Update (May 15): The Epic Games Store is back online.

GTA 5’s online communities are wonderfully weird ( though sometimes terrible) and it’s no wonder folks are eager to dive into them. GTA Online’s influence extended beyond its own servers recently, when an in-game war between green and purple aliens took over YouTube and TikTok. The game’s popularity on Twitch ballooned in the past year with role-playing servers in GTA Online. With the PC launch, the game found a new audience with the modding scene and in Grand Theft Auto Online. GTA 5 was initially released in September 2013 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and again in 2014 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It goes beyond just the game being available for free, too: 2019 was one of Rockstar Games’ best sales years for GTA 5. Thank you for your continued patience!”ĭespite being six and a half years old, GTA 5 is clearly still popular. “We’ll continue to monitor traffic and provide updates if further issues are encountered. “We’ve deployed updates to provide resolution for these issues, and most users should be able to access the Epic Games Store and Launcher at this time,” Epic tweeted. Thank you for your continued patience!- Epic Games Store May 15, 2020 We'll continue to monitor traffic and provide updates if further issues are encountered. We've deployed updates to provide resolution for these issues, and most users should be able to access the Epic Games Store and Launcher at this time. EDT confirmed that these issues have been resolved, too. An update from the Fortnite Status account at 8:25 p.m. EDT - more than 12 hours from the initial outage - Epic reported that its Launcher and website were back online. The high traffic appears to have also knocked the Fortnite servers offline, with issues impacting “Launcher logins and in-game purchases,” according to a tweet from the Fortnite Status account. We’ll provide an update as soon as we can.” “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 are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store,” Epic Games said on Twitter. EDT, when the Premium Edition of the game for Windows PC was scheduled to go live. The website and launcher both went down just before 11 a.m.

News of the game’s free release leaked early on Wednesday on the Epic Games Store Twitter account. The Epic Games Store went offline on Thursday morning as users anticipating the launch of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 5 for free on the platform overloaded its servers.

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