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#11480 I will be PM'ing all interested parties the Britcest link
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Is this him? Just popped up on Twitter and remembered the name from here https://twitter.com/AaronMeadows18

#11090 FM2013 Bargains List
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Created another list, this time for some of the best bargains and cheap players in FM2013.

I've only included players under £2.5m (but most are under £1m). I was going to put it as exclusively sub £1m players but would have missed out some real gems that cost a little bit more.

Football Manager 2013 Cheap Players

As usual, the list is categorised into positions and can be sorted by age, value etc to make it easy for you to find what you're looking for it.

Feel free to suggest any bargains of your own and I will happily add them to the list. Enjoy.
#11033 Football Manager 2013 - Available Now
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By KEZ_7 | Permalink | On 22 October 2012 - 10:14 AM
Anyone spotted many graphical glitches? The number of times (on 3D) the ball has gone in and then continued on through the net is insane.

In terms of the ME too, lots of goals are being scored with people cutting in from the byline and essentially running straight to the keeper


Goal through the net is fixed in the beta ME update which should be going out soon.
#10932 Getting Rid of a MacBook
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By KEZ_7 | Permalink | On 21 October 2012 - 20:17 PM
As it stands I think I can get about 600 from my sister which I'm pretty happy with I think..


I'd bite the hands off someone if they offered me £600 for a 2 year old used MBP.
#10931 I will not be buying Football Manager this year
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#10754 Football Manager 2013 - Available Now
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By mr.SPANKY | Permalink | On 21 October 2012 - 04:49 AM
Annoying how you go into player search, set your filters then scroll though all the players click on them offer a contract or scout them or whatever then go back and it doesn't remember where you were so it takes you to the top of player search again.


This was originally fixed but popped up again in the pre-order beta, will definitely be fixed by release
#10702 How to upload videos?
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By Jay. | Permalink | On 21 October 2012 - 02:54 AM
I recorded a goal one of my players scored, but its not saved in the usual locations, and i cant upload directly to youtube as that feature doesn't work? Is it even possible in the BETA? Don't see why they wouldn't allow it mind.


The social options have been disabled for the beta.
#10424 Football Manager 2013 - Available Now
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By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 20 October 2012 - 20:18 PM
I don't see staff responsibilities.


Are you playing FMC? If so, staff responsibilities doesn't exist for that mode. If you don't want to play a friendly, just press the instant result button for the game and the assistant will take care of everything with the squad/tactic you've set
#10410 English Premier League 2012/2013
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Worst Arsenal performance I've seen in a long while.
#10402 This is not a photoshop
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By Fantastic | Permalink | On 20 October 2012 - 19:47 PM
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.


All valid points. I like the idea of the added leagues.

As for aesthetic improvements, I've been thinking about the idea of paying for the ability to change your teams kit and kit colours at the end of a season. I get bored of seeing the same colours every game and when I played FML I used to change the colours often, something small but I suppose this provides value for some people. Haven't discussed this with anyone yet though, not even sure if it would be feasible due to licenses.
#10388 This is not a photoshop
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By Fantastic | Permalink | On 20 October 2012 - 19:18 PM
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.


I just think that this being the first year SI are doing paid content, as the years progress the add-ons will get better and hopefully provide more value.

Also, just because the scene die-hards who play the game properly (who obviously aren't the target market for this stuff) don't see the value in it, doesn't mean that others will not. I mean as you said, paying to cheat is basic stuff but this is just the first set of add-ons which I expect will grow.

People obviously see the value in FM RTE as they pay for it to cheat, so the users who play that game in that kind of way will get value from the add-ons as well.

I'll wait for the figures to come in to see how well the paid content done, but from a business standpoint yeah I think it's a great idea and one that will be successful and can hopefully be built upon for FM14 on and beyond.

Anyway, what kind of things would you get value from? Just curious.
#10268 Football Manager 2013 - Available Now
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By bushkin | Permalink | On 20 October 2012 - 15:58 PM
ive got the fmc skin installed playing the proper fm mode, problem is i cant seem to find my clubs finances, it only seems to show up the transfer budget!Anyone know if its related to the skin? cheers


Yeah that is the skin, because it's a direct port from the FMC skin (which has a lot of FM features disabled), you won't be able to use those features in FM whilst using the skin
#10252 This is not a photoshop
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FM RTE charges people to use it these days. You can download it for free but have to pay a license to use any of the features.

Anyway, literally every game coming out these days has micro-transactions as a way to generate extra revenue throughout the year. This is the first year they are doing it so I'm sure they'll come up with innovative add-ons etc as the years go on.

I personally feel like it's a good idea. Those who want to use them can, those who don't are not forced to. It will not change your experience of the game if everyone else is using them and you aren't.
#10236 If I preorder 2013 now will I get beta access?
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By paulmoore. | Permalink | On 20 October 2012 - 14:57 PM
I'm uncertain so help will be appreciated.

I just ordered the game from GreenMan Gaming. Will I have to wait until the game is released?


Yeah you can still pre-order and get the game early. Green Man Gaming is one of the official partners this year so you will get the beta key as soon as you pre-order
#10234 FM2013 Wonderkids
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Just added another 90 players to the list thanks to various suggestions on Twitter, done some more scouting and checked other saves past 2020.

List now contains over 200 of the best youngsters on the game.

Football Manager 2013 wonderkids
#10187 FM2013 Free Players
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Similar to my wonderkids list I've created a big list of some of the best free agents at the start of FM2013. Some are very old, some are youngish but at the grand price of £0 you can't really go wrong.

The list can be found here: Football Manager 2013 Free Players

Players are sortable by age etc and this also has a downloadable shortlist. Please, if you come across any other good freebies then let me know as I want this list to be a good as possible
#9982 FM2013 Wonderkids
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#9811 The Armoury
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Wilshere is in the squad for tomorrow's game. Won't be starting but still great to see him ready
#9810 Beta to Full Release!
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By Fantastic | Permalink | On 19 October 2012 - 16:13 PM
So not all of them then. You're a liar. You just lied to us.


#9796 Beta to Full Release!
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By Franck | Permalink | On 19 October 2012 - 16:02 PM
Saying it'll have fixed all issues is a bit optimistic.


Well, all of the major issues that are coming up and as many of the minor ones as possible in the next 2 weeks
#9783 Beta to Full Release!
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By Belfastchris | Permalink | On 19 October 2012 - 15:06 PM
Is there any difference in the Beta release to the Full Release in Two Weeks?


The full release will have fixed all of the issues that arise during the beta release, and will also include online and the new versus mode
#9780 FM2013 Wonderkids
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I've put together a list of 116 of the best wonderkids on FM2013. There are a few obvious names but I've tried to find some lesser known gems too. I noticed a lot of talent coming from Belgium and Holland.

Anyway, as I said, the list is 116 players grouped into positions and you can sort them by age, value etc. Hopefully this will be a great resource for anyone looking to build a team for the future.

The list can be found here: Football Manager 2013 Wonderkids

Hopefully this link can stay as the page allows people to filter, sort by variables etc.

Let me know if you feel there are others who should be included, I will happily add them to the list! Hopefully this helps a few people who out who like this sort of stuff

EDIT: This also comes with a downloadable shortlist that you can import into your game
#9694 Football Manager 2013 - Available Now
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By Tjoffen | Permalink | On 19 October 2012 - 08:17 AM
Meh, when I pre-purchased the game it never said it would be in Russian without an option to choose English. Does anyone know how to change it to English?


Every year the Russian version of FM comes with only Russian language.
#9623 The position of the 'Logout' tab
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By Tommo. | Permalink | On 18 October 2012 - 23:23 PM
Use a different browser? Fine for me on Firefox


#9619 Football Manager 2013 - Available Now
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Also, for anyone finding bugs, could you post them up in the appropriate section on the official forums here and we can get these fixed asap.
#9618 Football Manager 2013 - Available Now
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By duckeggmoon | Permalink | On 18 October 2012 - 21:57 PM
I was wondering the same thing... It is/was a great little feature.

Other than that and the tactics screen, I'm loving it, though.


Screen flow can be found in Preferences -> Profile -> Screen Flow.

By Justicar | Permalink | On 18 October 2012 - 23:06 PM
This was supposed to be a full version without the online features IIRC.

As I see it, this was a perk for pre-ordering the game and now I've wasted 2 save games and a fair few hours of my time.


It's been made clear from the first '2 week early' announcement that this was to be a beta. When you load up the game, it says BETA in a huge font on the start screen, most people realise that this is a beta version of the game. You could just chose not to play this and then update the game on release day and it won't have any major (and hopefully no minor) bugs thanks to this large scale test.
#2353 The University Thread
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Works out to like £7 a day, doubt you'll be able to cut down your spending any more than that
#2302 The Armoury
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Can't wait for tonight. Going to be a full house as we sold 60,000 tickets which is the same as last nights Man City and Chelsea attendances combined.

Rumoured line-up:

Martinez

Angha - Djourou - Miquel - Santos

Coquelin - Yennaris

Walcott - Arshavin - Chamberlain

Giroud
#2085 Your side's greatest team since you started supporting them?
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Seamen
Dixon - Adams - Keown - Cole
Fabregas - Vieira - Pires
Van Persie - Henry - Bergkamp


What a team.
#2082 Your side's greatest team since you started supporting them?
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