Having attended the PC Fútbol 8 press conference and seen it with my own eyes, this is how I understand the current state of the game.

From the genuine celebration of the reunion with PC Fútbol, ​​one of the best and most beloved sagas of video games “Made in Spain”, to the uncertainty of its release and in what condition; and from there to attend the presentation with a live game in Hector Pratsthe developer’s CEO. Or at least to a newly compiled version whose purpose and priority was to dispel doubts about the development PC Football 8. Even above what this part will bring to the franchise. The press conference, which, in fact, was very unusual.

Assessing what a video game will be like before it launches (or even betas) is unfair to everyone, starting with what is conveyed to the readers themselves. Despite the serious question that was and remains on the agenda during the presentation PC Football 8 It wasn’t so much about the game itself, but rather its current state. A video game that, as I tell you, It exists, but it has a long way to go. and whose biggest enemy is time itself. And the patience of those who misspoke and are not sure what will happen.

The general photo that the presentation left us with: a compiled version, limited for the occasion, that we were able to see. It is not ready for sale. All things considered, it was an unfinished build, but it reflected a lot of issues that needed to be addressed. So what? PC Football 8 It was supposed to be released more than a month ago. As the game progressed, Prats noted bugs, errors, and unexpected closures, as well as other problems of varying degrees that cannot and should not be in the final versions.

Needless to say, Hector Prats did not expect the presentation to go this way.

Don’t get me wrong: bugs appearing in a video game under development is an almost daily occurrence, but that doesn’t stop it from being something very unusual to present, be it public or press. In general, Prats’ main goal, and this is very important, was always clear before the game began: to let the participants know that there is more to this than just screenshots. PC Football 8 next to the buy button. One doesn’t cancel the other out, but at this point it’s worth putting yourself in context.

What’s going on with PC Fútbol 8

After many years of difficulties, the license PC football passed into the hands of Another gamea developer founded in February 2024 and soon announced a new installment. When a saga like this returns, it doesn’t go unnoticed. According to Prats, the project has been in the works for over a year, but we know that when the game was unveiled, it was made with an empty website, and after the presentation, it became clear that when it came to opening reservations, it was much less advanced than it should have been.

To put yourself in context, PC football This is not just another Football Manager clone. Among other things, because both sports management offerings were born in the same year. Technically, the Spanish version is older, since SEGA’s current license is a revival. Championship Managerbut it is clear that One More Game’s ambition is not to match or surpass the English football titan’s offering, but rather to complete a development that has been stifled for months and beset by various problems.

New PC Football 8 will be released in early access despite having pushed back its release date several times. If you search for its website on Google, it reminds you that it was supposed to be released on June 7th, and in the absence of a copy to see what it would bring to players, what was shown in the compilation created for it makes it clear that everything remains not just to be done, but to be revisited.

Overall and theoretically, not all of the team and player databases that will be in the final version were used, but this means that, incidentally, we don’t quite understand what will happen when all of this information is added to the gameplay in full. Which, on the other hand, brings us to the central problem of the current version PC Football 8: The plan is to release it as soon as possible. Therefore, the whole project is at a very strange stage.

If the situation is like this, Why open pre-orders instead of releasing the game in Early Access on Steam? Hector Prats assured that the launch will be in early access through his website, but Valve’s program does not allow them to launch the game in an advanced state, but rather it must be in a very early stage. Furthermore, he clarified that what will be released is not a beta version.

“We’ll do Early Access because it doesn’t have everything we need. But the game will come out fully functional. It’s not like the sim suddenly drops the ball. In fact, you see how many times we’ve delayed the game for any kind of glitch, and we could say, ‘No, no, it’s just a beta. But we don’t want it to be that way.'”

Without giving figures from our side. Another game concerns payments PC Football 8 and there are still a few to process. One of them is probably language-related, but the matches will be voiced in Spanish and Catalan, and to speed things up, most of the content, but not all, is translated using artificial intelligence. However, and this is key, the way the match was shown to us was, to put it mildly, unexpected.

This is the current state of PC Fútbol 8.

Shigeru Miyamoto said that it’s better for a game to come out late but well than to come out early and be remembered for its terrible release. What became clear to us after watching the compilation shown PC Football 8 The thing is that One More Game, even after entering early access, requires more time.

As we mentioned, the version we were able to see had begun to be compiled before the presentation began, the process continued during it, and we were shown it an hour after the meeting. Partly, and to be honest, because there were other issues on the table that needed to be discussed.

Some of the questions raised at the time were about what we could expect from the game, but for the most part, Hector Prat answered all the conversations about the development and the conditions in which the project was carried out. Transcendental themes. However, in VidaExtra we are going to focus on what matters to players: the current state PC Football 8.

Let’s start with the fact that the problem with a football manager is the databases, not their presentation. Clubs, cities, players. PC Fútbol 8 does not have licenses, but even in the part of the compiled version that we were shown, there were still many unexpected random elements, as well as automated elements for testing, such as notifications. An example of the former is that when starting at a club, the parameter is to have two goalkeepers, but Héctor found that his new team had no strikers. In the final version, this cannot happen.

What about football matches? We saw that the quick fix by going straight to the result was not a problem, and that the return of the icon mode (a real-time match with dots instead of players) and the options “View” and “Interactive” were planned. However, these last three modes failed to show up in the current game – or at least in the presentation – leaving this space on the screen empty. Hector Prats said that he watched it, although it was not shown on the air, and with his own camera showed what should have been seen. But in the end, this is another serious violation.

The version compiled for the press presentation was closed, contained errors and clarified everything that was not possible or not completed today PC Football 8 which, as promised, should already be playable. The problem they face is twofold. Another game is that they are going against the times, and to that we have to add the weight of the acronym and the franchise. This is an advantage on a commercial level, but also a responsibility to the fans and their legacy.

A bad presentation is unusual, but it can happen to anyone. Uncharted 4 has a trophy for jumping because of a problem Naughty Dog had with its E3 demo. The question of whether the game was really behind the captures has been answered, albeit not in the way we expected, but we can’t lose perspective: the harsh reality PC Football 8 It didn’t work out, and when he saw it, We are also unclear how this will happen.. But we know very well and very specifically what he has and what needs to be improved. And also because.

And the last piece of information: it was mentioned both in the presentation and in the questions and answers section on the official website. PC Football 9the launch of which is scheduled for December 2025.

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