I bought the game not too long ago, and for some reason ever since downloading, I cannot connect to multiplayer servers at all, the only thing that shows on my screen is:

"Failed to connect to the server

Failed to log in: The authentication servers are currently down for maintenance.

Back to server list"

and this issue has persisted for multiple days now, I tried every solution I could find, including logging out and then logging in, restarting minecraft, restarting my computer, re-downloading the launcher and the game, and even changing my firewall settings and eventually just disabling it, but none of this worked, I sent a support ticket and all I received back was to check on their online website for solutions, which I have tried but to no avail.