Fortnite, one of the most popular battle royale games, experienced a major downtime yesterday due to an unscheduled “emergency maintenance” on the Fortnite database. The game didn’t go live several hours after the initial outage, with developer Epic Games giving no clear ETA on when the servers might be back up again.
We’re bringing the servers offline for emergency maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience. We currently have no ETA on when servers will be back up. Stay updated with our status page here: https://t.co/3y0X6buriO
In a blog post, Epic Games issued an apology to the Fortnite community and has offered freebies to make everything right again. The post reads:
The company then announced that Fortnite: Battle Royale players across all platforms will receive a Back Bling gift, which they’ll be able to pick up for free from the store this weekend. Fortnite: Save the World players, on the other hand, will receive a Troll Stash Llama in their loot tab for free during the weekend.
