February 10 – One of many world’s hottest video video games, Soccer Supervisor won’t have a 2025 version after its maker Sports activities Interactive introduced the sport has been cancelled.
The Soccer Supervisor collection has been launched yearly since 2004, and 20 years later turned the most-played version within the recreation’s historical past, reaching seven million gamers inside 100 days.
Final yr there have been some teething issues with the launch of FM25 as an early launch in November was pushed till March 2025.
In a press release, Sports activities Interactive stated that “following intensive inner dialogue and cautious consideration” with licensor and companion Sega, it will not be working an version this present yr.
“Attributable to quite a lot of challenges that we’ve been open about thus far, and lots of extra unexpected, we presently haven’t achieved what we got down to do in sufficient areas of the sport,” a Sports activities Interactive assertion, which was launched at 2.34am GMT on Friday, learn.
“As we approached important milestones on the flip of the yr, it turned unmistakably clear that we might not obtain the usual required, even with the adjusted timeline.”
The sport started in 1992 as Championship Supervisor and is wildly standard as a recreation that requires gamers to imagine the position of a soccer supervisor. As a substitute of utilizing a video-game controller, gamers then had the choice of signing gamers, hiring teaching workers, and establishing the workforce – with the match engine basically simulating the fixtures.
Within the announcement on X Sports activities Interactive, Sega and FM25 apologised profusely to their legion of followers.
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