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Football Manager 2013 is the most successful game in the series

Sega and Sports Interactive also announce Linux support for Football Manager 2014.

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Football Manager 2013 is now the best-selling game in the series, developer Sports Interactive has announced.

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"I am delighted to announce that #FM13 has just become the best selling game in the Football Manager series. Thank you so much for all your support," said studio director Miles Jacobson on Twitter over the weekend.

Jacobson added that features and additions to Football Manager 2014 won't be announced until much later in the year, and that the company has yet to set even a rough or estimated release date. He did add that Football Manager 2014 would be arriving on Linux, with one purchase being playable across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

Football Manager 2014 will officially support the Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) version of Linux.

Football Manager 2013 was released in November 2012, and Sega said in May that that the game had notched up 940,000 sales. "A host of significant additions make this the most exhaustive, but also the most streamlined, Football Manager to date," said GameSpot's 8.0 review of the game.

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Trying to get it n my phone but having trouble at the moment.

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YES SIR! You are right! I'm so fucking addicted to this game. Spent more than 300hrs already!

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Yes,they are right, Iboughtthe game , i played the game anditis phenomenal. !

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yeahhh

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The new match engine is an improvement but still can't play the way I want but must exploit the a.i. to win.

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Victory for DRM-ing a game to high hell unfortunately, I know a lot of people who wouldn't have bought this game if it weren't for pirates taking so long to crack. Fair enough I guess, but the thing is, my legitimate, store bought copy rarely works thanks to all the checks I have to do to play the game. Next year will be the first since 2005 that I won't buy FM

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@jonny_dutch I got mine from Steam. Didn't face any DRM.

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@BlackSquare @jonny_dutch Majkic is right, steam is pretty much THE DRM, locking a game to an account is the most common form of rights management

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@BlackSquare @jonny_dutch steam is a DRM...

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Heard the game engine is pretty poor. Was always a CM man myself.

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friggin excelllent

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This news greatly pleases me.

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I'm glad they're supporting Linux a lot of people overseas use Linux and this is a popular game overseas as well.

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would still rather cut my knob off with a rubber spoon..

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Oh, so that's why that guy in the picture is so happy, because he somehow knew that this particular game would be the most successful one in the series.

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This game also somehow predict when SAF will retire.

Love this game.

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Sells 10 million copies in England, 3 in USA.

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I love this game! The only thing I can think of that's wrong with it is that its too addictive ;)

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That's great. But can we fans of American football get something for our tastes. I'm native European btw.

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@RomanCenturion7 I'm not a huge American Football fan, but somebody has to make that game - it would sell a ridiculous amount, judging by the popularity of fantasy [american] football over there.

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i found FM2012 much more appealing .. FM13 has so many minor frustration points that pile up on moment ..... aaand my keyboard is broken :)

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@SabCadab Your.. um.. keyboard is broken??

Sounds like there's a story there. Usually keyboards don't just randomly break.

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@PixelAddict @SabCadab Yes, his "keyboard" is "broken" :P. I'm sure there's nothing else to that story, nothing at all, but simply his "keyboard" being "broken".

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@Hurvl See.. and I was hoping for some entertainment. Some story about how the game pressed him into keystroke madness, and right at the fever pitch of the end of a 12 hour session, he lost.

And broke it over his cat named Larry.

See, now THAT is a story.

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I haven't bought the last 3 games, but fm native on linux?! Another must buy for Q4 2013. Time to pester friends and family about it, can't wait for the awesome online cross-play sessions.

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not to break the enthusiasm here,but these guys make the football manager's CoD.New game,same shit,the AI of the players is abysmal after 5 years of improvements,the game still has so many glitches it's not even funny.Very little progress in one year,they should just ask like 20 $ for it,not the price of the full game.(btw i have over 2000 hours in the series,so i'm not a random hater)

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@enartloc Not quite as bad as CoD, if they start selling the January update as DLC than we can compare it to CoD

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Managed to get Ipswich promoted and into a Europa league spot within 3 seasons. That will most certainly be going on my CV

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Wonderful game!

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Nice, Linux support! Ubuntu 12.04 was a good choice. A lot of excellent distributions are based off of it, including Mint.

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Take that EA, you monopolizing SOBs.

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@berserker66666 Yeah, you don't make a product that's similar to this (except it's based on the same sport), but TAKE THAT!

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@daabulls23 @berserker66666 EA do have a football management game, it's called FIFA Manager.

Egg on yo face ;)

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@johnners2981 @daabulls23 @berserker66666 I didn't even know that existed. But they don't have a monopoly on the sport anyway, but TAKE THAT!

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@johnners2981 Does anybody even play that?

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