If you had deliberate to play Fortnite right this moment, you could need to make different plans. At the second, many gamers are discovering it unattainable to log in to their accounts and play video games. At 1:13PM ET, Epic Games stated it was investigating “a problem,” and promised to share extra info as soon as it had an answer to the issue.
Fortnite is at present unavailable and gamers are unable to log-in whereas we examine a problem.
We’ll present extra information when now we have an answer to carry providers again on-line. pic.twitter.com/B3wXvu5SL6
— Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) December 29, 2021
Epic hasn’t stated what’s inflicting the issue. However, over on its standing web site, the corporate describes the incident as a “main outage.” That similar webpage notes the Epic Games Store is affected by “degraded efficiency,” According to Downdetector, there are additionally stories of individuals being unable to play GTA Online and entry Discord, however it’s not clear if these incidents are associated.
2021 has seen its share of notable web outages. It was solely earlier this month an Amazon Web Services networking problem led to many web sites, together with Disney+ and Vice, changing into inaccessible for a part of the day. We’ll notice right here Fortnite runs on an AWS backend.
Update 12/29 7:40PM ET: Epic Games confirmed Fortnite’s servers are again on-line after the hours-long outage. “We’ll have extra particulars subsequent week on what we’re doing that will help you make up for misplaced time,” the corporate wrote in a tweet.