Fortnite login is back after an outage

15/08/2025

Entertainment

The issue preventing players from logging into Epic’s game is also affecting Rocket League and Fall Guys.Updated Aug 15, 2025, 12:07 AM UTCJay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.Fortnite players are able to hop into matches following a login issue that Epic Games described as preventing users from “getting in reliably.”“This log-in outage is resolved; all players are able to log-in again across all platforms,” Epic said at 8:54PM ET. “We’ll continue monitoring our services to ensure there are no other issues.” Epic posted its initial status message about the issue at 6:39PM ET, and shared that things were mostly fixed with the exception of PlayStation at 8:02PM ET.While the login issue was happening, I wasn’t able to get into the game on my Nintendo Switch 2. When I tried, the game showed a message that says “unable to sign in to your account for online services” and to “please try again later.” I also watched frustrated Twitch streamers who are trying to compete in a scheduled tournament that weren’t able to log in or play games.In other updates, Epic said that the login issue also affected two of its other games, Rocket League and Fall Guys” and that it was investigating login errors for titles using Epic Online Services.Fortnite dealt with an extended downtime last year during the launch of its Greek mythology-themed season. In 2021, the game’s servers went down for a few hours near the end of the year.Update, August 14th: Epic says outage is resolved.Most Popular
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