Failed to connect to server - can’t play with friends

The same issue that I encountered in February is returning again…

I’m from the UAE and had been playing with my friends who are in Japan. I’m unable to spectate their games either. all of us are on console. “Failed to connect to server” appears when the game finds a match or when I try to spectate.

I tried the PC version and switched the region to Asia but it didn’t let me login, unless a VPN is used, in which I don’t want to either use VPN or play using the PC because we can’t queue to rank and I want to be able to play like how it used to be before. :cry: