Rincewind Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 DRM being a pain in the ass for legitimate customers? Why, I never woulda thunk! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
berggren75 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Hi Guys,Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you and thankyou for your patience. I can appreciate that this is incredibly frustrating and please be rest assured we are doing everything we can to fix the problems and get you guys into FM09 as soon as possible. Those of you who are getting the 'not connected to the internet' issue, please do not worry it is not a problem with the software or the disc. In order to fix the problems and our servers we have taken them down for a brief period of time to perform maintenance, we expect them to be back up shortly and I will post here as soon as I hear internally. If you have a seperate problem please can you post the problem and how you have tried to fix it and I will look into it for you. Again please accept our apologies for these issues and thank you for your patience. sarah Please be patient. SEGA will update you when the situation has changed.Again Apologies for this. We realise how frustrating it is and we want your games to work as much as you want them to work. Cheers. Might be a dumb question, but is this why I cant get the page to 'verify' my serial? I try to have it deciphered by the page you listed but it keeps giving me an "Unable to find your key" message. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Duncan Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Eye spy with my little eye......something beginning with..... 'C' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty bison Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 What is this, amateur hour? You'd think for a game that sells millions of copies each year... Oh, there's no point even typing it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Duncan Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Eye spy with my little eye......something beginning with..... 'C' IM IN - ACTIVATION WORKS!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
titley100 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Has there ever been a worse game launch than this? well spore had a error with keys when that first came out stoping every person who brought the limited addition not being able 2 play lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connell Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 i got activated and have restarted fm and now i have to enter in the key again and it says that it has already been activated and now i cant play. where is the data editor? this is ridiculous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
valheru Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 can anyone solved the problem of 'The application was unable to connect to internet' ???????????? pls help................. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Duncan Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Its working guys. Try again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikkusarah Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Hi, Bergren: There are no dumb questions:) Yes you are right this is why it is failing, but this is only for a short period of time and all will be back up asap Connell: You will need to delete the cert folder, please follow the instructions in this thread below and it should fix the problem. However I would recommend doing this once the servers are back up : http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=61131 Thanks Sarah Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlPotter Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Finally! I'm in... But I'm not exiting the game until I know I'll be able to get back in. Hope everyone gets through soon, hopefully it's worth the hassle... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikkusarah Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Hi, Bergren: There are no dumb questions:) Yes you are right this is why it is failing, but this is only for a short period of time and all will be back up asap Connell: You will need to delete the cert folder, please follow the instructions in this thread below and it should fix the problem. However I would recommend doing this once the servers are back up : http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=61131 Thanks Sarah Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymru78 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Valheru, please read the other posts - THE SERVERS ARE DOWN AND ARE BEING WORKED ON BY SEGA Jeez Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowan vine vine vine Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Ok my prob is not as bad some others ive got the games installed and the key activated no probs , But several times now ive spent a good chunk of the day trying to install the update but the connection has either hanged on me at some point on the update or got to the end then windows say it does reconise the program and it closes down , Any clues or is it a cass of put it away and wait ? cheers in advance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkstatto Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 i hope you not paying these uniloc guys, because i wouldn't after this, i'd also give everybody free mouse mats and a beer as well. :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidneycrosby87 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Nope, nothing still. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymru78 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 it's not working for me yet. And if it was, I'd be scared of closing it but I don't want to leave my laptop on all night! I wonder if any sort of compensation is going to be given? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Right I've had so many different problems trying to get this game to work i don't know which thread to write in, so I'm just gonna stick it in here. I bought the game last night as soon as it went on sale at Tesco. Came home, installed it via uniloc, didn't work. Kept coming up "fm.exe has encountered a problem and has to close". I though ah well, looks like I'll just need the patch. It's late so I decide to do it all in the morning and go to bed Unable to run the patch from any site or any mirror has my computer said it did not recognise the certificate from Sega on the patch. Have told my internet to ignore this but I still can't run a patch straight from the link. I decided to save it directly to My Documents and install it manually instead. While that was happening I decided to have a look round just about every technical problem thread that had been made, and did everything that all SI and Sega staff have said to do (download NET Framework thingy, download Direct SDK), game still doesn't work. For some reason the patch from worthplaying stops downloading after 62mb, so I think bugger this, I'll uninstall the game and try it again with Steam. Works great, Steam updates the game, but now it won't accept my verification code, first saying it was wrong, then after I went and deleted the files at C:....\Football Manager 2009 Certificate it now says I'm not connected to the internet. I do a system restore back to when I first installed the game using Uniloc, and it still wants to be verified. What the hell is going on? Now reading through all the threads on here I've been shaking my head and standing up for SI and Sega when people have been making comments like "OMGZ This is ****ing ****!!!!111" and "Never Do this again SI, you hate us and dont want us playing your game!!!!", but I've gotten fairly ****ed off now, having spent a full day trying to get a game to work that I've paid £30 and rightfully own. I'm not blaming SI in the slightest for these problems, but I've never had to go through this sort of crap to play a legitimate game before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aiston Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 i hope you not paying these uniloc guys, because i wouldn't after this, i'd also give everybody free mouse mats and a beer as well. :-) Dunno about you, but i need something stronger then a beer after this!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shytalk Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Is Softanchor the rhyming slang name for whoever's idea it was to have to install it this way? If not it ****ing should be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammondkahuna Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 that's it. i'm gonna watch some naked women. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masty7 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 First laugh ive managed in 5 hours Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the blue ferret Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Good job there isnt any DRM on internet naked ladies, lest you be restricted to 5 anchors ever Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
srwlml23 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 all i get now is YOUR TRIAL PERIOD HAS NOW EXPIRED PLEASE VISIT........... can someone help Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
theking1 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Come on Sega hurry up-these forums are getting nigh on impossible to get onto now and it's only gonna get worse with school/work finishing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikkusarah Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Hi, Bergren: There are no dumb questions:) Yes you are right this is why it is failing, but this is only for a short period of time and all will be back up asap Connell: You will need to delete the cert folder, please follow the instructions in this thread below and it should fix the problem. However I would recommend doing this once the servers are back up : http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=61131 Thanks Sarah Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymru78 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 I wonder if this reply will work yet? I've been trying for ages Are we nearing the end of this? I would also like to know how those with no internet or phone are able to play the game? There is no mention on the box about having to register on the net or phone? Id also love to know how many people have taken their copies back already simply because they dont have net or phone and how many have been return because they think the software is faulty. What a right balls-up this is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koskis Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Huoh... we are still waiting Mac Patch... We can get to game, but we cant play it because we are waiting patch... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iananders Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 all i get now is YOUR TRIAL PERIOD HAS NOW EXPIRED PLEASE VISIT...........can someone help this is where you play the waiting game... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 I blame Graham Poll Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro griffin Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 So the fact that the game needs a patch on release day, which no doubt will require at least one more patch, us as customers are being treated with utter contempt yet again from SEGA. Every year there is an issue with FM and this year is unexcusable. This is an absolute disgrace. Proven once again that the makers of this game are complete and utter, incompetent morons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
srwlml23 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 this is where you play the waiting game... what does it mean have i done something wrong.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraser McL Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 I am trying to install through STEAM, but softanchor says i'm not connected to the internet. If I start again trying to use uniloc will I still have the problem with softanchor? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanty123 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 ok now when i try to authenticate online i get this! we were unable to process your unlock request. To receive a new key please visit www.sigames.com error 703 what do i do now? is this progress -edit- Clearly not, deleted my certificate file and back to net again apparently!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambolt Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 So the fact that the game needs a patch on release day, which no doubt will require at least one more patch, us as customers are being treated with utter contempt yet again from SEGA.Every year there is an issue with FM and this year is unexcusable. This is an absolute disgrace. Proven once again that the makers of this game are complete and utter, incompetent morons. The game always needs a patch. The fact that it's out on release day is actually a good thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRG103 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 ok now when i try to authenticate online i get this! we were unable to process your unlock request. To receive a new key please visit www.sigames.com error 703 what do i do now? is this progress I'm getting this too. Any ideas? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
theking1 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 ok now when i try to authenticate online i get this! we were unable to process your unlock request. To receive a new key please visit www.sigames.com error 703 what do i do now? is this progress No this is a separate problem from the cannot connect to the internet one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikkusarah Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Hi Guys, Apologies for the forum probs then due to the huge numbers of traffic coming through the site had to put up a bit of a figh:( I am chasing an update now, we seem to be making progress and Im hoping to update you soon. Sarah Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treesome Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 first it couldnt connect to the internet, now i need another activation code??? are u kidding me??? what is thissssss, i play this game since 1992 im feeling quite bad now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikkusarah Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Hi Guys, Apologies for the forum probs then due to the huge numbers of traffic coming through the site had to put up a bit of a figh:( I am chasing an update now, we seem to be making progress and Im hoping to update you soon. Sarah Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konamixx Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Ugh.. What to do with error -703? First iI was having problems connecting but now i get 703 error. It says that if i want to get a new key i should go to SIgames.com. Should i just keep trying or is there an answer for this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iananders Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 what does it mean have i done something wrong.. no, its just a very very slow server. its been like this since about 10am. welcome to hell. or something much less dramatic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClownCollege Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Im still gettin the 'cant connect to the internet' problem! I thought they'd fixed it?! Grrr... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smileylad Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 What is error 703?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benitez Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Can someone explain the phone process for me please? I've installed the game and when I click on it I get a message saying "The application failed to initialize" - which I'm presuming is because I haven't registered the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth250480 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 I blame Graham Poll the soft anchor activation on my laptop has been saying for the last 3.5hrs that it has no internet connection (i know this is due to servers as have seen other posts and replies about it). having just tried again it gave me error 703 on 3 occasions and now has gone back to saying the original of no internet connection. any ideas what i should be doing would be appreciated or will it just work when the issues are resolved with the servers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathisen Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 I'm going insane! Now i get a "-703 error". Somebody who know a solution? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treesome Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 and of course sigames.com does not load... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty2k Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Any chance of an update as to when the mac patch is out? (ie, definitely tonight?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritari Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Here's a free solution to the problems. It will solve it once and for all without risk of re-emergence. Remove the DRM from the game with a patch (and while you're at it, either remove the IGA or make it optional). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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