14 DAY TRIAL // Electronic Arts has just deployed a brand new update for its FIFA 12 soccer simulator, targeting the FIFA Ultimate Team and the EA Sports Football Club areas of the game by adding a new layer of security and solving some connection issues.
FIFA 12 became the most popular sports game of last year, impressing tens of millions of players from all over the world.
Sadly, security is a pretty big problem for the game, specifically its FIFA Ultimate Team feature, which sees players spend real money on premium content, as some hackers started phishing schemes that scammed people out of their FIFA 12 accounts.
Now, in order to add a new layer of security, EA has just deployed an update for FIFA 12 that forces players to answer a security question if they access the Ultimate Team mode from a new platform. Plenty of other things are also included, so check them all out below.
“We're committed to doing everything we can in our game to help keep you safe from phishers and scammers,” EA said. “Our March game update is key part of that commitment: - It will now only be possible to send trade offers to people on your friends list. - On entering FUT on your console for the first time after the update, you will be required to provide a unique answer to a security question. - If anyone else attempts to enter your FUT account from a different console, they will be required to enter the answer to your security question.”
What’s more, the patch will also solve some end-of-game connection issues on the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms, as it seems that some players who had their Internet connection going through a router were disconnected because packets of crucial data weren’t being sent out.
“For some time now, a number of FUT gamers on PlayStation 3 and PC have suffered disconnections at the end of games. We will be deploying a fix for this problem as part of this update.”
In order to make amends with people affected by the problem, EA will be “compensating those people with a haul of FUT content significant enough to demonstrate just how thankful we are for sticking with us while we tackled the problem.”
The new update for FIFA 12 should already be available for download on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms.