GTA V Online Restored After Five Hours of Downtime
May. 18, 2020Rockstar’s popular titleGrand Theft Auto V is now available for freeas a limited period offer on Epic Games Store. The offer rendered the store useless with slow loading times,“500 internal server error”messages & launcher crashes when the giveaway went live at 8:30 PM IST on the 14th of May and now,GTA V’s online play feature got affected for almost five hours.
“Due to extremely high player volumes, we are currently experiencing issues with access to Rockstar Games Services including the Rockstar Games Launcher and GTAV for PC. We are actively working to resolve the issue and will keep you updated of any changes.”,wrote Rockstar Support on Twitter.
After a solid five hours of downtime, the company has finally resolved the issues and made GTA Online live for gamers to play.
GTA V is available on a variety of platforms such as PS3, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Windows. If you haven’t claimed the game already, here is your reminder to do so if you’re interested as the giveaway will end on the 21st of May, which is just a couple of days away from now. Do keep in mind that you’ll have to set up two-factor authentication on Epic Games Store to download the game.
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