That's exactly the requirement for this bug to happen. Everyone experiencing this issue came back to the game after a long time. Using a save file from a certain (still unknown at this point) older version of the game will break the new version in this way.
Anything that forces it to reconnect - even turning the game off and back on - will work most of the time for most people. For those actually hit by the DW bug, there is absolutely nothing they can do.
Anything that forces it to reconnect - even turning the game off and back on - will work most of the time for most people. For those actually hit by the DW bug, there is absolutely nothing they can do.