Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-116.68.122.163-20180628145149/@comment-28169398-20180628232757

ME7 wrote: Another possibility with this whole situation is that FM has just made an assumption. They may have assumed that someone hacked, since they leveled up so much in such a short period of time.

I can only find two players that have been banned. Amrosa quoted the one, the other one was in some EA forum. We have no idea what other activities they were engaging in. Maybe they were doing other things like jacking the specs of WTTT cars.

Of course, there could be way more than two bans. My point is that it's all I can find online so far.

Then again, what if FM has decided that this is cheating? Then any YouTubers who have videos showing this "cheat" could be in trouble. Especially if it's a monetized channel that's made actual money off of a "cheat" video. Could be some legal action there. I guess it depends on how much revenue FM thinks they've lost. Video makers are safe because you generate more revenue for FM than you cost them. You guys, and this wiki for that matter are in severe violation of copyright violations, but FM and EA are smart enough to know that the videos and this wiki and other forums bring more money to them than they lose.

You guys are actually playing for the house. You are sitting at the slot machine that is rigged to payout, and everyone else around you sees all the bells and flashing lights and it keeps them in the game. The videos you make are slot machine gold for FMEA. People see a path and stay in long after they would normally give up. You give them hope, and FM and EA love that you give them hope.

And that's fine because it means that FM keeps developing something I enjoy doing, but don't think for a minute that if you were hurting FMEA, monetizing your channel or not, they would let you stay up... Look how fast you got that DCMA for the song you used in your video.