The latest entry in the long-running football games series Football Manager has scored (see what I did there?) an impressive new record - it's the quickest in the FM series' history to hit one million copies shifted. As well as this feat, it's now been revealed that an eye-watering 900k players hopped into the game over the course of last week.
"At some point yesterday, FM21 became our fastest ever series of games to reach one million copies activated," Football Manager director Miles Jacobson has posted on Twitter. That's an impressive figure considering the management simulation game only launched on November 24, 2020, meaning it's racked up those one million 'activations' in just six weeks or so.
In addition, Jacobson says: "I'm guessing you're getting value for money from it, as over 900k of you played it last week!" (as of his time of tweeting on January 3), adding: "I hope you're finding some solace and company from the game world you escape into". Its peak concurrent player counts in this time on Steam alone have been pretty giant, too, as SteamDB's data shows.
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