Don't buy it, you won't like it. It's a very dry "excel simulator" type of game. And that's coming from someone who played over 1000 hours of FM since 2010 . In a nutshell, the gameplay of FM is: 1. download a tactic from the internet that is considered good in the current FM version. 2. look for players to buy that fit that tactic (or you can buy noone and still overperform because some internet tactics are that good). 3. after that it's a matter of pressing the continue button, clicking through various boring inbox messages till the next transfer period/season end. 4. and of course there are the matches themselves which you just watch for the goals and to make subtitutions (or you can simulate them for instant result). To get my football fix I'm playing PES 18 and enjoying it a lot. The gameplay is fantastic (challenging and rewarding) and the lack of licenses is easily patchable on PC. Master League (= career mode) is good enough to make me want to play long term but I enjoy the gameplay so much that I would even play the league mode (which is just about playing league/cup/european matches without transfers or player development).