This event is likely going to fill up fast.
Fortnite’s season is coming to a spectacular close this week as players across the game are gearing up to fight Galactus in a head-on battle for the survival of the planet. The event itself is going to take place at 4 p.m. EST on December 1 with the playlist going live at roughly 3:30 p.m. on the same day. Epic has suggested that players be in-game at least an hour before to ensure that they have a spot. You don’t have to be in a match, just in the lobby.
The reason for this is simple; this event is shaping up to be very popular and that means the servers are going to get loaded to capacity very quickly. The last live event at the end of a season saw servers at capacity less than a minute after the playlist opened meaning everyone involved had to sit back and watch it on stream.
So for direct purposes, here is your timeline on December 1 in EST time zones:
- 3:00 p.m.: You should be logged into the game by now. Preferably earlier as more people are going to log in early.
- 3:30 p.m.: The playlist goes live.
- 04:00 p.m.: The event will start in live servers.
On another note Epic has posted about copyright. It looks like this event will feature a number of copyrighted songs and streamers should be aware of this to avoid a takedown on their channel. Those in the Support-A-Creator program can link their YouTube accounts to monetize their Fortnite event videos for 90 days, after which the videos won’t be taken down but they’ll be demonetized.
Partnering with Lickd, Content Creators in the Support-A-Creator (SAC) program will be able to host VOD content from the Galactus event on YouTube and be able to monetize on those videos. Monetization on the videos will be active for 90 days. Following the 90 days, Creators should not receive takedown notifications, but their videos will be demonetized.
Presumably streamers on other platforms or those not within the content creator program are best left to muting the audio on their streams when they broadcast the event to be fully safe. Bear in mind this warning is Epic trying to protect streamers from the wrath of the music rights holders.
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