Why Everyone Is Cooking FM25

Not been a hot start has it, let’s see how this goes

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[poppyharlow]

Yo Z, there's a bastard who's using your likeness to make penguinz0-style football commentary videos, his name's Zealandism. Just lookin out gang

[Toropetskii]

Release a game late, you lose no rep. Release a bad game, damage your rep forever. They should just continue refinining this for FM26, and release the player and club updates into FM24 in the meantime. But money greed etc

[chrisfmjesusmountsteven]

In the blog it says "released as good as it can be in the time we have" not delay it until it's finished. This is an open admission the game won't be ready.

[jaysheriffe]

I've been around in the gaming industry long enough to know that at this point it's not a question of "IF" this game is going to be bad, but a question of "HOW" bad will it be.

i hope its only moderate damage that is inconvenient but tolerable and not a complete trainwreck.

[StreetSoulLover]

There is no Beta, because FM25 is the Beta...

[PolakInHolland]

Imagine getting rid of a feature 6% of players play to introduce one that less than 1% will. Everything woke turns to shit.

[CalTheDamned]

im suprised people are so caught up on graphics, because lets be honest the game is a giant excel spreadsheet and a simulator the graphics have never really bothered me.

[comicsaresick]

Feels very no man’s sky. My gut says flops at launch, rescued after Xmas

[futkingdse]

I completely get your concerns, the FM 2020 trailer was released a whole FIVE YEARS before FM 25!

[codycomer]

This feels like a year to chill and enjoy fm24 for another year then grab 26 when they’ve had time to actually make a complete game.

[lordjustinian]

Honestly you are the first youtuber to basically be like I'm not going to provide keys for preordering the game and you legitimately do say "People shouldn't preorder games as a whole." It's like finally we got a football Manager youtuber and player who doesn't go against his opinions that much

[matthewbelcher]

Finallly a content creator being honest, rather than Lollujo who keeps blowing smoke up their arse

[MattMcMatt]

Potential red flag for me is that the interface doesn’t seem to be customisable. In the past we could move all the panels around and add new ones, so the default layout really didn’t matter to me

[mattnottm]

I've always hated how FM's coming out months in to the football season. This farce could've been used to reset this issue by SI giving themself more time to develop this version of FM25 and instead just releasing a stop-gap data pack for FM24 to cover this season, then releasing the new-flashy-Unity game next season AT THE START OF THE SEASON in August. It just makes sense.

[vanman]

I'm 100% confident it's going to be an absolute shambles.

[Klyptic]

FM is like upgrading a phone, very incremental upgrades every year. I upgrade every 3 years or so (unless I get it for free like FM24), or else you will barely be able to notice what has changed

[VurtAddicted]

The fact that most FM streamers are getting mad gives me hope. A lot of hope.

[plcdfa]

I'm 99% sure they are waaay behind where they're supposed to be in the development cycle.

1, They pushed the release date => pushing the release by a few weeks is always the worst possible sign. Publishers don't move a release to iron out minor bugs, they do that AFTER the release. Postponing it means they didn't have the confidence they could get it in a playable state by the original date. Problem is, what can they accomplish in a few additional weeks? And unlike other games, SI don't have much leeway to delay it further due to the yearly release schedule, if they can't get the game out before christmas, they might as well just cancel it and concentrate on '26.
2, After years of development, a few weeks before release, there's still not a single screenshot of the match engine, not to mention videos. Beyond weird.
3, Removed features. If I wanted to be cynical I'd say they wanna pull a Madden, and just use them as the "new" features for the next few years' releases, but I don't think SI would do it if they didn't feel like they absolutely have to, because the optics are horrible.
4, No early access - they may still announce it, but I'd very suprised.

Bottom line, I fully expect this to be a buggy unfinished mess of a release, and that's the good scenario. Definitely wouldn't pre-order.

[TheSilentScreamX]

I'm not nervous. I can still play FM24 if the game sucks. I played CM 01/02 for years while we waited for FM to get good, and I can do the same here. The people melting down over FM25 need help.
Definitely not pre-ordering FM25, there's no reason to, and they haven't given us one.

[AntiSociety]

You know what sounds like a bad idea to me? Implementing women football when you don't even have the basic game together.
The amount of time to input everything regarding female football and it's balancing has to be HUGE, and I'll bet everyone that no more then 5% of the saves will even touch women's football.
But who t f needs international football ehj. LOL