Football Manager heads Online in Asia

Gamespot writes: new football management MMO from Sports Interactive is to launch in the Asian market, the British developer confirmed today. Football Manager Online will be a separate product to Football Manager Live, the company's traditional Western MMO.

The Football Manager empire is expanding.

Football Manager Online is to be developed in partnership with KTH Allstar, a Korean Internet portal company. FMO will be a "very different" game to FML, according to Miles Jacobson, Sports Interactive's Studio Director. Talking to GameSpot he confirmed FMO will be micro-transaction based and is being specifically tailored for the Asian consumer and "the way that they like to experience online games." It will be designed for regular play from home and also at PC bangs, LAN gaming centres popular in South Korea, which is the first market that will be targeted.