Re: PvZ BFN - Unable to invite or join friends

Me and my brother are trying to play together but it keeps giving us this error everytime would like help right away please 

Hi, I've been having the same issues, and can provide as much info as I can to help out.

• I play BFN on PC through the EA app.
• My Gamertag is MysticalIDragon.
• The only error message sent is in-game, whenever I try to join my friend, or they try joining me, it brings up a message saying "Failed to join session. Only Crazy Dave knows what happened."
• It doesn't happen during anything specific, it always happens no matter where I try joining from, even when accepting an invite to join outside the game, it loads up and brings up the message above.
• My internet is wired.
• Nothing else has been happening, except for something that did happen a day or two ago, whenever I tried playing BFN, at the start screen it brought up a message, I forgot its exact words but it was something about EA servers being down, and I was unable to play the game for a bit, but after I was able to play again I was unable to join my friends since then.
• I haven't done much to try and resolve the issue, but I made sure my driver is updated, and that my internet connection was stable, I looked through settings in BFN and made sure I was using Dx11.
• I got a clip of myself attempting to invite and join my friends through the Friends tab in BFN, and they confirmed they couldn't join me either in EA app messages. Don't mind the amount of the screen I recorded I somehow messed that up.. I also forgot to copy the EA app Error ID. But at least I got the DxDiag!

Xbox

Aaron Reyes/Stupidmario6

Wireless Wi-Fi 

it happens in every game mode 

The same message over and over “oh no! Failed to join game session. Only crazy Dave knows why that happend.”

me and my friend both restarted are Xbox’s, we both installed and uninstalled the game and it still won’t let us join each other.

Platform: PS5

• Platform: PS5
• PSN ID/Gamertag: Serena_NZ
• Are you getting an error message? Yes - "Failed to join game session. Only crazy Dave knows why that happened.
• Does this happen when loading into a specific mode or performing an action in a mode? No, can't join from outside game, from giddy park or in turf take over.
• Does this happen to any other account on the device? Not sure
• What type of network are you using? (Wired, Wireless, Hotspot) Wireless
• Is anything else happening? No
• Please share any steps you've tried to far to resolve the issue: Tried to join friend and invite friend, they tried to join me and invite me but all failed, restarted game and psn a number of times. Turned psn off over night and next day tried again still not working.
• If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip...
• If on PC, please share a DxDiag and an EA app Error ID

Hi, this is happening to me too.

• Platform: Xbox One
• PSN ID/Gamertag: TangleWisp
• Are you getting an error message? Yes, the same one everybody else has been getting - "Failed to join game session. Only Crazy Dave knows why this happened."
• Does this happen when loading into a specific mode or performing an action in a mode? When I try to join a group in-game.
• Does this happen to any other account on the device? It happens with all the accounts on our Xbox, and our friends elsewhere are having the same issue.
• What type of network are you using? (Wired, Wireless, Hotspot) Wired
• Is anything else happening? On Wednesday 11th October there was apparently some kind of server issue (I got an error message saying the servers were down) and ever since then I've been having this issue when trying to join friends in the game.
• Please share any steps you've tried to far to resolve the issue: Logged out and in again, restarted the game, restarted the console. I've been unable to resolve it.

• Platform: switch
• PSN ID/Gamertag: FartInstaller
• Are you getting an error message? Crazy Dave doesn’t know what happened or cannot find user
• Does this happen when loading into a specific mode or performing an action in a mode? No just when inviting and friends trying to join or when I try to join friends lobby
• Does this happen to any other account on the device? I only have one user
• What type of network are you using? (Wired, Wireless, Hotspot) wired
• Is anything else happening? No just bans anyone from joining or me joining them in party
• Please share any steps you've tried to far to resolve the issue: I tried everything under the sun and nothing has worked
• If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip... other people already shared screenshots please just fix this issue

Gamertag: DeviousDarkness

Happened after a glitched or hacked wizard broke my character and i had to restart my game, his gamertag was ocean archer708

The error says: Can't join, only crazy dave knows what happened. This goes across all accounts and seems to be linked through xbox or a server side error

Hi Everyone, 

Thanks so far to everyone who has provided information. If you have not tried the following troubleshooting based on your platform:

All Platforms:

- Verify you have not made any changes to your device/account privacy settings

- Try switching to a different internet network

PlayStation

Xbox

PC

If you continue running into issues inviting friends please let us know the following if you have not:

• Platform:
• EA ID, PSN ID, Gamertag:
• Are you getting an error message?
• Does this happen when loading into a specific mode or performing an action in a mode?
• Does this happen to any other account on the device?
• What type of network are you using? (Wired, Wireless, Hotspot)
• Is anything else happening?
• Please share any steps you've tried to far to resolve the issue:
• If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip...
• If on PC, please share a DxDiag and an EA app Error ID

If you have already shared all of the above, let us know if the provided steps change anything.

Thanks!

Wow you are useless repeated the same steps we already gave you this information and I would say good job for providing the Xbox pc and ps4 troubleshooting steps but you literally forgot switch

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@EA_Illium wrote:

Hey Everyone, 

Would it be possible to get more information on this?

• Platform:
• PSN ID/Gamertag:
• Are you getting an error message?
• Does this happen when loading into a specific mode or performing an action in a mode?
• Does this happen to any other account on the device?
• What type of network are you using? (Wired, Wireless, Hotspot)
• Is anything else happening?
• Please share any steps you've tried to far to resolve the issue:
• If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip...
• If on PC, please share a DxDiag and an EA app Error ID

We can use this information, to help make the team aware of the issue and to further investigate. 

Cheers!

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Platform: Nintendo Switch

Gamertag: LETHAL_L0TUZ

It tells me “failed to join session. Only Crazy Dave knows what happened”

This only happens when i try to join any of my friends online in giddy park or in a match
I am wireless

I tried uninstalling the game, checking for corrupt data, and resetting the game multiple times

• Platform: switch
• PSN ID/Gamertag: stephany1803
• Are you getting an error message? Crazy Dave doesn’t know what happened or cannot find user
• Does this happen when loading into a specific mode or performing an action in a mode? No just when inviting and friends trying to join or when I try to join friends lobby
• Does this happen to any other account on the device? I only have one user
• What type of network are you using? (Wired, Wireless, Hotspot) wireless
• Is anything else happening? No just bans anyone from joining or me joining them in party
• Please share any steps you've tried to far to resolve the issue: I tried everything under the sun and nothing has worked
• If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip... other people already shared screenshots please just fix this issue

I've done all these steps except for rebuilding in safe mode as not sure this is a console or connection issue since alot of people have the same issue. I'm already on the DNS settings you provided, I haven't made any changes to privacy or settings since this issue arised, im on auto-update and the game and psn is up to date, im on Nat type 2 and never had an issue playing pvz on that Nat type. I have reset my internet, cleared cache, restored licenses, tried two other networks, used a different profile, Please further investigate.

I am having the same issue...

Nintendo switch...I've tried all the same things.

There is no resolution...it has to be a game bug..

Battle for neighborville..

We were able to join friends up until the software update for the game that came about a week ago.

Since the season change in Giddy park we had a ton of weird glitches.. when the update came we figured they were addressing those issues... Since that update we have not been able to join anyone at all..

Friends or new invites...

What a mess!!

Please fix asap..

I tried deleting and restarting as welll. Very strange 

What about the Nintendo Switch? We are missing troubleshooting for that as well, and we believe is a gamewide bug because its happening on multiple platforms

Ea struggles to help fans and it’s sad

They clearly do not care, they only showed up and asked us the same question twice probably to make it seem like they are actually doing something about it, seems like they are not taking it seriously or have no intentions on fixing the issue. The game might not be getting updates any longer, but they still are selling the game, so this issue should have been resolved days ago. Yet here we are. Nothing done, no progress. It is clearly not an user error, their servers went down then when they came up, suddenly we have this issue. Pretty obvious it is on their part. This is so frustrating.

Gamer tag doesn’t matter it’s happening to the whole community 

We were able to join friends up until the software update for the game that came about a week ago.

Since the season change in Giddy park we had a ton of weird glitches.. when the update came we figured they were addressing those issues... Since that update we have not been able to join anyone at all..

Friends or new invites...

What a mess!!

Please fix asap...

Hey Everyone, 

Thanks for letting us know what you are running into with PvZ BFN. We have recently made some changes. 

I wanted to check with everyone in this thread if this issue is resolved. 

Thanks!