Oddly, the game started working early for me in the UK at approx 21:30 GMT after I preloaded it earlier this afternoon.
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However, it certainly hasn't been worth the wait. (I'm playing Xbox One X & I can see some significant differences to live streams I've seen for PS 4/5 or possibly Xbox Series X/S.)
I can't set up my career player appearance properly at all because most of the boxes with, for example, the different hair cuts, beards, & countless other options are a blank grey with no options available.
My career player set up zoom is also far too close in, so you can't even reliably choose the batting type, bowling type or many other options as above because they're not actually in view. (Yes, I'm aware if the different types from previous iterations or seeing game streams, but it's a shocking mess up by Big Ant (again).)
I'm a long term DBC 17 & Cricket 19 owner, plus a lot of Ashes Cricket via Game Pass & I'm utterly shocked at the state of this release. I can't believe they've allowed it to be released in such a terrible unfinished state. (I also tried out the tutorials just to see how well they'd made them after claiming new players would find them a welcome improvement, only the tutorial goals randomly stop triggering, you can't advance, & there's no alternative than to repeatedly quit the tutorials unfinished. (Great help to new players!!). They're a mess!! The bowling tutorial is also affected by the same bug that the early nets practice had where the game registers the foot plant input but completely fails to recognise the release input. Consequently, bowling is impossible.
Not to mention, I'm also suffering from many of the problems many others have reported here too. They've simply carried an awful lot of the bugs & issues that affected Cricket 19 straight over to Cricket 22. It's quite literally Cricket 19 re-skinned with many of the same bugs/complaints & some new ones to boot.
There is a lot of good too yes, there's no denying that, but right now that's being completely overshadowed by what appears to be pure laziness, arrogance, or outright ineptitude.
Can't say I blame you, at this stage I'm so disheartened I can't be bothered right now either
. (That's not to say I won't help identify/report bugs etc., I just can't believe they've pumped this game out claiming it's the best yet to experience such basic issues that they can't possibly have missed in development & they've simply chosen to ignore them instead citing development during COVID.)