Football Manager - Interview with Miles Jacobson

The Football Manager series is already hugely popular, with legions of fans donning the virtual sheepskin coat to manage their team to championship glory. There have been forays into multiplayer options, but it's not been a major focus of the game - until now. We've got an exclusive interview with developer Sports Interactive's Miles Jacobson who tells us about Football Manager Live - an online version of the game where you will be able to pit your wits against, and perhaps team up with, other managers in a virtual world of football. Find out more: read our full exclusive Football Manager interview now.
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Football Manager - Interview with Miles Jacobson
The dangerously addictive Football Manager series has merely dabbled with multiplayer action over the years with hotseat play and network games. Now SI has announced a full-on MMO, created from scratch to give you the chance to prove your managerial mettle against all the other Joses, Rafas and Fergies. We caught up with Sports Interactive’s Miles Jacobson, who was waiting in the dugout to explain the developers’ gameplan to us…

Why develop FM Live and not expand the multiplayer experience in Football Manager?
We are always looking to improve all areas of all of our games, but FML is a very different game to FM, made by a separate team, and while elements and areas of the game are the same to FM, the overall package is very different.
Would you say the FM Live experience is more of a high class fantasy football game than a traditional football management video game?
No, because traditional Fantasy Leagues are based around real world games. It borrows elements from there, and also the US Fantasy Sports games, which are very different to their European counterparts. The best description would be a cross between Football Manager, an auction site, fantasy sports and social networking.

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