We are getting to that time of year again when everybody is looking forward to the new football season and Football Manager is becoming outdated because of transfers, promotions, relegations and for the fact that it has been out for quite a while. Around about this time we start to stop playing last year’s game and start to scower the net for info on the next release which usually hits around November time but no release date has officially been set.
As details on Football Manager 2013 are scarce to date, we can only really discuss what we want to see. With that in mind, here is a list of what potential improvements we would love to see…
1. Press Conferences
Now, I know most of us Football Manager games send our assistant to every single press conference. They are repetitive and boring, if they are made more complex and interesting with more consequences then maybe more of us would attend them.
To combat this, Sports Interactive should make them an integral and critical part of the game. Currently, it doesn’t really matter if you have a good or bad press conference because it doesn’t really affect the morale of the team or the support of the fans. Hyping up your new £35 million signing who has low confidence level stats might not be the best way to go out of the blocks… but then for high confidence players who thrive on attention and being the star of a club, might produce better results. Man management of press conferences should become a mainstay of the game, just like it is in real life. Other managers also need to have more things to say, I am sick of other managers saying they are not a fan of me or they don’t like the way I play and vice-versa. They need more things to say because it is constantly the same!
Press conferences could also be used in a different way as they have done in the past. They could include having your Chairman sat next to you adding comments or even a couple of your players if it is before an important match. I also think that the board could reward you or punish you depending on how well you perform in them. They can also be used to give you a chance to explain a strange substitution or tactic or even an attack on a referee. I know some of these are already in the game but they need more depth.
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5 Comments
Seeing as it has to have steam. Steam workshop. All the mods sorted for you. Every version i have to spend ages installing all the different mods.
Why should you not be able to have a say over pricing? It is after all, as the manager of a club, upto you on how to balance the budget.
I mean, how stupid would it be for a manager to mention to a chairman that he might need a slightly bigger budget to push the club onto the next level? It’s almost unheard of! There’s no way that a bigger budget could possibly come from a strategic adjustment of prices in certain areas.
While we are on the subject of manager and chairman responsibilities, we should sack off the idea of picking a feeder club for 2 reasons. The first being that it never works, and the second being that this is not Football Chairman!
To be honest alot of these features dont fit into what the Football Manager series is all about. If you where to add all of these it may hinder the game which so many love. Although these ideas are good there should possible be a sort of spin off game called Football Chairman, This would mean that if users liked the main game they could also purchase this and progress there future in football as a chairman and learning how to run a club.
I think the emphasis should go on manager contract, they are so basic and add no value to the actual contract screen. Your contract is running out, so what. They should introduce modern problems such as bans for players using twitter, drunken behaviour outside of football, plus “tapping up” and not getting persecuted every time you want to apply for another job. You should have more interaction with your own agent so you can instruct them to “find another club” or “contact club regarding managers job”. These types of improvements would be far more fun in my opinion.
tone down javier hernandez. in the game he is a beast..in real life.. he is a PEAst