PvZ GW2 Failed to join game

My two friends and I have all just purchased PVZGW2 due to the steam sale for it. We all get hyped to play the skins we just got as well as finally playing a game that looks so interesting to play as a group, but the unfortunate part is... We can't even join multiplayer servers. We have tried exiting the game and rejoining, trying both plants and zombie portals, and trying to enter all available game modes, we also even tried reinstalling the game. We keep getting the prompt "failed to find match" after waiting 5 minutes in the queue. One time I thought the connection worked, and my game crashed. My friend said that one time he got the prompt "kicked you out of the game because you were AFK", and my third friend said that on the loading screen he was stuck on a black screen with the yellow loading flower on it until he had to shut down the game. Are the servers just not online or something? I checked the EA servers multiple times and it says that they should be, although I don't see how this could be happening to three different people. Assistance with this would be amazing, thanks for everyone's time.