While Update 3 was an official legacy patch, the game remains active through community efforts:

For most players, the smarter move is to switch to Football Manager 2024 (or the upcoming 2025 edition) or explore FIFA Manager 14 community patches, which are better documented and safer to install.

Here is where things get technical. FIFA Manager 13 shipped with (a notoriously invasive DRM) and online activation. The Scene group Reloaded released a crack that bypassed this.

Players still use the FM13 Editor to customize club budgets and create "wonderkids".