About GameStatusNow
GameStatusNow answers one question quickly: is a game's server down, or is it just you? Every answer comes from an official, public source and shows when we last checked it.
Who runs GameStatusNow
The site is built and run by William ZZ, Founder. I wrote the checker, picked the sources and write every page. It is an independent project — no publisher pays for or reviews it.
How the checker works
- Every 5 minutes a scheduled job reads each status and player-count source and stores the answer and the time in our database. Official announcements are read once an hour.
- Fortnite: Epic's public status API — the 9 Fortnite components, plus Epic's incident and scheduled-maintenance records. We keep every record we collect, so our archive grows past the 50 items Epic's feed returns.
- Old School RuneScape: Jagex's official world list . We add up the player count on every world, and split it by world location and by free/members worlds.
- Steam player counts (ARC Raiders, Marvel Rivals): Steam's GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers API . These count Steam players only.
- Official announcements (ARC Raiders, Marvel Rivals): Steam's GetNewsForApp API , announcements feed only — the posts Embark and NetEase publish on their Steam pages. Read once an hour.
- Before adding a source, we read it three times at least ten minutes apart and check that the answers move (player counts change, or the publisher's own timestamps update). On 10 Nov 2026, for example, Steam answered 24,148 → 24,148 → 23,796 for ARC Raiders and Jagex's list summed to 66,833 → 66,281 → 66,022 players. That test catches a frozen source at launch; it can't promise one never stalls, which is why every page shows the time of its last successful check.
What we never do
- We never show a green status without an official answer. No answer, a failed latest check, or an answer older than 20 minutes all show Unknown.
- For Old School RuneScape the status is our reading of Jagex's world list (are the worlds reporting players?), not a login test, and the page says so.
- We never treat a drop in Steam players as an outage, and never invent maintenance end times. (The Old School RuneScape rule above is separate: it reads whether Jagex's own list shows worlds with players.)
- We don't use login-only or paid data, and we don't scrape user reports.
Limits
Our own history starts on 10 Nov 2026. Status changes are logged at the time our checker first saw them, which is normally within one 5-minute check of the publisher's change — longer if a check fails or runs late. A gap in our checks can hide a short spike or outage.
Contact
Found a wrong status, or want a game added? Email hommer@ourpcb.net.
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Disclaimer
GameStatusNow is an independent fan-made status reference. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Epic Games, Embark Studios, NetEase Games, Jagex, Valve or any other game publisher. Game names are trademarks of their owners.