Locked out of PS5 early access - game acting like a pre-order counting down to launch

[Iscah]

Simplifying my previous post because apparently it's not just caused by my weird circumstances.

I've been locked out of playing on PS5 since this morning, and I'm aware of at least one other person having the same issue.

The game was running normally yesterday but now just displays a countdown to the official launch date.

I suspect it has happened at the point where the program became available to download for people who have pre-ordered but had not previously installed the game. It seems that PlayStation has no awareness of the early access period and is not set up to recognise that people may be accessing the game before the official release.

I am running the PS4 version on PS5, and the other person who is having the same issue was running the native PS5 version.