Ok for an update to this. I have done everything that I have found for tricks on how to get it to work, disabled firewall, disabled AV, disabled start up programs, opened ports on my router. Heck I've even connected using my mobile internet via verison, which I had been using to play the game up until a few days ago because my regular internet had stopped working.

I would just download a new copy and try that but it seems that digital downloads of the game have been suspended.

Seriously please, does anybody have any ideas about what I could do to fix this.