{"id":2750,"date":"2024-08-03T18:53:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T18:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/how-the-football-manager-franchise-made-millions-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T18:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T18:53:40","slug":"how-the-football-manager-franchise-made-millions-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/how-the-football-manager-franchise-made-millions-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Football Manager franchise made millions | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pE4yHAqWZSg?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Football Manager was a hit that broke records as one of the five fastest-selling PC games ever when it was released in November 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the series putting players in charge of running a football club has continued to grow, with last year&#8217;s game played by six million people.<\/p>\n<p>But it has changed dramatically since the 2000s. Little circles bouncing about on a green rectangle have become a fully-fledged 3D simulation, which gamers often boast (or bemoan) getting lost in for hundreds of hours each year.<\/p>\n<p>With the release of the 20th game in the Football Manager series, the BBC spoke to Sports Interactive, the studio behind the game, about how the fan favourite has evolved.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#FootballManager #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pE4yHAqWZSg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football Manager was a hit that broke records as one of the five fastest-selling PC games ever when it was released in November 2004. Since then, the series putting players in charge of running a football club has continued to grow, with last year&#8217;s game played by six million people. But it has changed dramatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2752,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/2752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}