GTA V for FREE: The Epic Games Store went down

Grand Theft Auto V or GTA V

After an over eight-hour outage, the Epic Games Store appears to finally be back online, meaning you should finally be able to claim Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V for free until May 21st.

The Epic Games Store had been counting right down to the launch of an unnamed free title at 11 AM ET today, and that we learned last night that game would be GTA V, because of an early tweet posted by Epic Games’ official Twitter account. However, when the time came for the deal for the sport to travelling, the Epic Games Store went down, presumably as people tried to refresh the location to say the free title.

Epic acknowledged the outage in an 11:05 AM ET tweet, and in an exceedingly12:58 PM ET tweet the corporate said the shop was still experiencing issues:

Tweet by Epic Games

Epic is letting you claim the Premium Edition of GTA V, which includes “the complete GTA V story, Grand Theft Auto Online and all existing gameplay upgrades and content,” in step with the studio, similarly because the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack, which supplies you extra content and $1,000,000 bonus cash for GTA Online.

Before snagging your copy, you ought to know that Epic is now requiring people to possess two-factor authentication turned onto say free games. If you would like the oriental way to activate two-factor authentication for your account, Epic has one you'll be able to follow here.