For the first time in his 20-year history, the Sim Sim Sim football manager is a year. Football manager 25Already twice delayed, it was canceled shortly before the proposed release date of March 2025.
In a statementThe Sports Interactive developer and the publisher of Sega said they decided to transfer their concentration to the next game in the series after it became clear Fm25 He would not be able to achieve his quality goals without further delays that have been excluded.
Football manager 25 It was provided as the main change of the series, and Sports Interactive promises “the greatest technical and visual progress in the series through the generation, putting structural elements for the new era.” The game was to introduce better animations, an improved user interface and a match of the match day, and turn on football for the first time.
But Sports Interactive seems to fight the scope of reconstruction; He has already taken an unprecedented step of delaying the game after the ordinary autumn premiere until March, which means that he would miss the lion’s part of the football season. The developer has not yet published the revelation of the game and overlooked the promised development update in January.
“Due to the various challenges that we have been open so far, and many more unforeseen, we have not now achieved what we decided to do in enough game areas, despite the phenomenal efforts of our team”, “Sports Interactive said. “Each decision to delay the release was made to bring the game closer to the desired level, but because we approached critical milestones at the turn of the year, it has undoubtedly become clear that we will not reach the required standard, even with the required standard, even with the corrected time axis. “
The studio stated that the release of the game in the current state and repairing it through patches was “not appropriate” and excluded that it pushed the release date, “because it would be too behind schedule in the football season to expect players to buy another game later. “So the decision was made to skip this entry and focus on the next version of the game, probably due in autumn 2025.
“By canceling, every effort now focuses on ensuring that our next edition will reach our goal and reach the level of quality that we all expect,” said Sports Interactive.
Sports Interactive apologized for earlier transfer of the game of the game due to legal and financial provisions arising from ownership by SEGA, a public company. He said that players who have already ordered a pre -sale game would be automatically returned in full. He also ruled out the update Football manager 2024 with data from the current sports season, because it would be a “significant undertaking” that would miss the development of the next edition.
The football manager was published as part of a strict schedule, never later than at the end of November, since 2004 Football manager 2005. The history of Sports Interactive with football management games reaches even further – until 1992 Championship manager.
