Last year, Sports Interactive moved its management simulation/obsession Football Manager over to Steam, citing rampant piracy of the game. At the time, figures the developer cited said for every one person who bought Football Manager 09, four others acquired it illegally.
I love sports. I love video games. That doesn’t mean I automatically love sports video games, because as a non-American, most professional and polished titles don’t really appeal.
If World of Warcraft could ever be toppled in the MMO space, then surely a massively multiplayer football management game has as good a shot as any at taking the title. It’s only the most popular game in the entire world, after all. Sega sends word today that Football Manager…