The sweet taste of a freebie: PC gamers massively rushed to the Epic Games Store for free copies of GTA V and brought down the store

Tonight team Epic Games Store announced the start of a giveaway in his store crime action movie Grand theft auto v production studio Rockstar games. The news caused a real stir. PC gamers massively headed to the site for their copies, but the servers could not stand the influx of those who wanted it and collapsed. For more than five hours, getting into the store is not possible.

Representatives of Epic Games several times managed to apologize to the audience for the inconvenience and assured that they were trying to fix the problem. When the store will be ready to cope with the influx of the army of players is still unknown. Giveaway GTA V will last until May 21, 2023.

Epic Games gives away games in its store for free every week. Auditory projects are downloaded in literally millions of copies. For example, almost 10 million people received World War Z in the Epic Games Store. But the GTA V numbers are likely to break all records.

As of the end of 2019, Rockstar Games has sold 120 million copies of GTA V. The game is still on all charts around the world, and its online component brings huge revenue to the publisher even seven years after its debut.

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