Epic games had a hard time during the Christmas day with its popular title Fortnite as it faced some service outage. On Wednesday, a huge number of players reported a huge queue as well as logging in issue in the servers of Fortnite. The issue was later discovered by the publisher and it assured that necessary investigations are going on to identify the issue and to reinstate the game to its usual pace.
According to TechCrunch, the majority of Fortnite fans were suffering from this issue. When they tried to log in to the game's server they were pulled back to the queue and after some moments the server was notifying a timeout message for the same. The team of the source even tried their luck to get to log in to Fortnite servers. After a wait of about 10 minutes in the queue, they faced off with the message: "Unable to join the Fortnite login queue. Please try again later." The situation occurred during 2.00 PM Pacific Time.
The players also reported the matter to Fortnite's official Twitter account in large numbers. Epic then came up with an official tweet briefing that they have recognized the issue and potential investigations have already been started to identify the actual problem. The tweet stated: "We are investigating an issue causing some players to encounter a problem with game services and when attempting to log in." This is not the first instance of famous titles being non-operational during the holiday season. Last year also a number of well-known publishers like Ubisoft, Rockstar Games etc. faced similar issues with their popular titles.
The official link shared with the tweet on Fortnite Game redirected to the status page of Epic Games, as quoted by Comicbook, There an official update stated that "Minor Service Outage" is affecting the login and running of Fortnite. The report further briefed that "Game Services" are experiencing a "Partial Outage" while the "Login" and "Matchmaking" elements are suffering from a "Degraded Performance."
The game's publisher has had stated that their team was trying hard to get it ready again as soon as possible. Sometime before, the publisher came up with a new tweet: "We've deployed a fix addressing the issues encountered earlier today. Login and Game Services have been restored and the elf is back on the shelf. Players that have earned the Take The Elf Emote will now receive it as a gift or immediately after completion."
