FC 27 Draft Cheat Wave Has FUT Players Demanding Refunds

Published 2026-09-28 · DB.Coins Blog

The complaint blowing up in FC 27's first week

FC 27 went worldwide on 25 September 2026, and within days the loudest thread topic across EA's own Ultimate Team and Technical Issues forums has not been ratings or the meta — it has been cheating in Online Draft.

The pattern players describe is consistent enough to be recognisable. Mid-match, an entire team stops responding to inputs. Sometimes every player on the pitch shows a selection arrow at once. The opponent walks the ball in, or the match simply freezes and the reporting player eats the disconnect. Either way, the Draft run ends.

Reports skew heavily towards PC, which is where this style of "player lock" or multi-controller exploit has surfaced in previous FC titles too. It is not new. What makes it sting in FC 27 is the entry price.

Why this one hurts the wallet

Online Draft costs 15,000 coins (or the FC Points equivalent) per entry. A run cut short by an exploit is not just a lost game — it is a lost entry fee and the rewards that were supposed to justify it.

That is the part driving the anger. Players describe:

• Opening support tickets and being told coins and FC Points cannot be returned
• Being offered a Draft token as a goodwill gesture instead
• Tickets going unanswered entirely
• Running into the problem often enough that they have simply stopped queuing

A growing number of posts now amount to a straight warning: leave Online Draft alone until this is patched.

Where the community splits

It is not a one-sided argument, and that is what makes it interesting.

The "just refund us" camp points out that if EA's servers can already detect impossible match results, they can identify a match that was clearly sabotaged and return the entry. Other competitive titles hand back entry fees when a match is voided; players want the same courtesy here.

The "fix it, don't paper over it" camp argues refunds are a band-aid. Handing out tokens does nothing to stop the exploit and risks creating a second problem — people claiming fake cheat encounters to farm free entries.

The crossplay camp wants a console-only matchmaking filter, since the reports cluster on PC. The counter-argument is the obvious one: that punishes every honest PC player and splits an already fragmented queue.

What EA actually has in place

EA runs Javelin Anticheat on PC, a kernel-level system that starts with the game and closes with it. EA's position is that it deliberately trades detection speed for accuracy to keep false positives low, and that Javelin is only one of three layers — server-side flags on impossible results and suspicious coin activity, plus player reports checked against match data.

Penalties on the FUT side can include transfer market bans and coin wipes, with hardware bans held back for repeat offenders. Claims circulating that ready-made FC 27 cheat tools are already on sale for pocket change are unverified, but the volume of forum reports suggests something is genuinely getting through right now.

What it means for your coins

A practical read for Indian FUT players heading into the first full weekend:

The wider market logic is unchanged. Launch week is a buying window, and coins spent on a squad you keep will always outperform coins burned on an entry that a cheat can void. Expect EA to address this in an update — but there is no confirmed timeline yet, so treat any date you see as a rumour until Pitch Notes say otherwise.

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