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Sep 25 2014 6:01 am

Trade offers were a method for users to change items together directly instead of relying on the game's auction mechanism. The theory is that this allowed for barter deals, but in practice the majority of people used trade purports to share items with friends things like coins and players that will otherwise take the second player a long time to have. On the outside of it, then, it seems like an irritating change for friends who like to innocently pool their resources.

"Even though some honest players used this feature to have business dealings with friends, it became one of the methods utilized by coin sellers to promote and move buy FIFA 15 Coins," the developer said in the forum post announcing the modification. "Account phishers also abused Trade Offers by moving stolen players and coins after wrongfully accessing unsuspecting FUT player accounts. "This may also address 'bid bumping', where people would try to trick others into bidding a lot more than they wanted for a player item."

Put differently, the move is a component of EA's concerted campaign to cripple the coin-selling blackmarket that's grown to great prominence in recent instalments of the game and which is closely associated with account hacking. Starting in 2010, coin sellers could have their accounts banned and buyers are going to be susceptible to a 'three strikes' system, with punishments including an alert to full account ban for persistent offenders. The collateral destruction of honest trading attributable to removing trade offers operating to the present campaign was obviously seen as an necessary evil.

Coin sellers also have "Buy It Now" pricing choices to distribute coins for their customers. After paying upfront with a website and providing a PlayStation Network or Xbox Live username, the coin-buying user then puts an affordable, disposable item (being a bronze player) up for auction in a Pip out Now price which fits the volume of coins they've got purchased. Owner then buys the product, thus depositing the purchased coins with all the buyer. Removing trade offers won't actually stop this, eventhough it will presumably ensure it is much simpler for EA to distinguish coin-selling activity and make a change against the accounts involved, given it could be more obvious inside the developer's activity logs.

In related news, EA also announced the most of transfer targets in FUT 15 after unlockable EA Sports Football team boosts are applied could well be 50, meaning you can only ever buy a large number of items at one time. Furthermore, the FUT web app, which relaunches this week after many months of operating with reduced functionality as EA sought to tackle the bots as used by coin sellers, will be needing Origin login verification from this year onward.

Sep 25 2014 6:04 am

I hunt the sheep of war...

Sep 25 2014 6:06 am

Kelac! #1 cheater in the game, but you'll never catch me!

Sep 25 2014 6:26 am

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