EA Sports Slaps Price Range Limit on FIFA Ultimate Team Transfers

EA Sports Slaps Price Range Limit on FIFA Ultimate Team Transfers

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Lee Bradley

EA Sports has introduced a new feature for FIFA Ultimate Team as part of its ongoing battle to combat coin sellers. And some people aren’t especially happy. Like, really not happy.

According to EA Sports, the feature is rolling out now and will impose a price range limit on all FIFA Ultimate Team items (players, in-forms, consumables, and club items) sold on the Transfer Market. Every item will have its own highest and lowest price.

These new features are designed to, “help FUT gamers understand the value of the players in their Club”, “make high-rated players more attainable for all FUT gamers and ensure a level playing field”, “further restrict illegitimate coin transfers on the Transfer Market.”

EA Sports adds that, “Although the new FUT item Price Ranges will differ from current prices, their relative value to other player items on the Transfer Market will remain consistent in order to maintain a level playing field for everyone.”

EA Sports declared war on FUT coin sellers back in August last year, threatening bans for the use of Ultimate Team coin farming bots, as well as those using third-party websites to buy and sell coins. A month later it was revealed that FIFA 15 Ultimate Team would not allow players to trade cards directly with their friends. This is just their latest step.

The move hasn’t gone down well with some fans, who are upset at the changes to the FUT economy. Whoever’s managing EA Sports’ Twitter account isn’t having the best time at the moment

“We are confident that, in the long run, the FUT community as a whole will come to appreciate the balanced benefits that this new feature will bring to all FUT players, but it’s important you let us know what you think,” adds EA Sports.

You can see some “important notes about Price Ranges” below, in EA Sports’ own words.

  • All Price Ranges will be universal across Xbox, PlayStation and PC.

  • When you list an item on the Transfer Market, the range at which an item can be sold will appear. These price ranges will be set by the FIFA Team based on analysis of past Transfer Market prices.

  • Open bid transfers will be unavailable after Price Ranges have been activated. In order to list an item on the Transfer Market, you will have to set a “Buy It Now” price within the Price Range.

  • The Price Range for each FUT item will be set wide enough for you to still enjoy trading on the Transfer Market.

  • The Price Range for certain players may be adjusted in the future as we work to improve this feature over time.

New ‘in-form’ FUT player items will receive a Price Range upon release.

Comments
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  • Good to see they are finally doing some serious clamping down on this. Not often I have a reason to say this but good on EA
  • I don't even play fifa and this is an outrage!
  • I'm only pissed off as my pack pulled Ronaldo is now worth 6m coins less than before. I can see why they've done it, although I think the FIFA 15 market is beyond saving, they should've waited until FIFA 16
  • They should do this for Madden too ,people get players for free and ask an outrageous amount of coins=skumbags ..
  • I play FUT and this is an absolute joke, I'm a really laid back guy but I am actually feeling really really infuriated by this. 1) It's the community who determines the current market value of players in the transfer market, not EA. That's the beauty of FUT, one minute Rooney might be going for 100k across the market, the next month, he might be hitting a market value of 25k. 2) Taking away open bid transfers? What on earth!? Part of the transfer process in football is different clubs bidding to try acquire the player they want. If you get outbid then you get outbid, that's part of the buzz of bidding !! 3) How is this going to even the playing field? I don't see it... EA are talking out there fucking arses here. We all know they're doing this to make it harder for people to buy FIFA coins from coin websites, just so that they can try get more people buy there overpriced FIFA Points. 4) The cost of the FIFA points in relation to the cost of packs is ridiculous, that's why people buy coins as opposed to overpriced FIFA Points ! 5) I'm fucking fuming. First they take away the Trade option, so can no longer have pinkslips with mates. Now this ! Absolute donkeys !
  • Am so mad about this, they should have given as a week or so to sell first, i´ve been trading since day one to get a good amount of coins, i´ve invested over 25 millions on players for them to sell now 1/5 of the amount they cost me. i´ve lost over 15 millions and increasing.
  • EA pissing people off? Surely not! I agree it's unfair on those losing out but really it's your fault for paying millions for players in the first place. Greed breeds greed.
  • Making the rules up as they go along is what they're doing. I feel really sorry for people who have a Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, and now won't get no where near as many coins for them as others would have got just a week ago. It's absolute horse shit.
  • I wouldn't be so annoyed if I thought they were genuinely doing this to make things more equal for everyone, but they're not, they're doing this to make people buy there overpriced Fifa coins.
  • I'm sick of getting those spam messages sent to my Xbox Live account. I don't have a single sports game, yet this is such a big deal the money sellers feel the need to spam everyone. Good on EA.
  • they have this in simcity buildit on mobile phones. There's a minimum and maximum price for everything in the market and it works brilliantly, this for once is a sensible move by EA
  • @#11 - Is it fuck? It's a transfer market, you shouldn't have a limit on what you value your player to be listed for. If I want to put Jordan Henderson on the transfer market for 250 Million, I should be allowed to put him on the market for 250 Million ! Who decides that shouldn't be allowed, if that's what I value him at? Players also have a "Lowest price" now too. if I want to sell Wayne Rooney for 100 coins then I should be allowed to sell him for 100 coins, it's my own Prerogative. No more open bids too? How fucking stupid on a transfer market in a football game. Fuckin joke. Dirty bastards EA are, just when I was kinda thinking they were getting a bit better.
  • @12 a minimum/maximum price always guarantees 3 things... 1. There's no over pricing 2. There's no under pricing 3. Everybody is on a level playing field What's your problem?
  • No overpricing? Who has the right to tell me what the max value of my players are worth? Me, thats who. Not EA. Thats my problem.
  • EA suck and so does all there games apart from plants v zombies lol
  • None of this would ever have been a problem if they didn't try to profit from in-game purchases. The whole idea of micro-transactions destroys the competitiveness of games.
  • lol EA always knows how to come out of any situation lookin like a dick.
  • This doesn't even benefit the legit players of the game, as the coin glitchers will just buy all the Ronaldo's and Messi's as soon as they become available. Even the MOTM Welbeck's and Delph's are nowhere to be seen either. Don't even be surprised if any of the inform top players get bought and deleted off the game in spite of what EA have done here. Only way to solve this is for EA to re-release every inform/MOTM etc for a couple days so people actually have a chance of getting them. Also the drop rate in the packs is absolutely terrible. ill admit i was one of those people who bought coins and opened millions of coins worth of packs and got absolutely shit players. LOL i also got an infraction email from EA as i bought that many. I will not buy Fifa points due to this terrible drop rate. Its simply not worth it.
  • This doesn't even benefit the legit players of the game, as the coin glitchers will just buy all the Ronaldo's and Messi's as soon as they become available. Even the MOTM Welbeck's and Delph's are nowhere to be seen either. Don't even be surprised if any of the inform top players get bought and deleted off the game in spite of what EA have done here. Only way to solve this is for EA to re-release every inform/MOTM etc for a couple days so people actually have a chance of getting them. Also the drop rate in the packs is absolutely terrible. ill admit i was one of those people who bought coins and opened millions of coins worth of packs and got absolutely shit players. LOL i also got an infraction email from EA as i bought that many. I will not buy Fifa points due to this terrible drop rate. Its simply not worth it.
  • not really interested in sports games, but isn't this supposed to be a "sports game"? not a bookkeeping/sports team financial management game? if they want it to be a really realistic soccer game, they could have they players bite each other and roll on the ground crying like little girls every time one of them comes within 5 feet of an opposing player...
  • Well done EA, you've finally done it...cutting off your nose to spite your face, Brilliant (Y). The whole open bidding system bought excitement to the FUT Transfer Market and now it will be boring. I do agree they needed to clamp down on the coin sellers, but why couldn't they do it another way by flagging suspicious transfers and banning both parties, simples.
  • @14 errrrm the game developers have that right....just like the game Dictates to you what a player costs in the normal transfer market. your coming accross as seriously but hurt about not being able to over price your players....get over it
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