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.
