Sega and Sports Interactive are correct to cancel the Soccer Manager 25

11 February 2025 | Playing games

If you read this blog regularly, you will likely agree that the game industry in 2025 is a wild western part of anti-consumer practices. Developers and publishers are likely to milk as much as possible money from customers, regardless of the damage made in the beloved series or reputation of the company itself.

One unfavorable habit of habits has been developed is to release a very damaged game. Even if a title is clearly unfit for public consumption, they prefer to sweep gamers that are obtained hard now and worry about improving chaos in the next patch. Think about Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars Outlawsor City: Skylines 2.

Therefore an easy choice is for Sega and Sports Interactive for sanding Football Manager 25Rough and released edges, and we must praise them for canceling this year’s edition in order to maintain the quality of the series.

Not that to say that they handle the situation perfectly. Until the original release date of November 2024 was postponed in October, Sports Interactive was happy to promote preorders to gamers who had no reason to suspect them would not get their game the following month.

When the delay came, Football Manager 25 Pushed to March – only two months before the end of the European soccer season, where many content fans pay the annual RRP to be out of date. Even though it will be drastic, it might be better than canceling the game altogether.

And not much they can do about it, given the requirements to synchronize news with the financial reporting of their Japanese owner, but some gamers feel disappointed when FM25The cancellation was finally announced at 02:30 the time of British on a random February. Fortunately, it quickly became clear that many players did not follow regular sleep schedules, but it still felt like a strange time.

However, even if some comms are misguided, the fact is still like that FM25The cursed timeline is still better than alternatives: releasing entries below the standard in the 20 -year series (even older, spiritual), possibly with a unity machine that is shaky and stripped from international management mode.

And that will be very easy to do. Football manager Having a passionate player base from fans and content makers who at the end of each greedy annual cycle for new features and updated name lists. Even with critical reviews, FM25 will make a lot of money for interactive and sega sports.

So for that, I praised them. Their dedication to their players and their output quality is clearly strong enough so they prefer to receive financial hit rather than releasing sub-par products, and while the internet parts will not be doubted about them for it, which places them in front of most modern studios in the eyes I.