my count, there are about 70 unique songs here, ignoring variants.

now, because of that sheer length, i'm now wondering.. what ever happened to the playtest? it has now been about 8 months since the second closed beta (granted, the gap between the first and second was almost exactly 9 months, so maybe it'll show up soon...), and i highly doubt they made all this stuff just to throw it away. surely, nintendo wouldn't make a full game ost for a prototype online game and never use it again... right?

if you bother with finding and listening to the ost, let me know what you think! do you think it'll show up again soon? perhaps some elements of it went into other games?

friend made something clear to me.

1. the playtest website no longer works, you can't even see the landing page anymore.

2. apparently it got pulled from youtube's content id, so footage of it is no longer autoclaimed?

if anyone is curious, someone just uploaded nearly 2 hours of playtest footage a couple of days ago:

@squiddu-real what in the Roblox Minecraft Space Thingy is this (yes, I remember that Playtest stuff from a while back, I'm still expecting it to lead to a NSO Expansion Pack addition at some point down the line)

Jokes aside... TAKEDOWN INCOMING, NINTENDO NINJAS ASSEMBLE

@squiddu-real My goat i've been looking for this for a while. Anything in English, or that the main stuff still being taken down?

@Nep-Nep-Freak i have a bit of love for what little i've seen of the playtests (i never was able to get an invite because f off expansion pack), especially thanks to the amazing ost (it's out there if you look for it). getting any substantial footage posted is a godsend.

@pikachupikachup no idea, the footage is just in german for whatever reason, but this seems to be one of the only videos with footage still up on youtube.
the uploader in the description specifically did so because they noticed nintendo stopped taking down playtest content as aggressively (which i can relay happened some time within the past 6 months) so they took their chances and posted it.

@squiddu-real Thanks for the explanation! How'd you find the clip?

@pikachupikachup just showed up in my recommended, god bless youtube i guess?