Sega and Interactive Sports were right to cancel the football manager 25

February 11, 2025 | Game

If you read this blog regularly, you will likely agree that the game industry in 2025 is a wilderness of anti-consumers. The developers and publishers seem determined to milked as much money as possible of customers, regardless of the damage caused to the beloved series or the reputation of the companies themselves.

An unfortunate coat studios has developed is to publish horribly broken games. Even if a title is obviously unfit for public consumption, they prefer to rattle in cash harmful of players and worry to repair the waste in subsequent fixes. Think Cyberpunk 2077,, Star Wars OutlawsOr Cities: Skylines 2.

Therefore, the easy option would have been for sega and interactive sports to sand Football Manager 25“S

This does not mean that they have perfectly managed the situation. Until the original release date of the match in November 2024 was delayed in October, Sports Interactive was happy to promote pre -orders to players who had no reason to suspect that they would not get their hands on the following month.

When the delay came, Football Manager 25 Was pushed to March – just two months before the end of the European football season, how much of the content fans pay the annual RRP to be exceeded. Although it would have been drastic, it could have been better than completely deleting the game.

And there is not much that they could have done on this subject given the requirement to synchronize the news with the financial information of their Japanese owners, but some players felt disappointed when FM25The possible cancellation was announced at 2:30 a.m., one random morning time in February. Fortunately, it quickly became clear that many players do not follow the regular sleep schedules, but it always looked like a strange moment.

However, even if some of the communications were poorly managed, the fact remains that FM25The cursed chronology remains better than the alternative: to release a lower quality entry into a series of 20 years (even older, spiritually), probably with a fragile unit matching engine and stripped of international management methods.

And it would have been so easy to do. Football leader Has a base of players passionate about fans and content creators who, at the end of each annual cycle, are voracious for new features and updated lists. Even with critical criticism, FM25 would have made a pile of money for interactive and sega sports.

So for that, I applaud them. Their dedication to their players and the quality of their production are obviously strong enough for them to prefer to take a financial blow rather than release a product below normal, and although certain parts of the Internet criticize them undoubtedly, which puts them ahead of most modern studios in my eyes.