{"id":12711,"date":"2025-05-13T00:09:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaming.news\/?post_type=news&#038;p=12711"},"modified":"2025-05-13T10:38:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:38:46","slug":"fortnite-servers-crashed-for-thirty-minutes-during-star-wars-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/gaming.news\/news\/2025-05-13\/fortnite-servers-crashed-for-thirty-minutes-during-star-wars-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite Servers Crashed for 30 Minutes During Star Wars Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"spgn__article__hero__news horizontal-wrapper vertical-wrapper\">\n\t\t<h1 class=\"spgn__article__hero__news__title wp-block-post-title\">Fortnite Servers Crashed for 30 Minutes During Star Wars Collaboration<\/h1>\n\n<figure class=\"spgn__article__hero__news__image --with-bg wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" 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According to the official social media page, players were experiencing matchmaking and login errors, locking them out of playing the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Epic Games managed to get the servers up and running again 30 minutes after the announcement. Though it isn\u2019t uncommon for Fortnite to experience minor bugs and glitches, a crash to this scale occurs every couple of months; the usual errors come from specific device and platform optimizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re investigating an issue with Fortnite causing players to see matchmaking and log-in errors. We&#39;re working to resolve this now and will update you when its fixed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AozRZ7Bc5U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/AozRZ7Bc5U<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FortniteStatus\/status\/1922064213033295881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">May 12, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to monitor this to ensure no other issues occur,\u201d Epic Games shared. They have not revealed the exact cause for the widespread crash. No rewards were handed out as compensation for the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Fortnite indicates its server communications with color-coded social media posts; red indicates a big issue, while yellow is used for less severe bugs. Green means the problem has been solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash occurred on May 12, during <a href=\"https:\/\/gaming.news\/news\/2025-05-07\/fortnite-update-adds-new-jedi-abilities-han-solo-and-more\/\">Fortnite\u2019s Star Wars collaboration<\/a>. There are two more updates coming, with the next being \u201cMandalorian Rising.\u201d The update arrives on May 22, and \u201cStar Destroyer Bombardment\u201d arrives on May 29. 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