Football Manager 2025 delayed

[Blue Maniac]

The much-hyped ‘new era’ of Football Manager is off to a rocky start. This was to be the year that women’s football made its debut in the series. Sports Interactive had also made a rather big deal of the move to a new engine, the usual array of new features, and official Premier League licensing.

Some criticism has been fired at SI during this development cycle for a variety of reasons. Some are weirdly upset at the addition of women’s football, others are irritated by the removal of features that didn’t really do anything anyway, and many complain about everything just for something to do.

Still, as recently as last week, SI announced a release date in late November and their intention to reveal all the new features in more detail over the coming weeks, soliciting pre-orders by offering a discount and early access. Alas, this evening, SI have published a statement indicating that release has been pushed back to March 2025.

The collective meltdown on their forums and Reddit in response is ****ing brilliant.

 

[Orifice]

I played the original Football Manager - text only - on either my TRS-80 or Acorn Electron (I think the latter).

I instantly got stuck in, really enjoying it, and began my first play session one evening. It was only when I noticed that it was suddenly 2:30am, I realised that I may be having a problem with the game!

 

[Blue Maniac]

I played the original Football Manager - text only - on either my TRS-80 or Acorn Electron (I think the latter).

I instantly got stuck in, really enjoying it, and began my first play session one evening. It was only when I noticed that it was suddenly 2:30am, I realised that I may be having a problem with the game!

Some people rack up hundreds of hours on FM every year, it’s mental how it sucks people in.

 

[bocadillo]

Some people rack up hundreds of hours on TB every year, it’s mental how it sucks people in.

'Tis true.

 

[jb5000]

Some people rack up hundreds of hours on FM every year, it’s mental how it sucks people in.

Aye, I've had to work to quit it and all its successors - rather like I imagine I'd have to quit skag if I'd gone down that route

 

[pork pie fox]

Some people rack up hundreds of hours on FM every year, it’s mental how it sucks people in.

We used to play the original version of Championship Manager, back in ‘92, but I was 16 then, so you have loads of time to waste on not particularly important things at that age. The Italian version that followed the following year was good too. Our most extreme game was 3 of us playing a 24 hour game, starting with randomly drawn teams in the bottom division, to see who won by climbing the furthest up the ladder in that 24 hour period. We did this with the English and Italian versions.

I’d stopped playing it by the time I went to Uni in ‘95 though, so I’ve no idea what it has been like since then.