EA toughens clampdown on FIFA Ultimate Team cheats

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EA Sports has detailed strict new steps it will take to detect and punish those involved in FIFA Ultimate Team scams.

In an open letter to FIFA players entitled 'Showing Cheaters The Red Card', the studio has pledged to crack down on those using bots to farm Ultimate Team coins, as well as those buying or selling coins on third-party websites.

Coins are a FIFA Ultimate Team currency that can be earned in-game by playing matches and trading players. EA does not sell coins and states that it has no plans to do so, considering the sale of coins as 'cheating'.

As part of the studio's new ban process, players caught buying or promoting will be punished with a three-step process, involving:

Step 1 (Warning) - Warning email and in-game message.
Step 2 (Yellow Card) - Reset of FIFA Ultimate Team club and FIFA Points returned
Step 3 (Red Card) - Permanent ban from FIFA online


Meanwhile, players found to be selling coins, or using bots to farm coins, will be subject so a simple one-step process:

Step 1 (Straight Red) - Permanent online ban for all EA games

According to EA's letter, a number of players use 'bots' to automatically buy players from the Ultimate Team transfer market in order to farm coins, with the intention of selling them on for real money.

"The FIFA Ultimate Team infrastructure is designed to provide an optimal experience with human parameters in mind," the letter reads.

"However, our data shows that these bots generate four times as many Transfer Market searches than all human FUT players combined. This severely impacts the game and your playing experience on a daily basis.

However, the corporation also acknowledges that not all players are aware that buying coins from third-party websites is prohibited. In a conversation with CVG, FIFA Ultimate Team producer Marcel Kuhn said the open letter serves as a way to inform players that the practice is unacceptable.

"We've been taking counter-measures in the background for a while now, but now it's just reached a point that we want to make sure everybody understands what's going on, so when we start banning people or taking action people see that they're not the victims here," Kuhn said.

"We want to make sure they're educated in what they're actually participating in and what this causes for the whole game that they actually love, because first and foremost they're playing it because they love the game."

Other points raised in the letter include players 'match cheating' to record false match details in the PC version of FIFA Ultimate Team, and players using exploits to boost the stats of their Virtual Pro players in Pro Clubs mode. Both actions will result in a permanent FIFA online ban.

For more on the situation, read our full interview with FIFA Ultimate Team producer Marcel Kuhn.



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LWRPosted:

They was trying to do something about this last year and failed, I think they'll struggle again. I'm mixed about this because I'll finally be able to try out players I haven't before because they won't be highly overpriced. But then again my luck throughout the last 4 FIFA's in packs have been shocking so I won't want to open many packs. I also won't be able to give/sell coins too my friends if they go through with this.

BradPosted:

Finally, it's stupid that people can just buy coins for a game mode on a game. It's there to have fun, build your team up and work towards a great team. There's no fun in the game if you simply buy millions and instantly have whatever team you want. It's boring, that's why so many people are claiming that fifa 14 is 'dead' which it isn't, you've just spoiled it for yourself.

KixaPosted:

Fragor But it's OK to charge a fortune for packs. Only reason people turn to coin traders.


Totally agree, now since EA is taking action on the coin sites looks like there will be getting double of the amount.

OrthoPosted:

Tasks I honestly didn't think they would become so strict about buying/selling coins. This will definitely make it harder for people to get coins because they can no longer buy them.


Ea is doing what's best for the community

TasksPosted:

I honestly didn't think they would become so strict about buying/selling coins. This will definitely make it harder for people to get coins because they can no longer buy them.

BxnHPosted:

The only way they will catch you buying coins is if they trace the selling account, so perhaps they would buy coins, see who sold them track all the purchases on that account therefore finding yours.
But if you bought from ebay or a friend, i highly doubt they would find out.

JoveticPosted:

GILF I like that they're doing this but how are they going to know if someone has actually bought coins or not...........I mean what if someone puts a bronze player up for 150 start price and someone bids 2 mil for example just to try and get someone a warning (probably will never happen but you never know haha)


I mean, when you see someone making thousands of transactions a day and they're all for stupid amounts of money, it probably sets off a red flag.

DragonPosted:

THis a good thing, i think more games should toughen on cheats like this.

HovaPosted:

But it's OK to charge a fortune for packs. Only reason people turn to coin traders.

AchePosted:

This is amazing, now the market will be balanced way better hopefully.

Looks like it's time for me to get back into FIFA!!


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