The winter break should have been when most students finally got a chance to play some Fortnite. Unfortunately, Fortnite fans found the middle of their Wednesday soured for a while as Epic Games' popular battle royale shooter went offline for a couple of hours before things went back to relative normalcy.
Here's what happened.
Why was Fortnite down on December 29?
This isn't the first time that Fortnite has become unavailable. Epic has cleverly used planned downtimes to transition the game from one chapter to another. Unfortunately, this time around, Fortnite was without any clear explanation as to why.
The game's official status page, Fortnite Status, later provided some insight. After claiming that the team was already investigating the issue, the account uploaded a follow-up tweet at 3:10 PM ET. However, it wasn't until more than three hours later at 6:30 PM ET that Fortnite players started reporting that the game was back up already. The said Twitter account eventually confirmed this while promising players some form of compensation by next week.