The Football Manager series has sucked more hours from players around the world than almost any other. Even now, a year after its release, Football Manager 2014 sits in the top 10 charts on Steam.
Miles Jacobson, Sports Interactive’s games director, revealed to me that on Monday, 20 October, FM14’s players had racked up more than 23,000 years of play time.
Well, in fact, it’s significantly more but that’s just from the people who bought it.
“Our average playtime is very high, it’s much higher than most games,” Miles tells me. It’s actually caused them problems in the past when trying to launch the FM series on consoles. “Taking over the living room was the key reason when we were releasing on console before that it didn’t really work as well.
