We are aware that users may be encountering slow loading times, 500 errors, or launcher crashing at this time and we are actively working to scale. We are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store.
However, the platform was finally back online on Friday, after an eight-hour-long outage.
The store came out with an explanation on Twitter, blaming the increased user footfall for the trouble. Soon after the surprise package was finally revealed, Epic Games experienced heavy traffic from game-buffs all over the world and crashed. Epic Games had made a plan to give away free games each week through 2020 - GTA V becoming the latest among these ''mystery releases''.
