I think I'd seen FM Live for a few days and thought 'oh it's fantasy football I was expecting more'. The game then has moved steadily from that module to more of FM09 / MMORPG type game.
Yet there seems some sort of indecision on SI's part to lend a firm hand on exactly what the game is all about. It's unfair on new users to expect to start in a five season old gameworld. Why? You start in an old gameworld poor you start in a new gameworld poor.
'Yeah but it's not fair on the n00bs competing with experienced managers in established gameworlds'. So it's fair for them to try and compete with experienced managers in new ones, if anything it's going to be a horrible experience for them!
New managers make mistakes, they spend too much on too little, the common mistake is 'my £20k Aq Fee striker isn't any good, so I'll buy another £20k Aq Fee striker, oh he's not too good either' so they end up with squads of 40 useless players. Of course the old pros delight in selling them another £20k Aq Fee striker who's been playing in a great team got a 7+ Av rating and has scored loads for £250k.
OK so that's a learning curve that they have to go through. In an old world the old pros have long since got rid of their £20k Aq Fee strikers and £250k isn't really worth the bother besides as they see their gameworlds slowly die their all the more happy to help the new players out. Their not actually competing with them yet anyway.
Coming back to a point as long as you've 100 or so new managers coming in a season then they really don't need to compete with anyone but 100 managers.
Of course after a season or so I think it's natural that they'd like to start again lessons learnt and maybe then would be ready for the rigors of a new gameworld.
SI now have a new subscriber only policy to new gameworlds, 'omg hold the phone' I bet there are a good few old pros literally salivating at the prospect. So it's not really going to be a newbie only gameworld, then the actual newbies who for quite genuine reasons would like to move to a new gameworld WON'T BE ABLE TO!
Good grief.
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