The Interface - Better or Worse Than 09?

Guys, I have only just got the game like two days ago and I was wondering what you were thinking over the FM10. Whilst I do not believe it to be bad at all, I feel 09 had a much simpler interface to use compared to this year. What do you think?. To let you know I've been a regular player of FM since '07 and I feel it will take me more time to get used to this year's one compared to previous series.

Thanks.

i think worse personally but im sure its just because im not falilure with it

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It's worse and at times it's completely illogical. I'm hoping to be able to get the FM09 style skin from somewhere as i don't use steam.

Much better imo. More modern, more customisable, less dated and less spreadsheety.

Far better than the 09 one!

For me it's overly complicated, everything is bunched together to make the screen "cleaner" and in that regards it works but it leaves me sometimes trying to remember how to get to certain areas of the team. I've gotten used to it now and I can work with it, seeing how I'm playing 08, 09 and 10 I'd have to say that the newer interface is the most "professional" looking (ala the latest Office) and that comes with it's own pros and cons.

Bestie.

The 09 interface looked more professional now it looks like a 1 year old has messed with it.

Worse, and it's enough to make 2010 worse than 09 for me. Regarding the skin i think only colours would change, not how the UI is organised so pointless (to be confirmed)

A lot better.

Its good in many ways. Not a lot to complain about. But a couple of my gripes are:

I love following the Champions League and International news. It was simple in FM 2007 as scores and news would flash on my screen as the game progressed. This no longer happens. Even with the game flow options and subscriptions, I get very few news updates. I wish this area of the interface would be improved.

I would like to be able to designate player positions so that it would be easier to compare players at a position: for example, if I want to view CM's, I dont want to see MR or ML who are also CM.

I would like to lock page views that I have customized.

My automatic reaction is to say I hate it. But I think that's just cos it's different from the 09 skin.

At first I thought it was a bit over-complicated, but I've got used to it by now.

Though it was nice when the bookmarks worked properly.

I don't mind the interface but really I generally get hold of a 3rd party skin fairly quickly after the game's release. Then again I think it's better than 09's but that's just my personal choice.

Much better imo. More modern, more customisable, less dated and less spreadsheety.

Instead of me typing something up I agree with this completely, seconded!

Much better imo. More modern, more customisable, less dated and less spreadsheety.

agree

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A lot better, but as it's so different it was very frustrating for about 2 weeks of playing, but now I love it and when I load up FM09 now and then I can't stand the interface on that!

Much better imo. More modern, more customisable, less dated and less spreadsheety.

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I love the new interface, makes FM10 feel like a new game altogether, as opposed to an update.

It's miles better than 09's, once you've gotten used to it. It's much better organised and has a better flow to it - it progresses logically down the screen as you drill down, rather than jumping all over the place (having to repeatedly jump between the sidebar, the menubar at the top and options in the bottom right corner was a pet peeve of mine in FM09, as was some options being in the bottom left below the sidebar and some in the bottom right, as part of a news item). There's a few minor niggles, but then there were a few minor niggles in 09's too. The extra customisation options are the icing on the cake (though to be fair, there's no reason these couldn't have been added to 09's interface).

It looks nicer but I don't like the fact that certain things take extra clicks to get to. It doesn't seem like much but it's annoying having to go through an extra menu to get to where you ant to be.

Much much better.