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There are so many cheaters.
The team of the 80 Gold Card player, whose speed is also 80, was standing shoulder to shoulder with my 99 player, so I thought the opponent was a 99 team! This happens right up to the very end, yet no matter how much we complain about it, nothing gets done! It seems like they just find it a hassle to deal with reports about the slow speed! **** Also, please make the reporting process easier... It feels like they’ve made reporting unnecessarily complicated. Are they selling cheat programs alongside the game itself? I’ve reported these guys using cheat programs countless times, but I’ve never once seen any of the players I blocked actually get banned!
No More Mixed Teams!!
I love womens football. My wife was a professional player, so I watched a lot of it. And of course watched tons of mens of football as well. I used to play a little too. There is no comparison between mens and womens football. Not even in the highest levels of womens football and that's because of physics/nature (call it what you will). I 've watched many mixed gender friendly games of professional teams (mainly for charity and/or promotion) and there is no way to compare the physicallity of men to that of women. Men central defenders devour women attackers, even if they are the smallest and fastest women attackers. What EA is doing to this game is WRONG. It takes away the "truthfulness", the sense of the game that most people know, love and appreciate. I understand that there are a lot of players that are not interested in football, don't know how it's played properly and/or don't even care. They probably never played the real game and/or watched one. They only want fast/small/powerfull players and EA provides just that, by (wrongfully) overpowering women football players. But for those of us that like True Football, this is crazy! Does not make sense and it is something that, in the future, may affect the real game. Would you like to see Pina playing for the Barcelona Mens team? She would have a hard time even concetrating from all the "grabbing", pushing, shoving, cursing, hitting that happens during a real game. Would it be nice to have Haaland playing with the Manchester City ladies team. Who would be able to stop him??? And because Haaland plays a bit dirty (the nature of the game), he would end up with harassment lawsuits every week! Please put an end to this!!!
False Positive Transfer Market Ban on PS5 - Requesting Manual Case Escalation
Dear EA Community Managers, I am writing to publically request assistance in escalating my case for a comprehensive manual review. My Transfer Market access in FC26 has been permanently banned due to an absolute false positive. My PSN ID is Francisco867 (playing strictly on PlayStation 5). My automatic support tickets have been repeatedly closed by automated bot responses, completely denying me a fair human investigation. I have been wrongfully accused of using illicit software and engaging in coin distribution, which is 100% incorrect. I play solely on my console with a standard controller and rarely ever touch the Web/Companion Apps. It is technically impossible for me to use scripts or bots. My trading strategy is purely legitimate: I buy items low and sell high within EA's official price ranges. Recently, I made successful, organic investments in players with wide price intervals such as Joshua Kimmich, Ricardo Quaresma, Kyle Walker, and Ismael Saibari (from which I made over 1 million coins in profit alone). My total legitimate activity generated around 7,000,000 coins over the past month and a half, averaging a well-documented 155,000 coins per day. This wrongful ban has frozen all my funds and completely blocks me from completing time-limited Squad Building Challenges (SBCs), causing irreversible damage as exclusive event content expires. Furthermore, as a loyal customer purchasing every single edition since 2010, and paying for an annual PlayStation Plus subscription just to access these features, I would never risk my account and financial investment on illicit activities. Since the normal help tickets are stuck in an automated loop, I kindly ask a Community Manager here to look at my case history and manually escalate it to the Terms of Service (TOS) team for a real device and input log audit. Thank you for your time.To all community managers
I notice quite a few people claiming innocence when it comes to bans.. do you have any contact with the terms of service term to maybe flag the possibility that their infringement finding methods might off the mark and plain wrong in some cases? I know they can be wrong, because they were 100% wrong in my balance transfer ban. Being labelled a cheat and by extension, a liar, by them was the first and last straw for me playing this game. I’m done with it. Someone needs to get it through their heads they can be wrong and need to be way better at what they do, so others don’t have to put up with the same garbage as I did. thanksPlease help a mum out
Hey can someone please help understand what is happening here. I got an email for my son's account and he brought the fc27 as soon as was available to buy. He's 12 and has autism and global development delay and ADHD and has been so excited like he has not stopped talking about it for MONTHS (headache lol)but this email says banned from transfer market and his freaked and sobbing as doesn't understand what his done wrong and had it all planned for it coming out. Any advise would be appreciated,sadly I am up there with Fortnite but this is all alien to me and he's devastated. Thanks in advance ❤️
False Positive “Balance Transfer” Transfer Market Ban — Manual Console Trading
I am asking EA to review what appears to be a false-positive Transfer Market sanction for “Balance Transfer” on my EA SPORTS FC 26 account. I have never bought or sold coins, transferred coins between accounts, used a second account, coordinated trades with another player, or used bots, autobuyers, scripts, macros or any other automation. I only recently became very active on the Transfer Market and spent many hours trading manually. All actual player purchases were made by me personally through the FC 26 game client on my console using a controller. I used the official Web App mainly to list cards for sale and made only a few unsuccessful bids there. I did not purchase any player through the Web App. I do not know which transaction EA considers suspicious because the sanction notice and appeal response do not identify it. The only unusual transactions I remember immediately before the ban were two public Theo Hernandez 99 listings that I found through Compare Price at roughly 500k–550k Buy Now. I am NOT claiming that these transactions were definitely the trigger. I am mentioning them because they are the only obvious price anomalies I can identify. Before finding them, I had already been actively trading Theo Hernandez 99 normally: buying several copies through public auctions at much higher market prices and bidding on several more. I bought the first cheap Theo immediately. I could not afford the second because a large amount of my coins was locked in an active bid on another Theo. The second cheap Theo remained publicly available for roughly 20–30 minutes or longer. Only after another player outbid me and those coins returned to my balance was I able to go back and buy that still-public listing. I did not know either seller, had no communication with them, and had no control over the prices they chose. The listings were available publicly to every player. Both Theo cards were then listed back on the open Transfer Market around the normal market price. They had not even sold when my market access was blocked. EA has the technical data required to verify this: the client used for each purchase, my auction history, previous Theo purchases, active bids, coin balance changes, listing and purchase timestamps, subsequent listings, and whether there was any repeated relationship with the sellers. I have already submitted a second appeal containing these additional details. I am not asking forum staff to overturn the sanction directly. I am asking for this possible false-positive issue to be made visible to the appropriate Security/Terms of Service team and for the account activity to be evaluated in its full context. My question is simple: how is a legitimate player supposed to trade safely if purchasing a publicly available Buy Now listing — at a price chosen entirely by an unknown seller — can potentially be interpreted as coordinated coin transfer? I support action against coin sellers, bots and actual cheaters. I am only asking that genuine manual trading be distinguished from those activities through a proper review of the available logs.How EA could revive ultimate team
I genuinely think EA could make Ultimate Team much better by slowing down the content cycle and making the game more focused on skill, grinding and actually enjoying the game. For example, gold cards could be much more relevant during the first couple of months, with TOTS later becoming one of the major points of the year. Icons and Heroes could remain extremely rare and actually get that feeling like you beat the game when you pack one and instead of constantly releasing new promos, there could be fewer major promos throughout the year. I’d also reduce the number of SBCs and Evolutions released at once. Rather than being able to complete everything in one day, give players a few genuinely good options and make them choose which one fits their team. That would make the decisions feel more meaningful. On evos they have ruined the power curve and there whole purpose should have been to bring a bronze player you might know or you’ve seen playing for your local club, up to a gold rating or just be usable enough to play in your team becuase you enjoy playing with the nostalgia of using that exact player not what it is used for now they are way too overpowered and everyone’s focused on what evo comes out this week becuase they are better than the cards in promos and half of the sbcs so just make them a smaller part of the games focus. Content also doesn’t necessarily need to be released every single day. Giving players more time to actually use and enjoy the content they’ve earned would make the game feel less like a constant grind. The store should also be less focused on pay-to-win. I’d like to see more ways for free-to-play players to earn useful rewards through actually playing the game, rather than having to spend money or grind an unreasonable amount of time for coins. Most importantly, I’d improve the gameplay and make it more skill-based and rewarding. Add things like player IDs, a proper Weekend League/competitive system, Top 100 leaderboards and a 2v2 Weekend League. I’d also seriously look at PlayStyles and whether they make the game too dependent on specific card mechanics rather than the actual stats and ability of the player. I don’t think Ultimate Team needs more content. I think it needs better content, better gameplay and a better reason to keep playing.EA: is manual Transfer Market trading for profit actually allowed in FC 26?
After everything that happened with my Transfer Market sanction, I ended up with a question that initially seemed completely obvious to me. I carefully reread the official EA SPORTS FC rules and realized that I cannot find a direct answer to it: Is it allowed in EA SPORTS FC to systematically buy cards on the Transfer Market below their current market value specifically to resell them for more and earn Coins from the difference? I am not talking about bots, macros, third-party software, buying Coins, multiple accounts, coordinated transactions between players, or deliberately transferring Coins. Those things are clear. They are prohibited. I am talking about an ordinary person with a controller: find a good public listing → buy it → relist it at the current market price → make a profit → repeat. In other words, normal manual trading or flipping. Why did such a basic question even occur to me? The official EA SPORTS FC rules say that players can earn Coins by playing and by selling Items on the Transfer Market at a fair Transfer Market price. They also describe Coin Distribution as using the Transfer Market to transfer Coins to another player, including buying or selling Items significantly above or below their average price for the purpose of transferring Coins. That part makes sense. If two people coordinate, one lists a cheap card for a huge amount and the other intentionally buys it to transfer Coins, that is Coin Distribution. If connected accounts deliberately move value between each other through the market, that also makes sense. If someone uses a bot, autobuyer, macro, or prohibited software, that is also clear. But I could not find the same clear answer to a different question: Can I buy an Item not because I want it for my squad, but simply because it is underpriced and I intend to resell it for profit? This becomes even more interesting when compared with EA SPORTS FC Mobile. In the official FC Mobile rules, EA explicitly describes earning Coins by buying and selling Items on the Transfer Market. The meaning there is immediately clear. I could not find an equally clear statement in the rules for the main EA SPORTS FC game. So first, I would genuinely like an answer to one very simple question: Is manual trading for profit allowed — yes or no? Here is a simple example. A card normally sells for approximately 900,000 Coins. Someone publicly lists it with Buy Now for 500,000. I do not know the seller. The seller does not know me. We have never communicated. I simply see the listing first. I buy the card not because I want to use it in my squad, but because I understand that I can probably resell it around the current market price and earn the difference. Is this an allowed use of the Transfer Market or not? From that answer, there are only two logical paths. If the answer is no If EA SPORTS FC does not allow players to systematically buy Items for the purpose of reselling them for profit, please simply say so clearly. Then most of the questions below disappear. But in that case, please show where exactly this is written in a way that an ordinary player can understand before receiving a sanction. The game itself allows me to search for Items, sort by price, place bids, use Buy Now, and then relist purchased Items on the Transfer Market. I could not find a rule that clearly says: “You may buy Items for your Club, but buying Items specifically for resale and profit is prohibited.” If such a rule exists, please point us to it. Then the situation becomes simple: I and other players misunderstood what the Transfer Market is intended for. If the answer is yes If manual trading for profit is allowed, then practical questions begin. 1. What exactly is a fair Transfer Market price? Suppose I buy a card for 500k because somebody listed it cheaply, while the rest of the market is around 900k. I relist it for 880–900k. To me, that is a normal trade: buy at a bargain price, sell at the market price. Does EA also consider that a normal trade? And what counts as a fair price when a card can move significantly within an hour because of packs, SBCs, new content, supply, or changing demand? 2. Is it safe to buy an unusually cheap public Buy Now listing? Suppose an Item is worth around 900k and somebody lists it for 500k. I have no way of knowing why the seller did that. Did they make a mistake? Did they urgently need Coins? Did they misjudge the market? Did they simply want a quick sale? Or is that account actually involved in some prohibited activity? The buyer does not know. The buyer simply sees a good public listing. If I press Buy Now, can that transaction put me under suspicion for Coin Distribution? If the answer is no, great. Please simply say so. If the answer is yes, how can a legitimate buyer possibly protect themselves? 3. Is a normal auction safer? Suppose an Item normally sells for 600k. I bid 300k in a public auction. Nobody else bids higher, and I win the card for 300k. I do not know anyone involved. I did not coordinate anything. I simply won an auction at a good price. Is that a normal bargain? Or can the large difference between the average market price and my winning bid itself make the transaction suspicious? 4. What if the seller themselves is considered suspicious by EA? Imagine an account I have never seen before is actually involved in prohibited Coin transfers. That account lists a card on the normal public Transfer Market. I know nothing about the seller and happen to buy that card. Can that transaction associate my account with their account in EA's systems? If it can, how is an ordinary buyer supposed to protect themselves when the Transfer Market is anonymous and buyers have no information about the seller? 5. What about the opposite situation? I list my card at what I consider a normal market price. I do not choose the buyer and I do not know who will buy it. If an account that EA considers suspicious buys my card, can that create a problem for me as the seller? I cannot stop a specific person from bidding on or buying my Item. 6. Is there a limit to how active a completely manual trader can be? Imagine someone spends several hours doing nothing except using the Transfer Market. They place a very large number of bids. They repeatedly buy and sell the same popular cards. They constantly search for cheap listings, buy them, relist them and sell them again. Everything is done manually on a console with a controller. No bots, scripts, macros, or automation. Is there a number of bids, transactions, or hours of activity after which this behavior itself becomes a violation or becomes suspicious enough that the player risks receiving a sanction? If such limits exist for manual trading, where can players read them? 7. What if somebody simply earns a lot of Coins very quickly? EA's rules say that players can hold as many Coins as they want as long as those Coins were earned legitimately. So does that mean that a high profit or rapid growth of the Coin balance is not itself a violation if every transaction was an ordinary manual market transaction? Or can unusually rapid Coin growth itself become a reason for suspicion? 8. What do temporary market restrictions after a large number of actions mean? When trading very actively, players can sometimes receive temporary restrictions on bidding or other Transfer Market actions. Is this simply a technical rate limit? Or is it effectively a warning from the system: “Your activity is starting to look suspicious”. If it is the second, what exactly is the player expected to change? 9. And the most practical question If manual trading is allowed, what exactly should a legitimate trader do so that a normal profitable transaction is not later interpreted as Coin Distribution? Avoid very cheap Buy Now listings? Only use bidding? Avoid placing too many bids? Avoid trading the same card repeatedly? Avoid spending several hours on the Transfer Market? Avoid earning Coins too quickly? Or are all of those things completely legitimate as long as everything is done manually and there is no coordination with another account? I believe these questions can be answered without revealing any secrets about EA's anti-fraud systems. I am not asking EA to publish algorithms, internal thresholds, detection methods, or information that would help cheaters bypass enforcement. A cheater already knows that they are using a bot, buying Coins, or deliberately transferring Coins between accounts. I am asking something different: What should a legitimate manual trader do to remain within the rules? There is another reason why I believe this question matters. EA has already publicly acknowledged false bans related to Balance Transfer On this same official forum, an EA Community Manager thanked players for reporting false bans and confirmed that the Security Team reviewed cases and removed many sanctions. That is a very important fact. It shows that an initial enforcement decision cannot automatically be treated as infallible simply because a sanction was applied. Mistakes happen. EA has publicly acknowledged them and corrected them before. And that is completely understandable. No complicated anti-fraud system has to be perfect. The problem is not that a system can sometimes make a mistake. The problem begins when, after that mistake, a player cannot understand what exactly was considered a violation or meaningfully challenge it. And that leads to a second question. What is an appeal actually supposed to provide? A person buys the game, spends money on it, spends their time playing it, and continues playing the series because they enjoy the product. At some point, a system decides that this player's activity violated the rules and applies a sanction. Fine. This is exactly why an appeal process exists. I do not believe EA is required to reveal its algorithms, internal evidence, or the architecture of its anti-fraud systems. But there is a huge difference between: “We do not disclose our detection methods” and “We do not tell the player what specific behavior was considered a violation at all.” In my own case, I submitted five appeals. I explained my trading activity in detail. I explained that the actual purchases were made manually from my console. I asked EA to review devices, bids, purchases, sales, Coin movements, account history, and possible relationships with sellers. I asked specific technical questions. I separately contacted EA Help. In the end, EA officially told me that the sanction for cheating was correctly applied. But after five appeals, I still do not know: What exactly did I do? Which transaction was considered a violation? Which specific rule did I break? What should I have done differently? What am I supposed to avoid doing in the next game? An appeal can absolutely end in rejection. That is not the problem. But shouldn't the player at least understand why the appeal was rejected and what behavior EA determined to be wrong? Especially when EA itself has already publicly acknowledged that false positives have happened. If the enforcement system can make mistakes, then a meaningful appeal process should be the safety mechanism that separates an actual rule-breaker from a legitimate player caught by a false positive. Otherwise, a very simple question appears: What is the purpose of the appeal process? And one final question for the official EA Forum itself I am writing this here specifically because this is the official EA Forum. Community Managers are here. EA representatives respond in other discussions. EA has previously posted official responses here regarding false bans. I am not asking anybody on the forum to remove my sanction. I am asking something much simpler: Can somebody from EA who actually understands the Transfer Market rules and how they are applied answer these questions? Starting with the most basic one: Is it actually allowed to manually buy cards specifically to resell them for profit — yes or no? If the answer is no, please show us the rule. If the answer is yes, please explain the boundaries of legitimate trading to ordinary players. What is a fair Transfer Market price? What should a player do when they find an unusually cheap public listing? Is there a risk from placing a very large number of completely manual bids? Can an accidental transaction with a problematic account put an innocent user at risk? Can very fast but completely manual profits themselves become a problem? And what exactly should a player do to avoid crossing a boundary they do not even know exists? This is not a request to reveal security secrets. It is a request to explain to customers the rules of a feature EA itself provides them to use. If official answers to these questions already exist, please point us to them. If they do not, I believe the official EA Forum is exactly the right place for somebody who understands the Transfer Market and its enforcement to provide a clear answer once and for all. Because a normal player should not have to look at a great public listing and wonder: “If I press Buy Now right now, am I simply making a good trade, or am I risking being accused of cheating?”Bannen for buying cheap at nights and selling with a big profit during the day.
Ea took my 10 million coins i ve grinded for during months of buying and selling players. I had a few days vacation so I bought a lot of futties players cheap, all around 10 or 11000 at night and sold them almost directly for double the money. I ve never cheated and the fact that i ve got an email that stated that i cheated made me so mad, i erased all ea games from my ps and will never again play any games from this company ...its so annoying to play a game, grind hard and see all your work being destroyed because an AI accuses you of cheating...why would i ever try an ea game again? Not for me anymore...never cheated!!!FC 26 Connection Problem – High Ping and Unstable Connection in Bahrain
Dear EA Support Team, I am contacting you regarding a connection problem I have been experiencing with EA SPORTS FC 26 Ultimate Team for approximately five months. I live in Bahrain and play on PlayStation 5 (PS5). My internet provider is Batelco/Beyond. Almost every time I enter matchmaking, I receive high ping, usually around 123 ms, and the connection is unstable. During matches, I frequently see the red connection arrow, and I also experience connection drops. I have already tried all the basic troubleshooting steps available from my side, including restarting my modem/router, checking my internet connection, testing my internet speed, restarting my PS5, deleting and reinstalling FC 26, and testing the game again after reinstalling it. My internet speed is good and my connection works normally for other services. However, the problem continues specifically with FC 26. Because this has been happening for approximately five months, I would like EA to investigate whether the issue is related to EA Game Data Centers, matchmaking, or network routing between Bahrain and EA's servers. I have also pre-ordered FC 27, and I am concerned that the same problem may continue when I move to FC 27. I do not want to start the new game and experience the same 123 ms ping, red connection arrow, unstable connection, and connection drops all over again. Please investigate my connection and matchmaking routing and let me know what is causing this issue and whether it can be fixed before I start playing FC 27. Details: Country: Bahrain Platform: PlayStation 5 ISP: Batelco/Beyond Game: EA SPORTS FC 26 Mode: Ultimate Team Issue duration: Approximately 5 months Typical ping: Approximately 123 ms Connection indicator: Red connection arrow Problem: High ping, unstable connection, and connection drops I have already completed the basic troubleshooting steps, so I would appreciate a technical investigation into the server connection and matchmaking routing rather than being asked to repeat the same basic troubleshooting steps. Thank you for your help. I hope you can identify the cause and provide a permanent solution.
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