There are many other shortcuts

Buying low and selling high is the key to making coins. You can earn coins with other methods such as playing matches, winning tournaments, using coin boosts, or even paying real money but trading is, by far, the most profitable option of them all. Those selling coins or Fifa Coins using bots to farm coins, will be subject to a permanent online ban from all EA games. The FIFA Ultimate Team infrastructure is designed to provide an optimal experience with human parameters in mind," the letter reads.

There are many other shortcuts that are not facilitated by EA that EA considers as cheats, such as the so-called bid jumping where you need to create another different account to place a high bid on a player you sell in order to make the character look much higher in terms of value that someone might want to bid for even a higher price, and coin buying with real money from coin sellers by using auto buyer bot software.

However, our data shows that these bots generate four times as many Transfer Market searches than all human FUT players combined. This severely impacts the game and your playing experience on a daily basis. Buying and selling coins amounts to cheating in FIFA Ultimate Team and is not authorized. It violates Terms of Service and will end in Fifa 17 Coins a FUT account ban or even a full EA account ban. Those who participate in such activities may see their accounts being banned immediately though in some cases EA might issue a warning first. It may also ban the user from FUT Club.
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