Huge FM25 Features Dropped

We get our first look at Football Manager 2025… what do you think?

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[TJW-YT]

I'm so glad this video dropped so that Zealand can tell me what my opinion is.

[sVieira]

RIP shouts, which i only ever used to keep the little face icons as green as possible 😞

[imaxjam]

Dumbing down for consoles is a concern - a new graphics engine will be nice (if its done right) but we play because of its depth and complexity, lets hope that doesn't become cheapened over time.

[donutxavi]

Can't wait for all the removed features to be the main selling points of the future iterations of FM.

[Userseven]

Number 1 fear: SI making it less in depth than it is now on PC

[nkola]

One concern I have is that they might oversimplify things. Although it's too early to tell, and we haven't gotten enough information from the blog post, I love being overwhelmed with details. It's one of the things that makes this game unique, providing a wealth of information and stats at all times.

I hope that when I open the player tab (or tile, whatever it's called now), I'll still see lots of information about the player. I also want to keep track of everything happening around the world, as I could with the "Around the World" tab (its absence in the portal screenshot worries me a bit).

[franciscoricca]

That UI looks like a mobile game, and that scares me. Adding all the dropped features into the mix... If they dont improve the Match engine a lot, I might just skip FM25

[theqaz]

I don't hate the new UI but I have an underlying dread that it may lead to far more clicking between windows to do/see the same thing that was all on one screen previously

[martinvranovsky]

Create-a-Club's problem (for me, at least) was that you couldn't use it with a custom database. That basically ruled it out for me even though I really wanted to play it.

[AdamPersson]

Also, it looks like they want to look like FIFA with their UI. That fact makes me VERY scared that it'll be simplified to suit the console market..

[tuco]

Seems like a situation where players might just stick with FM24 for another full year until FM25 gets over the growing pains of just being an inferior version and gets tons of updates, or until it's all fixed in FM26.

[eggeggeggeggeggeggeggegg]

Feels like this new game will be a big step back before they are able to make big steps forward. I am extremely worried that they are going to simplify the game to suit console and mobile players.

[IroniChristian]

You just know that lollujo is going to accidentally win the World cup using a default tactic

[CoL_Drake]

That they wanna make same ui for all platforms is concerning

[kenpach]

It's gone from a probable day 1 purchase to definitely going to wait and see what Zealand and Steam reviews say after a week or two.

[hannahreed-yvdx]

Growth is great, but I wonder how much of that 10m is people having a go through game pass / catalogue and giving up after an hour or 2.

I’d love to see how many players complete a season and how that breaks down by platform.

Perhaps I should get out more.

[stoniptfosupersonic]

"Do you guys not have phones"

[kappaslapper]

If they are super confident of the look of NEW match engine then surly it would only raise interest and hype if they showed a couple screenshots now at least... no ?

[ntroni]

My guess is unity took more work then they imagined probs why no pics or videos and why so much stuff was removed. Nevertheless def stoked for the new fm

[wiseguy]

Really does seem like they're focusing on console and tablet players. I get they're a business and in the mind of selling more units, but at the cost of annoying the loyal fanbase who have been playing for many years.