Two times in two days now, I couldnt not connect with other players right after launching because of 'direct play error.' One time we got booted from game and after resuming, we could not finish the game because we couldn't reconnect. I hope this problem gets ironed out, it happened with three different players in two games, and the game worked fine in another game inbetween, so its not a problem on my side, must be with the direct launcher.