Maybe funcom think they have made a clever move with Funcom live services but the truth is that it is a TOTAL MESS and the game is practically umplayable.
I would say that 90 % of the pc player community would love to go back to before june 2020 when you, yes you Funcom, destroyed your own game.
I wasn’t able to play either since June but somewhere along the line they did fix my problem. FLS’s kept me out of the game for a long time. Try logging into a private server a few times and then getting on the officials. Just an idea but it may help.
From what I understood, it was to allow cross compatibility with SteanID and its Epic Games Store equivalent. Up until FLS was put in, all players were identified by their SteamID. EGS players would not have SteamIDs, so they wanted one system that both tapped into so that players could be identified for both servers and mods that utilize such.
EGS never happened. So we have a system that isn’t needed. But taking it out would case a bit of a headache for both Funcom and private server owners, as well as mod authors.
As for my opinion, if EGS isn’t going to happen, then we should FLS removed at some point.