FIFA 23 10-hour trial: How to fix "EA Play not validating" error on your Xbox console

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All Xbox members who are subscribed to EA Play should get FIFA 23's 10-hour trial on their consoles. For some unexplained reason, however, it is not working as intended, which has caused a lot of frustration for the fans. Thankfully, there have been some fixes going on along with the community that users can try to minimize their problems.

EA Sports initiated the EA Play trial earlier than the start of the early access period for Ultimate Edition users. Naturally, eager fans turned on their consoles and many of them had the game pre-downloaded as they had purchased a copy. Others enabled the 10-hour trial from Microsoft Software and started the installation.

So far, there has been no issue in terms of the download and installation of FIFA 23, and it works on the Xbox console as intended. Unfortunately, the problem happens thereafter when users try to play the game. While EA Sports and Xbox haven't officially acknowledged the issue, there seems to be some workarounds.

Normally, a network connection is not mandatory for FIFA 23 if a player chooses to play the offline mode. However, the trial is different and it requires a constant online connection even if the player is playing offline modes. This is to ensure that nobody is going past the 10-hour stipudated trial period.

This should not have been a problem in today's day and age, given how the internet has become an important part of everyone's lives. However, the same internet seems to be causing the problem as many Xbox users on current-gener models are unable to play the 10-hour trial of FIFA 23.

Thankfully, there have been some workarounds to fix the issue of EA Play services not working. While these steps are not guaranteed to work at all times, one method did work while