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Over the weekend, Football Manager 2011 on PC & Mac went “gold” on 5 of the 8 versions of the disc that are due to be manufactured, with the other 3 discs turning up later today.

That means that work has now started on the demo, and I can now reveal when it will be released.
We are releasing the demo this year in 2 phases, with strawberry on Thursday (Steam only) and vanilla and strawberry torrent & direct download on Friday.

There are many reasons that we’ve decided to release the demo in this way this year. We basically don’t have enough time to get all the different versions built and tested by Wednesday night, so had to decide whether to release them all on Friday, or split them.

So last week, SEGA’s global marketing teams started talking to various possible partners to release the demo that would mean that everyone who wanted to get the strawberry demo on Thursday could do completely for free without breaking SIgames.com & FM.com (as happens every year), and those that were more patient, or didn’t want to use Steam for whatever reason, could still get the demo on what was the originally planned date of 2 weeks before release.

As mentioned above, the only other option was to delay all of the releases.

Our partners for the demo will be MirrorFootball in the UK, Marca in Spain, Veikkaaja in Finland and L’Equipe in France, but that does not mean that customers in other countries will be unable to get the demo. We will of course provide information at SIgames.com and footballmanager.com as soon as the demo is available so that any customer in the world is able to download the demo via Steam as soon as it goes live.

The demo will have 12 playable leagues – England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and is available in all languages.

At some point on Friday 22nd, we’ll make the demo available for direct download and torrent, and a vanilla version of the demo, which will feature just the English and Scottish leagues.

I know one of the first question I’ll be asked it “why choose to go with Steam first, rather than one of the others?”.

Now that it’s a PC and Mac distribution platform, everyone can get it via the system, it provides great download speeds, it will once again be one of the two options for installation for the boxed game (with lots of benefits, which I’ll be blogging about in the next couple of weeks) and is a system most of us here use without issue.

I’ve seen some posts on the forums that unfairly castigate Steam, such as blaming it for the activation issues regarding FM2009, which were nothing to do with Steam, but were caused by a denial of service attack on Uniloc’s servers, or blaming a bug in the game on Steam – a bug in the game is a bug in the game, and nothing to do with Steam at all.

Hopefully that answers that question.

As mentioned above, the links to the demo should be available here from Thursday morning – I would advise that if you’re looking to grab it quickly, that you download the Steam client in advance, which is available at www.steampowered.com, and then you’ll be just a couple of button clicks away from being able to grab it.

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I'll torrent mine on friday I think.
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downloading mine as we speak, bit of a download, its taken me about an hour to download, 5 mins to go

the size of the download is 1.9GB for all you people with capped connections
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That's kinda big for a fucking demo. It used to only be 600mb odd.
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DL it now. Should be done in 30 mins. I agree with Afro, 1.9gb is massive for a demo.
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Must be a lot of leagues playable?
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That's what I'm thinking.
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The Football Manager 2011 demo includes the first half of the 2010 / 2011 season. This Strawberry version of the demo includes the world’s biggest leagues, giving players a chance to try out their skills with teams from multiple countries. Games saved in the demo will be compatible with the full game so managers can continue their games when the full game is released on November 5th.

Leagues available: England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.

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afromanGT wrote:
Must be a lot of leagues playable?


12 in fact
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12 playable leagues IIRC
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Chile? Seriously? Is that a new addition or something?
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dissapointed you can't play in the netherlands
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1.5gb demo on steam downloading now.

I have 3gb left for a week, luckily TPG are releasing their new unlimited plans tomorrow, same price so that's an instant upgrade.
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yer its pretty big, first impression are good, match engine is clearer, the layout is set out better,
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pimpsta wrote:
match engine is clearer


That was the major thing I noticed. Seems a lot easier to watch a match tbh. Liking it so far
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Australian demo is out on 442 site.

Hopefully we can just move the quickstart for those who have existing demos.
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STEAM ISN'T WORKING FOR ME.

Not happy.
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just downloading it now :d
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loving being able to add additional comments during press conferences... :p
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Gooner4life_8 wrote:
loving being able to add additional comments during press conferences... :p


IIRC you could do that in FM10 as well:lol:
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sydneycroatia58 wrote:
Gooner4life_8 wrote:
loving being able to add additional comments during press conferences... :p


IIRC you could do that in FM10 as well:lol:


only had FM10 demo, probably was only a feature in the full version
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Gooner4life_8 wrote:
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loving being able to add additional comments during press conferences... :p


IIRC you could do that in FM10 as well:lol:


only had FM10 demo, probably was only a feature in the full version


Yep. Loved storming out of press conferences 'after letting loose a stream of expletives'. :D
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struggling in chile with uni catolina, just got beat 4-1 and the fans are not happy
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Installing the demo now. Starting as Tottenham although from some forums I am on, Gareth Bale is criminally underrated.
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MaxiiGCU wrote:
Installing the demo now. Starting as Tottenham although from some forums I am on, Gareth Bale is criminally underrated.


actually i think you've got a fair point actually, IIRC his stats in FM10 are actually higher than in FM11
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Gooner4life_8 wrote:
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Installing the demo now. Starting as Tottenham although from some forums I am on, Gareth Bale is criminally underrated.


actually i think you've got a fair point actually, IIRC his stats in FM10 are actually higher than in FM11


Just had a look.

9 for flair and 14 for pace. WTF. I think the researcher of Tottenham needs some fucking glasses.
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scouse_roar wrote:
Gooner4life_8 wrote:
sydneycroatia58 wrote:
Gooner4life_8 wrote:
loving being able to add additional comments during press conferences... :p


IIRC you could do that in FM10 as well:lol:


only had FM10 demo, probably was only a feature in the full version


Yep. Loved storming out of press conferences 'after letting loose a stream of expletives'. :D

It was a feature in the demo too. I'm thinking about downloading this year's demo. But the full game comes out in like a week, so I may as well just wait til then.
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Installing the demo now. Starting as Tottenham although from some forums I am on, Gareth Bale is criminally underrated.

I dunno who scouts for Spurs, but he does a horrible job. Especially with Bale and Lennon. Hate to think what he's done to Van Der Vaart.

I don't like how the graphics shape up in that...I don't think my laptop is going to like the new game.
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Just started a new game with Leeds after getting a new laptop. Immediately signed Michael Ball on a free transfer and Richie De Laet, Rodrigo Possebon and Zavon Hines on loan. Should get promotion into the championship relatively easy with my squad
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July 2013. Brazil are ranked 25th in the world


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