retired_Balanchinegal

Well thanks for answering Miles, good form as usual :thup:
And I guess I understand your second point, it's kinda catch 22.

retired_taustin

What if we want something that the "competitors" already have in their games (and have had for years)? Surely you can openly discuss that, yes?


Like the ability to add our own leagues based on existing templates?

retired_samiam

In my opinion, SI should concentrate on getting the basic fundamentals of the game right (look how many annoying bugs there were this time around). I would gladly accept a new game that worked perfectly (or at least to have much less obvious bugs) rather than a game flush with a million new features.

Get the gameplay right, then add on enhancements.

They should also include a very basic editor, but the in-depth editing such as creating leagues, etc should not be SI's responsibility and they shouldn't waste time creating additional software. Let the editing community do that with unofficial programs later.

retired_taustin

For the first point. Adding on enhancement, by their very nature, will create more bugs. It would be impossible to create a "perfect" game, so attempting to do so would probably just waste time. I'd rather see commonly requested features added, followed by extensive testing (i'm sure there are plenty of teenage kids without nothing else to do all summer).

For the second point. I agree...leave it to the editing community to get the details right. But give us the structure to do so! The editor, as it stands, is not good enough for the editing community to add new leagues (you have to destroy an existing league first of all, and secondly the game will do outrageous things, like put Al-Ahly in the Champions League, or Singapore in the Copa America). Using Pro Evolution Soccer as an example, they have very few licences for real players and teams, but everyone who plays that game has the real EPL running within 30 minutes of installing the game. If FM's editor were powerful enough to set up a new league structure, sticking the winners into some sort of continental competition, there would be an update with 35 new playable leagues within a week of the game being released.

(i guess i miss playing TCM 2004 with 192 nations selected as playable )

retired_Kam_macca

I disagree, I'm of the opposite opinion and believe SI aren't putting in enough enhancements into the game, concentrating too much on minor changes instead of making or introducing fundemental changes. The game is getting stale, it needs an injection of life because staring at the same old screens, statistics and data, release after release is getting tiresome.

retired_diamond_hope

we need both new features and fixes, just think how in depth football manager 2020 is if they keep adding to it thats pretty exciting if u ask me

retired_2symonds

There isn't really any way to ask EVERYONE who plays the game what they would like to see in future versions. We get a lot of ideas from various sources and they all go into our feature meetings and are discussed.

At the end of the day we are only able to do so much and can't do everything, even everything that we want to do.

retired_adeskins

You should be ashamed of yourselfs, not being able to keep everyone happy

Michelle!

Wow 2 2 SI responses on a single page thread! Amazing!

retired_nsample

WE all agree that you at SI cant do everything for everybody. One good point would be to let the forum know any suggestion that was never going to be implemented for whatever reason, to stop the continual asking year after year. There have been many ideas, which would appear to be easy to implement, that are brought up time and again are are never mentioned again. Let us know if they are not being considerd and we can forget that idea.