coin sellers?

is it just me or does anyone feel like ea actually doing it themselves. Hear me out, coin selling is illegal correct? so why does most ea gamechangers/puppets advertise this type of behavior that is clearly breaching the terms, yet none are punished and many are still allowed to participate in early builds of the next game year in and out. Another huge flag for this thought process is that they take 10% of AH sales which is pointless as well causing a huge lost of coins from the community as well as essentially manipulating the market. It literally makes no sense for them to pocket coins they themselves and just throw them out of the game. EA is a corporation and its profit margins over everything else. I just don't see how they would take something that is profitable(coins) and just toss it to the side without  trying to benefit from it. I'm almost convinced that this is the case because all the red flags are obviously there with this scenario. anyways just adding my 2 cents into the mix here seeing how this is about the only content we get around these low production.

So a few things here:

1. EA doesn't work with content creators who promote coin selling. The ones that do are not sponsored by EA.

2. Technically speaking, advertising coin sales is not against TOS, only the buying and selling are. I'm not trying to split hairs, but this is something that has come up with EA before

3. I do agree with you that this feels like a missed opportunity for EA

Moderator Legend said:

So a few things here:

1. EA doesn't work with content creators who promote coin selling. The ones that do are not sponsored by EA.

2. Technically speaking, advertising coin sales is not against TOS, only the buying and selling are. I'm not trying to split hairs, but this is something that has come up with EA before

3. I do agree with you that this feels like a missed opportunity for EA

I've seen plenty of coin seller advocates on youtube for years CC as a example. They are invited to pre release demos to share their review of the game year after year when they know this.

Magaladon said:

I've seen plenty of coin seller advocates on youtube for years CC as a example. They are invited to pre release demos to share their review of the game year after year when they know this.

Inviting someone to offer feedback about the game doesn't mean they are EA sponsored. The majority of creators that you're referring to are not sponsored by EA. The EA sponsored content creators do not advertise coins. Trust me when I tell you that I know what I'm talking about here.

The 10% auction house tax is to prevent every card from being a snipe. It puts more risk on resellers when purchasing cards slightly below market value.

The 10% tax helps everyone but the snipers.

Ive had the same theory. I had a friend who bought coins twice. The first time was a ton of coins with no issues. The second time he didn’t get the coins because the “strategy item” wasn’t something the “coin sellers” would accept. They asked him to use a different card because they “couldn’t find it on the auction house” although there was only about 40 posted. He asked for a refund (which he never got). later that day the account was banned from the auction house.

this account was maxed out at the time with majority of value purchased through EA. so why not just ban the account and double up on the sucker?

Bford04 said:

The 10% auction house tax is to prevent every card from being a snipe. It puts more risk on resellers when purchasing cards slightly below market value.

The 10% tax helps everyone but the snipers.

that tax doesn't detour snipers. hell, sniping isn't even a community problem, it's a seller problem for not posting things for their value or close too it. if no one post lower then they should sniping no longer exist. snipers are not the problem, EA commitment to this community is. there's no doubt that ea would double down and turn around an sell those taxed coins under 3rd party sites. also if they aren't selling them then why take them? sniping is not a community problem so that 10% is pointless and at the minimum their using it to rip coins from the nms guys and try to force more pack/bundle purchases. idk where some of you guys get these ideas but adding a 10% tax to curb an individual players mistake seems unrealistic and something every major corporation would say to cover up their real intentions.

It helps markets. 

I snipe. As a sniper the tax prevents me from taking many “mediocre snipes” I would absolutely take if there were no tax. It gives the average player better prices and the whales less control and more risk when trying to control the price on a certain card.

I'm new to the whole "card market". I never played MUT or Madden, I've always been a NCAA player from back in the day and couldn't wait for CFB 25 - I only thought I would play the traditional seasons, and of course that wasn't part of the new CFB 25 - so I started playing CUT and fell in love with it. So much fun. 

I enjoy playing and earning coin and then I'd go to the auction house and see these outrageous prices for cards and didn't understand how in the hell players just playing would ever earn enough coins to buy any of these cards. Watched a few YouTubers and saw the advertisements to buy coins and thought "Oh, this is how you do it". Did a little research and learned that you could get banned for this. Didn't want to risk that and didn't go down that path any further.

I wish that they would just let you trade cards with other players like we used to do as kids with cards. It isn't real money so why wouldn't this be an option? My luck with buying packs is getting the same freaking card over and over, sometimes in the same pack. Be great to trade these with other players or even my own kid.

I ask this in all seriousness - It's fake money, why does EA or any one else care about it?

Not trying to be an ass about it, I really appreciate this community and  just want to understand. I thought this was a game to have fun with.

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I'm sorry. What point are you exactly trying to make about me?