FIFA 15 removing trade offers from Ultimate Team mode

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Electronic Arts announced that it has disabled a key feature in FIFA 15's Ultimate Team mode in an attempt to crack down on the harmful trade of in-game currency.

In recent FIFA series games, players could exchange in-game items, coins, and players with friends using the Trade Offers feature. Finding that coin sellers often used the service to shuttle ill-gotten currency between accounts, EA removed the feature from this year's game. The coin-selling market is tied to account hacking and phishing, and functions in previous FIFA games could be exploited to cheat players out of cash by artificially inflating auction bids.

EA's Ultimate Team revisions supplement recent changes to its cheating policy, which gives coin buyers three strikes before they're permanently booted from FIFA online play. Sellers are dealt harsher penalties, and risk being banned from all EA-published games for coin selling and farming.



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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/16/fifa-15-removing-trade-offers-from-ultimate-team-mode/

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ZipsPosted:

Really dissopointed with FIFA 15, thought it was going to be a lot better.

EnVPosted:

I'm really disappointed with this. Can't sell my players anymore for real money... :(

NBCPosted:

I find that a bit stupid. I also wish that I was still able to buy coins...

XxPiiRaTexXPosted:

never seen trade offers used for buying coins, it was always a buy now so its not really going to affect it..

PryzelPosted:

Won't affect me to much, but this means no more player/coin giveaways, no simple trade offers between friends but it also means coin selling is going to become less common and that should be a good thing so it basically has a netural effect :p

PrinceOfThe6ixPosted:

Never really traded, has no affect on me

21Posted:

MVPapi Car racing, is actually a sport. Just like for whatever reason that horse riding is considered a sport. Video gaming has now become an electronic sport, a sport is just a game played with more than 1 person, and the activity has to have a governing body ruling a league, or tournaments. Which, by definition, EGL and MLG both do that. So just playing FIFA is a sport now lol

But yeah, exactly what I mean! It literally would be cheaper to go play football IRL which I much prefer to sitting there playing a game that doesn't even understand the offside rule ffs.
I wouldn't particularly classify racing as a sport, because, well, it's not.


sport

noun: sport; plural noun: sports
1.
an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.


Although, yes, it's cheaper to play football IRL than it is to go and buy a console and FIFA which is why I really don't understand why it's even a video game. For racing, you'd need thousands(possibly hundreds of thousands) of pounds to get the car, modify it and travel to race events and then compete and most likely repair the car after. As well as possibly placing bets at the racing event, so it's cheaper to play a racing game than to race IRL.

OPPosted:

wow this is the dumbest thing i have ever read. we need trades fir this game.

1989Posted:

I dont really care they did this but i quess some people may not like this

EthicsPosted:

This sucks for so many people and I bet it is just a way to make people spend more money on coins and stuff.


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