Epic’s Hit Battle Royale Fortnite Game experienced a great blackout at a very uncomfortable time: When most of the children came out of school and wanted to use the new skin they got for Christmas. The problem is, which epic is still investigating at this time, it seems to be very big, because players cannot enter their accounts and game servers have been taken offline.
Fortnite is totally offline
Previously today, Fortnite players started mass reporting problems entering into the game crossing social media, encouraging a statement from Epic Games noting that it was investigating this problem. A few hours later, the company returned with a less enthusiastic update: game services are offline, players cannot enter, and the company still works on improvement.
Fast forward two more hours to around 3pm ET today, and Epic said that the Fortnite game service is now offline, and even though it doesn’t say exactly what is wrong, the company does indeed signal “problem stability” that might trigger problems. Epic noted that it was looking for a solution, which showed that it might not have improved in the pipe and, therefore, this might end up being one of the longer blackouts of the game we have ever seen during the title.
Epic Games Store takes a hit, too
Besides fortnite, Epic also reported that his EPIC games shop had problems, though not dramatically enough. Users can experience “degraded performance” when trying to get into the game shop, download and install games, and similar. The Rocket League also experienced some small problems, but currently limited to degraded performance when it comes to enter and access game services.