Every time me and my friends tries to play with each other it always takes forever to load into the game, and right before we think it's about to work it says " unable to connect". Most of the time this freezes the game and we have to restart the application. We've tried deleting our saved data, tried redownloading Minecraft, and even changing our network setting and nothing works. Not being able to connect with friends has been an issue ever since bedrock released on PlayStation 4 and even when it did we had problems but just not as bad. This needs to be fixed, I want to play with my friends again and each other's worlds, not sitting on a loading screen for 10 plus minutes.
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