I am afraid you are the idiot.

A little history lesson for you :

Championship Manager came about due to the popularity of the 80's football manager game called : "Football Manager"

That said, Championship Manager became the brand and best game ever developed until the split in 2005. Now PLEASE pay attention to this!!!!

Football Manager IS Championship Manager in all but name. Championship Manager's FULL team of developers and programers and writers and everything that made Champ Man what it was...... Started Football Manager.

Do you understand now that people who love Champ Man because its the original blah blah... they dont understand that they are buying a brand name and nothing more!

So imagine you LOVE BMW cars. but BMW gets sold to Fiat. and BMW factories, workers, designers, suppliers etc. all leave and start a new company called BMF. the BMW is now basically a Fiat car by fiat designers and fiat engineers, whilst the BMF is the original BMW without the name.

If you only care about the name, then great... but if you truly loved the design, programming, vision etc... then you really need to stick with the people who made the brand in the first place!!! without THEM there would never have been Champ Man original...

If you want a free version of Championship Manager, you should try IT Manager III: Unseen Forces... It includes similar strategy and competitive processes except it is completely free ...

http://itmanager3.intel.com/en-gb/default.aspx?iid=ITMG_IgniteSeed_UK_theinquirer

Can i just remind the idiots saying there is only one football manager game worth playing, That championship manager was the original, Football Manager would never have been without it so yes you are right there is only one football manager game and thats CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER!.

Ohh, this would be that 'other' Football manager game then? ;p

The article suggest that you're supposed to decide the price when you pre-order.
Surely this can't be right?
Of course the correct price can't be determined until after playing it for a while!

It's just like the restaurants where you pay what you think it's worth to you, *after* the meal.

I am going to miss the good old times. You know, when the whole game, start to finish, was in one disc. And the even older times, when it was technically solid as patches had to be distributed physically, for only very major bugs (NFS III had no bugs at all, Prostreet had millions)

Now, you buy half of the game on the disc, and then you'll have to go through hoops and authenitcations circles to get the other half that's on some server. Have you realized how much half assed are the games of know compared to previous ages?

I 'll never buy such a game, unless it's free. They are a scam

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Why would I pay $2.51 for this and not get the online element? Pretty much every recent game I've ever pirated worked fine, except for the online elements. So they want me to pay for what is essentially the pirated version? That's the whole reason I usually pay for games eventually. I want to be able to play online.

How about give away the basic game for free, then sell access to the online parts, as well as some add-ons?

how about synchronized swimming manager.

goto
www.championshipmanager.co.uk

then follow links it works fine that way

Who would want to play a football manager game anyway? I couldn't think of a more boring game concept, maybe that's why they seem to be giving it away cheaply?

There is only 1 football manager game to play and that is definitely not Champ Manager, although for 1p it is certainly tempting to see what they have to offer.

I tried the link and the buy now button gives me a website fail page of some sorts :-(

Oh well, back to my elite squad with Man City from Football Manager 2009...