At last the world of videogames is opening up to women. In addition to warriors and heroines, that a development as powerful as Football Manager bet on sport feminine it is good news. And so it is, since this game is going to include women in its databases. This way you will be able to configure women’s teams with which to play. This authentic accolade to the reality we want to achieve is supported by the director of the development studio. Miles Jacobson has been very blunt in this regard, manifesting itself in these terms: «I have a very simple message for people: if you don’t like what we’re doing, don’t use our game».
Female Football Manager will be asked, but it will come
The game developers are very clear about it, they will make a female version integrated into Football Manager, it will not be a development that is sold separately. In this way, the bet is total. If you can choose male players, you can also choose women and set up a team of women. «The same sport, the same game», This is how the creators have manifested themselves. With Football manager, you will be able to manage a team of men or women and go from one to the other without problems. For the uninitiated, Football manager is a game in which you dedicate yourself to managing sports teams. As indicated on their website, in Football Manager «You get into the role of a true manager leading the best soccer teams on the planet and play the beautiful game your way. Football Manager features a lively game world and unmatched realism, achieving soccer authenticity like no other game.»It is available for Windows and Mac computers, mobile devices, xBox and Nintendo Switch.
But the game will not be available for the year 2022. The reason is very simple, they will limit it to putting female bodies on the players that have already been created.
The development of the game implies that they are designing players with their own characteristics. And so they have stated in a statement: «The shapes of female bodies are different from those of males, as is their bone structure, so we have no choice but to go back to where you started and recreate all of our current motion capture animation data with female players. Nor is it something that can be solved by going to a motion capture studio for a couple of days; It takes several months to polish the data generated in each session so that it can be seen correctly in the match engine.»
In the same way, managing a men’s soccer team is not the same as managing a women’s team. In the latter case, factors such as the menstrual cycles or pregnancy, in addition to the fact that the salary cards are equally different.
Therefore, that commitment to recreate everything from scratch. They are aware of the minimal economic impact that this will have on their coffers, but it is not about that, but about going further and betting on equal sport in all its dimensions.
So, congratulations on such a brave bet from Football Manager . So yes.
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