Creator games are impacted by the server lifetime refresh. If I play creator games not created by myself, I am kicked out after four hours. This is really frustrating because I am still making progress in the game. This was reported on Reddit by other users also: Reddit - Dive into anything.
Steps to Reproduce
Play a creator game for four hours.
After 3 hours 50 minutes, a server lifetime message will appear informing you that the server will refresh in 9 mins 59 secs.
At 4 hours, the Fortnite home screen appears and the game is lost.
Expected Result
I should be able to play as long as I want. Or at least have the option to save my progress. Even if there are initial limitations like games are only saved for 24 hours or no more than four games can be stored at one time.
Observed Result
I was kicked out of the game.
Platform(s)
PS5
Additional Notes
This is my FOURTH time reporting this in 2-3 days! I first did it on the EPIC forum. Then they asked me to create a bug - which asked me all of these same questions. Then they told me to create a discussion board post AND create another bug. If you really want feedback, you should not ask customers to give a full days work to report one bug!
If it’s not a bug, then it’s an issue. It should be updated. Why have games that you can’t complete? I haven’t played either game since I realized this cutoff because there is no point in starting something I can’t finish. Like the Reddit poster said, it feels like you wasted four hours of your life for nothing.
Coming late to the party, but after seeing the section ““Ecosystem Wide Server Session Updates” of 33.00 Fortnite Ecosystem Updates and Release Notes, I thought the servers lifetime where extended. As per the changelog:
We have adjusted the server shutdown timings across Fortnite Creative, UEFN edit sessions, and all published islands.
Previously, newly spun-up servers (such as from private matches, edit sessions, or non-backfill matchmaking) would last 4 hours before shutting down.
Now, servers react gracefully to their host’s shutdown timing, and will have session lengths equal to the Host up time +4 additional hours.
This means that servers you join will now last between 4.5 and 19 hours long, depending on when the server was spun up in comparison to the lifetime of the server’s host…
However I still get kicked as well (from UEFN edits, from private codes, playtest, public published islands, etc.). Most of the times I get kicked at 2h30 so not even close to the 4h…
I’ve tried to create two posts on the forum but they never get posted and just magically disappear.