I’m doing it. Much like the PA System at your local airport or a middle aged divorcee on facebook - I’m announcing my departure. FM26 is just shit. It’s irredeemable
I do hope this isn’t a full divorce from FM as a series, maybe just some time spent apart so we can both work on ourselves. They have somehow managed to take a game that induced the hardest of addictions - late night through bottle feeds, early mornings before work, middays while WFH… They have taken that game and broken it. How does that even happen?
My FM26 Save and What’s Gone Wrong?
I’m hugely frustrated not to be enjoying this game. I was so looking forward to managing FC Kobenhavn - something totally different from what I usually do in FM. I’m not even doing poorly - having finished 2nd in my first season but winning a domestic cup then leading the league after the first 4 months of play in my second season. So why am I complaining? It’s just an absolute slog. Your hobby should never feel like a chore and that’s what FM26 is right now.
There’s been too much change - a UI overhaul, new tactical system with new instructions and new roles. In-game, I am just struggling to understand what’s going on - the visual representation of players who look like they’ve never stepped foot onto a pitch before. I keep getting advice from my dugout but with absolutely zero context behind it - “add work ball into box”, alright but why?
Even down to the simple inconsequential things - the commentary lines are just stupid. Who wrote them? I’d rather go and sit in attendance for An Evening With Eni Aluko. At least 10% of the time (roughly 1 time every 20 occasions) she makes sense.
I know Miles is hunkered down in SI’s version of the Fuhrer Bunker, enthusiastically telling himself this is the greatest game ever made but if anyone manages to catch a glimpse of him tell him he’s well and truly fucked it here.
I’ve not played the game consistently because it’s been so bad but every time I’ve picked it up again there appears to have been a new patch. It’s like playing a new game every time I load up. And every time it is so, so shit.
There isn’t really a point to this post. It’s just cathartic to vent. Maybe I go back to FM24 for a while. Maybe I keep trying to batter through with this game in the deepest hope that things will get better. A bit like staying together for the kids.