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Try FML for free for 3 weeks

Niall — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:38:10 +0000

I’ve just had this come through Sega:

We’re very pleased to announce that on July 6th 2009 we launched a brand new and exciting feature of Football Manager Live.

We would like to introduce to you the Football Manager Live Free Trial.

The Free Trial will give new managers the opportunity to test out Football Manager Live free for 21 days. That’s up to one in-game season free.

All you have to do to start playing is go to www.tryfml.com and fill in some basic details to start playing.

We will be updating our Twitter feed daily, with updates on spaces available, so make sure to follow us there for the latest info.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
You must have internet access and valid payment details to redeem the free trial offer. Your free trial period will start on the date of successful registration and will last for a maximum of 21 days from registration. If you cancel within 21 days of registration, your free trial will end immediately. Unless you cancel prior to the end of the 21 day free trial period, SEGA Europe Limited will begin billing you after your free trial period has expired. SEGA Europe Limited will then continue to bill you by your chosen payment method for Football Manager Live on the payment dates of the subscription/payment plan you have selected (minimum subscription period 3 months). Payment will continue to be taken by SEGA Europe Limited in this manner until you cancel your chosen subscription/payment plan in accordance with the terms and conditions. Terms and conditions apply to the Football Manager Live service which must be accepted by you prior to your free trial.

Free Month of Football Manager Live

Free Month of Football Manager Live

Niall — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:47:47 +0000

As you may, or may not be aware, Football Manager Live, the new brainchild of Sports Interactive, is due to hit the streets on the 23rd January.

To celebrate the launch of the game, SI have teamed up with talkSPORT to give fans the chance to play a whole season for free.

What’s more, those that can guide their team into the Top 25 come the end of the season will be rewarded with a 12 month free subscription!

Do you think you could cope with the egos of the likes of Ronaldo, Messi or Kaka, wheel and deal in the transfer market, and make the big decisions that could be the difference between glory or defeat for your club?

To enter the competition and find out more details, go to:

http://new.talksport.net/competitions/compdetails.asp?comp_ID=100389

Football Manager Live Preview

Niall — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:40:30 +0000

Luckily for me over the past few weeks I have been been beta testing the next version of Football Manager which is Football Manager Live (FML). I have to say that while it’s still buggy (it’s beta after all) I have been pretty impressed with it so far and am slightly scared at how much of my freetime I expect it will eat up.

FML is basically a huge multiplayer football management game, using the Football Manager match engine. Try to picture a cross between Football Manager, fantasy sports and an auction room and you get the basic idea. Up to 1,000 managers can play against each other to try and be the No 1 manager in their particular gameworld.

Gone are the days of managing Liverpool or Tranmere Rovers. In FML you have to create your own team team, design your kits, pick your pitch size and name your ground. Everybody starts the game with the same budget and around about the same level (Championship/League 1).

Once you have your team named and shamed you are in position to join a league. These are set up by player admins, and cater for a range of abilities, so it’s a bit like searching the lobby of an online FPS and looking for similarly ranked gamers. Furthermore, there are leagues catering for both FM fanatics who want to play for two hours a day, and for those of us who can only spare a few hours a week, or even a month. Interestingly, the fixture list for each league uses a ‘resolve by’ system – so instead of trying to commit players to specific match time slots, they’re given a deadline of up to three weeks to play each game. Consequently, you can hop online whenever you fancy and the chances are at least one of your scheduled opponents will be around. Failing that, control can be handed over to your computerised assistant manager, who’ll do a competent job in your absence.

The transfer market works like a little like eBay – managers identify the players they want, then put in the highest bids they can before the deadline arrives. The game uses the full FM database which means hundreds of thousands of players to purchase oh and a player can only player for one team so there is one Stevie G or Ronaldo between the thousands of managers. There are also be wages auctions, allowing managers to tempt the best players with the promise of a juicier pay packet.

The thing that I found hardest about the change in the live version of the game is how the finance works. Gone are the days of reading about the best wonder kids on fab sites like http://www.thefootymanager.com and grabbing them at below market value. Now you really have to get down and dirty with the bare bones of a squad, grind out results and then once your ranking improves you can sign the bigger stars.

The game has tons of other features such as chat rooms and players can submit replay footage of their best moments to a goal of the month-style competition, voted on by all the participants in their league. There is good banter between the different managers in the leagues.

FML will be available for free download from SI and players will be charged a monthly subscription to play the game much like World of Warcraft etc. That said for your money you won’t just get one version of the game SI will be pursuing a constant development process with the game, continually adding new features and tweaking gameplay, providing these changes to gamers in the form of regular downloads – a bit like the patching process we all know and love from the CM and FM series’.

Like I said at the start of this little ramble, while it’s pretty buggy still while it testing it has the potential to change the way we play football management games forever which can’t be a bad thing…. I’ll keep you posted!

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Free Month of Football Manager Live