In September 2021, Konami released eFootball 2022, which quickly became one of the worst game launches of all time. On its launch day, the game had Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews on Steam. After this awful launch, Konami apologized and promised to fix the game via a major update in November 2021. However, the company has just announced that this Update has been delayed until Spring 2022.
As Konami stated:
“We have concluded that more time is needed to deliver the product in the quality that will meet the expectations of our users and have decided to postpone the delivery.”
Update 1.0.0 was going to add new content to the game, including a new mode, as well as support for mobile devices.
Konami also intends to release a new patch for the game later today. As the team noted, Patch 0.9.1 will fix numerous bugs sequentially on each platform.
Lastly, Konami has decided to cancel the pre-order for eFootball 2022 Premium Player Pack. Konami will also refund the payment (following the process defined by the platform’s policies) to those that have pre-ordered it.
And there it is. eFootball 2022’s launch is one of the worst we’ve ever seen. The fact that Konami also waited until the last minute to announce this new delay also feels disingenuous. It’s really sad witnessing how the mighty Pro series has fallen; a soccer series that once upon a time was the best thing soccer fans could have hoped for.
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I know the game has become a meme and is basically the Cyberpunk of 2021 but some of the stuffs in the game are actually done a slight better than FIFA, like depth of field, grass, cloth, and motion blur. But they ruined it with awful models and facial animations.
But the thing is … this is a free live-service game now. And basically this’ll get continuous graphics updates. Once they’ve a stable and appealing UE4 build of the game in 2022, they can focus on the UE5 upgrade for it, leveraging UE5’s metahuman, nanite & lumen(since its a sports game those features can be made more optimized to run than other traditional UE5 action or adventure games).
Konami had it coming. All the pc gamers here know it.
“eFootball 2022 is now the worst game release of 2021…..”
Now? Now………..?! ?
This thing was predetermined s**t. Who in their right mind thought this was going to be anything even resembling good?
lol
the gambling company making pachinko machines trying to get players addicted to loot boxes
Why even bother fixing it? 2022? Its 2021 and people gave up + lost hope to the game, by 2022 not even true fans will care
F*ckonami
exactly
No, it’s Deathloop and Far Cry 6.
Americans are third worlders now?
They reverting the game for the old engine during this long session.
Meanwhile,Kojima laugh in the shadow…
The saddest part is that the steam reviewers all BOUGHT this turd even with the history of cash grabs and all the previews and such beforehand, not to mention konamis death spiral. Also most likely listened to the “contributed” content by dev proxys and so called reviewers aka ad monkeys. It’s those mooks that keep this stuff coming ad infinitum.
Cursed images indeed.