FIFA 23 On PS5 Might Break If You Have Too Many Friends

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If you've been looking for an excuse to cut some virtual friends out of your life but want to avoid an awkward conversation, EA may have you covered. The studio has addressed a problem with FIFA 23 some players have encountered, revealing the only fix is to delete a few of your friends.

“We are investigating reports of some players experiencing stability issues when launching FIFA 23 on PlayStation 5,” EA has communicated through its FIFA Direct account. No indication that there might soon be a fix, but instead a workaround telling players suffering the instability that they may have to remove a few friends if they want FIFA to work properly.

“Workaround: Reduce your PS5 friends list to 100 or less friends and re-launch the game.” If you have more than 100 friends on your PlayStation friends list, well, good for you. I just hope you have notifications turned off as the mere thought of being told what all those people are playing every time one of them boots up a new game gives me goosebumps, and not the good kind. If you are incredibly popular and you are having FIFA issues, well, time to cut a few people out of your life.

We are investigating reports of some players experiencing stability issues when launching FIFA 23 on PlayStation 5 with TU #12.

Workaround: Reduce your PS5 friends list to 100 or less friends and re-launch the game.https://t.co/ps9XQjBqay
— FIFA Direct Communication (@EAFIFADirect) May 10, 2023

Okay, that might be a little much. Deleting someone from your friend's list doesn't mean you have to cut them out of your life. This isn't life or death like deciding who made it into your top 16 on Bebo. Just delete some of the people you probably don't even know, or explain to a few friends that they gotta go temporarily because FIFA is more important.

As for why exactly the PS5's friends list is having a detrimental effect on how FIFA 23 runs, I have no idea. It's a new one on me and judging by the lack of additional info from EA, it may well be a new one on the FIFA studio too. The suggested workaround certainly hasn't gone down well with players. One person who has replied to the post claims to have more than 600 friends. They've got a series of very tough decisions to make over the next few hours.

The FIFA series is about to sail into uncharted waters as the current installment in the long-running series will technically be the last. EA's deal with FIFA is about to come to an end, so the former has decided it will be going it alone starting this year. The FIFA series will become EA Sports FC, the official reveal of the game taking place last month.