{"id":38507,"date":"2024-10-17T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T03:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=38507"},"modified":"2024-10-17T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T04:55:11","slug":"dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO Xbox players report waiting for hours to get into ranked matches\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bandai Namco\u2019s <strong>Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO<\/strong> has been enjoying a massively successful release \u2013 selling 3 million copies worldwide in only 24 hours. However, Xbox players from all over the world have been reporting sluggish matchmaking that\u2019s causing them to wait for hours to participate in the game\u2019s ranked online matches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u571f\u66dc\u65e5\u306e\u671d\u3060\u305e\uff1f\uff1f\uff1f<br>xbox\u306e\u30b9\u30d1\u30fc\u30ad\u30f3\u30b0\u30bc\u30ed\u5168\u304f\u30de\u30c3\u30c1\u3057\u306a\u3044\u3093\u3084\u3051\u3069\u3002\u3002<br>\u30e9\u30f3\u30af\u4e0a\u304c\u3063\u305f\u304b\u3089\u304b\uff1f\uff1f<br>2\u6642\u9593\u304f\u3089\u3044\u5f85\u3063\u3066\u3082\u6765\u3066\u306a\u3044\u3063\u3066\u3002<br>ps5\u3068\u306e\u30af\u30ed\u30b9\u30d7\u30ec\u30a4\u983c\u3080\u3002<\/p>&mdash; \u304a\u3060 (@ponpokorin114) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ponpokorin114\/status\/1844899308946194885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><em>It\u2019s Saturday morning?? I can\u2019t get matched at all in Sparking Zero\u2019s Xbox version&#8230;<\/em>&nbsp;<br><em>Is it because I ranked up?? I\u2019ve been waiting for two hours but there\u2019s still no one here. Please give us crossplay with PS5.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of these reports come from Japan, where some players believe that the cause of the issue lies in the Xbox servers being sparsely populated (as Sparking Zero does not support crossplay between consoles nor between consoles and PC). As a result, there have even been instances of Japanese players <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sss_wpw\/status\/1845123755644944722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">purchasing PS5s<\/a> solely to play the new Dragon Ball game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1498\" height=\"842\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1498px) 100vw, 1498px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507-001.jpg 1498w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507-001-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DragonBallSparking\/comments\/1g0ri9e\/xbox_matchmaking_issue_on_sparking_zero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a> of the Xbox version\u2019s matchmaking issues continuing from the Early Access Launch period well into post-release, it\u2019s possible that the problem Xbox players are experiencing is being caused by problems with Sparking Zero\u2019s infrastructure. It might be worth noting that Bandai Namco\u2019s Naruto x Boruto fighting game from last year suffered from similar issues on the Xbox Series X\u2758S and Xbox One at launch. This was subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bandainamcoent.eu\/naruto\/news\/naruto-x-boruto-ultimate-ninja-storm-connections-notice-xbox-matching-issue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">addressed<\/a> by the publisher with a patch that updated the game\u2019s matchmaking system. Perhaps Xbox players of Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero can also expect an improvement in the following days.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dragonballsparkingzero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO<\/a> is out now on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/product\/UP0700-PPSA15211_00-DRAGONBALLSPARK0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PS5<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-us\/games\/store\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-ultimate-edition\/9n1jrc8npx80?msockid=3a84492e9645676b04fa5ae7973f669d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xbox Series X|S<\/a> and PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1790600\/DRAGON_BALL_Sparking_ZERO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Xbox version of Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO has been suffering from matchmaking issues in its online mode, players report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":38510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-38507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO Xbox players report waiting for hours to get into ranked matches\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Xbox version of Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO has been suffering from matchmaking issues in its online mode, players report.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO Xbox players report waiting for hours to get into ranked matches\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Xbox version of Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO has been suffering from matchmaking issues in its online mode, players report.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-17T03:42:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-17T04:55:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1668\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"939\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amber V\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amber V\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO Xbox players report waiting for hours to get into ranked matches\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"The Xbox version of Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO has been suffering from matchmaking issues in its online mode, players report.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO Xbox players report waiting for hours to get into ranked matches\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"The Xbox version of Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO has been suffering from matchmaking issues in its online mode, players report.","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2024-10-17T03:42:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-10-17T04:55:11+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1668,"height":939,"url":"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Amber V","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Amber V","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/"},"author":{"name":"Amber V","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fdc6517a00e35b6917ffdb02e8b574d9"},"headline":"Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO Xbox players report waiting for hours to get into ranked matches\u00a0\u00a0","datePublished":"2024-10-17T03:42:08+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-17T04:55:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/"},"wordCount":304,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507.jpg","keywords":["News (Japan-related)"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/","name":"Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO Xbox players report waiting for hours to get into ranked matches\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507.jpg","datePublished":"2024-10-17T03:42:08+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-17T04:55:11+00:00","description":"The Xbox version of Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO has been suffering from matchmaking issues in its online mode, players report.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241017-38507.jpg","width":1668,"height":939,"caption":"Dragon Ball Sparking Zero"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-xbox-players-report-waiting-for-hours-to-get-into-ranked-matches\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO Xbox players report waiting for hours to get into ranked matches\u00a0\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fdc6517a00e35b6917ffdb02e8b574d9","name":"Amber V","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/12252024-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/12252024-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/12252024-100x100.jpg","caption":"Amber V"},"description":"Editor-in-Chief since October 2023. She grew up playing Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein with her dad, and is now enamored with obscure Japanese video games and internet culture. Currently devoted to growing Automaton West to the size of its Japanese sister-site, while making sure to keep news concise and developer stories deep and stimulating.","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/amber-vjestica\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38539,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38507\/revisions\/38539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}