Cannot Play Games with Friends

I’ve been having this same issue with my brother. We game share and we were playing exhibition against eachother just fine. But now we can’t he gets stuck, and it only happens to him. I can play with my other cousins just fine. I talked to an EA customer care rep and he said since we game share he has to have his own EA subscription. My brother bough it and still having the same issue. EA please fix this issue. A lot of people clearly love the game 

Guess they just gave up lol. Sad. Haven’t been able to play with my friend in 5 months. Just pathetic 

I’m on series x too. No error messages pop up for me. my friend gets stuck on the main menu (doesn’t follow me to franchise screen) and I get stuck on a loading screen. He still shows up as in my party.

Correct I can't play with anyone. I can however play with everyone I'm EA FC.

I’m having the same problem as well. I am on Xbox series X though. Not speaking for him, but my guess is it happens with everyone he tries to play with on SMB4, but not any other game. That’s how it is for me. @EA_Illium 

My dad and I used to play this series couch co-op in the first and second games, but havent played for probably close to the release of 2 due to not being able to play online together. We were hopeful for 4 coming out that we'd be able to party together and play either head to head or co-op but neither option is available on gamepass version of the game apparently? We cant even invite eachother to get in the other persons party. This is unbelievably frustrating.

Do better.

@EA_Illium 

Hey @aust13d2 

Apologies for the mess up I misread your platform. 

To check do you or your friends have any PSN Account privacy settings that might block one another? 

Aside from that does this issue happen with any other friend?

For context, we have been avid Super Mega Baseball players since the second game, but we haven’t been able to play for months and are sick of it, please help.

Me and my friend can’t play together. We want to play franchise but can’t. He can join my party, but when I go into Franchise mode, it keeps him on the main menu. I can get into franchise and try to start a game, but again, he is stuck on the main menu and I get stuck on a loading screen.