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."