Duo Seasons not working with friends

I cannot get duo seasons to work with a friend, every time I launch a game we get an error "Our servers cannot process your request at this time. Please try again later." I see that people/opponents join the lobby but it crashes instantly to this error screen. I've been able to play without my friend but never are able to go together. Is this EA just stopping us from playing together? It's starting to feel that way, why have the mode when you can't even play with friends, this is very disappointing. Not only this but last week when we could play together they would consistently give my friend a loss stacked on top of the win we got. So this debauchery has been going on for some time but to just be unable to play together at all is wild and very frustrating. Is this just my case or is this happening to others too? Let me know I'd like to find answers and make Madden less buggy and annoying then it already is.