[Technology] Football Manager 2022/2023

[Swansman]

If anyone is buying it this year, we start with the 2nd highest transfer budget after Man City. TB has been very generous and given you a £70m starting budget.

Higher than Real Madrid and PSG.

Not buying it this year - once every 3 or 4 years is enough. Not enough changes to buy it more often than that.

But that sort of highlights my main annoyance with FM - the economy. It is completely unreal. Way, way, way too easy to make money, close to impossible not to be very profitable... especially in the PL, which makes the league unplayable because there's no real challenge (if you don't invent them yourselves, which I tend to do; max 1 signing per season etc.)

 

[El Presidente]

The bloke who invented FM was on a podcast with a dullard just over a week ago. They take the economic elements very seriously but at same time want the game to be aspirational enough to take a club from L2 to the PL

 

[Dick Swiveller]

This is probably teaching most people to suck eggs but if you are into games and don't mind not owning them (Steam/Epic you only own them for as long as they decide anyway) Then XBox game pass is £7.99 a month and just £1 for the first month and will have FM23 on release day. Not much use if you want to just play this and this alone for months but if you just want a month's blast then you can do so for £1. And you get all the other games as well. I'm not into the shooting games so large numbers aren't much use to me but there are still enough games for me to justify the £7.99 for now.

Netflix for PC Games if you will. And if you have an XBox as well, you can pay more and get the same deal for console games as well as PC games. As I say, most gamers will know about this but there might be someone who can get use of the £1 deal.

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[WhingForPresident]

Played a few hours of the beta now doing my traditional Albion starter save. Gameplay is good, if not a lot different- only odd thing I've noticed is lots of goals happening within seconds of each other... Not sure if it's a bug or just an odd occurrence. Starting with a 70m budget makes it a bit too easy being Albion I think and some of the transfers I've done seem massively unrealistic. Will be getting down to the Vanarama for a proper challenge when the full version is out.

 

[BBassic]

The bloke who invented FM was on a podcast with a dullard just over a week ago. They take the economic elements very seriously but at same time want the game to be aspirational enough to take a club from L2 to the PL

Miles Jacobson?

He didn't invent it. Two brothers did back when it was Championship Manager. Miles got on board and has been managing director for decades but it wasn't his baby originally.

 

[hart's shirt]

Miles Jacobson?

He didn't invent it. Two brothers did back when it was Championship Manager. Miles got on board and has been managing director for decades but it wasn't his baby originally.

And some of us remember playing the original by Kevin Toms!

 

[Swansman]

The bloke who invented FM was on a podcast with a dullard just over a week ago. They take the economic elements very seriously but at same time want the game to be aspirational enough to take a club from L2 to the PL

It makes sense but in that case maybe they should have two difficulty settings. Personally find it dull to take one or two chill years on the transfer market and then suddenly there's £300m in the bank account and £150m to spend on players. Makes it very dull to manage in the big leagues.

 

[WhingForPresident]

In a parallel universe, Potter was sacked last week following a 3-0 thumping at West Ham, leaving Chelsea in 17th place after 11 league games in charge.

Bet you can't guess who one of his two league wins as manager was against

 

[Gabbafella]

FM23 is actually released on PS5 this year for a change, looking forward to giving it a bash.
Last management game I played was LMA manager on the PSone I think!

 

[Dick Swiveller]

And some of us remember playing the original by Kevin Toms!

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Met him a couple of times. Nice guy and VERY tall. He keeps remaking this for mobile gaming if you want a nostalgia hit.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Delighted that FM is making a return to the iPad this year via Apple Games. Last year's was the first version I'd not played since the very start of the CM/FM franchise.

 

[Braggfan]

FM23 is actually released on PS5 this year for a change, looking forward to giving it a bash.
Last management game I played was LMA manager on the PSone I think!

Its released on Xbox as well, but I've heard some really bad things about FM22 being really buggy and not being patched at all.

 

[Jackthelad]

Its released on Xbox as well, but I've heard some really bad things about FM22 being really buggy and not being patched at all.

It won't be buggy on PlayStation or Xbox.

 

[Braggfan]

It won't be buggy on PlayStation or Xbox.

Well that's what I meant, the xbox version of FM22 was supposed to be very buggy, and they didn't release a patch for it. I was initially very tempted to get it, but was put off after hearing that. Sometimes developers can be really lazy with console versions of things in terms of releasing patches. I thought I might wait and give it a couple of months with FM23 to see what people are saying.

 

[Frutos]

I didn't buy last year's, but FM23 is downloading as we speak - there goes my weekend, I suspect!

 

[Swansman]

I didn't buy last year's, but FM23 is downloading as we speak - there goes my weekend, I suspect!

Brighton-save first? PL is a pretty dull start though. In the last FM I bought, 2021, I had a one-buy-per-season policy when playing with Brighton. Eventually ended up buying just two players over the entire 10 year save. Kept the majority of the starting squad, never won the PL but frequently ended up top 4 and won all of the continental competitions. Too easy though annoyed me that Maupay & co werent consistent enough to win the damn league.

Wonder how many % are going with a Wrexham save this year.

 

[Frutos]

Brighton-save first? PL is a pretty dull start though. In the last FM I bought, 2021, I had a one-buy-per-season policy when playing with Brighton. Eventually ended up buying just two players over the entire 10 year save. Kept the majority of the starting squad, never won the PL but frequently ended up top 4 and won all of the continental competitions. Too easy though annoyed me that Maupay & co werent consistent enough to win the damn league.

Wonder how many % are going with a Wrexham save this year.

Yep, I'll start with the Albion as always.

I'll probably have a Valencia save going before long too, as I have done for years. FC Andorra could be an interesting one too.

 

[Swansman]

Yep, I'll start with the Albion as always.

I'll probably have a Valencia save going before long too, as I have done for years. FC Andorra could be an interesting one too.

FC Andorra is indeed a team I've thought of.

I always have a FC Vaduz/Liechtenstein national team save. Winning the Champions League with Vaduz is the toughest challenge there is because they can't qualifiy through the league - have to win the Europa League to qualify.

 

[Marty McFly]

Added editor files to this and took Guernsey all the way to the PL before then starting the same journey with Jersey Bulls. Gave up through boredom with them somewhere in midtable in League One.

FC Andorra and Vaduz sound like fun challenges!

 

[RandyWanger]

I've got FM20 on my mac via Steam. If I upgrade, does it keep my data?