The Official Football Manager 2010 Thread

4p · 17 Sep 2009 at 23:51

Bam £18

nikebee · 18 Sep 2009 at 02:08

Woohoo, ordered and used Quidco too... should be around £15 or so

Steve M · 18 Sep 2009 at 17:44

I do hope my £17.95 pre order copy arrives on release day.

nikebee · 18 Sep 2009 at 20:15

Any news on the demo yet?

Or are we just expecting it 2-3 weeks before release as per usual?

chrisxuk · 18 Sep 2009 at 20:21

Majago said:
Still playing FM09 til this comes out and just signed a lad on loan from Fulham. Was checking out the coach reports when I noticed his personality!

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/8614/oddfm.jpg

Anyone else come across this before?!

Off Topic, but how do you get the game to play in a window, rather than full screen? Thanks.

Shamikebab · 18 Sep 2009 at 20:29

chrisxuk said:
Off Topic, but how do you get the game to play in a window, rather than full screen? Thanks.

go to preferences and it's in there.

Steve M · 25 Sep 2009 at 19:44

nikebee said:
Any news on the demo yet?

Or are we just expecting it 2-3 weeks before release as per usual?

Yep it's 2-3 weeks before release as per usual.

MarcLister · 25 Sep 2009 at 20:10

And interesting news on activation. If you buy the game on DVD you can either not activate it and have to play FM10 with the DVD in the drive (as I did from FM05-FM08) OR you can get FM10 on DVD, install it BUT activate through Steam (as with last year but this is optional this time round).

By activating the game on Steam you get a skin released exclusively on Steam as well as automatic patching/updating.

More at http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=150248.

Shamikebab · 25 Sep 2009 at 20:16

Oh good so if there are problems with the activation process like last year we can just ignore that for the first week or so, any news on a demo?

Tummy · 25 Sep 2009 at 20:55

MarcLister said:
And interesting news on activation. If you buy the game on DVD you can either not activate it and have to play FM10 with the DVD in the drive (as I did from FM05-FM08) OR you can get FM10 on DVD, install it BUT activate through Steam (as with last year but this is optional this time round).

By activating the game on Steam you get a skin released exclusively on Steam as well as automatic patching/updating.

More at http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=150248.

**** You.

I now regret paying £29.99 for it! I had no idea about registering it with steam.
/mardy :mad:

Shamikebab · 25 Sep 2009 at 21:07

Haha, you could do it with the last one

Tummy · 25 Sep 2009 at 21:08

Shamikebab said:
Haha, you could do it with the last one

*cries*

MarcLister · 25 Sep 2009 at 21:40

Shamikebab said:
Oh good so if there are problems with the activation process like last year we can just ignore that for the first week or so, any news on a demo?

Yep. That's what I understand from the thread I linked.

Tummy said:
**** You.

I now regret paying £29.99 for it! I had no idea about registering it with steam.
/mardy

Huh?!

You can either buy on Steam and it will be Steam linked/activated OR buy it on DVD and either:

Play it with the DVD in the computer and not activate via Steam OR
Activate your DVD copy of FM with Steam so that you don't need the DVD in the computer.

What have you done then? Pre-ordered FM10 on Steam? If so, then look at this.

Fisk · 26 Sep 2009 at 00:07

Hm, okay. I don't use steam for too many games but I guess I'll register FM10 on it when my DVD comes.

You can create shortcuts from steam and then run the game from the shortcut without needing to open steam, right?

Shamikebab · 26 Sep 2009 at 00:12

Steve M · 26 Sep 2009 at 00:16

So basically the game will be cracked again..

MarcLister · 26 Sep 2009 at 00:29

Fisk said:
Hm, okay. I don't use steam for too many games but I guess I'll register FM10 on it when my DVD comes.

You can create shortcuts from steam and then run the game from the shortcut without needing to open steam, right?

Yes. My FM shortcut on the desktop points to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\football manager 2009\fm.exe".

Teaf · 26 Sep 2009 at 00:33

Steam still runs though doesn't it if the program is closed? i.e. it'll load up Steam, connect / login, then run the game?

MarcLister · 26 Sep 2009 at 00:38

No. The shortcut calls the FM exe. Nothing in the shortcut to launch Steam. Just tested to be sure and kept Task Manager going. No Steam.exe before launch or after. And from what I can tell FM takes the same amount of time to appear on screen with or without Steam already running.

goricoklat · 26 Sep 2009 at 07:00

30 oct ok!