Overview
Learn how to help keep your account safe and avoid bans or suspensions by sticking to the rules in EA SPORTS™ College Football 26.
What happens to accounts that break the rules?
If you break the rules, the actions applied to your EA Account may affect your experience on multiple gaming platforms and titles if you’re using the same EA Account.Learn how to help keep your account safe by turning on EA two-factor authentication (2FA).
- remove your account from the Leaderboards
- remove your College Football Ultimate Team™ Coins
- delete your College Football Ultimate Team™ Profile
- temporarily or permanently ban your account from online play, which means you lose access to every mode where you connect to our servers
- ban your account from your current game
- ban your account from all EA SPORTS™ games
- ban you from some or all EA games
- suspend your console from playing online modes for a period of time
- restrict your access to the College Football Ultimate Team™ Auction House
- restrict your access or in-game privileges in other ways.
EA SPORTS™ College Football rules
To avoid us taking action on your account, make sure you follow the EA SPORTS™ College Football rules.Read Section 6 of the EA User Agreement to learn more about our complete rules of conduct.Check out our Positive Play Charter to learn how to contribute towards a positive and inclusive gaming community.
Coin selling and distribution inflates the College Football economy. That means disrupting the safe buying and selling environment that legitimate players are trying to use to get the players they need for their College Football Ultimate Team™.Selling Coins can get your account banned.Having multiple accounts and funneling Coins and Items to your main account breaks our rules.
Buying Coins from a third party is against our rules. If you buy Coins from a third party, you risk getting banned.You can earn Coins by playing Ultimate Team and selling items in the Auction House, but you can’t purchase Coins.Here are a few ways to earn Coins legitimately:Buying Coins from third parties affects the player economy as the prices of items in the Auction House increase and become unaffordable. When Coin Buyers buy cheap items in the Auction House, they take away the opportunity to buy affordable items from players who earned their Coins legitimately.If you buy Coins, you risk having your account information stolen by phishers. Since Coin sellers need EA Account login information to give out Coins, they’ll also have the ability to remove players and Coins. Keep your account safe and don’t give your login information to anyone. Buying “mule” accounts or performing comfort trades is also not allowed. These actions go against our rules because they harm the in-game economy and negatively affect the experience for you and other players.
- play games in Ultimate Team
- complete solo challenges
- sell Items in the Auction House.
Coin farming is when you try to get Coins fast and illegitimately. For example, you’re Coin farming if you use bots in the Auction House, or trick the game into thinking you’re playing matches when you’re not. You can store as many Coins in your account as you like, as long as you’re earning those Coins the fair way in-game. Using any sort of bot or disconnection methods in-game is against our rules.
Promoting the sale or purchase of Coins anywhere within our games or forums breaks our rules.
You can only access College Football servers using an official version of the game. An official version is one that you bought from EA or from an authorized retailer. Using a modified version of any platform breaks our rules. An unmodified platform is a console that hasn’t been altered or tampered with, meaning it works exactly as it did when purchased from an authorized retailer.Sharing your credentials with someone who’s using a modified platform also breaks our rules.We recommend avoiding third-party apps and browser extensions, as they can put your account at risk. Some of these tools expose your login details to third parties, who may use the info to take over your account. For example, certain browser extensions can capture your passwords, track your web browsing, insert ads into web pages you visit, and more.
Using any sort of in-game bots, automation, or tools like auto-buyers breaks the rules. If you make transactions outside of the game or play in an unauthorized way, it gives you an unfair advantage and negatively impacts the experience of other players.
Making a false claim to EA Advisors or any other EA representative is against our rules.
Accessing another player’s account, including account sharing, is against the rules.
Cheating can include, but isn’t limited to:Cheating, inside or outside the game, is not fair play and hurts the experience for the players you are playing against.
- using external tools
- performing in-game exploits
- abusing glitches or bugs
- performing, using, buying, or selling match collusion
- matchmaking manipulation, or win manipulation services.