Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!border-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:39:47 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Prime Gaming - June 2025 - Prime Day Bonus Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:38:57 -0400 Summary: Copying or reuse for AI training or data sets not allowed Message-ID: <5b827khd86fk6qd8v40o7thpsevmf3k9sh@4ax.com> References: <104qhts$1dh2p$2@dont-email.me> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-zWU0sAp7FFhGRMqjdbtYbkWzrj2u2kcC5PPaDRKi3JdFKBuqudpDW5h7qOmInelnpGNXrV+FcnQcJWt!O6Y/wp/xHaimZaphY1gTiV1OWm4vMznbMEthW67zXPC3FWI4MxUHhjYH+kLHUjLhE3Qyey8p X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:27:37 +0100, JAB wrote: >On 09/07/2025 18:29, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> * Football Manager 2024 (via EPIC) >> It's... well, it's a football (that's 'soccer' to you >> Yanks) manager. I thought that would be obvious from the >> title. You manage the teams -the overall strategy, the >> business, the trades- rather than play the games. I guess >> people enjoy these things. Not me. You may already have >> this one on Epic, though (it was an Epic freebie last >> September) > >I'm a football fan but these games leave me rather cold as they feel >more like work than fun with the amount of complexity in them. I think they're for people who get a kick out of the stats and such. Arguably, its a more intellectual take on the game since you aren't just clicking buttons to make a goal, but actually thinking about strategy and what not. It's basically a spreadsheet game. Which I /should/ appreciate but never got into. Anyway, the genre has a loyal fanbase so theyere are obviously a lot of people who are into that sort of thing, and I'm fine with that. But, like you, I don't think I'll ever play them myself.