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EA: Buying, selling and farming FIFA Ultimate Team coins will result in bans

In a post on EA Sports site, the publisher has detailed how buying, selling and farming FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT)coins will result in penalities, including permanent bans.

The FUT web-app has been without trading since May “due to the severe Transfer Market search issues caused by coin-farming bots.” The bots could search and operate at a much faster level than humanly possible and were generating as much as four times the traffic of all human FUT players combined. This meant that players were experiencing errors in transfers, missing coins, lost players and nil search results. Those operating the bots would then on -sell the coins etc for real world currency on third party websites.

EA has determined that buying, selling or farming these items constitutes cheating and has been banning accounts since February 2014. With the release of FIFA 15 coming up in September EA has detailed the penalties associated with cheating.

FIFA-FUT-Banning-process

As seen above, those individuals who engage in buying and promoting the farmed coins will go through a three stage process leading to an eventual permanent ban from FIFA online. Those caught selling and farming the coins suffer a much harsher punishment with an immediate and permanent online ban from all EA Games.

FIFA 15 launches for 23 September for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

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