Championship Manager 2010 - Pay what you want preorder offer

d31b0y

Now's your chance to own the latest version of Championship Manager at any price you want to pay*. Simply click pre-order below and you'll be able to set how much you pay for game.

Championship Manager gives players the chance to experience the highs and lows of real football as you assume the role of a football manager at any one of thousands of clubs around the world. Prepare to take total control as the latest edition of Championship Manager propels you into one of the most challenging jobs in the world... for a price you choose...

* Pay what you want price is subject to a £2.50 transaction fee. Offer valid until September 10th, 23:59. CM 2010 will be available to download from September 11th 2009.

http://www.champmanstore.com/shop/preorder

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I have looked a round the web a bit and some people have been complaining that the site is not working correctly. I think you may need to create a user account on http://www.championshipmanager.co.uk/ first. I already had a user account on that site and used that to sign in and it looks like it has worked a treat for me. Just awaiting the confirmation email now...

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It seems as though you can also activate the same purchase on 3 different machines!!

Congratulations on purchasing Championship Manager 2010. To download the game, simply click on the download button below, anytime from 00.00 on 11th September.

You'll also notice an Activations column on the right. You have 3 opportunities to download the game anytime, anywhere for you to play. If you decide you no longer want to play it on that machine simply deactivate the game and you'll get your activation back to use elsewhere.

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jayteecork

Hmmm, never played a Champ Man game before.
2.50 + 0.01 doesn't seem like a bad price to me!

(Ps: Just kidding, I'll make it a euro!)

Mr Velo

Haven't played Champ Man since SIGAMES went the FM route.
Worth playing?

dubmick

Paddy_Fowler wrote: »

Haven't played Champ Man since SIGAMES went the FM route.
Worth playing?

Don't think so, Football Manager is the better game.

Cionád

FM is better, but FM 2010 is not out till the end of October, this could be a decent stopgap...

d31b0y

That and Championship Manager wasn't released last year in order to work on this years version, so it has gone through a pretty big overhaul.

For those of you who aren't sure, you can download the demo from here.

jayteecork

Haven't gotten into a football manager game since that one of the commodore 64.
Can't remember the game, there was a guy with a beard(the developer) on the box.

Will google and report back.

ah, Football Manager was the name, and beardo was Kevin Toms.(nice calculator watch, Kevin!)

Block (8

jayteecork wrote: »

Haven't gotten into a football manager game since that one of the commodore 64.
Can't remember the game, there was a guy with a beard(the develepor) on the box.

Will google and report back.

ah, Football Manager was the name, and beardo was Kevin Toms.(nice calculator watch, Kevin!)

lol that pic really brings back memories

Still remember his face on the front of the cassette on my speccy before I upgraded to a c64

pancake_tuesday

Foootball Manager is where its at! Stay away from this....

carbsy

Yeah, SI Games bought the rights from Kevin Toms IIRC.

ShooterSF

If nothing else they should be applauded for such an innovative idea. I'll put a quid or two in for it and try the game but I'm still a biased FM fan.

d31b0y

carbsy wrote: »

Yeah, SI Games bought the rights from Kevin Toms IIRC.

They got the actual game engine, Eidos throught it would be better to hold onto the name AFAIK.

They were of course wrong, it would seem but the fact that they are willing to sell their game this way at all is clearly a great step forward. It's a very good way to get people to buy instead of getting there hands on the game in an illegal manner...

Unearthly

Well I'm getting it. Virtually paying nothing and it's out a month and ahalf before FM so time to waste. Yes please.

Keith C

im at the login screen & used my account name from website.
its not accepting it & just staying at the login screen, anyone else having this problem?

Skud

no mac support? boo urns

Frankmagnet

Skud wrote: »

no mac support? boo urns

Will it work with crossover installed?

yabadabado

cheers OP.nice find .i had no problem ordering

daftdave

Skud wrote: »

no mac support? boo urns

thats whats happens when ya wanna be different !!:p

fitzer1982

I've played the demo, its not bad at all, improvement over the last few years. for 2.50 its a great bargain. football manage is obviously the better game but for 2.50 who's complaining.

Victor McDade

It's a pity some of them wouldn't follow Ultimate Soccer Manager's example from waaay back where you could bet on your own team to lose and throw bungs if you so wished, until you got caught and fired that is!

Great offer for the game, will be downloading the demo tomorrow

ShooterSF

savemejebas wrote: »

It's a pity some of them wouldn't follow Ultimate Soccer Manager's example from waaay back where you could bet on your own team to lose and throw bungs if you so wished, until you got caught and fired that is!

Great offer for the game, will be downloading the demo tomorrow

Wasn't that one you could pick the sponsors for the boards around the pitch and set the food prices etc?

mcw92

just ordered it there now:D
should keep me going until new football manager is out:p

Skud

Frankmagnet wrote: »

Will it work with crossover installed?

worth a shot, but any vm style application could very resource heavy

daftdave wrote:

thats whats happens when ya wanna be different !!

previous version (pre fm at least) had mac versions. It's not an unfair request

wcarey1975

Cheers OP. Ordered this morning. Had some difficulty as my CM website details wouldn't take so I just re-registered using the the top RHS link and ordered no probs.

carbsy

d31b0y wrote: »

They got the actual game engine, Eidos throught it would be better to hold onto the name AFAIK.

They were of course wrong, it would seem but the fact that they are willing to sell their game this way at all is clearly a great step forward. It's a very good way to get people to buy instead of getting there hands on the game in an illegal manner...

I meant SI Games bought the rights to Football Manager (i.e. the name) from Kevin Toms.

carbsy

fitze69 wrote: »

I've played the demo, its not bad at all, improvement over the last few years. for 2.50 its a great bargain. football manage is obviously the better game but for 2.50 who's complaining.

Surely your going to pay at least few squids (€5 even) on top of the €2.50? This model won't succeed otherwise.

Feidhlim

You can sign up for live updates for £5.

I assume thats transfers and what not. Decided to go for it.

Seriously, £7.50 altogether. Nice.


If in doubt, just pay the £2.50. Seriously nice find.

superfootyfan

Hi guys how are you all paying do they accept laser ?

sisco

Is It Worth Getting??
Was 2009 Game Any Good??

mcw92

sisco wrote: »

Is It Worth Getting??
Was 2009 Game Any Good??

are you serious?! for 2.50£ its a bargain!
if at most this game will last a month until fm10 comes out:D
£2.50 is a small price to pay to cure boredom for a month.

d31b0y

superfootyfan wrote: »

Hi guys how are you all paying do they accept laser ?

I can't remember to be honest, but I doubt it. Mastercard or Visa is probably the way to go...

Reganovski

Anyone want Championship Manager 2010 for PC to download. I accidentally bought it twice because the first time it crashed so I did it again which also crashed...however both actually went through and it didn't tell me....DOH!
I'm heading to America at the start of September and wont be back till 18th so I will give you the password as soon as I am back.

So the first person to PM me I will pass my username and password on so they can download it for free.

Feidhlim

downloaded the demo... bit crap TBH but for 2.50 cant go wrong

bryanmurr

Reganovski wrote: »

Anyone want Championship Manager 2010 for PC to download. I accidentally bought it twice because the first time it crashed so I did it again which also crashed...however both actually went through and it didn't tell me....DOH!
I'm heading to America at the start of September and wont be back till 18th so I will give you the password as soon as I am back.

So the first person to PM me I will pass my username and password on so they can download it for free.

PM'D

Reganovski

bryanmurr wrote: »

PM'D

Sorry bryanmurr but you were twenty minutes too late :mad:

pancake_tuesday got in there before you.

Bob the Seducer

Now in the final countdown stage, the site seems to be overloaded and repeatedly crashing...

d31b0y

Yup, this has expired now...

wcarey1975

Game is available for download fromn today so therefore pre-order is no longer an option. Am downloading this now and it doesn't matter how bad it really is for 2.51 it was worth the punt

Esse85

Has anyone downloaded this yet?

mcw92

just wondering what the download size is for this?

Esse85

Where do you download it from?

I taught we were gonna be sent a link by email.

Rev. Kitchen

I haven't gotten an email either ? whats up cant find any where to download it.

Kenlen

Esse85 wrote: »

Where do you download it from?

I taught we were gonna be sent a link by email.

You should get an email in your in box very soon with a link to download and a license key

DRYAN017

Got the email last night.
You can download it from here: http://www.champmanstore.com/home/flags

Just log in to the website and go to the download area.

ShoulderChip

me and my flatmate did this, downloading it now, what are our options for playing against each other?

can we play online or through a network?

wcarey1975

Have downloaded it onto my first laptop and am currently downloading it to my second. Will hang on to the third one for the foreseeable and will start it tomorrow night once I'm back on nights and everything is quiet. Anyway looks good so far. 2nd download is at 97% and it's approx 1.2GB so depending on your connection will take a bit of time. First one was about 2-3 Hours but I was downloading FIFA 10 for PS3 at the same time which is also 1GB.
W

Rev. Kitchen

Got mine last night 6 % downloaded now.