Epic Games Store and Fortnite Are Experiencing Prolonged Crashing & Login Issues

Ear­ly today, Epic announced the lat­est free game they’re giv­ing out in the Epic Games Store. It seems because this free title is a major one, it’s caus­ing some prob­lems with Epic’s servers, which includes Fort­nite.

Epic revealed this week’s free game, Grand Theft Auto V, which sent peo­ple into a tizzy. It appears with so many try­ing to log into Epic to claim this game, it’s caused mas­sive crash­ing. The offi­cial Epic Games Store Twit­ter account acknowl­edged the 500 errors peo­ple were get­ting, only to tweet out a few hours lat­er they had­n’t resolved the issue:

We are cur­rent­ly expe­ri­enc­ing high traf­fic on the Epic Games Store.

We are aware that users may be encoun­ter­ing slow load­ing times, 500 errors, or launch­er crash­ing at this time and we are active­ly work­ing to scale. We’ll pro­vide an update as soon as we can.

— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) May 14, 2020

We under­stand that many users are unable to access the Epic Games Store at this time. We appre­ci­ate your patience as we con­tin­ue to work towards a res­o­lu­tion to mit­i­gate traffic.

— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) May 14, 2020

Fort­nite is also hav­ing serv­er prob­lems, with the game’s offi­cial sta­tus Twit­ter account announc­ing they’re inves­ti­gat­ing the issue on PC and Mac. A few hours lat­er, they also shared that login trou­bles are also affect­ing Android and iOS.

We’re inves­ti­gat­ing issues on PC and Mac that may impact Launch­er logins and in-game pur­chas­es.

We’ll pro­vide an update as we have more info. pic.twitter.com/YlFUP3vQEy

— Fort­nite Sta­tus (@FortniteStatus) May 14, 2020

We’re aware that logins and pur­chas­es are addi­tion­al­ly impact­ed on iOS and Android.

We’re active­ly work­ing to resolve login and pur­chas­ing issues on all affect­ed plat­forms and will con­tin­ue to keep you updated.

— Fort­nite Sta­tus (@FortniteStatus) May 14, 2020

Obvi­ous­ly, Epic is work­ing on the issues and will get back with any changes as soon as they happen.

In oth­er Epic news, yes­ter­day, the com­pa­ny revealed their newest engine and announced that Fort­nite would be launch­ing along­side the PS5 and Xbox Series X.