SPORTS Interactive revealed that the 2025 football director will not be released at all, with attention to next season.
The very common product has already been delayed twice, with The last update of his payment again From November 2024 to March 2025. However, because of a “variety of challenges”, FM25 did not meet Sports Interactive to improve “generations”. After a discussion with Sega, it was decided that the current product was “very far from the criteria it deserves” and there will be no version this season.
The game has been produced in its current curtain every year since 2005, with Football manager '24 The most popular in any previous repetition, includes up to seven million users at one point.
The full statement of SPORTS Interactive read: “Sports Interactive regret on reporting that, after a large -scale interior discussion and careful look with Sega, we made a difficult decision to cancel the football manager 25 and convert our focus to the next version.
“For the large numbers of you who have previously requested FM25, we thank you greatly for your confidence and support – we are very sorry for let down you.
“We know that this will be a great disappointment, especially given that the date of the release has already moved twice, and I expected impatiently to reveal the first game. We can only apologize for the time it took it to deliver this decision. Because of this. The compliance with the stakeholders, Including legal and financial regulations, today the first date we can issue this statement.
“We have always been proud of ourselves in providing the best value for money games that bring you countless hours of enjoy .
“Due to a variety of challenges that we were open yet, and a lot of unexpected, we have not now achieved what we started doing in sufficient areas of the game, despite the tremendous efforts of our team. A decision was taken to delay the release with the aim of making the game closer to the required level, But as we approach the critical monuments at the end of the year, it has become unambiguously clear that we will not achieve the required standard, even with the average schedule.
“While many areas of the game have reached our goals, the experience and interface of the comprehensive player is not the place we need. As the intense evaluation, including the consumer play test, we have a clear verification of the new direction of the game and approach – however, we are far away Very about the criteria you deserve.
“We could have pressed, and we issued FM25 in its current state, and we put things down at the bottom of the line – but this is not the right thing to do. We were also ready to overcome the March version as the time would be too late in the football season to expect players to buy Another game later in the year.
“By cancellation, every effort is now possible to ensure our next version achieves our goal and strikes the quality that we all expect. We will update you on how we advanced as soon as we can do this.
“Thank you for reading, your patience and your constant support. Our full focus is now due to the creation of a new era for the football manager.”
