FIFA 16 has updated its transfer market and price range system. EA Sport will soon be launching the new FIFA Ultimate Team season, and have shared more details on they plan to make this year’s FUT experience fun, fair, and secure. Three major updates have been revealed, including early access to the transfer market via the Web and Mobile apps, the widening of price ranges for players and the new security measures put in place to protect the game’s coin economy. Transfer market Available In Web & Companion Apps: The Transfer Market launches on the Web and Mobile Companion apps beginning September 17, with returning and verified FUT 15 players able to start building their Ultimate Team club by opening free returning user packs and by trading early via the Transfer Market.

Electronic Arts is making a few changes in the FIFA 16 edition of FIFA Ultimate Team, including bringing back the Transfer Market to the web and mobile companion apps, and opening the season with wider price ranges than appeared in 2015. The idea, as it has said in previous years, is to ensure the game remains “fun, fair, and secure” for everyone. Electronic Arts says the recent addition of Price Ranges to FIFA Ultimate Team, which assign minimum and maximum values to players on the Transfer Market, was necessary to keep the game “fair and secure” for everyone. And while some fans aren’t happy about it—as the startling response to anything that EA’s FIFA account tweets attests—the changes do seem to be working. FIFA 16 EA Sports warned last summer that it would be “more proactive” in its efforts against coin sellers, and it turns out that it wasn’t messing around. In September it eliminated trade offers, then in February it removed access to the Transfer Market from the web and companion apps—temporarily—and earlier this month came the price ranges.

EA disabled access to the Transfer Market through the web and mobile apps last year to help cut down on unauthorized coin trading. It said at the time that the measure was temporary, and today it followed through on that promise with an announcement that access will be returned to both companion apps as of September 17. There will be one limitation, however: All returning and verified FIFA Ultimate Team 15 players will be able to leap into the Transfer Market immediately, FIFA ultimate team points account but newcomers will have to play on either a PC or console for a few days first. EA said the restriction has been put into place to help keep bots out of the Transfer Market by ensuring that everyone with access to it is a human.

That last bit is especially interesting in light of the not-entirely-positive reaction to the rollout of price ranges last year. EA said at the time that they would help “to ensure a level playing field for all FUT fans,” and claimed that they had in fact helped reduce illegitimate coin trading, but quite a number of FIFA players were vocally unhappy about the change. all Price Ranges were identical across all platforms for most players. This caused the upper range to be lower than the perceived market value for certain players on some platforms. You couldn’t find certain players because other FUT fans didn’t think the Price Range matched that player’s value on that console platform – and so did not choose to sell. Now we are setting different price ranges per platform starting with a selection of high-rated players – this will address your concerns on value.

Since implementing these changes, we’re seeing positive signs of restoring balance to the FUT economy and mitigating some of the negative effects of exploitation within the game. We continue to invest in security tools, and promise to continue to find the right ways to fend off coin sellers and farmers who are hurting the game. We imposed a daily limit on matches, which has also had a positive effect in stopping coin farmers from generating illegitimate coins.