First off, apologies that this have been a rough start for the beta. We expected some hiccups, but this was a bit worse than we were prepared for. We appreciate your patience and support while we get things working.
We will be extending the beta to ensure you get play time, and we are working on finding a way to give incentives for those who have participated in this beta phase.
We are going to try and get things working tonight, however, to set expectations, currently things are still broken. We might be able to get some fixes and some matches in tonight, we might not, so probably not a good time to throw your SFV Beta party just yet.
We will be testing from 7pm-1am tonight, but tonight are going to be limiting the beta to only North America. This will reduce the strain on the servers, and provide a better work environment to fix the problem. Once we can get things running well in North America, we will then announce a time to do a global test including both Europe and Asia.
We will be providing updates every 20 mins, via this thread on Capcom-Unity. We will not be providing updates on other channels. If you want to share your experience, please post in this thread, as this will be our central source of monitoring what is going on. Please refrain on blowing up Ono-san on Twitter, everything tonight is being managed out of Capcom USA, and everyone already is well aware the game is currently broken.
Again, thank you all for your patience and support. We know how eager you are to play the game, and how disappointing this start has been. We will make it up to you. The sooner we can get this working, the sooner you can play, and we are working as hard as we can to get everything running smoothly.