{"id":8324,"date":"2019-06-15T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T11:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2019-06-15T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T11:23:31","slug":"fifa-20-mchardy-we-dont-think-fut-is-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-20-mchardy-we-dont-think-fut-is-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 20: McHardy &#8220;We don&#8217;t think FUT is gambling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Eurogamer.net (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2019-06-09-the-big-fifa-20-interview\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer.net<\/a>, executive producer Aaron McHardy was asked how the company would respond if these modes were declared illegal (as they currently are in Belgium).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McHardy replied: <em>&#8220;I will not talk about future plans, but what I will say is &#8211; I know there is legislation that talks about some of these things, particularly gambling related &#8211; we don&#8217;t believe what we have in Ultimate Team be it gambling. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;If, for some reason, we were considered&#8221; illegal &#8220;, of course we would respond to this. But what we publish every year we don&#8217;t think is gambling, we think it&#8217;s a fun form of involvement for people, who may be able to interact with a video game in a really interesting way. It would be a shame if the world exchanged the modality for something else, as far as we are concerned! &#8220;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FIFA 20<\/strong> is available from September 27, 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC,  Nintendo Switch. Keep on following us also  through our social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/futukofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ultimateteam_uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> for other news and information.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Eurogamer.net, executive producer Aaron McHardy was asked how the company would respond if these modes were declared illegal (as they currently are in Belgium). McHardy replied: &#8220;I will not talk about future plans, but what I will say is &#8211; I know there is legislation that talks about some of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[90,26,154,28],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fifa-20","tag-fifa-20","tag-fut","tag-fut-20","tag-ultimate-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}