This guide explains how the Football Manager 2010 Data Editor can be used to edit player data and create new competitions - examples include editing FM 2010 player data to add a new favoured club and duplicating and existing competition in order to create your own.
Football Manager 2012 fans have reacted angrily to the news that the PC game requires Steam to play.
Any version of Football Manager 2012 bought on disc has to be activated through Steam, publisher Sega confirmed this month.
Gamers have to have an internet connection for initial activation - a one-time only activation which requires you sign up for a Steam account and install the Steam client.
Once done, the game can be played offline by turning on Steam's Offline mode, but that hasn't stopped fans from venting their fury on developer Sports Interactive's forum.
3802 comments fill the 39 pages (at the time of writing) that make up the 'A Message On Football Manager 2012 Activation' thread.
Inside the debate on Football Manager's Steam activation rages, with some threatening to refuse to buy the game because of it.
Sega said the decision was taken to combat piracy. If a quarter of the people that usually pirate the game buy it, the publisher said, sales worldwide would more than double.
'As you may remember, last year we decided against any activation as we couldn't find a solution that we thought struck a balance on combating piracy and not penalising the genuine consumer,' Sega said.
'We did make our position on anti-piracy pretty clear though, we see it as a big problem for our game and we said we'd continue to look for a solution that stopped, or made it very difficult to pirate the game and play it for free.
'This year we have found what we believe is an acceptable solution.
'We appreciate that the vast majority of people reading this post on the forums are genuine consumers of the game, and that having to activate is not as simple as putting the game in the drive and playing.
'However we hope that, as a fan of the game, you feel that having to do a one-time activation is worth it to try to prevent others playing the game for free and stealing what you purchase with no punishment, and with no contribution toward the future of Football Manager and it's development.
'Make no mistake, if a quarter of the people that usually pirate the game switch to purchasing Football Manager 2012, the sales of the game worldwide would more than double.'
'Make no mistake, if a quarter of the people that usually pirate the game switch to purchasing Football Manager 2012, the sales of the game worldwide would more than double. This would lead to increased development budgets and more benefits for all of you who do buy the game.
'We've taken this decision because we believe that the steps the consumer has to take are not excessive, and that as a one-time only measure with no tracking or reporting it is not too intrusive. Having worked with Steam for a few years now we also believe that their system is ever improving and gives Football Manager players a good service of free auto-updating, achievements and other great benefits without cost or hassle.
'We hope you understand and support the decision. It's by no means taken lightly, although I hope for the vast majority of you it's nowhere near as big an issue as we treat it as being.'
Always-on internet requirements are currently a hot topic of debate among PC gamers.
Blizzard suffered a backlash of its own following the revelation that upcoming PC action RPG Diablo 3 cannot be played offline.
Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce told Eurogamer the decision was taken as part of a wider effort to create an 'always-connected community' around all of its games, and that piracy was 'not the driving factor'.
'Ultimately, if people want to pirate the game, they're going to find ways to pirate the game whether we require an online connection or not,' he said.
About This File
IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ!
The version of FMRTE was designed to work with FM 12.2.2
STEAM automatically updates the game when a new patch is released.
While it’s advisable to keep the game updated, you should know that every time the game is updated it makes FMRTE useless, meaning that it also needs to be updated.
So if you want to keep using FMRTE, you SHOULD use STEAM in OFFLINE mode, or do a full backup of the folder of the game, so you can restore it later.
This is to prevent the game from being updated automatically as we cannot GUARANTEE that we will be able to update FMRTE to make it work with a future game patch.
FMRTE Requires .NET FRAMEWORK 4.0
Changelist (5.2.5 to 5.2.7)
- Fixed offline activation
Changelist (5.2.4 to 5.2.5)
- Added support for the new licenses purchased in our online store
Changelist (5.2.3 to 5.2.4)
- Improved loading times for 12.2.2 users
- Improved the future transfers list, now you can edit them without requiring to open the player profile, you can also filter them (usefull for users that want to transfer player to their teams, by filtering you can easily choose transfers from/to useless teams to being replaced by your own transfers..)
- Now the user will receive an error message if the transfer date is changed to a date that is to close from the ingame date (to avoid game crashes!)
- Added leagues colours
- Added leagues winter ball colour
- Added leagues winter ball start and end date
- Added a update checker, so now FMRTE will automatically check for updates, and warn you if a new version is available
- Fixed some minor bugs
- Fixed a bug that was causing (in some rare cases) FMRTE to keep asking for activation even when it was already activated
Changelist (5.2.2 to 5.2.3)
- Added support for 12.2.2 Patch (Retail, Russian and Korean versions)
- Added teams reputation into clubs information screen, now you can also edit the reputation of other teams (U23, U21, etc..)
- Now the installer won’t override the user settings
- Fixed a bug in clubs information screen (it was causing FMRTE to crash when viewing some clubs)
- The current screen button and miniFMRTE are not working for users with 12.2.2 Patch
Changelist (5.2.1 to 5.2.2)
- Added support for 12.2.1 Patch (Retail and Russian versions)
Changelist (5.2.0 to 5.2.1)
- Fixed the current screen button (12.2.0 Russian version)
- Fixed a bug that was causing FMRTE to think that the another savegame was loaded, asking the user to reload FMRTE (12.2.0 Russian version)
- Fixed a bug that was preventing FMRTE from loading players retirements and future transfers (12.2.0 Russian version)
- Improved the way FMRTE loads the game data (12.2.0 patch)
Changelist (5.1.4 to 5.2.0)
- Added support for 12.2.0
- Added support for 12.2.0 Russian version
- Fixed a bug that was causing FMRTE to use more resources then it needed
Changelist (5.1.3.2 to 5.1.4)
- Fixed a bug in clubs tactics information
- Improved the way FMRTE displays clubs/nations colours, in some cases the colors that FMRTE used made it difficult to read (eg USA)
- Fixed a bug in nations new features (it was only working for users with 12.1.0/1 patch installed)
- Fixed a bug that caused FMRTE to use more resources and CPU
FM versions supported:
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.2.2.259383 (Retail version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.2.2.259411 (Russian version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.2.2.259419 (Korean version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.2.2.259511 (Press version)
Legacy FM versions (FMRTE may not work properly):
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.0.2.230123 (Retail version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.0.2.230282 (Russian version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.0.3.231651 (Retail version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.0.3.231880 (Russian version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.0.4.233639 (Retail version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.0.4.233445 (Russian version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.1.0.242761 (Retail version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.1.1.244099 (Retail version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.1.1.244112 (Russian version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.1.1.244137 (Korean version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.2.0.256784 (Retail version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.2.0.256820 (Russian version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.2.1.257899 (Retail version)
- Football Manager 2012 – 12.2.1.258025 (Russian version)
What's New in Version 5.2.7
Released