Monday 6 September 2010

FML... an addiction that may be harmful to your health

Football Manager Live . Sign up play and be miserable. Apparently.

I have been playing this game for around 16 months now (after years of Football Manager and Chapionship Manager etc). It offers an interaction that will be the closest most of us will ever get to actually managing a proper professional team- which is a welcome relief to most clubs.

The stunning thing recently is the amount of people on the forums that seem to be playing with the most negative stand-point, but still logging in and still spending some hours both playing and posting anti-FML gash on the forums.

Why? Christ knows. Or maybe he is as bemused as me.

Its a bloody game. It costs £4.99 a month to subscribe to and for that you can play as little or as much as you want- but you have the ability to program your side to perform the way that you want when you are offline.

You can cease playing when you want. You can cancel your subscription. You can turn off your PC and leave your house to re-familiarise yourself with the sun and 'other real people'. You could even, if that suggestion was too horrifying, play a different game *shock* *horror*. Some people say they have long term subscriptions... well, what part of 'you still don't have to spend your time doing something you resent' are you struggling with.

Only idiots stay with products that they are truly unhappy with. If you have a way of removing yourself from a Gas supplier, Mobile contract, pie shop subscription... then you do it.

There are issues with the game that need looking at. There are things that can be annoying.... but when it reaches the point that you hate playing a game. Stop. Re-evaluate your life.Re-evaluate your free time.

Some people are stunning examples of Intellectual Pygmies.


Even Jesus facepalms you


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