a giant blackout paralyzes connections to the game

2023-05-04 17:17:00

Many reports on DownDetector point to difficulties encountered by players on Thursday.

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Le Figaro

Published on 04/05/2023 at 19:17update on 04/05/2023 at 19:17

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Two players play a game of football on the game Fifa. Daniel LEAL / AFP

Fifa 23 fans, be warned: Electronic Arts servers are having trouble this Thursday. Many users have made a report on the DownDetector site, stating that they have encountered “bugswhen connecting to the famous football game, which is played by between 150,000 and 200,000 people around the world every day.

These connection difficulties would come from a gigantic failure of the servers of Electronic Arts (EA), the publisher of this game which is among the best-selling in the world. The company tweeted in the middle of the afternoon to declare that it “investigating reports of some players being unable to connect to EA servers”.

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Fifa 2023 is not the only one affected by this failure. Other games published by EA, such as Apex Legends, are experiencing significant connection bugs, which seems to support the hypothesis of faulty servers.

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