The proverbial plug on the beleaguered Street Fighter V beta has been pulled early, according to an update on the Capcom Unity website.

“Capcom offers its sincerest apologies to everyone who participated in this first beta test.  While the purpose of a beta is to work out these type of issues, it was very clear that the issues we faced were more severe than we were prepared for.  After three days of testing, while we were making progress and collecting valuable data, we felt the majority of players were not having a good experience, and the best course of action would be to take the servers offline for extended maintenance.  We will be postponing our first beta phase until we believe the experience is going to be a positive one for players.” Said Street Fighter guru ComboFiend on Capcom’s blog.

The Street Fighter V beta was originally scheduled to take place starting July 23rd – July 28th to allow PlayStation 4 players to face-off against each other in online matches, however connectivity issues plagued the beta as soon as it launched.

The issues preventing access to the Street Fighter V beta felt like a proverbial kick in the mush for some of the Street Fighter faithful.

This reporter experienced those issues first-hand; repeatedly attempting to connect to the Street Fighter V beta throughout the course of the planned test period. I was able to actually connect to the game a grand total of two times on two separate days. On both occasions I was relegated to Street Fighter V’s training room to get a feel for the new engine while I waited for the servers to connect me to a match. That connection never occurred, and after approximately five minutes of training I was disconnected from the server and booted back to the title screen.

Player reaction to the issues surrounding the Street Fighter V beta were for the most part, understanding, with many players tweeting Street Fighter director Yoshinori Ono their support and love as the beta began experiencing problems, although responses to the cancellation of the beta on the Capcom Unity page have started taking a negative turn.

ComboFiend went on in his post to promise that some sort of incentive would be offered as a good-will gesture to players for having to put up with the Street Fighter V server issues,

“Additionally, we are working on a worthwhile in-game incentive for the players that participated in the first beta test.  While we can’t confirm specifics just yet, we will have more details on this in the coming weeks.”

No info has been released as to what the specifics were behind the issues that haunted the Street Fighter V servers, nor has any timeline been established as to when Capcom will attempt to relaunch the Street Fighter V beta.

Street Fighter V is currently on track for an early 2016 release.

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