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Arc System Works’ newest fighting game is testing players’ patience
Guilty Gear Strive is, by most accounts, an excellent fighting game, but one major issue has been vexing players since it launched over a month ago: the absurdly long time it takes the game to load into its main menu.
The main culprit appears to be the network. Upon booting up Guilty Gear Strive, players are treated to several notifications that the game is “Preparing network…” and “Communicating with server…” Some of these messages are accompanied by a progress bar that fills slowly as the game does its thing, which only makes the progress feel more tedious.
Kotaku has spoken with a rep for Arc System Works about this issue but did not hear back from the studio before publishing.
As shown here, it can take several minutes just for Guilty Gear Strive to reach the main menu. As someone who mainly hops into the new fighting game to mess around in training mode, these long wait times have discouraged me from playing altogether, and I’m not alone in my irritation.
Read the full article on Kotaku.
