Epic Games Inc.’s Fortnite was down for about seven hours on Wednesday, and there was a long outage after two weeks of server problems.
The online battle royale game recently started its Chapter 3, the environment has undergone major changes, and it has begun to cause problems for players logging in and searching for matches (11 am New York time). The game server has been offline due to “stability issues” Status until close to 7pm according to Epic’s Fortnite Status Twitter account. Users have also reported other issues logging in to the Epic Games Store, preventing them from playing games on other Epic accounts online or offline. Fortnite has more as of May, with over 350 million registered users, making it one of the most popular video games in the world. It is currently hosting a Winterfest event, rewarding players for time spent in the game and completing tasks. The prizes include a pair of new costumes, including a chilled banana, and additional bonus items for Fortnite Crew subscribers.
“The Fortnite game server is back online and the Winterfest event continues! As we work to resolve these issues, we thank everyone for their understanding, and we will provide more details about what we are doing next week to help you make up for the lost time. ,” the company wrote on Twitter.
From December 16th to January 6th, the demand has been high throughout the event. Earlier this month, Epic stated that it was having trouble distributing winter gifts to players-“Sergeant. Winter can’t receive so many guests at the same time!” the company wrote on Twitter-and the game has other The downtime of the time period.
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