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I appreciate their decision. I think they should just fold it and work toward 2026, and give us an updated database for 2025 in the 2024 game. All the best for the dev team, it must be a stressful time for them

Part of me thinks that (obviously they are not oblivious to the mood of the community at the moment) they are very confident about what they will show us and therefore not worrying about it. I want to believe this. But again, part of me thinks that if this is the case the best thing to do for the community is to reassure people with some meatier info. FM gods, if you are watching this, just show us the game, match engine and all, and end the speculation.

You won't be able to manage a nation, say for example Portugal, you will only be able to manage clubs.

https://www.footballmanager.com/roadmap I might be reading too much into it, but has anyone else noticed the images of each Roadmap date seem to be a gameplay view of a stadium, especially focused on the top of the stadium? Could we perhaps get a manager dugout camera this year, where we get to see the stadium from a real manager perspective? That would be cool Also, thanks @forameuss for your take on the agile stuff. I also agree with you, its a fear of mine about this year though.

I'd be surprised if they were not invited. The whole playing community got invited to declare availability to test at S.I. Setp/Oct. If we got that invite, then no doubt content creators also have been over there. I wouldn't call myself a content creator, but I play FM and I put it on YouTube, and I have 1 patreon sub, haha. Feel free to look me up, VanillaFM. Been playing for years, since the very first incarnation of it back in the CM times. I had a couple of other female mates at school who also played, but we didn't really talk about it as much as the guys. I think the female community is larger than people realise. On women's football coming to the game, it makes absolute sense, it's football, isn't it? Full disclaimer, I don't watch women's football, and I barely watch men's football nowadays, I fell out of love with it when it became about big marketing and big money in the early 2010s, but I still watch international football, mostly men's but also women's. In FM I tend to play my local club, or a really small obscure club and bring it up through the ranks, I like the whole process of building something! Occasionally I play the big clubs, Barcelona being one of my favourites for that. I have played international management, but not as often as clubs. And I think women's football needs to be seen in that light, it enrichs the game with more leagues!! More places to explore on the journeyman's saves. This is why I am gutted international management is gone, as it takes away storyline richness in our saves. I'd like to ask the community here for their take on my "unpopular opinion", here is: I think the beta might still come a week before, BUT if not, we might be entering a phase of FM where the beta is replaced by a release model all about small iterative updates, regular weekly patching and new features, that sort of thing, continuously through the whole cycle, which will mean for us, even more engagement with the devs, reporting bug, not just in a big cram during a beta period, and continual feature requests that might get delivered whenever, not just at every yearly release. The dev community would call it Agile sprints, and it may cycle through right up to next summer, and then fed into FM26. What would people say of something like that?

I have not posted in this thread for a long time!! This will probably be one of the last episodes of FM2024, but I finally made it into the Champions League with Hereford! And it is also looking like we might be able to win the Premier League

Yeah same. Not pre-ordered yet, although I probably will eventually. The issue is that I don't think it is right to ask for pre-order without any gameplay footage being available yet.

I am sorry, this might already have been answered elsewhere, but is there a definite answer for this? I am hoping to be able to plan some annual leave around this time - if there is a beta that is.

Finally started my FM23 save. https://youtu.be/y9B9rs-4FDg

I was a little delayed starting FM22 - house move issues - but got around to it eventually ! Follow along as I attempt to take Hereford FC to the Premier League again for this edition of the game.