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To Purchase or not
Topic Started: Jan 27 2012, 03:50 PM (362 Views)
Chad Beaulieu
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Wanted to get the opinion of those who frequent FMNA on whether to purchase FM 2012 or not?

Before you answer, please consider the following:
In all my saves, I include the MLS as a playable league (I know it can be added later now on FM 12) but I play on a MAC and I understand there is a major problem (with scheduling) for the MLS and those playing on a MAC.

I am asking for those who have played with MLS, how playable is it, as I have read here (and elsewhere) that there are many bugs that make the game unplayable as of patch 12.1.1.

So, based on all this, is it worth purchasing FM 12 (as of patch 12.1.1) to manage in the MLS or not?

Appreciate your feedback
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Uncle Sam
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I might wait until the next patch. If it fixes the annoying bugs, then this will be by far the best version of FM for MLS yet. But the MAC bugs are pretty much game breaking as I understand it (Im on a PC).
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looknohands
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Agreed. I'm having a great time playing on the PC with the help of FMRTE, but the Mac bugs sound pretty bad. I'd definitely wait the month or so until the next patch should be out.
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Mac version of FM 12 stinks, and my Steam program won't even update it with the new patches. FM 11 has more play ability.

Edit: ok I was pretty frustrated at the time I posted this. I was tired of playing on mute cause the darn crowd noise wouldn't go away after the game is done (don't know if that's Mac specific or not...) and the MLS being unplayable due to the draft being non existent, scheduling nightmare, et al. FM 12 IMO is a dressed up version of FM 11, but it has some cool new features that make the game feel nice (I really like the adding/subtracting league feature), so I should retract my statement of FM 12 stinking...I have a fun Plymouth save, so the game isn't/wasn't as bad as I said it was, sorry for that impression. (3-20-12)
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When is the next patch coming out?
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looknohands
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Next week or two, I would guess. I believe they released it right around this time last year, but nothing's set in stone.
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Chad Beaulieu
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Jan 29 2012, 05:53 PM
Mac version of FM 12 stinks, and my Steam program won't even update it with the new patches.  FM 11 has more play ability.

Scorekeeper: The new patch has been out for a few weeks now, has the fixes solved the MAC problems specific to the MLS?

So now I ask:
Wanted to get the opinion of those who frequent FMNA on whether to purchase FM 2012 or not?

Before you answer, please consider the following:
In all my saves, I include the MLS as a playable league (I know it can be added later now on FM 12) but I play on a MAC and I understand there is a major problem (with scheduling) for the MLS and those playing on a MAC.

I am asking for those who have played with MLS, how playable is it, as I have read here (and elsewhere) that there are many bugs that make the game unplayable.

So, based on all this, is it worth purchasing FM 12 (as of patch 12.2.1) to manage in the MLS or not?

Appreciate your feedback
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looknohands
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I don't have a Mac, but I believe that all of the big issues have been properly addressed. The only major bug that I've found after the latest patch is international slots expiring before the end of the season; I've had traded slots expire at the end of the November (good) and some that have ended at the end of October (bad news for a playoff run!) Aside from that, I have two slots showing up as lasting until 1/1/1900...so who knows when they'll expire. :blink:
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Chad Beaulieu
Mar 19 2012, 01:51 PM

Scorekeeper: The new patch has been out for a few weeks now, has the fixes solved the MAC problems specific to the MLS?

I gave up FM for lent, so until Easter I won't know. Hopefully everything will be ok. Before I gave it up, I was constantly going back and forth bewteen FM 11 and FM 12. IMO FM 12 seems like they dressed up the game alot with a new menu this and a new feature that- but the crowd noise bug really annoyed me, plus the MLS not being playable at the time annoyed me further. I got some good play out of a Plymouth save, and out of my custom American Premiership save. But for some reason I still kept going back to FM 11. Maybe cause at the time FM 12 came out I was managing Liverpool and USA. I managed to do the treble with Liverpool, League Cup, Euro Cup, Premiership Champs, and a Gold Cup with USA, working towards the World Cup, all the while waiting for a new patch to come out. I also really wanted to play on Uncle Sam's North America db, it is really cool, but would crash around March since it was made for the 12.04 patch, not the 12.1. So anyway, when lent is over I'll know whether to thank FM for fixing things or continue to curse their incompetence.
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Phew! Lent is over and I can resume my FM addiction :P

Disappointed that the darn sound problem STILL hasn't been fixed...
Starting a MLS save today and going to see if the patch fixed anything
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looknohands
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It broke the ability to re-sign players to a DP contract. Sadly, it's the end of my time with FM12...
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