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WoodenPints on 13 February 2024
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JEMC said:

Football Manager 2024 is the best-selling entry in series history with 7 million gum-chewing devotees, studio pays tribute to 'incredible community of players'
https://www.pcgamer.com/football-manager-2024-sells-7-million-and-pays-tribute-to-the-incredible-community-of-players-that-we-first-started-talking-to-directly-in-the-internets-infancy-in-the-early-90s/
Football Manager is one of those games that now feels like an institution. I play the newest entry and, even though it's a much-improved and more sophisticated experience, I am still in some sense a teenage boy at a beige PC with my treasured copy of Championship Manager 97/98. I've been playing some version of this game on-and-off for a quarter of a century.
Sports Interactive was founded in 1994 and has specialised in this one game ever since (with a few short-lived forays into hockey and baseball management). It has built a huge and loyal fanbase devoted to the Football Manager series, and has established the game as such an accurate simulation of the real world that it is now used in aspects of the sport (hell, there are even pro managers who credit the game with their careers).
So the news that Football Manager 2024 has become the best-selling entry in series history feels both unsurprising and richly deserved. Sports Interactive has announced that last week saw the game record "its seven millionth player" which beats the previous record of 6.88 million players set by Football Manager 2023. SI notes that the latter figure was achieved over that game's lifespan, but "FM24 broke that record in less than 100 days."
>> I remember that Ka-pi loved the series. What about you, does any of you also play it? Anyway, congrats to the studio and Sega.

I liked Championship manager back in the 90's when I used to sit there with my dad as the fixtures were simulated but I've long lost interest in football and not played the series for 20 years now but that's some nice sales never realised it sold so well.