If you are an avid player of FIFA 20 or Battlefield 5 then we know exactly what problem you have been going through, the EA Servers going down. Electronic Arts has tweeted that it has been facing some issues in the past some days due to high traffic. There have been a series of days when the EA servers have faced severe issues. The first of the issues were received on April 1 and since then there have been complaints on 4th, 11th, 14th leading up to 15th. Here are some tweets that EA Help and EA have made in the past few days.
Today we experienced a series of DDoS attacks that we’ve now been able to resolve. If you’re still having trouble logging in, please contact us.
— EA Help (@EAHelp) April 15, 2020
Mo' traffic, mo' connection problems. As more people get online around the world, you might have a spottier connection than normal. See what you can do to get more stability as you play: https://t.co/n7UXMoKQWA
— EA Help (@EAHelp) April 4, 2020
In fact even yesterday, 17th of April, the number of complaints EA received shot up between 3-4 pm, getting around 5 complaints at 3:47 and then another 45 at 4:02. In response to these outages EA had taken some steps in the past by temporarily disabling FUT and VOLTA FOOTBALL.
Today we experienced a series of DDoS attacks that we’ve now been able to resolve. If you’re still having trouble logging in, please contact us.
— EA Help (@EAHelp) April 15, 2020
Hey folks, we have temporarily disabled FUT and VOLTA FOOTBALL match creation while we continue to investigate connectivity issues impacting EA titles.
— FIFA Direct Communication (@EAFIFADirect) April 14, 2020
Stay tuned to this thread for more updates as we have them.
This has also impacted Star Wars Battlefront 2 who had recently launched their Age of Rebellion Update. All this can be attributed to the high traffic, streaming websites such as Netflix or amazon prime have also been experiencing along with other game servers, EA servers going down was the latest news in line.
EA Servers Going Down with others
They have been trying their best to reply to every complaint and sort them in the least time possible. It is true every boon comes with a curse, at a time when these games have this huge traffic of players they have to solve the issue of servers going down!