GAMERS trying to play EA games online are being told they have 'lost connection to EA servers' and are unable to play. Problems seemed to start a little after 1pm UK time, and are ongoing. 1 Players around the world are struggling to get online with many of EA's games, including FIFA 19 Credit: EA Sports For once you get home early just to play #FIFA19 and then you see this- Why @EASPORTSFIFA why you do this? 🙄 Servers down! #FIFA #FUTChampions pic.twitter.com/O447tyI19V — Kushank Garg (@laala_lannister) October 23, 2018 EA's UK help site is currently not accessible either, with requests to it timing out. Users are understandably frustrated by the outage, with one saying "EA website down also. Typical, I can't even lodge a complaint!" Another complained on Twitter, saying "playing my last remaining game in squad battles on Fifa 19 today and I was all set to enter the top 100 for the first time. Then your s***ty ea servers go down and deny me my glory. Spend money sorting your f***ing servers out. Every f***ing year, same f***ing s***." Players across the world have reported being unable to connect to any EA titles, with FIFA 19, Battlefield 1, Madden 19, and EA's Origin platform all reported as being down. We're aware of connectivity issues affecting players at the moment and are working to resolve them. Thank you. — EA Help (@EAHelp) October 23, 2018 There are individual reports from across Europe, as well as the Americas, Asia and Africa being reported by status-tracking website DownDetector. The problems also encompass the FIFA mobile app. EA confirmed at 1.15p.m. UK time that they were aware of "connectivity issues affecting players" and claimed to be working to resolve them. According to users reporting their status via DownDetector, Origin services were starting to come back up by 2p.m. but there were still widespread reports of players being unable to connnect to the games themselves. EA support claimed that by 2.30p.m. all services were "slowly recovering", but many users are still reporting issues. We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368 . We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours.<doc-sep>FIFA 19 released back in September and offers a score of online modes for for franchise fans When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sign up forfor the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks UPDATE TWO: As of 5.50pm this evening FIFA 19 servers still appear to be suffering from connection problems. Gamers are still discussing issues plaguing the title on Twitter. EA's "Help" Twitter account has not issued an update to say the matter has been fixed. UPDATE ONE: FIFA 19 has now been down for over an hour this afternoon. FIFA 19 players started reporting issues with the hugely-popular title just before 1pm. It is currently unknown why the football simulator has been hit by problems. Gamers are still taking to Twitter to express their frustration with the outage. One posted: "EA servers are down, classic EA." Another said: "Servers for EA appear to be down guys. Don’t know what’s going on"<doc-sep>EA's servers are down, stopping people playing Fifa 19 and other popular games. The company's online services have broken, meaning that multiplayer games and its popular Origin service are inaccessible to players. Any games that rely on EA's servers – which includes Madden and Battlefield as well as Fifa – are being caught up in the problems. 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"We're aware of connectivity issues affecting players at the moment and are working to resolve them," it posted. "Thank you." The issues are hitting console players on both Xbox One and PS4, according to those affected. The problems are being seen across the world but particularly in Europe, according to the website Down Detector.<doc-sep>
FIFA 19 (EA Sports) FIFA 19 players have struggled to get into the game this afternoon after facing messages saying ‘you lost your connection to the EA Servers’. Capitol riot probe commission blocked from being created by Republicans It means that players are currently unable to play matches or access parts of the game that require access to the EA servers. The issue seems to also be affecting other EA games with problems with Battlefield 1 arising as well. Here is what we know about the server problems so far. (Credit: EA Sports) Why is FIFA 19 down? The EA Help Twitter account has said that connectivity issues are stopping players from getting into the game at the moment. According to reports online it seems to be affecting players worldwide with reports from the UK and US as well as across Europe and Asia. It comes just hours after FIFA 19 was given an update that addresses various gameplay features in the game, which could potentially have some involvement in the server problems. The patch addressed various goalkeeper and volley issues that occurred during gameplay as well as adding updates to the Ultimate Team mode. We're aware of connectivity issues affecting players at the moment and are working to resolve them. Thank you. — EA Help (@EAHelp) October 23, 2018 When will FIFA 19 servers be back up? An exact time for when servers will be working again hasn’t been given and it is hard to estimate when the game will be working again. The problems were first reported at around 13.30 BST according to Down Detector which means it is likely to at least last another hour or two while developers try to address the problem. We will post any updates here when they are available. MORE : Games Inbox: New video game IP worries, Red Dead Redemption II horse death, and Call Of Duty 2019 MORE : UK retail video game sales continue to fall as Starlink flops in latest charts