Star Wars Squadrons Friends "not online" when they are
I am running Star Wars Squadrons on a Windows PC. I routinely play with my son, on his XBox. We have had our accounts linked as "friends" for years now.
We haven't played in the past several months and just tried playing together. My EA account says he is offline (when he is connected on his XBox), and his XBox account says I am offline (while I am connected). Moreover, I have noticed that his XBox account now lists my *Microsoft Minecraft* account as his "friend", rather than my EA account. I don't think that has ever been the case in the past.
We have both tried several methods of adding one another as friends (including joining a common custom battle in-game and directly clicking to add as a friend), and every time we get an error message saying the friend request failed.
I tried linking my Microsoft Minecraft account to my EA account, but that has not fixed things either.
Please advise how I can resolve this? It is completely bizarre that it just started happening. This has never been a problem in the past, and we haven't changed anything.