"You don't have permission to play Fortnite!"

Did you want to play Fortnite yesterday afternoon and it "didn't work"? You're not the only one having issues, but the reported errors that started appearing around 5pm were fairly unusual. Some players got a message that the Fortnite servers were not reachable, others were told that they did not have permission to play Fortnite, the third one was queued for ten or even twenty minutes by the system to log in, and then reported that it was not possible to log in, and some even reported that they could not even play locally installed games, as the Epic Games desktop launcher was not working.

The error was apparently quite unpleasant, as Epic managed to restore the system only a little after midnight, and shortly before one in the morning they officially confirmed the elimination of the error via Twitter, where they wrote that next week they will tell what they will do so that you can "make up for lost time".

Fortnite game servers are back online and the Winterfest continues! ❄️

We appreciate everyone's understanding as we worked to resolve these issues and we'll have more details next week on what we're doing to help you make up for lost time. pic.twitter.com/ruLmG4xHgk

— Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) December 29, 2021

Source: Fortnite Status/Twitter

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