FM2022 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v4.1 for FM22.4.1 [released on 04/04/2022] - final version

I'd rather avoid this and install your 22.4 when it is out, but that means I'd have to wait with starting my save until official SI 22.4 is out, right? This would mean another 2-3 weeks of waiting… 😢

Or maybe it is ok to start my save on 22.3 with your 22.3 fix, and when SI 22.4 update is out I'd have to just install your 22.4 update? Would it have any impact on my save started on 22.3?

As already said:

I don't see any harm in starting your save on 22.3 with the 22.3 real name fix file tbh

You can update your files when 22.4 is released, just in case, though I don't see a lot of potential or need for any actual changes in what's included tbh. But if you want to wait another week or so until 22.4 is released and you have more complete data with the latest Chinese and Russian transfer data, who am I to tell you what to do?? 🙂

I don't care about the Chinese and Russian transfers at all, all I need is:

• the first winter update with January transfers
• to be sure that when I start my long term save on 22.3 with your 22.3 fix, I can go on with the save without any issues for the next couple of months

So I really just wanted to be sure that when 22.4 is out it won't wreck my save in any way.

Thanks for explaining it! I'll just wait for 22.3, install your fix, and start my save. Cheers!

When a new official update is released, I cannot recall a single instance in the past in which existing saves were wrecked, as you seem to fear. Again, I obviously can't guarantee what will happen in the future (and if I could, I'd use that talent on lottery numbers not here, frankly!), but I would be extremely surprised if it happened.

In short, once 22.3 is released, there's nothing stopping you from downloading the 3.0 version of this file and starting a save 😉

Thanks.
My concern was the fact that your fix contains the club name changes file, Ajax file, etc., which require starting new game before applying. And I was afraid that when 22.4 appears it will make the club names back to the fake ones. But now I finally understand that if I already have my save started on 22.3 and your 22.3 fix in place, then SI 22.4 update doesn't matter to my save at all.

Would this version of the license fix still work for the winter update that is released today with database changes, or should I wait for a new version?

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New version will come ASAP when @mons has the time to deliver it 😉

Would the old version of this fix also work with the winter update, or would using it give problems with the new DB update?

Working on it. In the meantime, read this.

Thanks @mons 🙂 take the time that you need.

I don't understand why SI launch today the update… who waits months, can wait weeks for the update…

The Final Winter Update follows in a few weeks, covering data from windows that closed in February, including MLS and China.

Hello. I have noticed that there's a file named licensing.dbc in the dbc folder that was installed following the 2330 update. Should that file be deleted while applying the update? Can anyone see what the contents of that file are?

@mons , I've noticed that some teams, like Dortmund or Real Sociedad don't have the correct name when viewing through Leagues in Focus. Is this from your end too or do you not have this issue? I have 9 leagues displayed on that page.

v3.0 of this file is now available for download, compatible with 22.3, released earlier this afternoon.

Thanks to all the contributors to this file for their help and assistance 🍻

If any issues are spotted, please let me know so that they can be rectified. Unless something major crops up, at this stage I have no plans to release a new version until 22.4 is released in a few weeks' time.

Equally, others might not understand why you would need to wait a few weeks more to get to play with the January transfers 😉

New version of the file is out, addressing that issue, amongst others.

This was covered earlier, and seems to be an issue with that particular page, where due to space constraints the correct name cannot be displayed. It's not an issue I'm aware can be solved from my end, or anyone else's for that matter.

Hey for some reason I can't download it. I click on the green button on the free mirror(getfiles.co.uk) and nothing happens. Does anyone else have similar issues?

Thanks for clearing that up

Thank you so much for the quick update!

Use the mega mirror, I uploaded that one manually. The getfiles one is probably still being generated.

Because this is my first time updating it, I thought I should ask.

I have a save going on, from the previous database version.

I guess i delete again the folders you say in the instructions, paste the new ones in the folders (old and new) and I'm good to go.

I assume this will have no impact at all at my save, correct?

Some competition and award names will be changed, but most of the other stuff will not affect your existing save. It's always good to install the fix, just in case you decide to start a new game in the future and forgot you need to apply this fix before starting a new game 😉

I've got Roony Bardghji twice in the game. Does anyone know if he was added in the real name fix?

I don't add players in this file specifically to avoid this scenario. The only people added with this file are journalists, and the Ajax staff and Hansi Flick, missing due to licensing restrictions.

It'll be another editor data file you'll have downloaded which is causing this.

I've just found out the file that I've downloaded that contained him. Thanks for letting me know, at least if anyone else has him twice then they will know he's not been added in your files 👍

Hi there

Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else and I've missed it (if so could someone please point me in the right direction?), but is there any way to retain the Brazilian club names after a patch has updated the game?

Tonight my game has updated to 22.3 and although all the real names have been retained for clubs like Juventus, all the Brazilian team names have reverted to three-letter abbreviations like FLA, BOT, FLU etc. Is there any way to keep the names as Flamengo, Botafogo and Fluminense etc without starting again? I've tried the workaround in the first post but it hasn't fixed the Brazilian teams.

Is my career save managing Flamengo and Brazil ruined or can I do something to fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help!

This is one of the reasons why it is recommended that you reinstall the files from this download into every folder listed every time an official update is released.

If you do so, I'm led to understand that it would work 👍

Hi,

I get all the real name fix right, but i'dont get the national teams like Germany and japan and staff in to the game. 

Why have SI taken away the ability to use/edit mods on gamepass? 

As outlined in the last lines of the main post, if you are in the middle of a save-game, Japanese and German national teams will be populated in the next instance that players are called up, and not immediately.

They have? Given I'm not SI, I have no idea and can't really help you there mate 😢

It would appear so anyway - I can no longer ‘enable mods’ from the dropdown, doesn't mention mods at all.. and when I try to access the folders in the file explorer, I'm apparently not allowed/able to delete anything - Inc, DBC, etc. Almost as if they have encrypted it. 

I have asked on both the forum and twitter, as soon as I mention the word ‘Licence' it appears I get ignored! Haha. 

Ah well, fingers crossed for 23. 

FIXED on gamepass. 

If you click on ‘manage’ as opposed to enable mods, you can enable an advanced folder management feature which allows you to move the location of said folders above (I put them in my standard Sports Interactive folder, not within FM22 itself). From here I was able to edit the files, delete and put the new ones in etc. Worked a treat.