SEGA apologises for FM 2009 problems
Solution to key activation hiccup soon.
SEGA has said sorry to people having trouble activating Football Manager 2009 keys online, and is "confident that the issue will be solved today".
"SEGA is aware that there have been some problems with the activation of Football Manager 2009 today. This has been due to a combination of issues relating to the printing of keycodes and the huge demand for the game," reads a SEGA statement.
"A solution is in place and is starting to clear the problem, we are confident that the issue will be solved today. The chances of successful authentication are increasing hourly. At this point consumers still experiencing difficulties are advised to leave a 10 minute gap between authentication attempts.
"SEGA apologises for the disappointment caused by the problems with activating the game and asks for Football Manager fans to remain patient," adds SEGA.
Football Manager 2009 launches today on PC and PSP, and is the fullest, most complete instalment in the series. There are, however, some teething issues, but Sports Interactive is already rolling out patches to amend these.
Head over to our Football Manager 2009 review to find out more.
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This has totally put me of anything by these retards. I've receipt in hand and going back to the shop tomorrow. Its absolutly fucking disgusting.
They can apolagize all they want, but they can fuck right off.
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Ironically, all this time, publishers have said that piracy is killing the PC game industry. If they carry on like this with their draconian ways, THEY will kill the PC gaming industry. People will simply buy inferior, more expensive console versions and developers will simply have no financial justification to develop for the PC anymore.
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Thanks, guys. Thanks for taking your most loyal fans at their word, thanks for the respect you've afforded us, thanks for the day off work I've now wasted.
You told them so, but they didn't believe you, because you were bullshitting and a weakling. Have you learned a lesson? I'm betting no.
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Im pretty sure passing my cash over the counter gives me the right to use the product in anyway I see fit, once Im not selling it for profit, copying it, or using it for the wrong purpose.
I just want to fu*king play the game!!!
We need the return of the SNES and Megadrice days... you bought a cart. and that was it. One hard, real life product that was gone if you sold it or broke it. Piracy would just be the dodgy guys at markets I never trusted anyway instead of this shite.
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First Konami with MGS4, now Sega.
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You may not be wrong there! The next consoles may be cartridge based again. With memory getting so cheap you could easily what a couple of GB on a card and play the game from that alone.
We shall see
PS: Lets not hope for the turok 64 days where games are 70 quid thou!
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You've met the videogames industry before, right?
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And also why is this in the PS3 section? It doesn't fail all the time.
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It even states at the end "By partnering with Uniloc, we are not only taking steps to review and upgrade our copy protection, but this approach also means that there will be no benefit to the consumer to source unofficial product ahead of the street date."
Personally I've never enjoyed these types of games, but that's down to personal choice. Also, I play consoles these days so this doesn't affect me. But I've heard so many complaints off mates about DRM stuff it's not funny. One actually said he'd have been better off pirating the game, and he is the most anti-piracy bloke I've ever known.
So, yeah, good job all.
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"Im pretty sure passing my cash over the counter gives me the right to use the product in anyway I see fit"
You're kidding right? have you ever read an EULA?
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"Is it me or are vast swathes of the games industry launching incomplete or broken games at the moment? What happened to QA?"
Shareholders happened.
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I buy FM every year but not this time due to this ridiculous activation nonsense. Plus you can activate it 5 times or whatever so you can just get a code of one of your mates who has bought it ! good thinking!
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"We've seen all the complaints and controversy surrounding the DRM used in games like Spore, Red Alert, Bioshock and Mass Effect.....
.....so we're going to do exactly the same thing!"
Then all this crap on launch day - almost makes me glad I got it off Steam!
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I am not sure how SI/ Sega get away with this year in year out.
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http://ww w.amazon.co.uk/Football-Manager...
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97% buy the item featured on this page:
Football Manager 2009 (PC/Mac) (122)
£25.99
Only seems to be putting off 3 percent of the blighters tho!
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As of late? So I guess Yakuza 2, Valkyria Chronicles, Thunder Force VI, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan!, The Club, Universe at War: Earth Assault, Fantasy Zone Complete Collection, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood and Sonic Unleashed are all crap eh? They could publish better games, but every publisher sells crap. Sega happens to have a tolerable ratio of said crap. They're hardly at Midway or Atari levels.