Football Manager 25 cancelled after several delays
Football Manager 25 cancelled after several delays
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Sports Interactive had promised that new game would bring a ‘new era’ – but it will no longer be released at all. The upcoming 2025 edition of Football Manager has been cancelled, its developers have announced. Sports Interactive, which makes the game, said that it had made the “difficult decision” to cancel it in collaboration with its partner SEGA. It said that it would not be able to make a good enough game in time and that it had opted to cancel it entirely as a result.
Sports Interactive had been planning to use the new game to “create the biggest technical and visual advancement in the series for a generation, laying the building blocks for a new era”. But it was hit by a number of challenges that meant it had not “achieved what we set out to do in enough areas of the game”. It had already announced that the game was delayed a number of times, which it said had happened “with the aim of getting the game closer to the desired level”.
Football Manager 2025 was initially supposed to be released in early November. In September, it said the game would not be available until later in November, and then in October it said the game would not come out until March 2025. But it had become clear around the turn of the year that developers would not meet important deadlines and would instead have to cancel the game. It had not been able to announce it until now because of “stakeholder compliance, including legal and financial regulations”.
It was unwilling to launch the game in an unfinished state, it said, and also objected to the idea of launching the game and then asking players to buy the 2026 version soon after. Sports Interactive would also not be able to simply update the 2024 edition with this year’s data, it said, since that would take too many resources away from the new game. Football Manager had already been able to pre-order on various consoles. Sports Interactive said that refunds would be issued to those who had done so.
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