The Epic Games store experienced glitches on Thursday as fans raced to download a free duplicate of Grand Theft Auto V.
Close to making the game free online the swell of interest made the webpage slow and send blunder messages.
Epic accused the log jam for “substantial traffic” and said it was attempting to fix the issue.
Amazing Theft Auto, known as GTA to fans, is made by Rockstar Games and is one of the top selling gaming establishments.
Consistently Epic Games makes a ‘riddle game’ accessible without charge on its store. The games are accessible for PCs or Macs. Clients who download the week’s riddle game can keep it everlastingly, in any event, when the allowed to download period terminates.
On Wednesday it was reported Grand Theft Auto V would be the current week’s down.
On Twitter, the organization attempted to quiet fans.
Stupendous Theft Auto V has earned more than some other single game at any point discharged, as indicated by MarketWatch. In excess of 100 million duplicates have been sold since its discharge in 2013.
The log jam and crashes seem to have kept going a few hours and caused issues on other Epic stages also.
Fortnite, which is made by Epic, had all the earmarks of being experiencing difficulty with its launcher and the portable game Battle Breakers was additionally practicing issues.
The proposal to download Grand Theft Auto V goes through 21 May. In January, Epic Games said it intended to part with free games every week through 2020.
Such offers endeavor to support incomes by attracting gamers to online stores.
