Shacknews writes: "Following in the unfortunate footsteps of World of Goo, developer Beautiful Game Studios' claims that its Championship Manager series of PC soccer simulators is the victim of a 90% piracy rate.
"That's not just a number in the air, we can measure it and we know that there are a huge amount of pirated copies," said Beautiful GM Roy Meredith.
World of Goo co-creator Ron Carmel recently stated that his game was suffering from a 90% piracy rate--though Carmel later lowered the estimated figure to a still-staggering 82%."
Eurogamer: "It's a shame when relationships end but it's often for the best. Football Manager and me had it all – long intimate evenings, weekends away, the occasional holiday. I'd thought we never split up. But eventually cracks began to appear, the physical side deteriorated, and we became strangers.
As an early adopter of pretending to manage a football team on a computer (i.e. a semi-autistic weirdo), a chronic addiction to Football Manager seemed my inevitable destiny. My first taste was the original Football Manager on the ZX Spectrum, whose bearded creator, Kevin Toms, appeared beaming on the cassette case cover."
The UK's loss of talented developers in the sports genre has been 'utterly huge' according to Miles Jacobson, the studio head of London-based Football Manager developer Sports Interactive.
In an exclusive interview with Develop, Jacobson explained that Canada's exemplary tax break rates – which peak at 40% of dev costs – was the reason why a number of British-born developers now work in cities such as Vancouver and Toronto.
In this somewhat-regular column, Diehard GameFAN's
Mohamed Al-Saadoon will be advising Football Manager 2009 players managing the lowest league clubs on where to find excellent footballers on the cheap. He gathered these from his own experiences playing the game as lowly Hyde United as well hanging around the Football Manager fandom.
Since you've already filled your team with top quality players (by lower league standards anyway) here's some tips to get the most out of your lower league players.
that sucked I would say the same thing.
i cant believe people would pirate a indie game as great as world of goo its a shame they really deserved alot of sales
Heh, Bill Gates reported a 90% piracy rate in 1976.
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Piracy will exist as long as people want things for free. You can't really do anything about it except live with it or develop a ridiculously restricting anti-piracy system that creates a very closed environment, but even that will be cracked in time.