Android game crashes on startup because of Google Play

As the title sugests, my android game keeps crashing because of Google Play. I know this since, in the first cene, I have a script with the following code:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 using GooglePlayGames;
 using UnityEngine.SocialPlatforms;
 
 public class GooglePlayLogin : MonoBehaviour {
 
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
         PlayGamesPlatform.DebugLogEnabled = true;
         PlayGamesPlatform.Activate();
         Social.localUser.Authenticate((bool success) => {
             Debug.Log(success);
         });
         DontDestroyOnLoad(this.gameObject);
 
     }
 }

I tried building the game with this script activated and deactivated and when I deactivate it, it doesn't crash. I've done some research and found a thread where someone says that this problem was caused by having plugins within the project trying to access older versions of GooglePlay but from what I've seen there's nothing like that (though I might have searched for it the wrong way so if anyone has any sugestions that would be appreciated).