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Topics: Football Manager, Gaming, Football
Alex Brotherton
Football Manager have confirmed that a major feature that many players had asked for has been removed from FM25.
Fans of Football Manager are eagerly awaiting the release of the latest edition of the iconic game, but this year they are going to have to wait a little longer than normal.
Due to complications with shifting the entire game over to the Unity engine, the game's development team have confirmed that the official announcement of FM25 will now take place towards the end of September, with the gameplay focus period following afterwards.
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FM games usually launched in early November, but FM25 will be released later in the month.
That's not the only think fans will be disappointed about.
On Wednesday, September 4, Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson announced that players will not be able to manage international teams in FM25, as had previously been the plan.
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In a statement published on the Football Manager website, Jacobson explained:
"The challenges we’ve encountered in the development process over the last couple of months have led us to make another difficult decision around game content: international management will not be a playable mode in FM25, FM25 Console or FM25 Touch.
"Coming off the back of a summer of tournament football and with this week even being an international break, we’ve looked really hard at international management in FM and determined that what we were planning to deliver wouldn’t reach our initial quality threshold.
"So, rather than delay FM25 even further, we’ve paused work on that area of the game and allocated those resources to other key areas.
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"It will continue to exist in FM25, FM25 Console and FM25 Touch as part of the wider simulation of world football, it just won’t be playable."
However, Jacobson confirmed that international management will remain playable in FM25 Mobile as that version of the game uses a different development track and codebase.
He also insisted that international management has not bee permanently scrapped from the game, and will return in a "much more feature-rich way" in FM26, FM26 Console and FM26 Touch.
The issues the FM team have encountered with FM25 have not impacted the introduction of women's football into the game.
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Player weights have also been removed from the game.