EA Screwing us again
If this had been a fault on EA's end no one would have been able to play the game, which clearly is not the case here. During the event i have seen less than a handful of reports of the game crashing ...
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After the last update, it works fine. The support rep told me many players were in the same position. It may have been a server issue, but it wasn't isolated. I've contacted EA, but nothing yet.
