The Epic Games Store was down for hours as everyone tried to get GTA V for free

After a extra than eight-hour outage, the Epic Games Store seems to subsequently be lower back online, meaning you ought to sooner or later be able to declare Rockstar’s smash hit Grand Theft Auto V for free until May 21st.

The Epic Games Store had been counting right down to the launch of an unnamed unfastened identify at 11AM ET today, and we learned remaining night time that recreation could be GTA V, thanks to an early tweet posted by using Epic Games’ legitimate Twitter account. However, when the time came for the deal for the sport to go live, the Epic Games Store went down, presumably as human beings attempted to refresh the site to claim the free title.

The heavy site visitors to the shop may also have affected other Epic offerings as well, as an professional Fortnite Twitter account said Epic was “investigating troubles” on PC and Mac and later stated there were additionally issues on iOS and Android. Epic’s Battle Breakers cellular sport became additionally experiencing issues in the course of the day. However, in step with Epic’s popularity page, both Fortnite and Battle Breakers are now fully operational again.

Epic is letting you declare the Premium Edition of GTA V, which includes “the entire GTA V story, Grand Theft Auto Online and all present gameplay improvements and content material,” in step with the studio, as well as the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack, which gives you extra content and $one million bonus cash for GTA Online.

Before snagging your copy, you should know that Epic is now requiring human beings have two-component authentication grew to become on to claim loose games. If you need a guide on how to turn on two-element authentication in your account, Epic has one you could comply with here.

Epic has given away dozens of loose titles for the reason that launching its PC keep in December 2018, and the company stated in January it plans to continue to give away loose games through 2020.