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Capcom offers update on unstable Street Fighter 5 servers

Street Fighter V is not quite as fixed as Capcom previously hoped and is now offering an update to the game's users.

Ozzie Mejia

February 23, 2016 3:16 PM

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Stop me if you've heard this one before. Yesterday, the Street Fighter V servers went down for a round of scheduled maintenance... which rapidly turned into a much longer period of maintenance. Servers were down for hours beyond the initial estimate, which left some egg on Capcom's faces after it declared less than a week earlier that matchmaking issues were fixed. So the question on fans' minds now revolve around just how stable the game's servers are, following a week of launch and over three betas. Capcom is now addressing some of those concerns.

"Matchmaking for Ranked and Casual battles is continuingly being improved for most users," states the Capcom-Unity post. "Throughout the weekend and after the server reset, most players should be matched up with opponents at a quicker rate than before."

While that statement applies to North American users, European and Middle Eastern users are being advised that matchmaking on their end is not quite out of the woods yet. Capcom is currently working on resolving their issues. Furthermore, Battle Lounges are also having their share of issues and Capcom is estimating a fix in 'the coming weeks.'

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?