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What will you get: You will get Football Manager 2011 CD Key (scan of the cd key from original DVD box). You can activate and download the game from Steam About The Game: This version is no different. Our first sitting - at the helm of unlikely relegation candidates Liverpool FC - ended up lasting five hours (and resulted in one very angry girlfriend). All the features you'd expect are present and correct, and the polished-looking interface introduced last season remains as simple to pilot as ever.

On first impressions you could be playing last year's game - which is all well and good until you encounter some of the weaker elements of the series that SI has once again failed to update. For example, press conferences remain as dull and repetitive as previous years. They involve answering effectively the same questions from Football Manager 2009 with the same unsubtly tiered responses. In a game where everything else is so customisable, and a world where our sense of a manager's personality is defined by their dealings with the press (think Jose Mourinho or Ian Holloway), such neglect is baffling. Ditto team talks, which again involve selecting one of five rallying cries to bellow at your players (in our experience it's usually 'Do it for the supporters!' It's a tedious element of the pre-match rigmarole and it's not clear or ever quantifiable what effect they have on your team.

Another misfiring element Sports Interactive appear content to sweep under the carpet is that damn 3-D match engine - which remains as worthless as ever. Some new player animations have been added and it looks marginally better than before. But it's still uglier than Blackburn vs. Stoke on a wet Tuesday night and generally gets switched off mid-way through the second pre-season friendly. It's about time SI devoted some serious time to making Football Manager's 3-D worthwhile. Luckily there are a couple of fairly ingenious new additions to be found in Football Manager 2011 that help atone for its oversights. One favourite is the new way of negotiating contracts; as recent events at Manchester United have shown, getting big name players to sign on the dotted line can be more difficult than teaching Joe Cole how to do long division.

First question would be. Did you buy from amazon itself or a second hand supplier using amazon?

Football Manager 2011 (PC) STEAM Key Code. Product Description Football Manager is the world’s best-selling football management simulation allowing players.

Second bit of advice would be. Photographic evidence of your box and product key.

Along with a receipt for the game (if from amazon. This would be the email?) and send it too neil brock and he'll take a look. I'm sure he wont mind me giving his email here neil.brockatsigames.com Is that the procedure? Judging by the Steam forum there are a lot of upset people out there from all over Europe who can't play the game they've bought for this very reason. I've opened a ticket on the Steam support page but, judging by the Steam forum comments, I don't hold out much hope of a response any time soon.

This is the message all we that 'lost' our game from steam games list get to if we try to install agian! Can we also mail neil brock? I never even got to the stage of having the game to lose. I'm amazed how year after year after year there continues to be problems like this. A brief search online shows that thousands of people are getting shoddy service and not getting what they paid for. Increasingly it feels like it's being shrugged off because the cash is still rolling in.

If the makers insist on using Steam, it's their responsibility to make sure they provide an acceptable level of service. I never even got to the stage of having the game to lose. I'm amazed how year after year after year there continues to be problems like this. A brief search online shows that thousands of people are getting shoddy service and not getting what they paid for. Increasingly it feels like it's being shrugged off because the cash is still rolling in. If the makers insist on using Steam, it's their responsibility to make sure they provide an acceptable level of service.

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Great said Bobby! And I totally agree!