Can you merge Fortnite accounts?

Despite what you'll read elsewhere it's actually pretty easy to merge Fortnite accounts…  as long as you've got a fully functional time machine and aren’t in the least bit afraid of disrupting the space/time continuum…

Okay that was misleading and sarcastic, and we're sorry. Can you forgive us?

Fortnite account merging – the lowdown

Epic Games released a feature in Fortnite that allowed you to merge accounts back in November 2018. Players with accounts spread across various platforms could suddenly combine those accounts, and combine everything from cosmetics to V-bucks to campaign progress and more.

It was really easy to merge your accounts as well. You just logged on to your Epic Games account, clicked a few buttons, entered a security code, and wham bam thank you ma'am, you'd completed a successful Fortnite account merge.
 

Sadly those days are done. Yes, it's true, as of May 6, 2019, there really is no way to merge your Fortnite accounts anymore.

In the words of Epic Games…

“There is no way to merge two Epic Games accounts. Player Support is unable to assist with requests for merging accounts.”

So unless you're a time traveler visiting 2023, and you're on your way back to 2018 at 88mph in a flying DeLorean, that's the end of that… unless, of course, you want to know why this tragic turn of events has befallen us all?

Why won’t Epic Games let you merge Fortnite accounts?

Basically, it's all your fault.

Okay maybe not your fault directly, but our fault in general, as Fortnite fans.

You see, the folks over at Epic Games found out that a small percentage of people had been abusing the merge accounts feature in a way that was forbidden by the EULA. And so, Epic Games took action.

Believe it or not, not letting you merge Fortnite accounts anymore is actually to keep the players safe (but it still makes us cry a little tear of mourning now and then).

Okay, but are there any workaround ways to link two Fortnite accounts?

Ah, we admire your moxy, but sadly the answer is another big, honkin’ no. You can’t merge, combine, blend, link, amalgamate, fuse, or coalesce Fortnite accounts on any platform, in any way.

You have only two choices if you’re absolutely hell-bent on merging accounts: time travel, or journey to the fabled realm of the Epic Games developers and beseech them to grant you an exception to this no account merging rule.

Or you could free a genie from his lamp, but that might be more trouble than it’s worth…