makes good sense to me

Marc,

Any word on a PSP version for 2010? Perhaps I missed it.

I saw you've asked this a few times here as well three or four others but have received no repsonse on it. I have no idea but pretty much stopped buying the FM series after Marc and SI ignored all my posts on the forum and here in previous version threads asking for someone to elaborate on MLS and international play. I took it to mean nothing had changed and was an area that SI did not want to highlight. I remember a SI responses a couple of years ago on the SI forum that led me to the conclusion that neither the MLS/International play was a focus for FM development at all. This is not a problem I just would not purchase the product. ..My point I would expect tnot to see any kind of response from SI on your questions been there got the t-shirt. But maybe another board member will be able to give some feedback once the full game is like.

Welcome to Hollywood.

Yes and its coming to America ...

Sports Interactive & SEGA of America, Inc. today announces Football Manager 2010 formerly known as Worldwide Soccer Manager in North America. The game will be available on multiple platforms including the PC, Apple Macintosh and for the first time ever Football Manager Handheld 2010 will be available via download for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system in North America. The game will be available for download purchase on October 30th, 2009; boxed editions will be available on November 2nd, 2009 exclusively at Amazon.com.

Firstly apologies for not replying to your posts - please do bear in mind that PR isn't my job and I post on forums in my own time around 'work' - as such its fairly common that I will fail to reply to some posts, this isn't malicious at all ... just either physical constraints upon my time or lack of knowledge about the question asked, sorry.

If I'm not fairly confident in my answer to a question then I generally will avoid answering it (unless I post to say 'sorry don't know') because I don't want to confuse issues by giving out well meaning but incorrect advice.

With regards to the MLS, there have been various tweaks in the simulation of the league in recent versions - however the exact details aren't something I've kept abreast of I'm afraid (as most of you know these days I work primarilarly on the handheld game rather than FM PC - I do try and stay abreast of things in all our products, BUT with the size of the games its not 100% possible - sorry).

Similarly with the 'International Management' I know the media side of this has been enhanced somewhat and is slightly more intensive (mainly around which players are called up to squads or not) BUT its important to note that this is never going to be as immersive a position alone as being a club manager. This is simply because the matches involved are 'sporadic' in nature and the time an international manager gets to spend with his squad limited - this is the fact irl as well and is sometimes mentioned by managers as a reason why they haven't taken an international position.

This is the way Ov said it worked on the SI forums.


Agreed. I think until there is a way for us to set a override\don't override option (PaulC said maybe something for FM11 in the long thread at SI forums) the current way is the best.

I checked for a pre-order screen on Amazon.com to order the boxed version and didn't find anything. No pre-ordering available I take it?

I'm not sure if FMH is coming to America 'boxed' or as download only to be honest - the announcement isn't particularly clear on that ... if I hear more details regarding this then I'll let you know.

I can get the boxed version from Europe if they don't ship it to retailers in America, correct? No region lock? I'd prefer to have it in disc form if at all possible, even if I have to wait for it to come across the ocean.

PSP games aren't region locked so you should be fine with an import.

(as a word of warning though Movies for the PSP ARE region locked)

marc,

Thanks for the prompt response and I did not take it to be anything personal.

FM 2010 NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-LOADING ON STEAM!

I dont see this...is yours down loading now?

yep. when i logged it on i got a popup (i preordered) saying "hey...pre-load now" so i did.

you might have to have ordered already though i assume...

Woohoo! Had been meaning to ask if this would be available, I'm downloading now too.

I did preorder...bastards.

"Steam servers are currently to busy to handle anymore preloads, please try again in a few hours"....bastards

yeah...well my pre-load is running...fucking glacially, so it's not a big deal

Only two more days. I can't wait for the weekend plus a few days of shipping to get the boxed version, I wonder if the game will be released on Steam and gamersgate at the same exact minute.

Anyone played that OutRun 2006 Coast to Coast game that comes with the digital download version of FM 2010?

Thanks, mine is d'loading as I type. Not flying by any means, 165-360 kb\s, but then I'm in no hurry.

i'm in a hotel room - mine is plugging along at like 50-80kb/s...hahah

Downloaded and ready to go.

Ouch. I'm guessing hour or less for mine to finish. Almost 30% now in ~15 minutes. Looks like its stabilizing in the 300-345 kb\s range.

Sweed needs to flip this baby over to an impressions thread so we can get this party started.

Can't yet -- preloaded but locked until official release.

By official release, you mean boxed? Or can you not activate the current download just yet?

I plead lack of knowledge. I ordered the boxed version.

I'll need a favor from someone with a downloaded or boxed version - PM me please.

Those of us who preordered by steam, can download the game already, but we can't activate/play it yet, hopefully in a few hours.

garbage!

I have it and I want to play it. oh Marc I hate you so.

Oh amazon and your November 3 release date. :( I won't be able to play until a week later than everyone else. I guess that's what I get for saving $10 on the pre-order.

Actually, I'm getting both the mac and windows version on the DVD, whereas steam would only give me the windows version. So I'm basically paying $10 less the price of one copy for two copies.

Steam now showing 6 hours until unlocking, hoping it stays at that and doesn't switch back to the 1 day and 10 hours before.

It was mentioned on SIGames that the 6 hour figure is correct, that the day push back was an error by steam.

That's fine with me if it's kosher with board rules. How does one change a thread title? Do I have to request a mod to do it?

go to the first post, edit the post, go advanced, change the title

... or just start a new thread. Or do new threads cost money?

I would expect the game to unlock at around midnight GMT, which is about 3 hours from now, 8pm ET.

Thanks, done.

How long would it take to download if I bought this tonight?

Good question. I'd like to let it preload while I'm at work so I could play tonight, but.

It would suck to get home at midnight and have it be 10% done. :D

the game leaked yesterday, so people are already playing it heh

I preloaded it last night, was bringing it down at 1.3MB second to start, finished at about 2.2 MB/s, took about 15 minutes

So 90 minutes until it begins? This will make the World Series little more than background noise tonight for me.

Already at 30% done with 830 kb/s to start here.

It may be done preloading before I have to leave for work. Agh.

Downloaded mine also...believe Steam is unlocking game files as I type this :)

Update from Miles:

Release Day patch is out and available via Steam.. BUT if you didn't use Steam, you are SOL, as the forums crashed, and he will attempt to tweet other methods to get the patch.

Along with this comment:

Whilst I secretly enjoy it when we release stuff and it breaks other websites, it really annoys me when we break our own forums....

100% ready!:D :D Have to be to work at 5:00am so won't get much done or maybe I'll get so involved I won't get enough sleep and will be a bear tomorrow.

game is out for USA-folk? fuck yeah! was just talking about this with Pass at dinner. We ate at Harry Carrey's - he's a chill dude.

WOOOOOO...STEAM IS DECRYPTING!!!!

BOOOYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

There seems to be a "Steam Issue" where people who bought:banghead: through Steam can't get the game to load. Including me ...