We are aware that users may be encountering slow loading times, 500 errors, or launcher crashing at this time and we are actively working to scale. We are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store. As is usually the case with such limited edition promotional schemes, you can’t play the game after May 21, even if you’ve installed it on your PC. The Epic Games Store appears to be back online now, which means, you’re basically free to claim your free copy of GTA V on it through May 21.

Note that Epic Games did not actually announce that it’s making GTA V free to play, so chances are many gamers reaching out to its website, were doing it basis of word of mouth, which in itself goes on to show how popular the game - which was originally released in 2013 (in 2015 for PC) - is, even after all this time. The Epic Games Store witnessed a near eight-hour-long outage last night, because well, gamers had been lining up to download GTA V. And it’s safe to say that gamers around the world have been going crazy about it - for obvious reasons. You can do that now, all the way through May 21. Yes, you heard that right! While murmurs about GTA V, Rockstar’s smashing thriller of a game, going free for PC on the Epic Games Store have been going around for some time now, you can’t actually believe these things unless you can, well, experience these things for real. Grand Theft Auto V is completely free to play on the Epic Games Store starting today.

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