A bug has been giving savvy players a certain advantage. Or rather… to cheaters. And it seems that some players realized that if you pressed the Home button on PS4/PS5 or the Xbox button on Xbox, and accessed the console menu in the middle of the game, you could lose without losing. would account. And this, of course, was quickly used for Machiavellian purposes. As usual.
The trick to always win in FIFA
If you could control that losses do not count in your match record and that only wins count in your record, don't you think you would move up the division and earn many more coins more easily? Well that's what 30.000 more users they were taking advantage of with the help of a bug that was present in FIFA 22 coins.
As detailed in eurogamer, the game, in both the PlayStation and Xbox versions, was not able to control the player's state at the time the system's main menu was switched to. If you jump into the system and don't move your players in FIFA, you are automatically logged out of the game after a certain amount of time (just like if you decide not to touch the controller to annoy your opponent), but for some reason, the game wasn't able to identify this jump to the system menu. Or in the case that it did, it did not apply any penalty.
We have identified over 30K active accounts that exploited this issue consistently and have suspended them from FIFA 22 online for 7 days, avoiding them from participating in this week's FUT Champions Finals.
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infinite victories
The fact is that the players who realized this decided to pass sentence on their own matches, so in all those difficult confrontations in which the match was going uphill, they decided to go to the main menu of the console, and wait for that the game will notify with the disconnection of the servers.
Once returned to FUT mode, players could see how the loss record was still intact, so they only had to repeat the play until they had victory perfectly on track. This obviously had only one intention, and it was none other than to exclusively accumulate victories in order to obtain the highest number of coins and ranking points for the competition. FUT champions.
punished without playing
EA was obviously able to observe how the accumulation of 20-0 wins it was repeated in numerous cases, so he found the problem quickly. As punishment, the company has decided to ban all those players who made use of the glitch for 7 days, so they will be unable to participate in this weekend's FUT Champions.
As a curiosity, some users received a message from EA assuring that the ban would last a total of 1.000 days, something that caused more than one scare, but that EA has been quick to clarify, ensuring that it is a visual error that mixes the days. So it will still be 7 days of total darkness.
The worst part of the matter is that the number of banned players exceeds 30.000 users, so it is once again clear that it is enough for a glitch to come to light for thousands of players to take advantage without caring for the good atmosphere between players. Many players are expressing their disagreement on the networks, assuring that the punishment is too light, and that even by cheating, they will be able to keep all the coins and bonuses obtained after using the glitch.