These items, which are intended to be earned through play or other involvement (i.e. a Twitch broadcast), have been granted by one or more EA accounts to other accounts, which have been “compromised or used inappropriately by someone are EA. “
Content that gives or buys players’ goods in exchange for money is in no way endorsed by EA, because it “is contrary to the competitive integrity of the game, is a violation of EA’s user agreement and is not what we tolerate.
While EA’s initial investigation revealed that this dubious activity involved only a small number of accounts and items, it is still unacceptable to the team.
After the investigation, EA will take action against any employee found guilty and any items granted in this way will be removed from the FUT ecosystem and the accounts containing these items will be permanently banned.
“Regardless of these actions, we appreciate how it affects all of our players, and we apologize for the impact of these improper grants in the community,” EA wrote. “We also appreciate how extremely annoying and frustrating it is that this practice comes from EA. We are also angry. We know that the trust of our communities is hard earned and based on the principles of Fair Play. This illegal activity shakes the trust. We’ve also been aware since the inception of Ultimate Team that items can not be exchanged outside of our game, and that’s the key to how we protect our game from manipulation and bad actors. we will not let it go. ‘
For those unfamiliar with content allocation, it’s a process in which certain items in the game are distributed directly to a specific account. In FIFA, these items can be a player, a kit or a consumable.
The three most common ways in which content allocation takes place are through global customer experience, testing and QV and allocation of discretionary content (athletes, partners and employees).An award for a global client experience is when a player accidentally deletes content, disappears content due to a technical error, or if EA made an error and a player is given to them as a makeup .
Testing and QV are for when content is granted for testing and quality verification. It usually occurs on dedicated test servers and is not seen by the global player base, but sometimes these tests must occur in the live environment to ensure that everything works as it should.
Discretionary allocation of content is for when EA ‘wants to acknowledge contributions made by certain professional footballers, well-known partners or even us [EA’s] own employees. “These items are not always tradable and can only be used by the account to which they were given.These items account for only 0.0006% of the total player items in the FIFA 21 ecosystem and do not affect the chances of any account receiving a specific player or item in the normal way.
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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.