The "EA Gate" scandal has been drawing quite a bit of attention lately alongside FC 25. The scandal began trending on Twitter recently when it was alleged that an EA employee sold FC 25 Coins cards for thousands of dollars. As well launching its own investigation, the company has announced they will be taking action against those who have purchased any of the FC 25 Ultimate Team cards via the scandal, even if they didn't help orchestrate it.

In a recent post on their website, EA has made it absolutely clear that it will not tolerate players who have perpetuated EA Gate through acquiring the rare FC 25 cards "nefariously," saying that accounts found to have done so will be banned permanently. EA has made it known that it does not condone this behavior, calling it "unacceptable" and adding that this illicit practice runs counter to the integrity of the game as well as being a violation of the end user license agreement.

The conglomerate has made this announcement as part of its own investigation to see which employee at EA is responsible for the FC controversy. So far, it appears that only a handful of people may have been involved in it, however EA has said it will take action against whoever masterminded it and will remove any of the items from the FC 25 Ultimate Team system.

The items being sold are part of FC Ultimate Team and are rare items which can include Icon cards or Team of the Year cards. Normally, these items should only be obtained through random loot drops, something which is often negatively associated with EA's gaming practices. If people are selling these rare cards, it means they can bypass the loot system in a kind of cheap FIFA 25 Coins -based black market where they can pay upwards of thousands of dollars for them.