Football Manager 2019 announced and sadly it's not coming to Linux

Honestly I don’t really like anual franchise releases at those prices.
Again: I didn’t buy FM2018 because of the price and I would continue not buying it because of it.
Same goes for NBA2K17. I’m not buying 18 because of the price for a 1 year game.
If the company were to update the teams I’d be happy to buy every two years or so. Under this model, no way!
I almost bought FM2018 when the price dropped but then I thought: what for? 2019 is almost here and then I’m stuck with an old game for nothing.

I've been playing CM/FM for more than 10 years and I always dualboot Windows for games anyways. When I'm on Linux I want to get into a work mindset and have no distractions. This separation has worked decently so far. Previously on Mac I would sometimes boot into games even when I should be doing stuffs, which sucks.

Also IMO FM is really not the biggest "timesink" out there, the reason being that it's unique in allowing you to do a lot of other stuffs at the same time with all the between-match processing, e.g. going over Anki flashcards for learning a new language. The real timesink is repetitive online games, such as DOTA or PES. I played tons of PES Online Division mode and usually remain top 1% by ranking. However I've sold PES 2019 this year already as it takes me a tremendous amount of time and I wouldn't be easily getting anything new out of it, unlike an RPG where I can read the story and learn a foreign language by setting the voiceover/subtitles etc. Unless I can make playing PES into a profession (which I of course still fall short of), I really need to go on with my life.

I have played football games from the text based days, buying never ending hardware upgrades. Then the split and I followed Sega Football Manager and kept rolling year in year out.

I feel abandoned, to read that lack of support by the Linux community, what a joke. What do you think I have been doing, must have been spending monopoly money, I would normally upgrade hardware new Apple Mac but they are no longer up-gradable total waste of money.

FM 2019 means moving to windows which is never going to happen, Microsoft has added Linux to the latest Windows 10, they are heavily invested so what is wrong with the Sega FM team.

They are heading in the wrong direction and loosing support hand over fist as specially now, my addiction is now over as even the IPad app is total xxxxxx. No support, where's my refund for years and years of it?

So, I just finished listening to an hour long podcast about Google Stadia and a different show about Stadia, all prominently mentioning its Linux backbone... And about how Sony, EA, etc are all aiming at the Streaming space, and you know Valve has to be working on it too... Everyone is racing to this, and looking back through the last 3 pages of comments, I can't help but think in, say, 5 years from now, a lot of those comments and arguments will seem as relevant as debates over, "What's better? Blockbuster or Hollywood Video?" (sorry for the US-centric reference)

There are already, spanning Linux native, Windows DXVK/Wine, and all the other emulators tens of thousands more games than I would have time to play in 2-3 lifetimes available on Linux. If we think we're a small market now, think of how much smaller that becomes when a game can be played, in 4K streaming, instantaneously on anything with a *browser*, including a *Chromebooks* and Android phones, anywhere on the planet with a decent internet connection...

It's going, to some measure, be successful, and change everything. Microsoft's "big" announcement about streaming gaming was virtually non-existent at E3, as Stadia has sent them scurrying back to the drawing boards.

So, bye-bye native FM, and for now, screw you guys, but likely see ya again on some streaming service, be it Stadia or Valve or whatever in 5 years, because that's where a *lot* of people will be. Pretty soon, even the idea of a Windows version of something will seem like a small, niche market... As long as we make sure these services can be run on Linux, we'll be fine...


Last edited by iiari on 16 June 2019 at 1:36 am UTC

Just in case you didn't know: FM19 runs via Proton like a native version.