The servers for the massively online battle arena third-person shooter video game, "Fortnight," were recently down, preventing millions of its players from gaining access to the game's party system. Fortunately, this issue has since been resolved and attributed to the game's faulty social features, wherein players were not able to go into matchmaking with their friends or even see them online.
In a tweet that was posted on the official page of the game, the developers encouraged their players to start their own parties after successfully fixing the social issues, especially since the service is now "fully functional." This issue has been a recurring one, and as it turned out, this was the developers at Epic's main reason for shutting down their servers to properly address the problem.
The cause for the faulty social system was to the exponential rise in concurrent players, which eventually resulted in the servers crashing. Ultimately, this occurrence compromised the overall player experience. Even though these issues annoyed a significant number of fans in the past, Epic has been diligent in updating their players about the status of this issue through their social media sites and through the multiple updates that they have been dishing out in the past.
Even though the social systems feature has been fixed, it does not mean that the game is free from bugs and other in-game experience deterrents. There are not any contrastive issues that compromise the in-game experience of "Fortnite," but small issues are still apparent, especially for the console versions of the game.
At this point, the developers are trying their best to avoid prolonged maintenance periods that will hinder people from playing the game entirely. However, if these bugs continue to persist, a prolonged maintenance period may inevitably occur anyway.
Whatever the case may be, it is safe to assume that the developers will keep their players updated — whatever they decide to do down the line.
