In FIFA 22 there was briefly a bug that allowed multiple Division Rivals rewards. Some players exploited this to cash in massive amounts of rewards. They are now being punished for it.
This is the exploit in question: In FIFA Ultimate Team, players can collect their Division Rivals rewards every Thursday. These consist of packs, coins, and FUT Champions points, which can be used to obtain new players or qualify for the Weekend League.
These rewards could be claimed multiple times on February 11. Whenever players restarted their FIFA 22 Web App, they expected new rewards. This way, it was theoretically possible to claim the rewards as often as desired. Some fans could not resist the temptation to exploit the bug extensively.
They collected the rewards multiple times, earning millions of coins and dozens of packs with new players. EA is now imposing harsh penalties on these players.
This is what EA says: In a tweet on the official “FIFA Direct Communication” account, the devs announced that the bug was fixed on the same day, February 11. However, they also managed to identify the accounts that massively exploited the bug.
- “Normal” users of the exploit were banned from FIFA 22 Online for 7 days.
- Players who exploited the bug extensively lost access to the FIFA 22 transfer market permanently. Thus, their FIFA Ultimate Team account is basically dead.
On the transfer market, players can buy or sell new items or football stars to assemble their dream teams and earn coins. A ban removes players’ access to all these features.
“They don’t care about the 7 days, they’re sitting on millions of coins”
These are the reactions: While some players welcome the penalties for exploiters, for others it is not enough. In their tweet, EA does not provide a precise definition of what they mean by “massive exploitation.”
Consequently, some fans suspect that people who only used the exploit 5 to 10 times will get away with just a 7-day ban and can keep all their rewards.
Even the exclusion from the transfer market is, according to some players, not a particularly harsh penalty. The Twitter user @reevetard argues that these players spent their massive amounts of coins long before the ban.
They knew exactly that the exploit would lead to a ban and spent the coins to quickly buy the desired players on the transfer market, according to @reevetard.
And what do you say? Do you think the penalties are justified, or should the exploiters be punished more harshly? Let us know in the comments.
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