Fortnite Server Instability Results In Compensation for Players

Epic Games have announced that they will be providing some compensation to players for the unexpected downtime of Fortnite. While the game has been experiencing massive growth the past few months, with such growth comes some growing pains, as Epic Games attempts to keep up with the influx of new players. In a statement released today, the Fortnite Team said:

“It’s been no secret that over the past 24 hours we’ve been experiencing issues with our services that have prevented many of you from playing Battle Royale and Save the World. We’re sorry. We know how frustrating this has been.

We messed up here. As thanks for being awesome and patient, we’re doing the following:
For Battle Royale players, this weekend we’ll be offering a Back Bling gift that you can pick up in the store for free.
For our Save the World folks, this weekend we will be offering a Troll Stash Llama in the store for free.
Next week, we will be granting a pack of Battle Stars to our Battle Royale players and Seasonal Gold to the Save the World players. This will require brief additional downtime, so we will be including it as a part of our planned update next week.

We’ll have a detailed postmortem of this week’s issues, and more information about how we will improve services for you in the future. Look for this later next week.”

Thank you for your patience with the recent account issues, we're working on some goodies to show our appreciation! Info here (English Only for now) -https://t.co/KwVPGvfwss

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) April 12, 2018

Though the game now appears to be up and running, Epic Games seems determined to make sure that the recent issues don’t turn players away, especially since they’ve worked so hard to bring much requested features to the game, such as Replays. Their twitter feed has been constantly updating players on their server issues, and they’ve been keeping players up to date with the finer details via the Fortnite subreddit.

Now that Fortnite seems to be back to normal, get a head start on the competition with our guide to the week eight challenges, here.