Update: Miles Jacobson, Managing Director of Football Manager developer, Sports Interactive, has shared a message on Twitter to clear things up. Here’s his full comment:
“Many licenses have cut off dates & sell through dates. And we have to stop selling when the earliest of those runs out. Which was earlier this week. And we tweeted about it to let people know as those on Gamepass could play til 31st, but only buy til 18th”.
Original Article: Last week saw the launch of Football Manager 2020 Touch on Nintendo Switch, giving fans the chance to pick up the latest version from the eShop just in time for Christmas. Strangely, it would appear that the older versions – 2019 and 2018 – have been removed from the digital store to make way for the new title.
The oddity was brought to our attention by Nintendo Life reviewer and all-round good chap Chris Scullion. As you can see below, Chris has spotted that the pages for both the 2019 and 2018 games have been taken down, with the old URLs now taking you to error pages. Here’s the link to what used to be Football Manager 2019, for example.
Now, the reasoning behind the removal isn’t clear at this stage so we don’t want to second guess Sega’s intentions, but we’re hoping that this isn’t simply a way of forcing fans to pick up the latest version. For anyone who’s not too fussed about getting the updated teams and the like, grabbing an older, reduced version makes a lot of sense; as it stands, the only way for new players to enjoy Football Manager is by buying the latest, full price edition.
We’ve contacted Sega for comment on the removal of the two games and will update this story if and when we hear back.
https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2019/12/...-launches/