Cross-play and cheaters — is there a solution in FC 26?

Remove the crossplay setting from your game and you'll find people who only play on console.

Zeriusly​ 

Zeriusly wrote:

Remove the crossplay setting from your game and you'll find people who only play on console.

Even if you disable it, it's not really a solution. Because sometimes the game has issues when you turn off cross-play — it won’t let you enter matches, it gets stuck in the lobby, and you get errors no matter how many times you search. Then when you turn cross-play back on, the game responds and lets you join matches again.

Also, when you're playing Clubs in League mode competitively, there are people playing from other platforms.

If you’ve disabled cross-play, you won’t be able to join — so things like this make the experience worse.

So either they should remove cross-play completely from the game, or at least add a clear option to report players.

I understand the problems that can arise from removing crossplay, but if they were to seriously remove it they would kill proclub again.

There are times when you need crossplay like certain modes or doing off peak hours. Removing crossplay isn’t going to solve cheating but will hurt people who want to play the game.  It’s also a bad look saying cheaters win and we don’t care about pc or lesser played modes or off hours. I could still see ea doing it though. 

There not going back to console only playing. The disadvantages to playing PC is not just the cheating it's performance. Game is broken on a competitive level. Shame though seems like anything involving a leaderboard, people just constantly cheat. 

Yes, this affects the modes in general. The presence of cheaters definitely impacts the leaderboard, as cheating players end up topping it.
In past years, there was no crossplay, yet the game continued and players were still able to play without any major issues.
Faster matchmaking through crossplay is indeed a nice feature for everyone, but overall, it causes harm because it also brings in cheaters who ruin the game and fair play.

So, I’m not completely against crossplay, but I believe there should be a clear system in place to detect cheaters, and a strict and visible option for players to report them.
If such a system doesn’t exist, then in that case, I think removing crossplay would actually be the better option.

you guys really think there are no cheaters on an xbox or ps5? :D look how many ppl cheat with a chronos zen? its a joke how many ppl bought this **bleep** bc they are to stupid to hit green time finish. how you want to handle that? isnt this cheating too? yes, cheating/hacking is a big problem but its not a pc only problem! its easier to cheat on pc, yes. but removing cross-play isnt the solution! ea has to work on their detection systems, it is possible! they just have to bring some effort!

Sad thing is your not wrong. However just remove timed finishing. This game no longer represents football. It's whoever can abuse the mechanics the most and sadly cronus allows everyone using it to do that. 

they better remove PC players from matchmaking... not only they cheat, their game is also more responsive than next gen console.

Turning crossplay off is not the solution. it takes a lot of time to find a decent game in Div 2 on XBOX SX.

EA just finds >35ms Ping players. I'm in US central time.

Cheaters on console last year were more than on PC, mainly because of the time finish abuse with "Cronus zen scripts". That’s why they removed it this year, because they couldn’t detect the players using it.

I really hope they improve their anti-cheat system across all platforms and focus on it seriously this year. I’m honestly tired of buying the game every year just to quit after a few months because of cheaters.

They should take notes from Marvel Rivals and how they handle cheating while keeping the community clean and fair.

Also, I wish players had the option to choose their server, just like in Marvel Rivals, to avoid ping issues and enjoy a smoother experience