Fortnite’s Servers Are Down For An Unknown Amount Of Time

As arguably the most popular Western video game in the world right now, server issues with Fortnite Battle Royale are only to be expected. This is why the current server maintenance that Epic Games is conducting is no surprise. Gamers might not be too happy with the fact that the there’s no timeline as to when they can play again, however, though there’s no doubt that they’ll be able to at some point.

As Epic notes on its status page, the studio has been experiencing server issues since yesterday and the fixes that have been deployed so far have only succeeded in mitigating the problem. This prompted the developers to simply issue a server downtime so that they can deploy major fixes that will finally get things back on track.

“We'll be undergoing emergency downtime to deploy major upgrades to our database systems,” the page reads as of writing.

The game’s official Twitter account also posted a notice alerting players to the same move, noting how they don’t have a definitive timeline on when the fixes will be finished. This means that players have no choice but to keep on checking back, either through their status page or their Twitter account.

“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://status.epicgames.com/,” the post reads.

As Forbes notes, there is currently no figure as to how many players Fortnite has. Although it’s safe to say that it’s somewhere in the dozens of millions.

When servers have to deal with that kind of load, it’s only natural that it would experience more than a few problems staying up. This has been the most significant server downtime that the game has had since January.