Fortnite’s Doomsday Event Hits Capacity In One Minute


And people aren’t happy.

Update: To top off the insanity, the issues from Fortnite’s event have cause many people to not be able to launch any of their games on the Epic client.

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Original: Fortnite’s season three event is starting in just five minutes from this publishing, and if you are reading this and haven’t logged in yet you are long out of the availability window. Players have been waiting for this event for weeks, heightened by Epic’s repeated delays to the end of Season 2, and now that the day of reckoning is here, how does the community get to experience it?

Through a stream. While Epic posted yesterday that players should show up a half an hour before the event began, I don’t think most assumed that it would reach capacity quite so fast. The event begins at 2 p.m. ET, with players recommended to show up at 1:30. Fortnite’s Twitter account updated to note that the servers have hit capacity…one minute later, at 1:31.

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Sorry! It’s incredible to think that a game as popular and financially successful as Fortnite can’t handle an event, or for that matter that Epic is still running the game in a way that the grand majority of players interested in attending said event are not able to experience it without some obnoxious streamer chatting over the event. Even more so since Epic has just disabled the game from launching meaning if you aren’t interested in the event you are not playing period during this time.

Hopefully this can be addressed by the next seasonal event, because there are a lot of unhappy people who Epic has been hyping up about this event over the past few weeks only to not let them in the door on the day of.