Football Manager 2013 Had At Least 10.1m Illegal Downloads, Vatican Included
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I suppose for every artist, movie producer as well as games developer, piracy is a very real concern that should be nipped in the bud and if possible, eradicated completely. Well, we have brought you word in the past concerning the different aspects of piracy as seen by various companies, but this time around, here is word on game developer Sports Interactive of the UK who tracked down a whopping 10.1 million illegal downloads of their hit title, Football Manager 2013. The game which launched in November last year was cracked later in May 2013, where copies of it made their way online in a jiffy afterwards.
Among the tracked copies of the illegal downloads, one of them happened to be traced all the way to the Vatican. Just how did Sports Interactive manage to keep track of the number of illegal downloads? It seemed that there was a loophole in the crack which allow the tracking of the IP address of every single individual who downloaded the cracked copy. China happened to carry the largest number of downloads in the past half year at 3.2 million, while Turkey with 1.05 million was in second place. All the illegal downloads could have brought in another $3.7 million in revenue for the company if they were legit copies purchased.
Football Manager 2013 Had At Least 10.1m Illegal Downloads, Vatican Included original content from Ubergizmo. 
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While we’re sure many of us out there dream of being able to become professional gamers and basically get paid to play games competitively, not all of us have the chops to get to that level, which is why it’s always nice to read about people who actually succeed while playing video games although in this case, it seems that this particular gamer was so good at playing the game that he was actually offered a job in real life which basically did the same thing. 21-year old gamer Vugar Huseynzade of Sweden has reportedly managed to land a job as a supporting manager of a football team despite having no experience managing a football team before – unless you count Sega and Sports Interactive’s Football Manager series. Huseynzade will be a manager in a support role of one of the Azerbaijan’s top football clubs, and it seems that despite his lack of experience, he has managed to beat out big names who have applied for the position including French legend, Jean-Pierre Papin. Not too shabby!