EGS store crashed after announcing free GTA V giveaway

Store American company Epic Games reported about possible problems with access to its website due to the increased load after the announcement of a free giveaway game GTA V. The company said so on Twitter.

“Epic Games Store is experiencing increased load right now. Users may experience slow page loads, 500 errors or launcher crashes,” the post noted. Epic Games added that it is working on scaling the services.

Earlier, Epic Games reported that Grand Theft Auto V was temporarily free in the company’s store. Reports about this also appeared on social networks. From May 14 to 21 users can download the full version of the game and keep it in their library forever. Now the corresponding entry on the company’s website is unavailable.