ea's servers are down, stopping people from playing fifa 19 and other popular games. the company's online services have broken, meaning that multiplayer games and its popular origin service are inaccessible to players. any games that rely on ea's servers, which includes like madden 19, star wars battlefront 2 and battlefield 1 as well as fifa , are being caught up in the problems.

why is fifa 19 down? 

the ea help twitter account has said that connectivity issues are stopping players from getting into the game at the moment. according to reports online it seems to be affecting players worldwide with reports from the uk and us as well as across europe and asia. it comes just hours after fifa 19 was given an update that addresses various gameplay features in the game, which could potentially have some involvement in the server problems. the patch addressed various goalkeeper and volley issues that occurred during gameplay as well as adding updates to the ultimate team mode.

ea recognized the issue on twitter and said it was being fixed.

"we're aware of connectivity issues affecting players at the moment and are working to resolve them," it posted. "thank you."

the issues are hitting console players on both xbox one and ps4, according to those affected.

the problems are being seen across the world but particularly in europe, according to the website down detector.

when will fifa 19 servers be back up? 

an exact time for when servers will be working again hasn't been given and it is hard to estimate when the game will be working again. the problems were first reported at around 13.30 bst according to down detector which means it is likely to at least last another hour or two while developers try to address the problem. we will post any updates here when they are available.

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