PSA - POE 2 In game chat and age verification

I hope this helps someone else as it was driving me bonkers. If you don't do the xbox age verification, it turns off ingame whispering somehow, although it's not obvious and you dont get any errors up. I spent 4hrs last night trying to get a temple invite to boost my alt even though whispering and joining parteis ahs been fine all season, and got nothing, and this was having to manually type out stupid names on the xbox controller keyboard(!). I this morning did the xbox age verification, using my credit card, which was already linked to my account and paying for gamepass(!), and now all the invites have sprung to life.

So if you are whispering people, and getting nothing back, it might not be you, check your age verification, it looks like its just been force rolled out and hit me.