by Hey, remember how I had so many fun things to say in October about Sports Interactive, and the Football manager Studio’s brave decision to make the sport gaming trend and to take the trouble to rebuild their entire game on a new motorcycle? Yes, about that.
It appears that it was an absolute disaster. First, in September 2024, Football manager 25s International mode-where players were able to manage national parties such as England and Brazil. Subsequently, in October (the competitions normally in November) it was postponed until March 2025. Promises were made that the first gameplay images for the game would be shown in January 2025.
As you can probably see by looking at a calendar, came and went on January 2025 without the aforementioned images, so that many fans fear the worst. Fear that are completely based, as Sport has interactively announced today that they cancel the whole damn thing. Football manager 25 Can be canned and there will simply be no game in the long -term annual series that has been released this season.
The team’s statement is:
Sports interactive regret to inquire that, after extensive internal discussion and careful consideration with SEGA, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Football Manager 25 and to shift our focus to the next release.
For the large numbers of you that FM25 have reserved, we owe you enormously for your trust and support – we are very sorry that we have abandoned you.
We know that this will be a huge disappointment, especially in view of the fact that the release date has already moved twice and that you reveal the first gameplay. We can only apologize for the time it has taken to communicate this decision. Due to the compliance with stakeholders, including legal and financial regulations, today was the earliest date on which we could issue this statement.
We are always proud that we deliver the best price -quality ratio games that give you countless hours of pleasure, which are worth every moment and every penny that you spend. With the launch of FM25 we wanted to create the largest technical and visual progress in the series for a generation, so that the building blocks were laid for a new era.
Due to various challenges we have been open so far, and much more unforeseen, we have not currently achieved what we wanted to do in sufficient parts of the game, despite the phenomenal efforts of our team. Every decision to postpone the release was made with the aim of getting the game closer to the desired level, but as we approached critical milestones during the beginning of the year, it became unmistakably clear that we would not reach the required standard, even even, even With the adjusted timeline.
Although many parts of the game have achieved our goals, the umbrella player experience and interface is not where we need it. As extensive evaluation has shown, including playing consumers, we have a clear validation for the new direction of the game and we come close – however, we are too far away from the standards you deserve.
We could have continued, had released FM25 in its current status and established things along the line – but that is not the right thing to do. We were also not willing to go beyond a release of March, because it would be too late in the football season to expect players to buy a match later in the year.
Because of the cancellation, everything is now aimed at ensuring that our next release reaches our goal and reaches the quality level that we all expect. We will update you about how we will progress as soon as we can do this.
Thank you for reading, your patience and your constant support. Our full focus now returns to creating a new era for football manager.
There will be sadness and frustration of football manager obsessives in the coming days and weeks, for sure! This long -term series has a lot of equally long fans, who are extremely passionate about the game. But hopefully, after they have all taken a deep breath, have looked at the situation and the wider sports gamingmalaise in general, they will be somewhat happy with this.
Sports interactively did not have to do this! They could have been plowed over the years, as EA Sports did, and release an increasingly tired sports game that covers his fan base slowly and wondered all the time why the sale was in decline. It was a brave decision for SI to break down their annual sports competition and start again, and although it was a risk that they were blown up in their faces This seasonI will now repeat what I said when the first delay was announced: “Whatever happens Football manager 25I am much more optimistic about it Football manager 26 And 27 Then I am about another big sports game. “
