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When you’re not famous enough to have your own Wired Autocomplete Interview, so you just create one on your own 😅

14:04 Fifa Players: "The game is rigged" "No its not you just suck" Fm players: "The game is rigged" "I know. Still won a champions league with York City though"

having an ad for opera gx..... using a google background for the questions. love it Zealand 🤣🤣

Dont ask for an easier FM experience, the beauty of the game is its complexity. Thats the reason many jump from FIFA like games. If FM is too hard for you, start with ManCity, or PSG or Bayern, you will win easy. If thats too easy go down a bit. Dont just start with Oriental Dragons and expect to be a GOD at the game. It takes time and knowledge, and thats the beauty of the game!

Last time I was this early, Zealand was still playing Oriental Dragons+

11:07 It is not a company move, this is because of licensing restrictions which prevent SI from keeping older versions of the game up on steam

i was burned out with my current save and watching this video recharged me. Sometimes going back to basics and remember why you like this game is so awesome.

Just to add a bit about the "needing wifi part", u do need internet acess if u play FM with the XBOX Game Pass, if u dont have internet the game will either crash midway if the game was already open before, or just not start if u didnt have it opened

11:10 It's a license issue. Because the agreements are only good for the year stated, they would be violating their agreement to leave the software up indefinitely.

Well done Zealand, that was a very balanced overview and its good to see that you aren't a total fanboy who is aware of the flaws of the game as well as the obviously addictive elements.

Remember when football manager had the intro song when loading? Think it was 18/19 one of them that was lowkey quality loved that 😅

Just saying, I was a strategy gamer who knew nothing about soccer post 2008 or so. I picked up FM and it quickly became my most played game and got me interested in soccer.

Been a FIFA career mode player for over 12 years now. Just got a PC a few weeks back and saw FM 24 was on sale on Steam for $40 so I downloaded it. Start of my new gaming journey

I’ve got FM22, 23 and 24 off gamepass, took me until this week to finally sit down and figure the game out and now I can’t stop. Just won the conference league, Europa league then won the prem in 3 years with Villa, it gets a LOT more fun when you starting winning 😂

You could totally make an easier football management game; LMA on PS1/2 was amazing back in the day. I'd love Z to review LMA 2002

The newest version on steam is a league licensing constraint, the same happens with Fifa/EA FC etc too

I really can't wait for FM25! I hope it will be as amazing as I think it will be

I started off with OOTP which is basically the baseball version of FM, and although baseball is my favorite sport, FM is just a far better game and much more in depth. It really is a sandbox game

Is FM addictive.... no I can quit any time I like. It's 2050, late at night I need to work tomorrow. But i'm in a title race as Norwich with Man Utd and I need to play one more game

I'd only played 100hrs or so of FM19 years back, then covid happened and football stopped so I picked it up again and got hooked. Since then I've spent near on 6000 hours on the games

Championship manager got me into football.

Watching this after losing 2-1 in Europa league final so that part if it’s Fun part really hit home😂

I was unable to play FM23 on a plane that didn't have WiFi; it was the GamePass version, it needed to check with Microsoft if I had an active GP account

7:31 who remembers when there used to be opening screen music

I started play FM from 2017, and it took me 1 years to understand basic of the game, now playing FM 24 and still play the basic tactics 4-2-3-1 😅, but sometimes I played 3-5-2 or 3-4-1-2.

When Zealand started talking about the best browser I thought he was being sarcastic so I expected him to open Edge.

I have loved sports management games for most of my life, going all the way back to Football Manager on the 48k Sinclair Spectrum (unrelated to modern FM, programmed by Kevin Toms)... Modern FM is a game that I love the idea of, but it has just become... too much... Where I used to complete a whole season in just a few days, now it takes hours to get through a couple of weeks... Still love your FM content!

Fm24 is really solid. I didn’t get 23. Played 22 for 2 years and was definitely the right call. I made the call based on watching your videos. Fm24 though is freakin awesome

Maybe not the best move to have such a long ad at the beginning of the video

I always thought that SI need to fix the online game. It has HUGE potential. In hindsight FMLive came way too early, but they should definitely give it another go. I suspect after FM26 will look at this.

No mention of Football Manager Live in the online question. Still the best version of the game.

I remember buying fm13 on december in the year of release for 15€. It was amazing. Now it cost so much, and cant play touch on pc, or you need Netflix for mobile version...

My FM doesn't take long to simulate; it takes me a long time to play, I just want to fiddle with everything

played fm for 7 years and its actually never crashed or been corrupted even once :')

I have to say, I think I've only had one crash on FM24. Reliability seems to getting better in this respect.

3:11 Assassin’s Creed reference

"Does Football Manager need wifi" No, you can use cables, if you still have those

fm is a bg3 mind flayer

I pray everyday for a Basketball Manager game.

14:26 lose to a team with 2 shots and neither of them on target 😭

I'm 5 canadian clubs deep and finally used (some of) my hard earned australian dollarydoos to buy FM24 because this video was suggested

Watching this while playing a career with no badge and no club at the beginning. I enabled all leagues so Z's face froze every other time I've clicked on continue. I endure it, cause pain addiction definitely is the reason we are playing this game. 😅

I have a question. In a long term save is there a minimum time before you can build a second new stadium at one club or is it just down to the board if they think its worth it? Fourteen seasons at my new/newish stadium maxed capacity upgrades and 99% attendance. Board dont want to know.

Zealand watching your Tauton town series got me addicted to FM now i can't stop playing... it's the reason i haven't made a vid for a month... you monster 🥲

How many leagues do you recommend for a decent 2017 gaming laptop?

In my save with Sporting CP I went 26 games without a loss in the Portuguese league, only to lose at home to Belenenses SAD, the club in the bottom of the league, this is FM.

Forever and ever, amen.

speaking of FM being rigged, I brought in a Portuguese wonderkid as my future striker, who gets roughly 30 minutes a match and plays in the early stages of cups. So, he's basically the number two option for me, since I play with one forward system, and this kid is not going to be a world beater, he's a good quality EPL forward, and for some reason he got it in his head that Man City would give him more play time. Like, dude you think you're gonna beat out the seven forwards they have (currently in my save) to start? You're not better than my starting forward who is a lower rated player than Haaland. It's just dumb because my main option is 30 so the Portuguese kid was probably going to get a lot more play time, especially since he can play on the wings. But hey I got 50 million for him so he helped be pay to upgrade my defense, and in my save Pep left Man City in 2026 and it's been a manager carousal there since, so the kid just screwed his career

Good video idea

Does FM include the Man City FFP pack?

Not sure if you're a comment-reader Zealand, but I think a fun game idea would be a game called Z-LAND where you are only allowed to purchase players whose names begin with Z. Because it's an arbitrary and tricky thing to stick to

Great vid as always. You really surprised me with the whole “finding FM tough to get into” do you think this has anything to do with football not necessarily being the sport that was the first sport you grew up with? I ask because having lived in the States I initially found your football a little confusing but now it all makes sense, well, more or less. All the best. D.

I disagree that FM is complicated but, hey, I live in Brasil and pratically breath football all my life. I love football games and FM is special.

I started recently with Scunthorpe

I complete understand the "fun" aspect of FM now, last couple versions ove only had the console version and thought i was a managerial god... i then got a gaming laptop and started again thinking im going to destroy leagues... oh how i was wrong...

Any other game: “This game sucks! It’s using scripts to make me loose! “No, you just have skill issue” FM: “This game sucks! It’s using scripts to make me loose! “Yes, and I’ll spend another 8 months of my life to win pentatrick challenge with clubs from Lower divisions with custom database, with transfer embargo and playing only with players from city of which club is based and not older then 23”

Hopefully next years on console is made closer to the pc version. I understand why we cant have everything but the amount thats lacking is just too much. Also i had the one for xbox 360 years ago and arguably there was more in that 😂

I've been slowly destroying my sanity with this game ever since it was called @Zealand: have you considered doing one of your challenges in CM, rather than in FM?

Funny enough, I didn't come from fifa or anything like that. I came from Eastside Hockey Manager by the same people. But they gave up on Hockey so I was forced to migrate to Soccer/Football. I didn't know anything about it, but I needed my manager fix. RIP Eastside Hockey Manager.

I watch this video and it just makes me want to make a new football manager game. The processing of players and the amount of time it takes to process leagues and scores could be done far more efficiently. I am hopeful that next year's version of the game doesn't have this issue as it's sad that lots of people export the data from FM to some other tool to search or formulate on statistics because FM is entirely too slow. Imagine a game where FM meets(Football), City Skylines 1(Simulation of lots of entities), meets Hearts of Iron 4(strategic complexity and multiple pathways), meets Crusader Kings 3(character/dynasty evolution). That level of creativity and story flow would probably ruin society as a whole.

FM and poker legit comparison

Is FM addictive? Playing since start FM 2007. Just one more game, click continue despite being aware you will only come out from the hole by sunrise.

Can you go over the best tactic

Anyone remember the game that let you play a football manager type game then for the matches you switched discs and actually played the game like FIFA? It might have actually been a FIFA game.

Sponsers a web browser straight after goes on Google 😂

Its blocked for Brazil, we can see it on steam but cant buy it

9 views in 1 minute? actually kinda good ngl

so many personalities to deal with as well.

To tell how hard Football Manager has been for me, I let my experience talk by itself: I bought the game 2-3 years in a row and every year I was not able to get through the pre-season friendlies and start the regular season. The amount of informations and things I could do was so overwhelming that I just gave up. Then one year (I guess it was 2018) I had a few friends playing the game and I gave myself another chance. And I was glad I did, because I just couldn't stop playing from that time on. So, yes, this game is freaking hard. EDIT: Zealand literally said it in the video 10 second after I wrote this comment 😅

team opera gx!!

Football Manager is pain today i lost 4-3 to Madrid lost 4-2 in first leg aand won 1-0 the second it's absolute pain sometimes

I wonder if adding the words "Football Manager" in the title makes a difference to this videos reach.

I hate football manager and all the players in my squad. Yet I spend hours playing daily.

Fm is too easy once you learn it /play 1 save

Make the game less complicated? Watering down any form of media is a bad move for the long-term fans. It will appeal to the masses more, expanding the product's reach and bringing in new fans, making more money, etc, but the original niche audience typically doesn't handle the change well. The Assassin's Creed games are the proof in the pudding. They're barely even have a focus on stealth and assassinations anymore because stealth can be difficult and frustrating when you get caught. More people would rather go around and slaughter groups of enemies than sneak around and possibly fail the mission when you get caught.

People are surely asking if football manager is free because it’s on Game Pass for console and PC.

After I watched this video and got to the part with ''FM is cheating''...I got FM'd back to back games against the bottom of the league teams. Both scoring at exactly 90+1 with the same header goal in matches I dominated that ended 1-0. I quit the game after that for the day because screw that.

You kinda need wifi if you play through Game Pass tbf 😅

Firefox ftw, fight the Chromium monopoly!!

They should really make a beginner and pro version, because this is my first year on FM and while I did appreciate the ease of getting into it at first, its now really annoying that I can win the cup with a team in the 3rd division as if im saarbrucken. This would mean that newcomers have an even easier time integrating but also lets them go ham on the pro version making it as hard as real life managing.

Does FM keep up with roster updates, injuries, form, etc?

Why did a buy a Mac Pro? Xeon Hexacore 12 thread CPU and 64GB. FM beast

My FM20 needs a steady internet connection, else it will literally crash. It's the FREE version from Steam during covid. FYI please.

If you are a hardcore football fan it's not that hard to get into.... everything simulates what you already know about your favorite team.... cheezing the game however takes years to learn + some type of mad scientist mindset.

i have a 10 yo PC and i still load over 400k players in my save. Idrc if the game is slow..

Whats everyone's dedication status?

I love FM24 so much and I have been fired 4 times 🤣🤣🤣

Is it weird that i got into it instantly and learned to play in a day? Am i autistic?

I don't buy the game every year, I buy it every two or three years (coming up on 4 now, I need FM24 as I'm still playing FM20). However, I use the pre-game editor to restructure the welsh leagues (7 leagues, 3 tiers, 128 teams) and give them real prize money and a TV deal, then as players transfer/run out their contracts/retire in the real world, I just move them to a top flight welsh team (so Bale, Messi, Saurez, Mane, Haaland, Bellingham, et al, are all in the welsh top flight at the start of any save, making my "parc-(sic)-to-prem" career saves tougher every season).

i thought this was actually for gq lmfao

Cattle brands aren’t tattoos, Zealand. Just wanted to make sure you were aware before a terrible mistake was made. 👍

10000 hours? Week...

Me playing on a potatoes PC that can load every player with ease

zealand i hear you have free copies of FM

I disagree the game is too complicated: play touch if you want it less complicated. I would like it to be more complicated, not less.

So this isn’t an official Autocomplete Interview? Naughty.

Why does every feature of this browser make it worse?

Wait wait wait...Last Time i tried to Play it in my new Apartment and i Had No WiFi yet...i couldnt start the game

Yeah the game is rigged or bugged! Playing with Molde in 3rd season I had an offer of 3.5M + 2M add ons from Blackburn sat 12th in the PL. for my first choice CB, also a national team player of my Norway team,. But he decided that the move wasn*t worth it. I can*t think of a single Norwigian who would think staying in the Norwigian leagues instead of moving to the Prem. Anyway he is playing really well for me, but now my 17 year old Polish 5 star Centerback wwith amazing Jumping and arial ability is doomed to be the 3rd choice in that position. Also this happens so often, but the I am usually challanging for Europe and can understand it.