So I really love the new Street Fighter that was released last month, however their matching service is pretty crappy. I know it's better than the stuff that was offered in the past but it still needs major work, especially in this era of online games. It usually takes on average 5-8 attempts to get into a match with someone that has a ping under 100.

For those of you not familiar with how the service works, first you select that you want a multiplayer match, then you select ranked, then you wait while it populates a list of several matches you can choose from. Then you select down to get the match you want, and then you either get into the match or your told that the match is no longer available. If the match is no longer available the system takes you back to the menu in which you choose a ranked match or not. So you have to go through the list populating and go downa nd select another then maybe you get in or not. The system is seriously frustrating.

Ther eis a quick match option, but there's no parameters on it. You can't tell the system to give you a quick match with a ping under a certain amount or with a paticular ruleset turned on. If your in a match with a ping over 100 the game starts to become borderline unplayable. The further away from 100 the ping is the worse it is as the game's constantly laggy and rewinding on itself which really throws off the flow of the game.

I really hope Capcom learns from these issues when SF4 comes out next month and gives us a better matching service. Also while the thought of people being able to jump into your game like in the arcade sounds great, I hope there's again some kind of limiter so that it only allows people with a good ping or else that feature could quickly become useless unless it comes with a friends only filter.

1) Is your NAT strict, or at the medium setting? I was having the same issue on SF2HDR and UMK3 until I finally opened my ports and such to set my NAT to open.
2) Assuming you're talking about player matches, try joining the games that only have 1-2 people in them, as people tend to join really fast. If you're talking about ranked games, just host your own, people won't take long to get in.

Ya, the matchmaking is awful. Just pick the game yourself, it will be faster.

Right but making a match yourself (for me anyhow) seems to invite people into it that have horrid pings. I'll try fritzing with my router thought like you suggested.

Update: Not sure I know enough of ports and forwarding to know what top open I guess. Really don't want to jack up my router too much.