@l_mRGogo 1. Even if you're a vet, once in a while you'll have new friends coming in and wants you to help them get the hang of the game. If this system exists, this would stop new players from coming in since they can't play with their high level friends, also getting to 250 is gonna take a while if you don't play that often.
If this system excludes premades, cheaters can still play with high level friends then what's the point?
2. Not everyone has credit cards, especially minors if not most adults. Also, cheaters paid for their cheats, it cost mostly around $50 to even $100, some lower some higher. I don't think they'd think twice to spend an extra $1?
I don't know about banning credit cards universally on EA games/catalogs, what if these hackers stole EA user's CC information for some reason, let's say the cheater got banned, but on the other hand the CC holder has to deal with the consequences.
Fyi, these hackers did hacked accounts without the 2FA activated to test cheats, and there are complaints all the time. Wonder what would happen if their CC got banned too.