I purposely cancelled any attempt for F1 25 (on PC) to connect to EA when I first got this game as I know there can be issues.
Anyway, clever me decided it would now be fine to do. I've come back to the game for a third time after that choice and the game just sits there with "Communicating with online services" at the top left of the screen. 20 minutes I've been waiting now and I've tried this several times (had to manually close the game).
My internet is working great but I now can't play the game as there's not even a cancel button that appears to allow me to stop this attempted connection from starting in the first place. There's also no cancel button after it starts trying to connect which is a really strange omission!
Please sort this as I have a £50 game I can't use now :(