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Dear Readers,
My name is Steve, I am a retired laywer at age 52 and have been playing Football Manager since 2012. Of the 300 games I have from steam this game has had the greatest staying power.
On average for the 30 to 60 dollars CAN that I spend annnually on Football Manager I can honestly say that I am really getting my moneys worth. On avarage I play FM for 400 to 600 hours annually. If you consider that there are about 2000 work hours per year I am spending one quarter to one third of my work time on this mostly strategy game.
(incidently I only play strategy, a little rpg)
At 60 dollars and 600 hours the game is charging you 10 cents per hour.
Minimum Wage in Ontario, Canada is $14 per hour now and is going to be $15 an hour in one year from now. Everyone can afford this game and the new FM Touch is $30 CAN, a maximum two hours work for anyone in Ontario.
I always play the new Touch. It has all the managerial aspects that I love and you can also take direct management during a game and also watch it. I find the full version a little too cumbersome and too much micromanagement though I have spent time with it and enjoyed the online comraderie that it allows.
The bottom line is if you love the game as much as I do and have the free time it is a great and very cheap, almost free game. If you also invest in free games as the market has now, you worry about pay to win, and waste your time.
The new FM18 Touch is a vast improvement on FM17 Touch and 17 was an improvement on the prior years. It is a lot of fun learning all the new or adjusted features each year. FM18 is a great improvement on graphics on watching, the scouting process has been streamlined and financials are well organized. The basics take little time to learn and the help function and question feature help tremendously. If you want micromanagement the full version is recommended.
To watch the game I recommend a video card that is at most 2 years out of date. For 150 bucks you can upgrade to a card, one year out of date if you are so inclined. My computer is still good after five years and FM runs well on Windows 7. I can only imagine if you have a new comuter there will be no glitches.
Touch is a highly polished product. I have no knowledge of the new full version.
The way I play is to always start in the lowest league as a young manager of 30 years with little experience, unemployed. There are usually 2 or three managerless tems that will take you as a manager. Then I play in the league and try for Promotion. The top 2 to 4 teams in a division in the English leagues get promoted.
At some point usually 2 or 3 seasons I get promoted and my and the teams reputation increases, which allows me to get jobs with more presigious teams. I usually stay with a team for 4 to 5 seasons. Then I get a better job with a higher profile team. I do this continously until I get promoted to the top division, 6 divisions where I play my England teams.
The key to is the scouting and financial aspects of the game. You have to strike a balance. You always want the best players in a position but they can get expensive and also may not want to join if you are a low profile club.
There are plenty of stats and funtions available for people who like numbers and compare and contrast. The game functions of themselves are much too many to write about in detail. They have to be explored and played for full effect.
I give FM my higest recommendation of the 300 games I own.
If you have free time, like stategy and sports as I do, I recommend this game for you.
For those of you in school or have full time jobs, consider that you may not really have the time to play.
Enjoy.