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.

Posted: Sep 16, 2014 5:14 pm
Related Forum: EAFC Forum

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

Comments

CearnsyPosted: Wed. Sep 17, 2014

Never used it but it'll stop the amount of cheaters in the game

SirSailorPosted: Wed. Sep 17, 2014

LWR
SamBoy991 Well done EA. Suck it CHEATERS

Coin selling isn't cheating, in fact many people class it as a business, making thousands of pounds is pretty good from a game

Are you crazy a couple years ago there was a large breach of date about peoples credit card details and people used stolen cards to buy fifa points to sell on websites. Is it fair that the company has to the refund people millions in stolen card details and the in game economy is ruined by it.

LWRPosted: Wed. Sep 17, 2014

SamBoy991 Well done EA. Suck it CHEATERS

Coin selling isn't cheating, in fact many people class it as a business, making thousands of pounds is pretty good from a game

GHOSTIZABOSSPosted: Wed. Sep 17, 2014

Man I feel bad for the sellers lol

-EffyPosted: Wed. Sep 17, 2014

Sanctorum
AudemarsPiguet Why on earth would they remove this feature? It was great. This kind of reminds me of when Forza Horizon got rid of the Auction House from previous Forza's. Thank goodness they are bringing it back along with tuning in Forza Horizon 2.

I've not been keeping up to date on Horizon 2 because I wanted it all to be a surprise when I get it, but Horizon 2 is going to have an auction house? That's great, it will be a great feature in the game.

On topic. Fifa sucks, as to all sport related games. This is purely my opinion and if you enjoy sport related games, I don't mean to offend you but surely if you like sports, just go outside and do it for real? Each to their own though I suppose.

Could you see how someone could make the argument for any other types of games?? Racing, go drive cars, FPS, go join the army. I mean it's all for fun.

OnlyKicksPosted: Wed. Sep 17, 2014

Can't Believe they're Removing Trade Offers From Ultimate Team Mode.

LiaPosted: Wed. Sep 17, 2014

I feel sorry for the sellers lol!

SamBoy991Posted: Wed. Sep 17, 2014

Well done EA. Suck it CHEATERS

ZipsPosted: Wed. Sep 17, 2014

I think this would make it a lot more fair for the rest of us that dont want to spend a whole load of money on coins for a decent team.