Summary
Join In Progress stops working after about 10–20 minutes in Creative sessions.
Players can join normally when the session starts, but after around 10–20 minutes the session stops receiving new players even though Join In Progress is enabled in Island Settings.
This issue started happening after the latest Fortnite update and occurs randomly across sessions.
Please select what you are reporting on:
Creative
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Matchmaking
Steps to Reproduce
- Start a Creative session on the island.
- Players can join normally at the beginning of the session.
- Wait around 10–20 minutes while players are still inside the session.
- After this time, no new players are sent to the session even though Join In Progress is enabled.
- The session continues running but matchmaking no longer fills it.
Expected Result
Players should continue joining the session as long as Join In Progress is enabled and the session is still active.
Observed Result
After approximately 10–20 minutes, matchmaking stops sending new players to the session. The session stays active but no new players join.
Platform(s)
All platforms
Island Code
9862-4661-6699
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Additional Notes
The screenshot shows a session with 28 players. A few minutes later the session reached 40 players, but after that no new players were able to join even though the session had only been running for around 15 minutes.
Join In Progress is enabled in Island Settings.
This suggests that matchmaking stops sending players to the session even while the session is still active.
Also, the server region for this island is Middle East, and most of the players joining the map are from the Middle East region. This issue may be related to matchmaking behavior on Middle East servers.
This issue started occurring after the most recent Fortnite update.