While EA issued more than 25,000 warnings and suspensions and banned more than 9,000 accounts for “inappropriate or offensive content” since its launch FIFA 21 last year, you may be shocked to learn that the game still has a problem with racist white people who use certain systems and game modes to act like fools.
As this Eurogamer the investigation reveals, while much of our (and EA’s) attention probably goes to more regular players FIFA Ultimate’s flagship team, Pro Clubs lower profile mode is “racist” and has been for over a decade.
Some examples include:
Racist players, who use “bully defense,” abused the comment system to, for example, set their player’s comment name to “banana” to nickname black players by term. Some players would change the name of the player’s comment to “negro” (using footballers whose name is Negro), or “Khune” (using the comment for Itumeleng Khune, the South African goalkeeper for Kaizer Chiefs FC), to provoke offense. Players also reported that they faced racist cartoons through custom player faces.
Part of the problem here is that the Pro Clubs mode, which allows users to create a player and / or team and take part in 11v11 online games, does not make its reporting systems clear to players.
In response to Eurogamer report, EA says that “smarter monitoring and mitigation technology” will be “launched in the coming months”, although the effectiveness of this will be against tactics highlighted above has not yet been proven.
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You can read more about the EA survey and response, in the Eurogamer story.