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Fortnite servers back online after 7 hours of outrage during Winterfest event


Fortnite servers back online:As most gamers already know by this point, the popular battle royale Fortnite by Epic Games faced one of the biggest scandals of the year on December 29, 2021 for a period of time. whopping 7 hours, leaving players unable to log in and access any information.

Officials had been sending messages via Twitter while investigating the issue, and finally, the servers are now back online. The article details all about the outrage and its cause.

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Fortnite servers back online after 7 hours of outrage during Winterfest event

Fortnite servers back online

Fortnite is a very popular battle royale game published by Epic Games. It is currently hosting a Winterfest event that rewards players for spending time in-game and completing quests that have led to increased demand. The game was down for a total of seven hours, according to multiple reports.

Earlier yesterday, the servers were down for a long time, during which players received messages like "You don't have permission to play Fortnite ”, while trying to access the game, with the long outage coming after two weeks of server issues.

According to multiple players, and official status as of Wednesday, the Fortnite servers are down and have not been running for an hour, and the community is unable to log in and enter the matchmaking process. Even Epic released an official statement saying they were investigating the matter.

Generally, downtimes occur when there are updates in the game. The first major update since the launch of Fortnite Chapter 3 is available today on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Nintendo and mobile . The game is starting to disable matchmaking earlier this afternoon and server downtime for a short time.

Fortnite servers back online after 7 hours of outrage during Winterfest event

Players started complaining when the game queued them for ten minutes and then failed to connect. At 1:13 p.m. ET, Epic Games mentioned it was investigating "an issue" and promised to share more information once it has a fix for the issue.

"Fortnite game servers are back online and Winterfest continues!. We appreciate everyone's understanding as we work to resolve these issues and we'll have more details next week on what we're doing to help you make up for lost time,” the company tweeted earlier today. P>

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