Offered GTA V For Free, Epic Games Store Was Down Due To Massive Traffic

The Epic Games Store was about to release several games for free at 11 am (US time). The most notable of these is Grand Theft Auto V, which was said to be one of the free games to be released. But when the clock passed 11 am, the Epic Games Store was closed immediately. The reason is that people simultaneously refreshed the store's website to get this free game.

On Twitter, Epic admitted that its game store had some connectivity issues from 11:05 am (US time) until 12:58 pm.

Earlier, a tweet shared a leak claiming that Grand Theft Auto V would be free to download until May 21.

Not only Epic's game store, but the huge amount of traffic also affects other Epic services. Fortnite's official account on Twitter said they were "investigating issues" encountered on PCs and Macs.

According to the status page for Epic's services, Epic's mobile game Battle Breakers faced similar issues.

Now even though the Epic Games Store is back, if you want to download GTA V for free, you'll have to turn on 2-factor authentication for your account. Epic already released instructions for turning on 2-factor authentication here.

In December 2018, Epic released dozens of its titles for free when the Epic Games Store was officially launched. And in January this year, the company said it would continue to release more free games until the end of 2020.

Three other games will be free to download in the following weeks after GTA V are speculated to be Borderlands, ARK: Survival Evolved, and Civilization VI.

Borderlands ($19.99)

This game is a series of action role-playing first-person shooter game made by Gearbox Software. Borderlands is one of the best-selling game franchises of all time. The series includes four games, Borderlands (2009), Borderlands 2 (2012), Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (2014), and Borderlands 3 (2019).

As of August last year, over 45 million copies of Borderlands were shipped while 22 million copies of the Borderlands were sold. Only after five days of release, the Borderlands 3 saw 5 million copies sold, bringing the net revenues of the total series to more than US$1 billion (around Rs. 7,547 crores).

ARK: Survival Evolved (Rs. 2,999)

This is an action-adventure survival game created by Studio Wildcard, in collaboration with Efecto Studios, Virtual Basement, and Instinct Games. In ARK: Survival Evolved, players have to find a way to survive being stranded on an island that is filled with dinosaurs and many other prehistoric animals, natural hards, and also other players as well. You can play this game in either single-player mode or multiplayer mode.

Civilization VI (Rs. 2,499)

This is a turn-based strategy game, allowing one or more players to compete alongside computer-controlled opponents. The goal of this game is to develop your civilization from just a small tribe to an empire and achieve one of the victory conditions such as through technological superiority, cultural influence, military domination, over other players or human-controlled opponents. You can do that by exploring the world, building city improvements, founding new cities, researching new technologies, ....

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