For the first time since the franchise started back in 2005, Sports Interactive have officially cancelled their (near) annual release of a new Football Manager game.
Usually released around November of the previous year, FM 25 had already been delayed twice to a projected date in March this year. However, it seems that the issues with this years edition have become too serious to warrant continuing development as they would likely cause even further delays.
Due to a variety of challenges that we’ve been open about to date, and many more unforeseen, we currently haven’t achieved what we set out to do in enough areas of the game, despite the phenomenal efforts of our team. Each decision to delay the release was made with the aim of getting the game closer to the desired level but, as we approached critical milestones at the turn of the year, it became unmistakably clear that we would not achieve the standard required, even with the adjusted timeline.
The full statement from SI and Sega is here, together with details on how to obtain a refund should you have pre-purchased the title.