Unable to join friends game error Xbox
XBox August 02 2023 the servers for ME3 went down for about 15 minutes since then I have been unable to join my friends lobby & they are unable to join mine there was not problems before the servers...
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EA_Shepard
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Community Manager@XGRIFTER That is good that the lobby part works. I would suggest trying this from both sides to see if it syncs up and then lets you in. I would also try to restore any settings to default and trying those same steps again and see if doing this helps. With the age of the game, there's not a lot to look at other than changing settings for this. If no permissions were changes or privacy settings, makes that a bit more tough to solve.
I am having the same issue. I am unable to connect to friends games and they are unable to connect to my game. Everything will go through correctly until the very end where it'll say "Cannot join friend's game".
Not that I'll have an answer for you, but might be worth giving @EA_Shepard more info to work with:
1) Platform: (PC/XBOX/PS)?
2) Where you able to previously join invite games? If so, when did it no longer work? And was it related to anything else that changed (like @XGRIFTER noting that there was a immediately preceding server issue?)
3) to both of you:
Any other symptoms/problems? Like:
3a) Is your N7HQ still FULLY working?
3b) Do you now get frequent drops from games/lobbies ("your connection to the game has been lost")?
I am also having this issue. I have not attempted to join a friend's game since being forced to the EA App. Prior to that, my partner and I played on Origin together often.
We're both PC, both played together previously, nothing changed in terms of our settings (unless you count the changed app we have to go through but it changed for both of us), or even our PCs. It's all exactly the same. The game loads just fine, including all DLC being properly accounted for and existing saves opening without issue. The game connects to the EA servers. Both of our in-game overlays are on.
We receive the invites. We accept the invites. We've even tried doing it with the game closed for the person getting the invite, in which case the invite is accepted and the game is launched. We get to pick our character and sit through a load screen. And then we get "unable to join friend's game". Every time.
We've tried with a VPN for one of us since we live in the same household. We've tried without VPNs. We've, as I said above, tried with me sending the invite or him sending the invite. We've tried with one game completely closed.
Absolutely nothing works to get ME3 multiplayer working with the EA App even though it worked fine in Origin. This is just one of numerous problems since this horrid migration was forced upon people. At what point is it deemed a failure and sunk cost and your customers actually are able to interact with their content properly again?
