Fortnite Players Are Angry At Epic After Missing Out On The Season Finale

Pretty sad that Epic can afford to give away games but can't manage to hold the entire playerbase playing at the same time.

Just another reason I’m not a fan of live events in games. Now Destiny is even doing it. 🙄

The reason they limited the amount of people who could join makes sense, because look at how many people watched the event via livestreams. It broke records on both Youtube and Twitch. Had those millions of people tried logging on at the same time, barring the millions who were already on, then the servers would have been screwed tremendously. Im sorry those people missed it live, but atleast we got the event at all. I was logged in 2 hours before the event so I was able to watch it.

I’d rather they keep it to their own servers than clog up Twitch. They ended up making everything stop working for everyone else.

Got on an hour early and had no issues, they tweeted that 12 mill made it in and 8 mill watched it on twitch

@Haida They couldn't even manage all the traffic there was when thay had GTA V for free. The site was down nearly for a full hour in some places.

I don’t play this game in the first place, so....

It was only 7 minutes though.

Tried to log in about 45 minutes before the event. Couldn’t get in. Wasn’t a big issue. We just watched a live stream. This was maybe the 3rd or 4th Fortnite event I’ve watched. Probably the worst one.

That odd response couldn't possibly be snarky sarcasm.

@TheLightSpirit Actually the game is playable right now. The new season doesn't begin until the 17th, which like most seasons will only be offline for a few hours. The only event that caused a full week wait was the season X event.

You'd think after 10+ events that Epic would have the server capacity to handle all the people coming in. Especially since the engine Fortnite runs on is their own creation

@Supadav03 It wasn't as flashy as most events, but in terms of lore it definitely plays a big role. Though by far the best part of the event is the storm changing into a massive wave, that effect looks so good, and I hope it stays throughout season 3. Its so much more menacing than the old storm.

@Entrr_username The problem is each events gathers more and more people, every fortnite events ends up busting records on both Youtube and Twitch, and those are just the people watching it, not including the millions of people who log in all at once. This latest event was yet another huge record-breaker, even bigger than the Season X event (The black hole that caused Fortnite too shut down for 1 week). So capping the servers at 12 million people logging in at once is still a very good feat.

I logged in an hour early, but everyone else wasn't so lucky. Only 3 of my friends were online. The event wasn't even worth the wait, it's my least favorite event that I've experienced. If you couldn't get in, you didn't miss much.

This is what YouTube is for?

The event sucked anyway

I haven’t played Fortnite in ages, but decided to drop into this for the heck of it. I joined an hour early, but my game crashed mid-match and kicked me out 30 minutes before the event was scheduled to start and would not let me back in to play. From what I can tell online, this seems to have been an issue with a ton of people on every platform.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they purposely limited the number of people online and kicked players out so that they could get these massive stream numbers.

This was my sons first attempt at watching a live event, I was working but my wife said he was going on about it all day, really excited, constantly asking her how much longer... he couldn’t get in at the end though, he was gutted but he handled it well. I felt really bad for him but he understands it wasn’t just him. Next time son!

I've been gaming for 30 years now and as the internet has got better and faster over the years I've not once been interested in online gaming. So yeah, I pissed myself when my teenage son came thundering down the stairs complaining about not being able to get into the event having waited for almost an hour. If there is a positive out of this, he instead sunk a couple of hours more into Xenoblade Chronicles.

Let them be angry. It tires them out before bed, so that way they'll sleep through the whole night.

Looks like players had an un-Fort-unate Nite...

I’ll show myself out, thanks.

PS: Never played Fortnite, never will.

@TheLightSpirit ya how dare anyone be upset they missed out on a live event they only got one chance to experience after it had already been delayed several times.

It's pretty ironic you use childish insults and sarcasm to try and belittle the fanbase. We get it, Fortnite is a "kid's game" and you're so special and unique for not liking something popular. We've been hearing it for years now and comments like yours have gotten stale. Move on and don't click an article about Fortnite if the game and/or it's fanbase is such a problem for you.

I've been trying to log in to pretty much no avail. I'd take those thousands of XP points now, Epic, if you don't mind.

I dont think people would have a problem if they didnt invest so much money into the game, some of the skins are the equivalent of £16 with out the accessories that go with it, plus the season pass they are making a fortune from people and cant put it into servers so everyone who paid for the season pass can see the event at the end of the season. If you buy 2 skins and the season pass each season that's £40 the equivalent of buying any other game each time there is a new season and let's face it many people spend much more. Pure greed

Apparently the event was massive with 12 million players watching the event. With 8.4 people watching the event that could have been players. And with everything that's going on, I'm not exactly surprised with the problems. I just hope they're more prepared next time.

Oh wow, Epic wasn't ready for this kind of success!

Totally forgot about this yesterday. I did see that concert with the rapper and some guy with a astronaut helmet. That was alright . Not a big deal.

@Haida this game is so big, I’m shocked they don’t have these issues more often. I just can’t blame their server infrastructure for this, it’s insane they can handle as much as they can already.

What I can point fingers at, is the choice to run events like this only once, at a specific time, and then never again.

These events should have re-runs (if they don’t already, I don’t play the game) at least for a week. That alone would alíviate the issue, by distributing the server load.

So I signed on 30 minutes before the event like Epic suggested. Everything worked out I got to fool around in a rumble style "mock" match while i waited for the clock to hit 00:00:00:00. Around 2:06 pm EST it did just that and the event started. Getting a build vantage point was what many peope did however I opted to get to the top of the agency. It was trippy at times yet annoying at others when players would get stuck at the bottom of the destroyed agency. I agree that it was short and couldve been better. As to the capacity issues I cannot comment. I logged in on Xbox as my switch recently suffered a slight misfortune. That being said i logged in 30 minutes prior with no issue. Maybe a switch/mobile issue? Anyways.. The event COULDVE been better. They COULDVE had more people in the serverz... All in all. 12000000 and 8500000 people all watching at once sounds like a record the Superbowl cant even compete with... All in all i cannot wait for the next event. This was my first one. I skipped all the previous events and I regret that after finally participating. Even my daughter was left speechless when she realized I was actually inside what I was watching! So cool

@patbacknitro18 Yeah but if you go into the new Storm Tsunami you will forcefully move upwards resulting in unfortunate deaths in multiple games. This new storm is the deadliest yet.

@patbacknitro18 I was logged in 4-5 hours before, and the servers still kicked me out when the time came close. They messed up big time. It's not like the servers eventually filled up, and there wasn't any room left. #RedoTheEvent

I actually got a broken lobby where the event never even played

Insert “I really don’t care gif in here”

We log on (by we, I mean my 8 year old who is fornite crazy) at 6:25 UK time, just before the recommended 6:30 and got in without a problem, I thought he had just joined a squads match and had him exit and reconnect at about 6:40 it took a while but still got back in. Guess we were lucky. Next time i'll keep my mouth shut though. Clearly I came close to making him miss it.

@Deanstead2k20 It'e quite good value in book, I bought one battle pass, Since than my kid has earned enough to buy the following season every time and had bit left over. I think he has around 4000 Vbucks now. He does not buy skins as so many are part of the battle pass. He has about 500+ hours in the game. At £10 that a great per hour value