Football Manager 2012

[Gazz]

No, they usually come out late October, early November.

[Plubby]

Speculatively October 14th?

[EddieG]

Until Miles announces it, or the SI site, I'm not buying any dates.

[King Ellis]

I bought some this morning, don't know why, don't even like them.

[Gazz]

You can preorder it on Amazon already anyway.

[Lineker]

Historically the date has always ended up moving anyway. It ends up coming out early November.

[Gazz]

Game's released 21st October.

[Plubby]

I was close.

[Benji]

Aaaand booked off from work.

[King Ellis]

Speaking of off work, you'll be fired from your virtual job by lunch time.

[Gazz]

As a sidenote, it means the FM Succession game has 39 days to win the Copa Libertadores to end the diary before I start the sequel on FM12.

[Berober]

Just read Miles' blog on scouting and I'm really impressed by the upgrade. I've always preferred scouts in my staff so this is a welcome change in my books:

http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/274388-FM12-blogs-Release-date-amp-Scouting

[King Ellis]

I wonder if the scouts would put 2 and 2 together when you start requesting club reports on teams that have just sacked their manager.

[jack95]

Any word on when the Demo will be out?

[Berober]

For anyone not bothered about a Physical Copy, shopto.net have a Pre-Order of FM12 for Download for £20

http://www.shopto.ne...75ee07abd57705d

[hugobomb]

Honestly, I should just set up a direct debit to the Collyer Brothers.

I think this will be the 17th straight CM/FM I've bought since CM2 in 1995.

Edit: Actually, the only version I've never bought was FM Live.

Same here, started with CM2 and never looked back. I even found a copy of the first CM in a charity shop (where they have a rule it seems, always stock CM01/02 for when my current copy goes missing/breaks) years back and had a go, along with Italia version.

Getting this one too of course.

[jack95]

Just in case anyone's missed, you will have to have Steam downloaded this year to activate the game as part of FM's efforts to combat online piracy. Bit of a pain, but from the reaction on the official forums you'd think SI were asking you to mutilate yourself to get the game to work.

[Benji]

Meh, makes no difference to me, this year's the first I won't be buying a physical copy anyway. Hooray for Zoidberg!

[EddieG]

I've bought 2011 on Steam and am fucking happy with it, so I've no problems with it.

[Gazz]

Just in case anyone's missed, you will have to have Steam downloaded this year to activate the game as part of FM's efforts to combat online piracy. Bit of a pain, but from the reaction on the official forums you'd think SI were asking you to mutilate yourself to get the game to work.

That's mainly from all the people who pirate it though...