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I'm sorry, but where do I need to write this command line? Can't find it.

What the title says. I can't find it, not even with help from Google.

Really glad that in the tactics interface, the two attacking midfielders are now spread out, so you don't need to have a line of three to make them operate in the half spaces. (I hope.)

After all those years, it's not unreasonable to expect something done about set pieces and international management, for example? I know FM is a complex game, but if this is it for this year, then... I don't know the English equivalent of "being happy with a dead mosquito", but that's the first thought in my head at the moment. Oh well, I'll lie back and think of England. And preorder and PAY, of course.

Well, then it isn't Miles Roulette, it's a surrogate. It's a blog with small features then. But, as you know, when there is/seems (?) so little to advertise, then putting small features in a blogpost isn't smart. A couple of loose tweets with little features: fine. A blogpost creates expectations - and they're mocked, and I can understand why. I still hope there's some sort of big announcement yet to make, but for the first time in years, I'm really unhappy with what's presented and mostly how it's presented, like I've said in my post on page 12. I'll still buy FM 23 - because FM is at its core a really good game and you get excellent return for your money - but that means - for me, that is - that FM 24 needs to have a big overhaul on a tactical (more flexibility, more focus on set pieces, concepts like half spaces, defensive overloads) and graphical level (not what the players should look like, but the stadiums, the pitch textures, feeling the distinction between Champions League and LLM - without the trick of music - the flow of matches should be waaaaay different). I hope that will be there with the implementation of women's football in FM 24, because you can't sell an overblown patch two years in a row at full price. This year they can take me for granted, next year not so much.

I love me some cynicism. And rightfully so. The fact that an omnipresent stat in football analysis like PPDA is added is cool, hoping that it implies you can really implement a hard press - with wingbacks joining the press high up the pitch as promised. But still, the scarf thing, the hairstyle... That would've been better for Miles' roulette than for a blog. Their promotional campaign is laughable like that. Set pieces and international management can't be ignored another year, can they? Especially for the latter: all the tools that would make IM way more interesting (training, designated squad numbers per match) are already in game. Why not match them? Oh well. We'll have to wait and see. David Foster Wallace would've called this edition of FM The Year of the Scarf.

The lack of meaningful information about the new FM, so close to release date, combined with the lackluster, internally overhyped headline features - much ado about not that much - is starting to bother me and feels disrespectful towards the FM community. It's like they're taking the fans and sales figures for granted. I wish there would be some honesty in the promotional content, an admission that there are no world changing features because they're working on something bigger for FM 24 or FM 25 - which takes time and resources. A new graphics enginge because of the introduction of women's football, for example. I'm Belgian, and the FM promotion machine is giving me some Robert Martínez vibes, who's always hyperbolic in his positivity when there's actually not that much to be positive about.