This is not a photoshop

The tragic thing is that people WILL use it, and if the past few years is anything to go buy they'll then brag about their achievements after using these cheats

Maybe have a career sub-section just for FMC games?

I reckon they'll have found a way to stop programs like FMRTE< if theyre offering this. As FMRTE severely cuts SI's proffits.

That's a good idea.

I agree, It would be an insult to those who actually play the game properly and spend season after season building up their squad and finances just for some noobs with disposable incomes to clutter up the board with their plastic careers.

How do you figure that?

Its pretty much like you charging 50p for a bag of sweets, in your sweet shop, but some dude is outside doing the EXACT same bags for free, would you leave him there? Of course you wouldn't, if you could move him on you most certainly would.

I would be concerned that he appears to be giving sweets away, isn't that a the behaviour of a potential paedo...? What does he want me to do in return for those sweets....?

Perhaps you should have used a different analogy

Well i never thought of it the way you did, maybe that says something

The sweet guy is gaining more custom, because hes giving them away (hes losing a profit just like SI would be if they let FMRTE exist), the person selling them would not be happy (because hes losing his profit, from the guy thats giving them away!), if he was happy...... he's in the wrong job.

If you were to grade after release, paid for content on a 1-10 scale then charging people to cheat in their games comes in at a 1. I know you work for SI so you feel obligated to not shit on it, but it's a horrendous plan that requires no thought process and therefore provides no value.

But sure, IT'S A GREAT IDEA.

People want content that will add value to their game.

It is absolutely proven, beyond doubt, that there is no longevity in the pay2win model that free-to-play games offer. The short term increase in income evens out and the community withers and dies. The most successful free-to-play games, games which I might add thrive on after market content, are ones that do not give anyone an advantage. Don't alter the fundamental mechanics.

So you have to ask, what would be good content?

Added leagues - Cyprus, Nigeria, Egypt, the removed Thai league.
Skins
The ability to create custom tournaments so players can replicate international competitions

Aesthetic improvements that people who want them will buy. Calling paid-for-cheats good business is incredibly short sighted. It's not good business, good business is coming up with a microtransaction that doesn't satisfy the needs of a few lazy people, it is content that theoretically your entire userbase will be interested in.

I'm not an idiot, DLC is here to stay and only a stupidly ignorant video game company would ignore that. But it comes as no surprise to me see that the best idea SI could come up with when they ventured out into the unknown was this travesty. As I said in my original commentary, it shows how devoid of innovation they are.

The lack of a 'dark' skin has puzzled me this year. SI must remember the level of complaints they got when they first moved to lighter skins (FM08? FM09, I'm old and forget easily), and I think they might use FMC for custom tournaments, though they'll likely be DLC (a British superleague or similar wouldn't be surprising).

They aren't going to bother getting licenses for new leagues, or adding smaller countries, unless something like the Premier League or Bundesliga suddenly become available, as the editor allows people who want stuff like African leagues, etc. (and it's only going to be diehards who do) to add them