Alright well before I get to my question allow me to give the background to my circumstances.
I'm an American who finds it nearly impossible to buy the game here in the states so I've had to buy the 3 last copies of the game off Amazon.com which I'm sure most have heard of here.
Anyways, after thoroughly enjoying FM07 I preorder FM08 on Amazon and receive a good month after you lucky Europeans. It's all good though, I don't mind as I at least have the game.
So I get it running and try the BETA patch immediately which basically kills my game. Figuring it was something with the patch I reinstall and simply play without it. I notice some bugs people have talked about but nothing major like the game closing so don't think anything of it.
Now Euro 08 rolls around and I sort of notice everything seems odd. For some reason the bottom teams of each group have been entered into the tournament. I've seen some other fellows post on here and please don't so abruptly kill my topic and outcast me.
I've done nothing wrong here and can't understand what's wrong. I plan to contact FM or SEGA or whatever and have my serial number checked but I also thought I'd ask everyone here for advice or see if anyone else experienced it.
So yeah, it seems I'm experiencing the bug which goes with illegal games but I've purchased it completely legally. I ordered the game off Amazon and can only see the problem somehow being if Amazon sent me an illegal copy (can't imagine this) or if I have a legit copy with the bug for some reason.
I don't know, I love these games and still am trying to play it despite these annoyances. I'd truly appreciate any help and will definitely try to contact someone official to figure it out. Thanks again!
-Flip
I'm an American who finds it nearly impossible to buy the game here in the states so I've had to buy the 3 last copies of the game off Amazon.com which I'm sure most have heard of here.
Anyways, after thoroughly enjoying FM07 I preorder FM08 on Amazon and receive a good month after you lucky Europeans. It's all good though, I don't mind as I at least have the game.
So I get it running and try the BETA patch immediately which basically kills my game. Figuring it was something with the patch I reinstall and simply play without it. I notice some bugs people have talked about but nothing major like the game closing so don't think anything of it.
Now Euro 08 rolls around and I sort of notice everything seems odd. For some reason the bottom teams of each group have been entered into the tournament. I've seen some other fellows post on here and please don't so abruptly kill my topic and outcast me.
I've done nothing wrong here and can't understand what's wrong. I plan to contact FM or SEGA or whatever and have my serial number checked but I also thought I'd ask everyone here for advice or see if anyone else experienced it.
So yeah, it seems I'm experiencing the bug which goes with illegal games but I've purchased it completely legally. I ordered the game off Amazon and can only see the problem somehow being if Amazon sent me an illegal copy (can't imagine this) or if I have a legit copy with the bug for some reason.
I don't know, I love these games and still am trying to play it despite these annoyances. I'd truly appreciate any help and will definitely try to contact someone official to figure it out. Thanks again!
-Flip