Hi there everybody. Just wanted to circle back on this with updated information on our experience so far. So after reporting the issue, we tried several things:
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We launched Fortnite and used the creator island only for 4 or so days. So finally, it did update the eligibility and 2 days was added. But after the 2nd day it didn’t want to add our days in Fortnite Creative anymore, although we worked about 4 days in there.
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Because we are on a tight timeline to launch our first game, we then decided to do a drastic 2nd step, and that was to completely uninstall Fortnite and UEFN, removing every and all files associated with these two programs and any cashing. Then we downloaded and re-installed Fortnite and UEFN. UEFN still didn’t want to update the eligibility by itself, but via Fortnite Creative on the clean install as well as work in UEFN, the days worked for the eligibility counter on the Fortnite Creator portal did again start to add up. Yesterday, we reached our 7/7 days in Fortnite Creative, and was able to finalize our creator account today. Thank you to @Jimbohalo10 who helped us via this thread Checking eligibility for the island creator program does not work - #13 by Jimbohalo10 with this suggestion. So we found over many days of experimenting that the eligibility only updates if you create new island, and work in both sides UEFN and Fortnite Creative, and launching and playing the island from both UEFN and Fortnite Creative several times a day. Sometimes it still didn’t update the day, but we were really diligent and spend hours every day in the two platforms in order to ensure the day would be counted.
So the great news is, we did finally reach the 7/7 days.
Thank you to the epic team who paid attention to this, and everyone who helped. We greatly appreciate it. We are now very excited to launch our first game.
Wishing all the other new creators also the best of success.
Blessings everyone!