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Industry March 16, 2021

Sale of rare cards, corruption and loot boxes: what you need to know about the FIFA Ultimate Team scandal

Last week, a scandal broke out around FIFA 21, which has already been called EAGate. Electronic Arts employees were accused of selling rare Ultimate Team player cards to individual users. The company launched an internal audit and promised to punish those responsible. However, the problem with loot boxes in FIFA is much deeper.What started EAGate?

Law November 13, 2020

A class action lawsuit was filed against EA, accusing the company of using dynamic complexity technology

Electronic Arts has been accused of using dynamic complexity technology in its three major sports franchises since 2017. The class action lawsuit against the company states that in this way users are forced to buy loot boxes.The lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Northern California, the newspaper reports Gamesindustry.biz .

Games September 28, 2020

EA was criticized after advertising loot boxes for FIFA 21 in a children’s magazine

EA has once again faced criticism of its microtransaction policy. An advertisement for FIFA 21 loot boxes appeared in the magazine of a children’s toy store, which directly talked about the need to open packs with football players.Attention to the problem was drawn by one of the Twitter users who published a photo of a page from the magazine of the British chain of toy stores Smyths Toys.