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Championship Manager Online to close in April

Publisher to "re-focus" football franchise; lack of players/features blamed

Square Enix is to close down Championship Manager Online at the end of April, but still plans to work on the football franchise.

"We can confirm that CM Online, a joint initiative with Jadestone in Sweden, will be closing from April 30, 2010," said the publisher. "We are re-focusing our vision for the Championship Manager franchise and hope to share more news soon."

"We want to thank the loyal players who have supported this product over the last few years and our partner Jadestone for all of their work on CM Online."

According to a post on the official CM Online website, the game had failed to attract new customers and develop new features for users.

"The decision to close the game was completely out of Jadestone's hands and they, legally, are unable to offer more information than that. By Jadestone's own admission, they have failed to attract enough people to CMO and the subscribers themselves generally complain the game wasn't developed enough."

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Matt Martin joined GamesIndustry in 2006 and was made editor of the site in 2008. With over ten years experience in journalism, he has written for multiple trade, consumer, contract and business-to-business publications in the games, retail and technology sectors.
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