Free GTA 5 crashes the Epic Games Store, Epic comments on the situation

As the leak indicated, Grand Theft Auto V is the PC game that can be downloaded and stored for free on the Epic Games Store starting today. Finally, if Epic manages to restore access to its service.

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Grand Theft Auto V Despite having sold more than 120 million copies, and having become one of the best-selling games of all time, since its release in 2013, it still interests a large number of people who have not already had it.

Indeed, it only took a few minutes for the massive influx of people trying to connect theEpic Games Store

We are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store.

We are aware that users may be encountering slow loading times, 500 errors, or launcher crashing at this time and we are actively working to scale. We'll provide an update as soon as we can.

– Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) May 14, 2020

We are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store.

We are aware that users are currently experiencing slow loading times, 500 errors or launcher crashes and we are actively working on increasing the server capacity. We will keep you posted on developments as soon as we can.

note that in addition to giving access to the hit of Rockstar Games, downloading GTA V from the Epic Games Store allows (in North America at least) to get a voucher of 10 dollars to use on this same Epic Games Store.

Even if Grand Theft Auto V continues to sell worldwide, taking part in this operation is a way for Rockstar to attract new players to GTA Online, with the consequences on the microtransactions it implies (without forgetting the financial compensation that he certainly received from Epic Games).