[Older FM titles support]

Hi @anagain. I did not want to sound aggressive, but I am demanding. Not demanding for a solution in the weekend of course. 

I understand that there is a 99% chance that no solution will be offered, but I firmly believe it is wrong.
It is such a simple task, and the only thing that can be holding them back -losing income from sales- does not apply anymore for a 15 year old seasonal game.

I would like also for a solution to be offered for us owners to access the FM08 steam version since it is there, but I also do not see that one coming.

The reason why I demand an answer is exactly the kind of responses that this thread you attached has from SI staff. Nothing really.

And yes, I may be able to find patch links and ways to run the game in win10 via shady practices or via enabling a driver that is a security risk, but not anyone is that tech savvy, and they should not be.
There are little things a dev can do to recognise the support of their long term supporters and buyers. This thing is one of them.

 

Regards.

[Older FM titles support]

While I get that this is a bummer, it is a different issue.
MacOS dropping the compatibility of 32bit apps is something you cannot expect a dev to amend. They have to code new executables.
With Windows the only problem is the Safedisc/Securom DRM which driver is a security breach and has been removed. Not an incopatible app altogether.
 

And even if I'm going the route of installin an older version of windows etc, the official patches of these games should be somewhere for us to download.

[Older FM titles support]

How you download what?

And I'm not going to drop it, I expect a SI answer eventually.

You see older games rereleased. This is not the case here due to licensing.

You see older games having problems because the developer ceased to exist. Also not the case thankfully.

You see older games left alone due to developer/publisher practices. I think that SI can afford to spend 5 minutes of their working time to remove the DRM from 4 games released 12 to 15 years ago. As a courtesy to those who support you since day one if you like.

[Older FM titles support]

I own all FM titles since the conversion to Football manager in 2005, up to 2020.

Lately I wanted to revisit some of the older titles.

It is outrageous that I have to resort to shady practices to have FM07 and FM08 running on my Win10 pc, just because of the DRM.

And just for education purposes, FM08 IS AVAILABLE ON STEAM PLATFORM. It has an appID, it is available to SI employees etc.

https://steamdb.info/app/10480/subs/

It is even more outrageous that I'm out of luck for FM 05 and 06 even with the shady practices, as the latest patches were never bypassed.

I understand that due to licensing you cannot re-release the games in steam for example. But you could just upload a small patch that removes the DRM from latest patches of FM05-08 (the games that have not got a steam-epic-whatever version), so that we LEGIT buyers from back then could play them if we wish. Or some process that we that we own FM08 can be given a Steam Key for FM08.

Also, to have the patches for these four games uploaded somewhere official from SI would not take so much bandwidth.

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