Garethjohn79

Really? How many wouldn't buy the game if their wasn't a community adding leagues, skins, and badges? One of the first thing I do is subscribe on steam to the real name fix and a few low league without them I'd hate playing the Brazilian, Spanish or Chinese leagues. It's another reason I wait till March if I buy as there isn't enough at release. I bet if there was someone who could closely replicate stadiums it'd improve the game experience. And remember SI doesn't pay anyone to be an editor on steam it's all free, a lot of the game has been built by it's players doing the developers job, researchers, those sending bug reports and finding mistakes with leagues and other things. It almost as if it's volunteer run.

So they have been looking to improve the way the game looks but only chose to implement it when adding the female leagues.

Exactly! why pay anyone to work on improving the game when you'll get a load of editors doing it for free. Its like the YTS scheme in the 1990's, why pay a labourer £200 pw when you can get a 16 year old kid doing it for £30 under a ''government scheme''.

They add leagues every other edition, it's just a list and a few more teams you can play as, the problem SI have is they don't bother with the little leagues once they are added, look at Northern Ireland in FM22 they didn't bother rectifying the error they made with league fixtures being played everyday towards the end and that league is in a country with plenty of people who play FM. There are plenty of leagues that without subscribers on Steam that would just be initials and clubs with bizarre names, what was the big noise on getting the pictures of UEFA tournaments when the clubs playing in it were still called the game still looks exactly the same and you could download the correct ones anyway.. Its as if SI do what they can then leave the rest to those who'll finish it off for free on steam. The bugs are left to those who buy in November to find, so you only get a finished product in March.

What's the point? The Women players and their matches will look exactly the same as the men's, just like now a match between PSG and Man City looks exactly the same as Afan Lido V Swansea University all it will be is an added league. FM 24 needs to be not just a database update but look new. I have loaded FM22 by accident and hadn't realised it wasn't FM23 for over two hours of playing it that it was a different game.

Blow the lot on one player

Why can't they keep the fixes from the last edition? The new releases are barely more than a database update anyway, but just tend to add more issues, the bigger the game gets the more issues. Cant the developers set an edition for the future where they say by FM 2026 there'll be a massive overhaul of everything including graphics and start working on that edition, and the versions in-between just be updates(which they practically are) of players, squads etc. The same daft scenarios get played out each version, look at ground improvements, we still get the same clubs rebuilding each edition like Middlesborough and Bolton Wanderers or Watford sharing with Bournemouth or vice versa yet it's not happened IRL since the 1990's. Grounds all looking the same at low levels regardless of their actual capacities most are fields with a stand in yet the game depicts them with huge terracing and stands that wouldn't be out of place in the championship. You cannot tell from watching a game how good a player is other than looking at the stats and attributes, Messi looks the same as an amateur at Caersws.

Surely it's being released too early as it's not even a finished product until the following March. It gets released in November and spends another 5 months getting fixed and if anything is missed by then thats it. At full price at release wouldn't it be nice to have a finished product, rather than get it on discount the following summer after all/most of the fixes have been added?

Why are they so unrealistic for European away trips, or any away games involving a small club playing a much bigger club in their biggest game in history ? Swansea University FC qualify for the Europa Conference League through winning the Welsh Cup, drawing two small league clubs and take 17 away, those two also bring 17 to SUFC'S games held at Swansea City's stadium, next round they draw Lazio and 3 turn up at the Stadio Olimpico, 1,600 Lazio fans head to Swansea out of a total attendance of 6,500. Are the fans that peed off with travelling to the daft relocation of clubs far outside their home town that they can't be arsed travelling anymore? Stadiums and attendances have little bearing on reality in FM and never have, why?

As Manager of a Cymru South club you can set your scouts to scout the Welsh EPL clubs for potential loan signings etc, even if you select the U21's the scouts decide to waste everyone's time in telling you that Swansea City fringe first team player ''has no interest'', well I don't need you to tell me that, so just scout the possibility of the fringe U21's and U18's that may have some. They've blown the scouting budget to discover the bleeding obvious.

Not one of my allocated staff from ass man to technical direct or even the loan manager has ever loaned out a player when it's their responsibility. Other than train and hire other lazy gits what do they do?

Juve IRL almost surpassed FM with there new stadium, looks like AC and Inter will soon too.

Is FM still daft in stadium building? New stadiums for clubs that only built one 25 years ago, clubs building new grounds but move fifty miles away instead of staying at the old stadium during construction, names that have minimal connection, huge construction projects of single use stadiums when hosting a tournament even when the cities already have at least two perfectly adequate ones and seats being changed to match the home teams shirt colour even when they are in the away kit.

Just tried out Rugby Union manager, where all training can be allocated to a staff member, with a head coach organising the training schedule. and then each specialist concentrates on their task.

What difference do stats make on what they hire? Whoever is in just appoints anyone, to fill the gaps, and do they improve any role? I only use them at big clubs as I can't bothered to search all the roles.