I don't see any friends!

Hi! After hearing that the servers will shut down in October, I launched NFS Rivals on my PS4. 

However, I immediately encountered a major problem: I can never see any of my friends in my Friends list. My EA account is linked to my PlayStation account, and after trying everything (redownloading and restarting Rivals, restarting the console, removing and re-adding friends, friending people in the same game session as me, changing sessions to private or with friends, etc.), I still can't see any of them and therefore can't earn the two online trophies.

Now I'm desperate and would really like to know if there's a solution to this annoying problem! Thank you in advance for all your help!

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