Court rules FIFA Ultimate Team cards are \u201cnot gambling\u201d EA SportsThe highest Dutch court has reversed an earlier ruling that said FIFA Ultimate Team packs were a form of gambling, and got rid of a massive fine slapped on EA Sports as well. Back in October of 2020 the Court of the Hague in the Netherlands ruled that FUT card packs were a form of gambling, and ordered EA to remove them from FIFA. For every week they didn\u2019t comply, \u20ac500,000 would be added to their fine, to a maximum amount of \u20ac10 Million ($10.9 million). Now the Dutch Administrative Jurisdiction Division has ruled that opening FUT packs wasn\u2019t \u201can isolated game\u201d on its own, and as such doesn\u2019t constitute gambling. FIFA Ultimate Team packs not gambling In their ruling on March 9, 2022, the Dutch court said FUT packs add an element of chance to Ultimate Team, and agreed with EA that their randomness served an actual function within the game. \u201cAs EA explains, the packs in FUT mode perform a multipurpose function,\u201d the court said. \u201cThey simulate the uncertainty that also occurs in the real football world when putting together a team.\u201d Packs are also contained entirely within Ultimate Team itself, the court continued, with no real black market other than for entire accounts. \u201cThe vast majority of packs are obtained by and used for game participation,\u201d the ruling continued. \u201cThe tradability of the packs on the black market is relative. The black market mainly focuses on trading complete accounts rather than individual packs or their contents.\u201d In addition to giving EA Sports the green light to continue to feature FUT Packs in the Netherlands, the court\u2019s decision also means the company doesn\u2019t have to pay the original \u20ac10 million fine, either. EA praised the ruling, telling Polygon that it \u201cconfirms our belief that no aspect of FIFA or FIFA Ultimate Team can be considered gambling under Dutch law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Court rules FIFA Ultimate Team cards are \u201cnot gambling\u201d EA SportsThe highest Dutch court has reversed an earlier ruling that said FIFA Ultimate Team packs were a form of gambling, and got rid of a massive fine slapped on EA Sports as well. Back in October of 2020 the Court of the Hague in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}