In case anyone missed the announcement on the sigames.com forums FM2005 has now officially gone 'Gold'.

This means it'll be out on schedule on the 5th November.

Hope this helps,

Marc

nah it's already weeks in the sticky. But it seems noone care to look at 'em

Carefull who you are bashing, Max. That's an official SI announcement that the game has reached gold status :D :shades:

FM 2005 in a Different League (http://www.sigames.com/news.php?type=view&article_id=1041)

LONDON, UK – October 15, 2004 – SEGA® Europe Ltd, is proud to reveal the complete official league license list to be featured in the imminent release of Football Manager 2005, the latest title from Sports Interactive, the creators of the Championship Managerä series. Football Manager 2005 is set to be the most in-depth and involving football management simulation ever when released on November 5 th for PC and Mac.

An agreement has been secured with FIFPro, the worldwide representative organisation for all professional players. Football Manager 2005 will also feature official branding from the English Football League, including club logos, league and cup competition logos, playing kits and players pictures where available. Football Manager 2005 has also now been recognised as the Official Game of the English Nationwide Conference.

In addition to this, Football Manager 2005 will also feature the club logos, playing kits and player pictures (where available) for the Spanish and US leagues. Kits, pictures and logo’s from Dutch clubs as well as kits and logo’s from the Portuguese league are also secured. Licenses from Italian clubs, including club logo’s and player pictures (where available) for the mighty AC Milan.

Confirmation of the league licenses comes at an ideal time, as the team at Sports Interactive is proud to announce that Football Manager 2005 has hit Gold Master stage. With everything in place for its November 5th release date, you too can now become a football manager by downloading the official playable demo. Kick off for the demo is 3pm UK time, to download please go to www.footballmanager.net or www.sigames.com, your weekend couldn’t get any better!

FM 2005 Statistics Snapshot

Total Club Logos – 254. Comprising:

England - 100
Spain - 41
Italy - 30
Holland - 37
Portugal - 36
USA - 10

Competition Logos - 5


International Team Logos - 1

Kits - 527
International Team Kits - 2
England - 281
Spain - 78
Italy - 65
Holland - 68
Portugal - 15
USA - 18

Player/Staff Pictures - 6452

England - 2117
Spain - 263
India - 1
Italy - 20
Holland - 250
USA - 227
Face In The Game (regenerated players) - 3574

Football Manager 2005 will be published by SEGA on November 5th 2004. Further information is available online at the both the official FM 2005 and Sports Interactive websites ( www.footballmanager.net and www.sigames.com).
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Thanks Marc (Y)
This is almost orgasmic. :rockman:

Originally posted by rpvankasteren
Carefull who you are bashing, Max. That's an official SI announcement that the game has reached gold status :D :shades:

:p

I wasn't bashing anyone lol.
But wasn't this already clear or am I a freaking dumbass? :p

That the game reached gold last night? No, that wasn't really clear yet (H)

I hate CM demos so much. I always get so into them that I cant bear to loose my game when the actual thing comes out :(

then just check everything, menus options etc etc, without realy playing it(I allow you to play 4-5 games tho) :P works for me, always :)

Originally posted by CalumnCFC
I hate CM demos so much. I always get so into them that I cant bear to loose my game when the actual thing comes out :(

Good job this is an FM demo then (H)

Originally posted by Ebonix
Good job this is an FM demo then (H) I was refering to past CM's :p

Originally posted by mixafendis

then just check everything, menus options etc etc, without realy playing it(I allow you to play 4-5 games tho) :P works for me, always But you know how it is, one thing just leads to another :(

Only 20 Italian player faces?

who cares. There are gonna be tons of downloads from the internet with pics etc in the future ;)

Or you can start collecting pics already. It's not hard to understand where they should go :)

I can see a "players pic patch" coming out in the future.....:crazyboy:

Originally posted by JTNY
Only 20 Italian player faces?

We can only add faces of players into the game where we have particular licences ...

The config files for such things are very easy to do however and I expect people to play around with them in due course (I think sortitoutsi.net already has some stuff available ..).

Hope this helps,

Marc

Anywhere to pre-order in the U.S.?