I am a huge fan of the Football Manager (and before that, the Championship Manager) series. Like other people around the world, i’ve waited the 14th of November, 2008 so i can play the brand new Football Manager 2009! I’ve decided to buy this one since i don’t play many games in a year and therefore could afford it.

When i discovered that it was available to buy and download via Steam, i thought of trying it (i don’t like dvd-cases anyway). There, i found out that the price (i can’t recall the exact amount right now) was the same as the dvd-edition.. So, i decided to wait a few hours and think about it.

While i was visiting some FM forums to read the first impressions about the new game, i read the same thing a lot of times: a lot of users couldn’t activate the game, therefore couldn’t play it! It wasn’t a coincidence that when the game appeared in the ..dark part of the web, the activation servers (with fewer users trying to activate simultaneously) worked again!

After this, i downloaded and played it! It is very good by the way! I waited long enough to buy it in a more affordable price, and when the amazon’s £17.96 considered fine, i did!

The funny part of the story is that when my original dvd arrived, neither mine nor anyone’s else dvd drive managed to read it, so i just installed my downloaded version using my new activation code..

It is too hard to sell a game from Steam for a normal price (for example £15) and save me (and possibly others) from all this trouble?

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