As you see, all reports on the same problem. STILL is a problem. When I go into the game and straight to invites it gets me into the communicating with online services for eternity, WITHOUT BEING A...
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I don't think they really care about this.
I was playing in offline mode (grand prix with the F1 World car) the other day and just after the race start the 'Communicating with online services' screen appears, the other drivers go on with their race and I found myself in the wall. But when the error screen has disappeared i noticed that the name of all AIs were replaced with names from my Steam friends (i play from PC) so the game really loses connection with EA servers, but WHY? i have a good connection and every other game i use online works very well at good pings.