Ultimate Talk

[deXXXa]

So what happened?
Just prior to EA shutting down FUT13 auctions to fix the issue, I had a chat on the EA forums with JP, the guy who runs http://ultimatedb.nl.
Because of his access to the market, he can monitor (at least on a proxy level) the amount of coins in the economy. His explanation:

As far as I can tell somebody figured out how to bid without having the coins to back up the bid. This started on Thursday or maybe even earlier. Last night the cat came out of the bag and the exploit was rampant. My estimate is that we could see over a milliard coins added to the economies both on Xbox and PS3. The effects were immediately noticeable in the IF market where a huge buying spree started. EA haven't gotten back to me yet with additional info.

What's the impact?

This morning I had the hope that those bids were actually not completing and therefore the coins weren't going to end up in the economy. But alas, it looks like there's suddenly a few milliard coins extra in both the Xbox and PS3 market. This will take weeks to settle down.

What's EA doing about this?
While EA have acted slowly on this issue, the severity of this exploit can be seen by EA's series of tweets on what we can only suspect is a hotfix: https://twitter.com/EASPORTSFIFA/sta...77336510361600
They repeated this tweet four times in the last 10 hours. Sounds kinda critical, no?
Update from JP flathead (owner of ultimatedb.nl, former fraud investigator for EA)http://forum.ea.com/uk/posts/list/2118372.page

Just to make one thing clear first, I do not work for EA; but I do have access to more information than most of you.
The 15M bid thing was a complex exploit used by a small group of people whose sole purpose was to destroy the FUT economy. The hole that the managed to exploit has been found and plugged by EA. It will take some time to find and ban all the offending accounts on both Xbox and PS3. I do know that the people in Vancouver are working overtime to get it cleaned up as soon as they can.

[vanB]

Die sollen reinhauen, wollte noch Packs ziehen bevor das neue TdW kommt...

[oemmes88]

Das wird eh erst morgen gehen wenn wir glück haben

[19BVB87]

Hoffentlich keinen Rollback, bevor ich meinen Ronaldo im Pack hatte.

[oemmes88]

Hoffentlich bis dahin als ich Aguero verkauft hatte

[Zarear]

Btw, noch kein TdW oder?

[Wildgurke]

ne denke erst um 18:59 oder so.

[henne7]

Geht´s auf der Ps3 immer noch nicht?

[Gast31]

die Ursache für den Fehler wurde gefunden und es wird an einer Lösung gearbeitet.
Leider konnte uns noch nicht mitgeteilt werden, ab wann es weiter geht. Sobald es neue Infos gibt, erfährt ihr es hier!

Die kennen den Fehler und wissen nicht wie sie das beheben?

[deXXXa]

Die kennen den Fehler und wissen nicht wie sie das beheben?

Das war wohl ein ganz abgezocktes Ding was die Jungs da veranstaltet haben. Warum sie die Coins aber nicht weniger auffällig gewaschen haben verstehe ich nicht.