After a night marked by problems with access to Origin's online networks, the North American company reports that the problem has been resolved.
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Electronic Arts has notified that they have already fixed the error on their official Twitter account: "The problems affecting EA Help, AHQ, Origin and the connection in all the titles have been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
The issues impacting EA Help, AHQ, Origin and connectivity across all titles are now resolved. Thank you for your patience.
– EA Help (@EAHelp) April 15, 2020
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We're currently looking into the issues affecting our services. If you can't play online, access Origin or EA Help, we're on it.
– EA Help (@EAHelp) April 15, 2020
Electronic Arts' online servers are experiencing problems. After a period of about eight hours was reported during the night of Tuesday without access to online gaming in FIFA 20, the North American company now extends the problem to more games in its catalog on consoles and those under the umbrella of Origin , your client for PC.
EA games cannot be played online – they work to fix it
EA Help's response on Twitter was immediate at 10:00 this Wednesday: “We are currently investigating the problems that are affecting our services. If you cannot play online, access Origin or EA Help, we are with it ”, they indicate.
In the absence of more details, other video games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Activision's Warzone have also reported crashes on their online game servers. Coincidentally, video games with a high volume of simultaneous players and the best sellers globally on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
We will update the news as soon as we know what's new about it.
Possible server saturation: telemarketers warn
The coronavirus crisis is a pandemic that affects all developed countries and, depending on the region, confinement of the population is recommended or even mandatory. In countries such as Spain, the telemarketers already indicated shortly after starting the alarm state of a shot in the concurrent use of the bandwidth of their networks, so that the traffic peaks could cause problems of supply of said bandwidth to all the world.
Companies like Sony have slowed down the download of games for the PlayStation 4 in order to be able to offer online connection to all users. Therefore, the exceptional situation in which society finds itself right now also affects the Internet, which has become not only a working tool for millions of people from their homes but also as the main means of entertainment: movies, series and video games with streaming through.
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