Frequently asked questions

Answers to the most frequent questions.
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Last update 24. August 2025

How much will the game cost?

I guess it will be 10€ on Steam.
The exact same game without modification will always be available for free.

Why should I buy, when I can get it for free?

By buying the game you actively support the development of the game. I work full time on the game, so making money is essential for me. If I don't make enough, I might need to work again and drastically reduce the time I can work on the game.

What does Free and Open Source mean?

Imagine you have a recipe for delicious cookies. Now you want to share your recipe with the whole world, so everybody can use your recipe to create their own cookies. This is what Open Source means. It gives fellow bakers the ability to study, modify, use and redistribute your recipe.

Some might want to change you recipe and add new ingredients or increase the baking time, to make them crisper. With Open Source, they are free to do so. But once they want to share their cookies with others, they also need to share their new recipe. This is what Free means. It assures that the recipe remains always available to all cookie lovers. So no bakery can use your recipe to sell cookies, without sharing the recipe with their customers.

The combination of both assures that every person who eats cookies made with your recipe, also gets a copy of the recipe.

Software is more complicated than cookies, but the concept is the same. It is written in code, that is the recipe of software. And a software license defines, how the code is shared with the world, just like with your cookies.

This software uses the AGPL-v3-or-later license. You can read further about software licenses on the FSFE's website.

How can I contribute and help?

There are many ways to help the project.

What teams/players will be in the game?

There will be no real teams and players in the game. Fantasy teams and players will be generated by a script and will have random names and attributes.

The script works with a seed, to have always the same teams and players, if the same seed is used. You might remember this from Minecraft, where the same seed mechanism is used for random world generation.

Having real teams and player names is a lot of work, legal headache and simply too much work for me alone. An in-game editor could be a future solution to this problem. With an in-game editor, you will be able to create your own players and possibly share the lists with others. Another even simpler solution could be to simply add a csv import/export functionality. This is on my to-do list, for the future.

When will the game be available?

The game will be fully released in 2026 and the exact date has still to be defined. There is a beta version available on itch.io and Flathub.

Why the name 99Managers?

99Managers is technologically stuck in 1999, so only email is used for communication. No smartphones, social networks or similar. This is not written in stone, but I like the idea.
Another reason is related to the goal to create multiple editions for different team sports. So the 99 stands for many managers and who knows, maybe one day the series will feature 99 different editions.

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