AcesHigh

It seems like Si Games has a rigid itinerary for their FM series, they release the game in Oct,then appease the masses and fix "some" issues and bugs a few weeks later and in February, 5 months after the game is out they release a 2nd and final patch which should (hopefully) make the game as good as it can be.
Knowing all this will you guys - the consumers - buy the game on release (something i've done for over 12 years) or will you wait untill February to buy it?

Personally, being so dissapointed with this current release ( i refer specifically to the match engine )i am almost certainly going to wait untill Official Patch 2 comes out in future.

GillsMan

Buy it in October, or in November which is my birthday. Next.

Jonfun1980

Probaly buy it then spend all my time on here moaning about it.

deadeyedunc

I think I'll actually wait until the first patch next year. All that happened this year was that I bought the game and didn't play it until the first patch was out. Just stuck with FM07 while waiting.

aston_martin

Probably Christmas. If what I hear on the forum is good then earlier, if what I hear on the forums are bad then later.

Daniel Foster

I'll buy it as soon as it comes out.

Gundo

I'll get it when it's first released.

dudester

FM 09 hasn't been announced yet.

ReallyMadrid

Same as this year's version: wait untill a patch, see the reaction. Then decide to buy or wait some more.

It the upcoming patch fixes all the problems, I'll probably get a cheaper game than if I bought it in November, and one that I can really play "out of the box".

I have to say that it was pretty easy not to buy it (straight away) this year because nothing much has really changed the game from my experience with the demo. So maybe EVEN if the patch fixes everything I might still pass on it.

Bongo-Bongo

I'll decide after playing the demo.