Children, teens and plenty of adults were furious early Thursday morning as system-wide crashes were reported on the Xbox One servers.
The loudest complainers? Anyone who wanted to play the newest update for Fortnite Battle Royale,which went live Thursday. The free online gameâs âSeason 6 Battle Passâ was released for all the next gen consoles including PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS and Androidâbut only Xbox One players were seemingly affected.
"We are investigating an increase in crashes on Xbox," reads a from the official Fortnite video game account. "We'll provide an update once we have more information."
The gameâs developer, Epic Games, say theyâre investigating the issue but didnât give any indication of when it might be solved. Additionally, Fortniteâs Twitter account said that theyâre looking into error messages coming up when some players âwhich is money used within the game.
Fortniteâs account tweeted, âWe're aware some players are receiving an error message when attempting to purchase Vbucks or their delivery is delayed. We are investigating this now and are continuing to monitor for any additional issues.â
This is likely to further anger people since the in-game currency is the only way to purchase the newest upgrade.
Epic Games is offering refunds for anyone affected by the V-bucks issue. Another tweet asked players to â if you were incorrectly charged multiple times for Vbuck purchases.â
The gameâs includes updates such as new skins for playersâ avatars, new levels, awards and new pets you can own in the game.
Players immediately went to Twitter to call out Xbox and Fortnite about the technical issues.
FIX XBOX CUZ I GOT SCHOOL
â vPronto (@vPronto3)
Honestly ruined the hype of season 6 for me, my mate and the rest of the xbox fanbase. You got a lot of compensating to do
â Josh Lewis (@omnilolz122)
Tru tho.
â Ethan Pyatt (@ethan_joel_)
WHEN IS FORTNITE GONNA WORK ON XBOX retweet this if you think xbox player should get something that only xbox people get because we have to wait but ps4 people don't have to wait.
â brandon (@brandon40376270)
I keep seeing this screen over and over! Then boom crash!
â M1shINATOR (@Mishy_Diamond)
This hasnât been Xboxâs only hiccup this week. Xbox Support tweeted Tuesday that they had to with players trying to buy video game titles from Microsoft's two predecessor consoles, Xbox and Xbox 360.