Its Time To Take Action

[rabeta]

Yep I am joining, it would be great if they could make one, com'on yee si

 

[Bilal91]

that would be frigin amazin...if SI could actually find time to make that...i mean they could use the baseball manager system but put cricket data and stuff in it...as some people suggested before...the tension FM builds is amazin and is SI do come around to make a Cricket management game, it would be No.1 even if it's crap...

oh and count me in...

 

[puddleduck]

One thing that will work against it, is that they have just come out and said they will no longer be making the Baseball game as too many people pirated it, and as such they didn't make any money.

Also they didn't technically come up with the Baseball game, as was mentioned earlier in the thread, someone else did, they just bought it and him to enhance it.

Anyway, I'll get a post on their forums, as if they did manage it, would be pretty cool. Although there are no guarantees that they will nail cricket in a year, after it's taken them 15 odd years of getting Cm the way it is today as FM.

 

[Bilal91]

no body pirates around here...right...

anyways i don't think either that they would do it in 1 year but atleast start on it and gradually make it you know...even if it takes 2-3 years...

 

[Briggsey]

Anyway, I'll get a post on their forums, as if they did manage it, would be pretty cool. Although there are no guarantees that they will nail cricket in a year, after it's taken them 15 odd years of getting Cm the way it is today as FM.

Well actually its only taken them a couple of years to get FM the way it is, Sports Interactive were a branch of Eidos who helped with the creation of the CM series, but they left Eidos to form their own company and release their own game. Many ideas that are in FM are now copied by CM which is principally an Eidos creation, but FM has now overtaken CM as the leading management sim due to it simply having the more attractive features and all in all better game play which CM has lacked since Sports Interactive left Eidos.

So really it might not take them long at all in principal, obviously the development would take some time, but with them already having a similar type of game in Baseball on the market, it could be a possibility.

 

[puddleduck]

Well actually its only taken them a couple of years to get FM the way it is, Sports Interactive were a branch of Eidos who helped with the creation of the CM series, but they left Eidos to form their own company and release their own game. Many ideas that are in FM are now copied by CM which is principally an Eidos creation, but FM has now overtaken CM as the leading management sim due to it simply having the more attractive features and all in all better game play which CM has lacked since Sports Interactive left Eidos.

So really it might not take them long at all in principal, obviously the development would take some time, but with them already having a similar type of game in Baseball on the market, it could be a possibility.

Sports Interactive owned all the code, and databases, Eidos owned the name. So the game we see as FM, was CM until the split. Cm were the ones who had to try and start again and redesign the game after the split, FM merely progressed on what they already had.

As I said they didn't develop Baseball as such, the original platform already existed, they just enhanced it. Maybe if the ICC, or CC games merged with SI to give them an existing game and database to work with, it would be much more likely.

 

[Saltires]

I like this idea.....

 

[Briggsey]

Sports Interactive owned all the code, and databases, Eidos owned the name. So the game we see as FM, was CM until the split. Cm were the ones who had to try and start again and redesign the game after the split, FM merely progressed on what they already had.

As I said they didn't develop Baseball as such, the original platform already existed, they just enhanced it. Maybe if the ICC, or CC games merged with SI to give them an existing game and database to work with, it would be much more likely.

I think ICC are pretty content with their games, if they saw that SI wanted to branch into their neck of the woods so to speak, and knowing the reputation that SI have creating management sims, they wouldnt want them being anywhere near it.

It would be nice if that happened, even if it was just for database purposes. But im sure just the people on this forum are capable of getting a database of players together, and then their are the countless other forums out there which could also do it, so I wouldnt see it as a problem at the moment.

 

[surendar]

I'm in...

I second this Just registered and waitin for a confirmation mail

 

[puddleduck]

I think ICC are pretty content with their games, if they saw that SI wanted to branch into their neck of the woods so to speak, and knowing the reputation that SI have creating management sims, they wouldnt want them being anywhere near it.

It would be nice if that happened, even if it was just for database purposes. But im sure just the people on this forum are capable of getting a database of players together, and then their are the countless other forums out there which could also do it, so I wouldnt see it as a problem at the moment.

Yep I don't think it's particularly likely that it would happen, and FM as it is have a lot of their database work done by fans and random people across the globe, if they could find a similarly diligent set of cricket fans then there is always hope. The one area they lack at the moment is that as I said for Baseball there was a chap who had spent a few years developing the baseball code at home, and they were able to integrate him into their team. At the moment no such person exists for a cricket game.

 

[evertonfan]

Hopefully Oli Norwell will have a gander at this...

 

[puddleduck]

Hopefully Oli Norwell will have a gander at this...

Especially since despite my preference for ICC still, CC has taken more steps to replicate FMs depth than Icc have.

 

[evertonfan]

Yes, I just love Cricket Coach's match engine. The fact I like ICC more is that it is just more realistic and challenging. I also don't like the fact that Cricket Coach Pro was made as a stand alone purchase rather than a free update for the retail version.

 

[Kev]

Personally I think the current set of cricket management games are so poor that I wouldnt want anyone from an existing game to be involved in a new one.

 

[Simbazz]

Yes, I just love Cricket Coach's match engine. The fact I like ICC more is that it is just more realistic and challenging. I also don't like the fact that Cricket Coach Pro was made as a stand alone purchase rather than a free update for the retail version.

This point has been explained....

CC Pro is the online download side of CC and thus has more capabilities to update the database and things, so thats why is is more expensive.

Buying Marcus Trescothick's Cricket Coach is a CD version of the game and is 10 quid cheaper, and it was explained at the time that the online version WILL have more updates than a yearly release of a CD version.

Rockingham software have seen the mistake they have done and have offered those who have bought the CD version to send it back and they will recieve a token for the online version, which in effect would mean the person would need to pay 10 quid to update, which everyone else has.

I don't see why folk moan about it, its a simple enough thing. On the talk of the just text in the game thing, i dont agree, i'd love a 2D match screen.

Personally I think the current set of cricket management games are so poor that I wouldnt want anyone from an existing game to be involved in a new one.

CC has the database potential, but it is only there first crack at it so i wouldnt be so harsh.

ICC have had many years to make a good game but they keep churning out below par games.