Just sad for China because it's always a good extra slot to be replaced
Jokes aside, not only they cannot understand they could just the db open in order we could ad whatever the fuck we want, they do not even replaced the same leagues of last year and continue to not have J1 League in the main game, only in Mobile one
For Christ' sake, it's a Japanese game and they don't even bother to put their main national league in the game.
Konami needs to be eternally damned.
Remember that lie from them from 2-3 years ago how they cannot add more slots due to engine limitations, well that's just another lie to their tally now after looking at the stadium list and team list. Now will we ever get those regens in the master league, which will be a copy paste plus ten times worse than 2021 edition.
It essentially tell us that this will at max be pes 2020 season update 2022, but by the time the potential master league is to release, it will already be spring/e3 and time for 2023 editions. Looking at the modding files structure that Durandil has shown, it looks the same, but we will see if modding will be possible at all.
Compared licences a bit also:
Club partners
ePES 2021 vs eFootball 2022
vs
26:26
Lost
Schalke 04 (gone because no fake german league)
Boca Juniors (already present via argentine league)
Alianza Lima (already present via chile league)
Gained
Napoli (already present via serie a)
Atalanta (already present via serie a)
Universidad de Chile (already present via chile league)
Leagues
https://www.konami.com/wepes/2021/eu/en/ps4/page/license vs
https://www.konami.com/efootball/en/page/license_efootball2022
My guess is MLS is replacement for colombian, and they will add a random league to fill the chinese league slot lmao, it's literally PES 2020 season update 2022 dumbed down for mobile.
Gained
MLS American League
Lost
Colombian league
Chinese League
Other European Teams
Other Latin American Teams
Other Asian Leagues
PEU League
PLA League
PSA League
so -7 total leagues and unknown amount of national teams, no german teams whatsoever or space for adding teams unless they add edit mode, which they will eventually but it will be a copy paste from ePES 2021, no additions whatsoever.
Stadiums
ePES 2021 vs eFoot 2022
50 vs 18 (48 vs 6 at launch)
Missing or lost:
18 Fake stadiums (only eFootball arena present)
14 Licenced stadiums
Alianz Parque
Arena do Gremio
De Kuip
La Bombonera
Estadio Alejandro Villanueva
Estádio José Alvalade
Estádio Mineirão
Johan Cruijff ArenA
Saitama Stadium 2002
St. Jakob-Park
Stade Louis II
VELTINS-Arena
Wembley Stadium
Estadio National de Chile
And lets not forget all the others they've had but lost over the past years like Dortmund stadium, San Siro and more...
So to summarize: Worse downgrade than PES 2008 was to PES 6 and PES 2014 to PES 2013, and ultimately this is the end of the line. Absolutely nothing new, groundbreaking or worth your money or time, or worth a 2 year wait. Lying cheating Konami.