It is no secret that being a football manager is probably the world's worst job. Being on the pointy end of a bunch of overpaid pretty boys is never going to be the most secure job in the world – once your boys start under-performing, the filthy rich board members use you as the scapegoat for all the team's failings, throw you out on your arse and you end up with your face on the back page of every newspaper in the country, crudely photoshopped onto the side of a garden vegetable.
The closing of multiplayer services can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes there just aren’t enough people using a product to justify keeping it running while in others it could be down to complicated legal wrangling, like expiring licensing agreements, or even a desire to bring out a new installment.
One thing is clear though – many of these discontinued games simply don’t deserve to die, to be cut down in their prime leaving players without a viable alternative and waste all that time the audience invested in them. With that in mind, this article will count down the 12 games least deserving of being shut down, the ones that players the world over wished had kept going.
IncGamers' James Chalmers chats to Football Manager Live's game producer Marc Duffy about the MMO's relaunch and whether it was a success, the upcoming 3D match engine patch and what other plans the team have for Football Manager Live. Oh and he also tries to find out whether Football Manager 2011 is in production.
Sports Interactive has confirmed to IncGamers it will be opening more game worlds for Football Manager Live.
