The Epic Team

What is Support-A-Creator?

The Support-A-Creator program rewards Creators for bringing exposure to game developers. Creators earn money when supporters purchase on the Epic Games store or spend V-Bucks within Fortnite. Choose your favorite Creator and Epic will do the rest.

How do I support a Creator?

Epic Games store

You can either follow a link from your favorite Creator’s content or enter their Creator Tag at checkout within the Epic Games store. 

Inside Fortnite

Go to the Item Shop in Battle Royale or the Loot tab in Save the World and select "Support a Creator". Enter the Epic tag of your Creator in the dialogue box. As long as they are your selected Creator, they share in your spent V-Bucks. This applies to free V-Bucks that you've earned (from gameplay, events, or contests) as well as any V-Bucks you've purchased.

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On April 11th, 2018, we experienced an extended outage coinciding with the release of Fortnite 3.5. The outage blocked all logins for all players to our platform. We know many millions of you were excited about dropping from the Battle Bus with your friends, and it was a long time to wait to check out our 3.5 release. We sincerely apologize for the downtime.

We’re sharing more technical details in this post to give you a better understanding about what went wrong, what we did to fix it, and how we can prevent future issues like this from happening again.

Overview
At a high level, the Mongo database that backs our account service experienced severe performance degradation, which in turn caused our account service to be unavailable from April 11th 20:44 UTC to April 12th 14:30 UTC.  This means all login requests, account creations, and queries for account information failed.  With no way to query account information, there was no w...

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Fortnite hit a new peak of 3.4 million concurrent players last Sunday… and that didn’t come without issues!  This blog post aims to share technical details about the challenges of rapidly scaling a game and its online services far beyond our wildest growth expectations.

Also, Epic Games needs YOU!  If you have domain expertise to solve problems like these, and you’d like to contribute to Fortnite and other efforts, join Epic in Seattle, North Carolina, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, UK, Stockholm, Seoul, or elsewhere!  Please shoot us an email at [email protected]... Read more