Fortnite down: fans of popular game unhappy at server downtime

Fortnite is so popular that its servers regularly become overloaded, causing downtime for players 
How Fortnite's landscapes will look whilst the game is down for emergency server maintenance
Epic Games
Amelia Heathman12 April 2018

Fortnite Battle Royale, the popular battle royale game, is down due to emergency maintenance.

Last night, the Fortnite Twitter account revealed there were issues with account services, causing problems with login for many players.

As a result, Fornite’s creator Epic Games took the game’s servers offline for emergency maintenance. There is no word yet when the servers will be back up meaning Fortnite is going to be down for a while.

Fortnite is currently at the top of the gaming charts.

When it went live on mobile back in March, the game made $1.5 million in in-app-purchases in only one week, when it was still in beta mode.

In early April, the game came out of beta mode for mobile and was available for iPhone and iOS gamers to download without an invite code. There is no update yet on when Fornite on mobile will be available for Android players.

Yet, this popularity comes at a price. The game regularly goes down whilst Epic fixes the servers, due to the number of players accessing the game on mobile, consoles and PCs.

Fans of the game took to Twitter to express their upset and anger about the game.

Some fans are even calling for their money back as a result of the server down-time.

If fans are really unhappy with Fortnite, they can always move over to the latest battle royale game, Radical Heights.

Available to play for free on Steam, Radical Heights has only been in development for about five months so is slightly buggy, but its developers, Boss Key Productions, are hoping to match the success of Fortnite.

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