20leGend99 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Apologies for bringing the same question back up again! However, I am on a uni PC in a gap between lectures, and don't have time to search so please forgive this repititive post, and currently have no internet connection in my house. Anyway I live in a house with 2 mates and we all play FM. My question is: Will we need a copy each or can we just use one between us? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmufcwafc Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Despite the license agreement that comes with the game stating that you can only install on one machine, we are well aware that many people like to play the game on personal laptops, as well as desktops, and our licenses for Football Manager 2009 will work in a very similar way to ITunes.This means that you will get 5 licenses for personal use, so you can play the game on up to 5 computers as long as you own them, and the owner of the game is the person playing on said machines. If you uninstall the game on one of the PC's you have the game installed on, you get that "seat" back. As an example, say you have installed the machine on your work laptop, your work PC, your home PC and your home laptop. You would then have used up 4 out of your 5 uses of the game. Your home desktop has some problems, so you decide to re-install windows on it. As long as you uninstall the game from that machine first, you will get that license back, and when you re-install, will still only be using 4 of your 5 installs. Please note that the license when you purchase the game is explicit that you are only allowed to use the game for your own personal use. Also please note that on uninstallation of the game, everything is removed from your machine, including all remnants of the copy protection system which we are using, which was a bugbear of many of the other systems available on the market. MAC users will still have the same protection system as with other years, although we are hopeful that this will change in the coming years when someone comes up with a similar system for MAC's. So, what we've aimed for, and have hopefully succeeded on, is a system whereby the legitmate purchaser of the game will notice the copy protection even less than in previous years. Hope that answers your question Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arsenal_2111 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Apologies for bringing the same question back up again! However, I am on a uni PC in a gap between lectures, and don't have time to search so please forgive this repititive post, and currently have no internet connection in my house. It would have taken you longer to type that than search... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
20leGend99 Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 Seems like a very grey area. However, from that statement the answer seems to be a resounding no! Can't really tell without all of the small print that comes in the license. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmufcwafc Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 It would have taken you longer to type that than search... I was thinking the same thing tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
20leGend99 Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 I was thinking the same thing tbh. You are probably right! Sorry! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmufcwafc Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 You are probably right! Sorry! It's okay, just do a search in future cause you're actually wasting your own time if you think about it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YesYesOhYay Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 as long as the disk is in when you open up fm- you can take it out when playing, so really only need 1! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Walds Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 as long as the disk is in when you open up fm- you can take it out when playing, so really only need 1! That's FM08, he's (I assume) talking about FM09 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmufcwafc Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 That's FM08, he's (I assume) talking about FM09 But you can't take out the game while playing FM08, can you? I think YesYesOhYay was talking about FM09. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambleten Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 you can do it with 07, so i doubt that changed with 08. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Walds Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 But you can't take out the game while playing FM08, can you?I think YesYesOhYay was talking about FM09. Once you have loaded to the main menu in FM08, you do not need the disc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekman Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Apologies for bringing the same question back up again! However, I am on a uni PC in a gap between lectures, and don't have time to search so please forgive this repititive post, and currently have no internet connection in my house.Anyway I live in a house with 2 mates and we all play FM. My question is: Will we need a copy each or can we just use one between us? If you mean I network game then you'll each need a disk. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmufcwafc Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Once you have loaded to the main menu in FM08, you do not need the disc. Oh, I always thought that you couldn't anymore. Thanks for that Scotty, it could be useful for me to use this feature Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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