Epic Games Store Free Game Causes Server Crash

The Epic Games Store is facing server crashes and technical issues due to the popularity

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of its latest free holiday game offering. EGS users from all over the world flocked to the store

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Try to access the free game. Instead, they've been running into major

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technical issues, as Epic Games has struggled to deal with traffic

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While many users were able to get in touch, others were forced to log in dozens of times, reload their purchase attempt,

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received an error saying the servers were down. Epic Games has made it an annual tradition to release free games

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around the holidays ever since the Epic Games Store launched. This year, Epic is offering 15 days of free games,

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which began rolling out on December 15 and will continue every day through December 29. Games offered include Sabe

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