Bren has a good point. I was constantly crashing for the longest time. I just got used to it and assumed that was just how the game was. When I heard about the pending friends things I still couldn't do anything about it as I am a mac user and origin initially wasn't compatible, apparently. When I was finally able to get in and clear my pending lists I removed like 500 and it completely changed my connectivity. It was great but since this update I have had a lot of crashing problems and I have nothing pending now. Still, it's definitely worth a shot. If you can get in, nasty catch-22 there