On May 14, Epic Games Store listed the highly popular game Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) for free. Shortly after the game became free, traffic from a large number of users led to the Epic Store website and the launcher app Slowdown and Error. Epic acknowledged the problem and said the company was working on fixing the problems. According to the most recent tweet from the official account of the Epic Games Store, now most users can access the Epic Games Store and Launcher. Apart from this, if a post by Reddit is to be believed, the list of upcoming free games on the Epic Store has been leaked.
The Epic Game Store often offers free games in the form of ‘mystery games’, which users can download and keep forever, at no charge. This time the company has made it’s very popular game Grand Theft Auto V free till 21 May. Because its popularity is very high, it was natural that a crowd of users had to come to download it. This was the reason that the sudden increase in traffic caused slowdown and error (problems) in both the store and the launcher. Even though GTA V is a seven-year-old game, but this crowd of users suggests that the popularity of this game has not diminished even today. Let us know that GTA V is also available for free in India and you have till 21 May to download the game and keep it forever.
Soon after users reported this problem Tweet In, Epic acknowledged the problems and said the company was working on a fix. Followed by another Tweet Done, stating that some problem is still being reported by some users. Finally, on the morning of 15 May, the company Shared That it has “an update to solve these problems has been released” and most users can now access the Epic Games Store website and launcher.
We are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store.
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'll provide an update as soon as we can.
— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) May 14, 2020
We understand that many users are unable to access the Epic Games Store at this time. We appreciate your patience as we continue to work towards a resolution to mitigate traffic.
— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) May 14, 2020
In addition, a photo shared on Reddit shows a list of free games coming to the Epic Store. These include Civilization 6 game coming on 21 May, Borderlands – The Handsome Collection game coming on 28 May and ARK Survival Evolved on 4 June. These three games are also very popular and if this leak goes right then in future we will see a large number of players coming to the Epic Store.
