Such a key component of modern football had fallen behind the times and needed to be dragged into the modern world, but now it’s something the team are justifiably delighted with. The new animations in Football Manager 2022, along with overhauling the team pressing triggers in the match engine, have taken three years to come to fruition. Some features can take years to be implemented, however. As an example, this year a feature was included in FM22 from 14 years ago – that’s the level of attention that is dedicated to the contributions from fans of the series.’ ‘The number of requests from the forums alone really drives the development of the game. By August, the title had sold its 2 millionth copy, and by September it had seen over 1 billion goals scored, 446 million matches played and over 8 million seasons completed. In January 2021, it hit 1 million activations, a new record, and one that came with a scarcely believable retention rate of 900,000 active users. Particularly when almost every metric of success was obliterated by Football Manager 2021 sales. And though last year was a success story for Miles Jacobson and his Sports Interactive team, the grind never stops when it comes to yearly titles. Some adapted well and some studios struggled. It’s undeniable that the last couple of years have been commercially successful for the games industry, even as the process of developing games became harder than ever. Nic Madden, senior producer for the match engine, this year spent time on the Data Hub (more on that later), and speaks of the company ‘arriving a bit later to the agile party’, but that this helped ‘break down barriers’ and meant the whole team worked as one on multiple features. Working in ‘feature pods’ this time around meant the developers were able to move between different areas of the game, bringing expertise to features that might have become a bit stale.
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