EA DOWN - UPDATE TWO: The official EA Help Twitter account said services are still experiencing issues tonight and connectivity is intermittent right now.

While the official EA Help website also says that online services are still "having issues" some six hours after FIFA 18, Battlefield 1 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 players first reported server connection problems.



In their most recent update, the EA Help Twitter account posted today: "We are continuing to monitor the fiber outages that are impacting connectivity to our games and http://help.ea.com.



"Connectivity is intermittent and not all services are restored.



"We will post updates as we receive them. Thanks for hanging in there with us! -EA Help Team".

EA DOWN - UPDATE ONE: The official EA Help twitter account has just given fans an update on the server issues hitting players tonight.

For three hours now EA servers have been experiencing issues, with FIFA 18, Battlefield 1 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 players among those reporting server connection problems today.



And now the EA Help Twitter account has given an update - but unfortunately for fans a fix isn't ready just yet as EA are still investigating the outage.



The EA Help Twitter account posted: "We’ve heard about several fiber cuts making it hard to connect to the internet. That also affects how you connect to our games and http://help.ea.com.



"This is still being investigated and we’ll keep you posted when we know more. -EA Help Team".

ORIGINAL: EA servers are down for thousands of gamers today with FIFA 18, Battlefield 1 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 players among those heaviest hit.

Independent website Down Detector has registered thousands of EA down reports today.

The site’s outage map shows EA gamers in the UK, Europe and US hit by the server issues today.

The official EA Help Twitter account has also acknowledged the server issues.

They tweeted: “We're aware of connectivity issues with our games and problems with https://goo.gl/qum7C , and we are working to resolve them.



"We'll let you know when we have more info.”



The official EA Help website currently displays a message saying "EA online services are having issues".

It adds: "While we’re working on our online services, you might not be able to connect to online modes in some games, buy games on Origin, or log in to Origin or EA Help.

"We’ll get you back in your game as soon as we can. Thanks for sticking with us while we work this out."



