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  • Reaching Goals In FMLive: My Restart Challenge Story
    Well it’s been an exciting season for sure. Let’s rewind to what happened after my first day after restarting, what my goals were, whether I achieved them and what I achieved over the season. Firstly let me just sit on the fence for a second…...
    by Rik Stewart on November 20th, 2009
  • How Does Football Manager Live Compare To Other MMOs? (Part 3)
    The more interesting GamesIndustry discusses the idea of starting at 110% rather than the slow and sure approach with MMOs: “Most MMOGs launch with queues to access their servers – worse again, many of them then end up offering players barren,...
    by Rik Stewart on November 16th, 2009
  • How Does Football Manager Live Compare To Other MMOs? (Part 2)
    Firstly, from an article on BrightHub: “Where Did Warhammer Go Wrong” caught my attention. The main point being the obvious, [MMOs] need enough gameplay variety to entertain hundreds of thousands or millions of different people. They must...
    by Rik Stewart on November 9th, 2009
  • How Does Football Manager Live Compare To Other MMOs? (Part 1)
    Start making a game and stop listening to idiots… It’s not often that I don’t have an opinion about something and this original thread started by Goodyscot, caught me: “In seeking to please the vocal minority you’ve managed...
    by Rik Stewart on November 2nd, 2009
  • Let The Battle Commence: My Restart Challenge Story
    It all started off with following Jordan Cooper on Twitter. He said he was restarting in Football Manager Live to walk the walk following his post about how easy it is to start in an old gameworld. I considered the potential of a “Restart Football...
    by Rik Stewart on October 28th, 2009
  • On The Forums: If You Can Have One Feature
    It’s been an interesting experience on the official forums this week. The honeymoon period of v1.3 launch and a little bit of silence was broken by a small angry mob of subscribers saying that the new match engine (ME) in Football Manager Live had...
    by Rik Stewart on October 25th, 2009
  • The Head-Vs-Head Dilemma: Keeping A Balance
    Firstly, for the record, I do prefer playing human vs human (HvH) games over playing human vs offline teams in Football Manager Live. Though the new match plans are much better than playing offline teams before v1.3, but nothing beats the in-game banter....
    by Rik Stewart on October 23rd, 2009
  • On The Forums: Quick Hitter Edition
    Not a whole lot to say in a preamble for this week. Hoddle, my game world has just finished season six, so I’m preoccupied in getting stuff sorted in good time. For now, I’ll leave you with my fave five ideas threads from the official forums...
    by Rik Stewart on October 18th, 2009
  • On The Forums: v1.FREE
    Another week another same old week on the official forums… well, I guess except for the small event that was Football Manager Live v1.3 launch (or not depending on your level of patience). I admit that I left it until around 10:30pm. It took about...
    by Rik Stewart on October 11th, 2009
  • On The Forums: A Little Privacy, Please!
    Since last time, the main change on the official forums is that the General Questions section is now the FML Subscriber Discussion forum and therefore hidden from public view.What this means is that, hopefully, the negativity from the regular forum users...
    by Rik Stewart on October 4th, 2009
  • Clear Conscience of a Single-Gameworld Manager
    The Soul of a Gameworld – The Community Football Manager Live (FML) has always been a game in which the more you put in the more you get out. Each person in the GameWorld (GW) plays their part in making the community and the community is the one...
    by Rik Stewart on September 28th, 2009
  • On The Forums – Clarity Mixed With Rage
    A fairly active general discussion forum over the last week. This time I’ve tried not to limit myself to just the top five and have not kept to just ideas (although this is my favourite topic in the forums!). As per normal I’ve ignored the...
    by Rik Stewart on September 21st, 2009
  • On The Forums – 5 More FML Suggestions
    We’re always looking to cover the most relevant topics on the minds of FML managers and in that spirit, now we’d like to highlight your thoughts about the game. Every week, we’ll be scouring the official forums for the best threads, brightest comments,...
    by Rik Stewart on September 12th, 2009
  • On The Forums – 5 FML Suggestions
    We’re always looking to cover the most relevant topics on the minds of FML managers and in that spirit, now we’d like to highlight your thoughts about the game. Every week, we’ll be scouring the official forums for the best threads, brightest comments,...
    by Rik Stewart on September 5th, 2009