Credit crunch

Will this be in FM09 ?

e.g. will teams lose more money than FM08 , will lower league teams going into adminastration be more likely ?....

Ney.......

It really shouldn't be but realistically countries are generally lowering interest rates due to high debt costs (at least rates are being dropped in Australia). So debts would hve less interest anyway.

A few points:

- This all kicked off a few weeks ago. SI plan their feature list in January.

- It's a game. It's not much fun to have every team in the game potentially thrown into financial turmoil.

- And it would take a massive amount of programming to create a fluctuating economy, based on very complex issues way, way beyond the scope of the game. SI would need a crystal ball to know how the clubs would come out of crisis, or indeed if any of them really are in any danger.

- Not to mention that SI always wait and see on current events. There is no point in capturing a moment in time, that quickly becomes irrelevant.

but they will be selling the game for £2.99 to do there bit for the econimic crisis

Aye, as soon as SI includes interest rates in the game, is the day I tear up my lifetime subscription to their fine software

If I was desperate to do something involving credit crunch, interest rates, risky bonds and government bail-outs I would do my macroeconomics homework!

You can't try to model real life economic conditions in a game that is a) relatively simple economically and b) can continue on for over a century, during which time anything could happen in real world economies.