https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-announces...ly-melancholy/

It's worth reading some of the backstory to this, but FIFA, in typical fashion, don't really make the best decisions.

Konami also f*cked up the Pro Evolution franchise last year so there's a gap in the market.

Coding and animating a complex football game is going to be very difficult without the decades of experience that EA or Konami have. Love them or hate them, they've a lot of game development behind them (Konami the company not the development side messed up PES due to them opting for a micro transaction model and losing the main single player option).

I own and have played every FIFA and PES title. In recent times I've been lucky enough to work on some of them both as a tester and animator. Ironically, I've always loved PES more though and the old community based around kit development and modding the non-licensed teams.

Nevertheless, it's going to be weird saying goodbye to an EA gaming franchise that's been part of a lot of people's lives for so long.

Tip: All those old FIFA and PES titles that you couldn't give away are now worth collecting (even the digital versions but obviously discs are better).