EA Finally Clamping Down On FIFA Ultimate Team Cheaters

EA has revealed today in an open letter to the FIFA community that they are upset at how cheaters are ruining FIFA Ultimate Team and warned that they are now bringing the ban hammer to offenders.

The system that will be in place for FIFA 15 will allow EA to stop bots accessing their Ultimate Team severs, so sites  that like to sell ultimate coins become obsolete.  People that use this service will purchase these virtual coins of websites with real world cash to improve their squad at half the time it would to do legitimately.

Coin selling has been a huge problem for Ultimate Team, causing many issues with FIFA Ultimate itself, including the  trading in the FUT Web App. This service hasn’t been available since the 9th May, due to the transfer market search issues caused by coin-farming bots. These bots cause huge search issues  to the point FUT players have stuck transfers, missing coins and lost players.

In a recent interview with  FUT producer Marcel Kuhn on Eurogamer Marcel Kuhn has stated:

“I’ve just returned from Gamescom. I talked to a couple of fans there. We know first hand people are suffering from this and we want to make sure we secure our system to ensure they have the best possible experience when they play Ultimate Team.”

EA created a security team to just deal with FUT cheaters, and will be launching a new ban process inspired by real world football designed to tackle the issue.

Here’s how it works:
If you’re caught coin buying or promoting illegitimate coins, you’ll get a first offense warning. A second offense gets you a yellow card, which will trigger your FUT Club to be  reset and returns FIFA Points. A third offense is a red card, which is something you won’t want as it means you will have a  permanent FIFA online ban.

If you coin farmers think you can get away with it, you’re wrong. You will also be  permanently banned, but from all future EA games.

The issue lies even further due to the fact that there are hundreds of YouTubers who are sponsored by coin selling websites. Players taking part of the coin-selling on YouTube advertise the websites in their video descriptions.  FUT players still are accusing EA of double standards here by failing to clamp down on these YouTubers.  There has been some cases that EA has even promoted the YouTubes that are promoting illegitimate coin sites.

“We have done already things in the past since the end of the last year,” Kuhn responded. “We have stopped interacting or inviting YouTubers who are affiliated with coin selling sites to EA events. That was the first step. Now we will continue to investigate. That’s why the ban process around promoting coins is very important.

“Also there are many YouTubers doing this, maybe without knowing what they’re causing. So we want to make sure they know what’s coming and that going forward they have the chance to rectify what they’re doing, before we bring down the banning process on them.”

Kuhn wants the FIFA community to report  FIFA YouTubers who advertise coin selling websites, and promised to employ the same ban process it uses for regular players.

“They will be subject to the same ban process as the other guys,” Kuhn said. “They’re checked against the same thing. There are no different measures against them. They will just be part of the ban process that we will start going forward with this letter.”

FIFA 15 will be launching in the UK on September 26 2014.

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