Players should never give their account details to anyone

Aug 31, 2015 22:09 GMT  ·  By

It seems that scams associated with the Ultimate Team mode in Madden NFL 16 have already become so annoying and potentially threatening to gamers that EA Sports is once again cautioning gamers against interacting with fraudulent accounts.

The warning comes from the official Twitter account of the team at EA Sports, which says that gamers should never share their account login information with anyone else and that the studio itself will never ask for it.

The company has been updating the security for all accounts linked to Madden NFL 16 Ultimate Team, but there are still a lot of scammers who are trying to get the information they need to breach them using more social means.

The rule of thumb is to never interact with accounts that seem connected to the official one for the game but have a changed character or a weird addition and to never accept offers claiming they can quickly increase the amount of currency that a gamer can use.

Ultimate Team has become very important because a wide number of players tend to spend their Madden NFL 16 time with it.

That means Electronic Arts is motivated to keep it as secure as possible and to quickly work to eliminate threats, while also seeking ways to convince gamers to spend more money on it.

Madden NFL 16 introduces a new Draft mode

For Ultimate Team, the developers have created a new experience that is designed to play faster than the normal installment of the mode and to deliver some solid rewards for those who can win matches in succession.

A version of Draft will also be offered in the coming FIFA 16, a game that has also been regularly targeted by scammers.

It's unclear whether EA Sports can get these accounts banned from Twitter in the long term or if the only way to make sure that their impact is limited is to teach gamers how to protect themselves.

The developers have not yet offered any sort of sales information about Madden NFL 16, which was officially launched on August 25 and is one of the titles that will dominate the charts for the coming few months.