【FMYX】【SI Blog】官方博客第十二篇

去日留痕

【FMYX】【SI Blog】官方博客第十二篇
【FMYX】编辑/翻译：去日留痕 @游侠
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已经是周二中午了，整整一星期没有更新博客了，和大家说声对不起，不过确实是没时间啊。

上周末，我们在周六晚上10点发布了FM09的demo。这已经相当晚了，不过还是马上成为了很多媒体关注的焦点，而随后我们也发布了游戏的其他版本的demo。

如果你是在demo发布以后才开始关注我们的论坛的话，你大概会觉得这次发布的demo真的是一无是处。成百上千的试玩者因为显卡或者别的硬件原因而无法玩到demo，他们都在论坛发贴来表达自己的不满之情。我们本来觉得自己已经都准备好了，结果还是事与愿违，因为市面上出售的硬件实在是太五花八门了。我们不可能把每种显卡的每种设定状态都测试一遍。

我们在二手商店和ebay上面苦苦搜寻那些报错的古董显卡以便找到问题的症结所在，我觉得现在大多数问题都已经解决了，至少我敢说我们能保证大家都能运行2D了。等到不再有新的类型的问题出现，我想我们就可以发布一个兼容性的补丁，这样大家就都可以很开心地玩游戏了。

另外，我们还收到了一些其他的错误报告。我们研究了这些问题并制作了一个补丁，这个补丁将会在游戏发行的当天同步发布。补丁里面还包括了一些最新的教练上岗下课的变化。如果你是通过STEAM来激活的话，那么你将会自动得到这份补丁。如果你是通过其他两种方式进行激活的话，那么就要访问我们的网站手动下载了。

感谢上帝，超过25万下载了demo的玩家中的大多数都没有遇到什么大问题。而且我们很高兴地看到在demo发布后，游戏的预订数量有了不小的增长；当然，这应该也有周二晚上的电视广告的一份功劳，顺便说一句，那天也是我的生日。

昨天早上我乘坐Eurostar出差到巴黎去参加了一个媒体发布会，然后再世嘉的办公楼里召开了一次记者发布会，然后跑去做了一个电台采访，再然后是Liberation Newspaper（解放报？）的专访，再然后是Direct Soir 杂志的采访，最后是一边吃饭一边看完了里昂的比赛的下半时转播。

此后是回旅馆检查电子邮件并完成日常性的事务，今天早上8点半我就起床再次赶到了世嘉的办公大楼，又在那里做了两个电视采访，召开了另外的两个新闻发布会，在哪地方我前前后后见到了不下20个记者。

现在的这篇博客我是在归程的Eurostar上完成的，待会我就要回办公室继续工作了。不幸的是，今晚是无法录制Podcast了，因为和WarChild有之间有些事情要处理，这个不能改期，因为日程都是安排好了的。下次补上。

明天，我会和Paul Collyer一起去参加一个非常非常激动人心的会议。不过具体的等到游戏发布后的博客里面再说了。对了，到时候我也会告诉大家我一直提到的FM俱乐部到底是个什么样的构想，以及大家可以从中得到怎么样的收益。

[ 本帖最后由 去日留痕 于 2008-11-7 08:41 编辑 ]

去日留痕

It's Thursday lunchtime, and I haven't done a blog all week. Which I apologise for, but there hasn't been time.

This weekend, if you haven't noticed, we released the demo for Football Manager 2009 at 10pm. It was going to be midnight, but the News of the World were updating their website early, and the other versions were ready and uploaded, so away we went.

If you were to read our forums since, you might think that the demo release was not a good thing at all. There are a few hundred people who are having issues running the demo due to hardware issues between the game and their graphics card, which has been very disappointing for us. We thought we had it all covered and that all graphics cards that couldn't run the game in 3d would run 2d, but as there is so much hardware out there, it's impossible to test on every single configuration, and with some cards, it just plain didn't work.

We've spent hours trawling through second hand shops and ebay trying to find the cards that were reported to have problems, and we think we've now fixed the issue with most of them so that they'll at least be able to run 2d. Once we're happy that there will be no more issues, we will release a compatability patch for the demo, so that those people having problems can play the game happily.

There've also been a couple of other issues reported to us from the demo that are affecting some users, so we are looking at those and, thanks to our deal with STEAM that makes releasing updates so easy, will be releasing an update to the game on the day of release. This will also include some manager moves that have happened since the game has gone into manufacture. So if you authenticate the game through STEAM on release, you will get these updates automatically. If you authenticate via the other 2 options, you can go to our website on the day of release and manually download the udpate from there.

Thankfully, the vast majority of the 250,000+ people who have downloaded the demo so far are having no problems at all, and are enjoying the game, which is nice, and we've seen pre-orders at retail shoot up since it's release, which would also have been helped by the first showing of the TV advert for FM2009 during the Champions League coverage on ITV on Tuesday night which co-incided nicely with the first gameworld in Football Manager Live going live, and my birthday too. Although I'm too old to celebrate those nowadays.

Yesterday morning I travelled to Paris on Eurostar to do some press interviews, ending up doing a press conference and presentation at Sega's offices, then went off to do a radio interview, followed by an interview with the Liberation newspaper, and then Direct Soir magazine, before watching the second half of the Lyon game on a big screen whilst eating dinner.

From there it was back to the hotel to catch up on email and do my days work, before an early start today leaving the hotel at 8.30am to go back to Sega's office, where I did 2 TV interviews (including one for Eurosport) and 2 more press conferences/presentations, in total seeing more than 20 journalists in the time I was there.
I'm typing this on the way back, also on Eurostar when I get a very quick trip back to the studio for a full catch up, and, err, to email this blog to Duncan at HMV. There is, unfortunately, no podcast to record tonight, as I've got a WarChild event, and was unable to move it because of all the press trips that are ongoing. I'll make it up to the listeners next time instead.

Tomorrow, I'm travelling to the North of England with Paul Collyer for a little meeting which is very very exciting. But more about that next week when the blogs will come from London, Portugal, Belgium and Holland in the lead up to the game being released. Oh, and I'll finally be able to announce what the FM club that I keep mentioning is all about, and how you can benefit from it!


Cheers



Miles

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原文内容出自http://hmv.com/hmvweb/navigate.do?ctx=3583;6;-1;-1;-1&pPageID=3604

[ 本帖最后由 去日留痕 于 2008-11-7 08:41 编辑 ]

Tottiseiya

终于有新Blog喽！

margle

但这个新blog全是废话啊。。。。不过多谢去日的翻译啊。。。。

去日留痕

通篇都是废话……这娃肯定是小学作文没学好……净报流水帐……

dingjiany

。。。。。。。。MD   到时候我也会告诉大家我一直提到的FM俱乐部到底是个什么样的构想，以及大家可以从中得到怎么样的收益。
这个是什么意思。。。。  都压制了。。还说这话。。。。搞不懂

涅磐重生

还好仔细来找了下，本来我想发了，支持去日兄！

zlzpc99

又见新翻译 ， 至少这篇blog让我们知道FM09正式版是值得期待的！