CoffeeKittyGrey

Wow. Imagine being this offended by womens football. I mean, sure, there's lot of other genuine gripes on Reddit, when isn't there on any given subject, but quite a lot of them are a thinly-veiled protest at women's football making the game worse/late/unplayable. Might have to see what bulk offerings there are on Popcorn at Costco for November/December.

It's an observation, partly based on the popularity of laptops in the enormously popular laptop thread. Indeed, the overarching discussion of recent months has been people wondering whether their laptop will cut it. For many, it won't. You've imagined a complaint, but no offence taken, mistake easily made in this environment.

Well, the minimum and recommended specs are out and seem to preclude any kind of iGPU in a laptop unless you want it to look like 8bit? A 2060 is about 50% faster than the current Radeon 880M and I'm not sure Intel iGPU offerings - Arc/Iris XE2 competes with 880M either.

Brand Resources page is still all 2024. https://www.footballmanager.com/brand-resources#:~:text=The Football Manager 2024 brand resource It'll come once they start releasing announcements to the media I'd have thought.

Twas always thus. My account age belies the several decades I've visited this forum around launch time looking for information and finding indifference and arguments. The starter of rich creamy outrage typically contains the crunchy crouton of claimed disinterest and the soggy dumpling of defeatism during the pre-release period, then the undercooked Cacciatore of complaint once the beta is out. If you remain at the table long enough entrenched positions are assumed over the post-release dessert whereupon the After Eight of Entitlement faces off against the Fino of Fanboyism and the mods end up asking people to get off the table or kicking them out altogether.

Once this can't be played on a laptop with at least a recent iGPU I'll be done with it. Not used a Desktop for FM in years aside from occasional weekends where kids and partner are away, most of my precious FM time is on the laptop around babies napping, babies needing a cwtch at night, watching footy, or commuting/stuck in a hotel. Not withstanding the huge number of people in the Laptop Benchmark thread that shows a thriving number of Laptop users.

Stands to reason if they have a delay. Early Access at end of November, given Early Access is effectively a Beta Bug Hunt, would involve pushing the final release to mid December surely? Not sure SI can please everyone here.

This. I've got 11 games on my Steam Wishlist at present, and 9 are available to pre-order. Some have nothing more than a few screenshots available at this point. It's entirely normal.

I think it definitely attracts those who preferred the dumbed down FM Touch, or the CM series post SI split. There's a simplicity in the lack of detail that will appeal to those looking at something more arcade and less simulation, but I share @Birdman10piyu's sentiment that the ME is awful. The only way i see it challenging FM anytime soon is if FM25 and onwards forsakes laptop playability in favour of desktop specs.

Can you imagine the meltdown were the women's game to be announced as it has been and then delayed? I imagine the backlash from people who don't even play, follow, watch (or simulate) football would outweigh any metrics or commercial argument. SI can't afford to make itself a target for cancellation by bandwagon hoppers.

An excellent point.

Feels like CM 03/04 all over again. The focus should have been FM25 on time for PC, but frankly Console and Touch can sod off too. Remains to be seen whether womens football has a large enough database and enough data to make it worth the challenge, so I'm not sure delaying FM for a virtue-signalling addition is a good idea if neither are polished as a result. Might well skip this edition - By the time it's launched there's only half a season left and I lose interest once the football season ends and Spring/Summer is here. A real shame too that FM24 has no real playability, I'm 500hrs down on most years, because it's just so bloated and hard to maintain a long term save. As for weight, it's irrelevant. Doesn't impact the men's game and if it isn't realistic for a fluctuating women's game then it's time to be rid - it's cosmetic at best, bloated data at worst. The outrage incoming over making a change to accommodate women should be worth getting some popcorn in for though.

I knelt on it. Thus fracturing the screen and case. An expensive lack of care on my part.

Not as such, if I'm going to game, it'll be on the Desktop, I use a laptop for work, the accounts, for photography, home budgeting and organisation and have typically had a Dell XPS/Surface Book with higher end spec because I can take FM with me and hit bite size chunks, I've got a wee baby daughter so there's less desktop now too and my XPS 13 (Which was always too small really) has died. Well, I knelt on it, and it bent like 'Geller'd' spoon. I don't have time to sit at a PC for FM anymore, especially when a season in 1999 used to take an evening and now it's about a month Preference comes down to not having free cash anymore. Babies are expensive it turns out. I'll finance it i imagine, so either 0% via Finance or Paypal probably. I don't like using Credit Cards and acruing interest. Normally I'd stick £250 a month aside, but little Coffee either grows out of clothes or trashes them with food/nursery at a rate that exceeds my ability to save. I could also use Very? I've got an account with about £4000 credit on that's only ever used for BNPL baby stuff and appliances. But yeah, FM is the only game I'll ever play on it. The XPS was great, but the Iris XE graphics really started to struggle by FM24 and I'd like something that's going to hopefully hold up until FM26/7. I can't see SI suddenly taking a game that's so popular on laptops and making its demands such that you need a desktop - just look at the popularity of this thread after all, but they are also going to have to pander to the "needs to look like FIFA/Bambi on Ice" brigade so I'm certain that iGPU is no longer an option. I'm mostly scouting 15", i7-13700##/Ryzen 9 7940## or above with at least 16GB of RAM and a Gen 4 SSD, Wifi 6/6E which is all easy enough, but I'm not familiar at all with mobile GPU's. Edit: looking at Very, this seems like a decent option without looking like a kids RGB gaming rig: https://www.very.co.uk/asus-vivobook-pro-15-laptop-156in-fhd-amd-ryzen-9-geforce-rtx-4060nbsp16gb-ramnbsp512gb-ssd-m6500xv-lp036w-blue/1600910786.prd Obviously VERY will pretend it's actually £1599 and reduced, but they do this with all of them, as do other retailers, so I ignore the fictitious savings, it's £1000 on Asus and other retailers and has been for ages without a pretend discount. Could probably just get it on Asus direct with Paypal, but I'll also need to scout Blue Light Card discounts as they can be handy too.

Up to about £1500