[ANNOUNCEMENT] The two stadium packs are my last releases in the subreddit. My activity and participation will be decreasing in the next days as I move into other things and games. I'll keep moderating the sub in the shadows. Goodbye!
Nothing that you didn't know yet, as I have been saying for some time that MegaPatch 3.1 was going to be my final "magnum opus" to this game for you.
I don't want to repeat myself to another of these long posts and threads I've made in the past, but thank you all for taking the ride with me. I took over this sub 2 years ago with around 5k members and now we duplicated that number. A lot of people has discovered a forgotten good football game and talked about it everywhere. To friends, to old football fans, to young ones that are tired from other games, to anyone.
Thank you also for all the donations, which really felt good after putting thousands of hours into polishing, modifying, improving what I could and also giving constant support here in this sub. In case you want to make some last hurrah for me, here's my Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/fl24megapatch . If not, don't worry I won't bite you.
Thank you for keeping the flame alive for a saga that needed a better future, but some bad management led it to a death. Who knows if the dead can be resurrected. It's not in our hands.
Thank you for praising my soundtrack choices for each iteration of the MegaPatch. I know it can sound a little bit dumb but I really appreciate it, as music is one of my biggest passions. I even read some comments in some songs uploaded on YouTube saying that they heared it in MegaPatch and it made me smile.
Thank you for uploading some funny things and awesome goals. Truly shows that this game can have multiple outcomes and different experiences on every computer. Randomness was always one of the best points of PES franchise, and it hasn't been lost.
Thank you for some conversations I could have with some people! I got a bunch of friends from there. Specially Football4Life, who I met him from here, and now we talk daily about football, football videogames, gameplays and we even play together to them and gather feedback to... well, who knows in the future.
Thank you all for giving me all the praises, kisses, hugs and comments for a project that I did for pure passion, not money, to let everyone enjoy it. I'm sure this thread will get fully of those again. Don't stop, I always read your comments even though I don't answer all of them.
You already know the future of football games, but if you don't I'll make a short summary for you:
- You stay here, playing this 6-year old game already with updates to squads, kits and some other things. Don't expect a good outcome of better mods in the near future, as the community has decreased quite a bit. But probably Football Life 26 will exist (I don't know) and so on.
- You go to eFootball and play casual matches with your friends locally or against CPU.
- You go to EA FC 25, adapt to it, and enjoy as it is. Its the only "complete and updated" game out there. I was thinking to make a dedicated post for Sliders to this game, but as I don't want to cross things from other games (and get potentially bad comments out of it), I'll give you a link for Football4Life Sliders for EA FC 25, adapted to Title Update 9.1. You can apply them on consoles, of course: F4L SLIDERS FOR EA FC 25
- You wait for the FIFA licensed game (not confirmed to be 2K developing it) that should be releasing before World Cup 2026.
- You get yourself sucked on Football Manager games, which is a total different genre, but still football though. Maybe you'll become a coach some day. Look at Will Still coaching Lens now...
I'm leaving as I move into other personal projects in my life, to have more time in my life instead of being here almost 24/7 and also I want to keep this game in my mind as the best football game until some worthy one comes and takes the trophy, not to be burned out from it. I currently enjoy both eFootball and EA FC 25 for what they give, and of course there are a lot of better things than PES 2021/Football Life in those, but the "complete and non-stop playing" feeling from PES 2021 its unmatched yet. This game for me has given all that it can, its 120%, literally its maximum, above and beyond. It exhausts to be searching for something that you really know that it won't be possible for different reasons, so as everything has been done, its time to close that book and put it on the shelf.
I encourage to all of you to keep playing football games, get an open mind, gather feedback and compare. Don't let people or bad-worded opinions try other things. Build your personal opinion by playing it at least 10 hours, trying some settings and configs. Videogames are a product of its time and constantly evolving, so its pretty common to want better, more, expanded modes and gameplays and features and whatever you can have.
Don't put yourself on a cage to say this is the unbeatable football game, because it is easy to beat if some company has the money, effort and the "techies". It's a very good football game, made by a company that had a different vision years ago and very much improved by its community, don't forget that. This game would have been totally forgotten if it wasn't for that community. Getting gaslighted about it its one of the things that annoys me, as I said in other posts, it leads to confusion, misinformation and false believings.
This is not a full farewell as I'll stay in the shadows keeping an eye on all of you, just not as much as before. And of course, I don't close the door to anything in the future. It probably won't include a return to this game, as I don't want to refuge and revisit closed chapters in my life (it usually worsens the memories and experiences I have) but if the day of tomorrow eFootball releases its offline modes (which I still believe, call me crazy on this) I'll probably be back in some way.
By then, enjoy this as it is. You got more than you already expected. The Gondowan from another timeline wasn't for sure as patient and collaborative as this one, lol. Probably it would have come to your house and slapped your face for not reading correctly the instructions or not knowing how to simply copy or extract a single WinRAR. Or maybe I would be married with two childrens, but then all of this wouldn't have been existed. You got lucky!
I'll be able always to take a look back when some years have passed and say "well, seems I did something relevant for a lot of people!"
Now, its time to become a player just like you, again. Goodbye!
