So retail is well underway for FM fans everywhere, I was “lucky” enough to be chosen to moderate in the first to go live nearly two weeks ago. As a moderator in FML, tho this post could well spell the end to that! Hopefuly not as the game has such good prospects and its great being involved. Onwards and downwards with my post…
Well quite frankly, the game is heavily bugged still, and as a mods we’re finding it quite hard to explain away all these bugs, in the Beta tests we would repeatedly say everything will be sorted in time for release and that finding these bugs now would help make the retail release all shiny awesome, how wrong could we be!
Right now my young Warriors are suffering a crisis, a plague is running through town taking down players left right and centre. My squad has had 7 injuries two days running, there are many other teams with the same problem, strangely we’re all youth teams, whats causing it is some bright spark at SI decided that U21 games shouldn’t count towards the activity rating which governs how many injuries a team gets depending on how often you play, so what’s happening is all the Youth teams are getting hit hard by injuries as we play as few senior games as possible as we don’t want to harm our youngsters progression. Unfortunately there’s no official word from SI on this matter maybe we’ll get a response like the FM2009 injury crisis, which was we don’t think there’s a problem and we’ll look into it, at least SI are showing continuity between releases.
A few weeks ago we where told that we wouldn’t be able to take skills between Gameworlds and would have to restart them unless we moved to a Pro Gameworld. Sounds fair enough as skills can be perceived a big advantage when others have none, but whats happened, someone at SI was rumoured to have forgot to put the measures in place and people have been jumping to new Gameworlds with their skills intact.
Elsewhere we’ve got a bug that takes more money than it should and with cash being so tight in the first season its really hurting people financial standings. What’s happened is the game is having problems where it should be applying transfer negotiation skills, and is causing people to pay over what the price is for free agents, or its not taking off discounts where it should. Oops.
Another weird one we experienced in Gameworld Cantona was when the Season started some players ages changed when they shouldn’t have done, well that’s what we where told in beta, players wouldn’t age until the start of the 2nd season, a bit of back peddling from SI and they’ve decided that’s what should have happened! Hmmmm are they sure? Expect a change of mind soon as some players have actually managed to get younger, is that another part of the plan then?
Well there you go, some glaring bugs hampering what at the core is a great game, personally if you haven’t yet joined the FML experience I wouldn’t bother, its defiantly not worth it, and someone said recently “its just like paying for Beta” ouch. I think people are better off waiting until January/February and getting the game then as there will be new features that and hopefully a bug free experience!
