I tried searching for this issue, and how to resolve it, but found nothing. The issue is one that has been with this game for a long time, but now the load times are excruciatingly long. It is when it says "Synchonizing saved games from server", even though I think the game sync is disabled. It takes something in the range of 20 minutes to get past this. If you all know a thread here that deals with this, or a quick fix if any, I really would appreciate it. It makes trouble shooting problems unnecessarily
time consuming.