The future of Football Manager: we talk to Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson about his 'personal disappointment' of FM23, and the studio's big dreams for FM24, FM25 and beyond.
Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson has announced a range of major shifts coming to the Football Manager series, dubbed"one of the biggest changes in our history.", Jacobson apologised for the relative lack of new features in FM23, announced save game transfers coming in FM24, and the long-awaited arrival of women's football in FM25 - first announced back in 2021. Alongside all that is a shift from the studio's own in-house game development engine to the ubiquitous Unity.
Despite still being proud of the game's success, with Steam reviews still at 87 percent positive -"most studios would kill for that", Jacobson says - he's still disappointed with what the studio put out. "We tried a few new processes last year, some of which worked, and some of which didn't. A few months before release we faced the reality of having to drop a few features that we'd wanted to deliver to ensure we were able to deliver a working game. While FM23 was released with some great new features and overall the game was great quality wise, it also contained some which just didn't hit the mark.
"It's a huge jigsaw puzzle. As is the game itself - if you have one piece missing in a jigsaw puzzle, it makes the game feel less of a complete experience... But again, as I've said really clearly in the blog, and I'll say it again now, the final decisions on this stuff are made by me. So if anything went wrong, it's on me, it's not on anyone else."
"My dream is that once we release our new UI, the world of productivity tools will be looking at our UI and going, 'Why didn't we think of that?!'"
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Kanye West 'asked homeless man to be his election manager for presidential bid'In what can only be described as a Kanye West move, he supposedly asked a homeless man he barely knew to be his 2024 campaign manager.
Read more »
F1 Manager 2023 wants you to rewrite historyOur F1 Manager 2023 preview dives into the new Race Replay mode, which saw us take charge of Aston Martin in the real-life Monaco GP.
Read more »
Kai Havertz joins Arsenal to become Mikel Arteta's most expensive signing as managerKai Havertz has signed for Arsenal to become the first transfer of the summer at the Emirates Stadium. The Germany international has penned a long-term contract until 2028 at Arsenal which sees him…
Read more »
Roku goes wheel-to-wheel with Apple and Netflix with its first live sports offeringRoku just neatly moved into Apple and Netflix's slipstream.
Read more »
Drugs: Sports Direct bag found in car with £1m worth of drugsThe man was on-route to south Wales with 105kg of amphetamine when police stopped him.
Read more »
Belfast travel expert shares money saving tips for booking summer holidaysBy taking some simple steps and planning ahead you could really be saving yourself hundreds⛱
Read more »