You also have the same problem as me.
My game crashes exactly this way. However, no one has responded to my post yet. I doubt they will respond to yours. I've tried everything, but the only thing that would help is resetting cloud data, and you can't do that for some reason.
Yeah, so you have the same problem as me.
You also have the same problem as me.
sawaki142 also encountered the same problem.
Link video: https://youtu.be/1EOJ8fJGih4
I have found a workaround, however it requires community tools and doesn't allow you to connect to multiplayer or garden ops servers (like a singleplayer mode). I am not sure if I can specify what it is here....
I don't know how to get back to normal servers?
I think they should update the PVZ GW1 server fix because everyone's account is down and the server is frozen because the hacker used some kind of cheat to block us from accessing the PVZ GW1 server.
There is no way, so far, until the hacker exploit is leaked publicly. Until then, you may have to figure it out by yourself.
Well, the game has lost support. It will either be a long wait, or... There will be no help. At all
EDIT: I have made a breakthrough, however it cannot be used for the dedicated servers. I have found a way to mod the game, so that it still has the EA 'presence' (in-game overlay) enabled, as well as Co-Op Sharing, etc. etc.. When prompting the game to load a map BEFORE it crashes, depending on when you start it, you will get a certain amount of your save data back. However, something in the level data/user ID is corrupted, which is why the game crashes. This also means it will crash the game when it attempts to fetch data again, like when you go to the main menu.
I have yet to discover how to allow players to join your game as well. Inviting a player either freezes their game (temporarily) or kicks them back to the main menu. There must be a way, there was a mention of LAN networking in the game code. Funnily enough the game is prepared for LAN and assigns you the name PopCap when joining in LAN.
I will begin testing with Hamachi when I have the time. This could've been avoided if they just added an identifier separate from the USERNAME, WHICH IS PUBLICLY DISPLAYED....
Please remove the Solution mark from this discussion, it is not truly solved and might bring more attention. Or switch it to this comment, so they scroll down to it and see the news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoMJOxSU6HQ
I was able to make it so that in Garden Ops you can play with people, but the overlay doesn't work, and the nickname is set as (popcap), in the game in the menu it says lvl 1
