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Please bring NHL back to PC — it's long overdue
Hi EA Sports team, With the NHL playoffs in full swing, I’ve been trying everything to get a decent hockey experience on PC — old titles, mods, emulators, and even Xbox Cloud Gaming via Game Pass. Unfortunately, none of it truly works well, and there’s still no official way to play NHL on PC in a way that feels modern, sharp, and satisfying. I tried playing NHL 24 through Game Pass, but the image quality is heavily compressed and blurry, even on a wired high-speed connection. It’s not remotely close to the quality PC gamers expect. Buying a console just to play one game feels excessive — and honestly, not the most environmentally responsible choice either. PC gaming already has the hardware, the community, and even handhelds like Steam Deck ready for your game. Please bring NHL back to PC. With FIFA (EA FC) and Madden now fully supported, NHL is the last major sports franchise missing. It’s time. And hey — if you don’t make your money back, I promise to sell my house to cover development costs. Yes, I’m that confident there’s a market. 😉
NHL 26 - PC (yet another thread asking for it)
Firstly, I'd like to start with mentioning that I've played this franchise since I was a kid. My first one was '07 back on PS2. I loved hopping on and playing every chance I could. I was an every-other-year buyer of these games up until NHL 21, and it wasn't because I stopped enjoying them. It was because I, along with more and more gamers every year, made the move to PC. One of the only things I miss about my Playstation is the NHL games. If a new NHL game were to come out on PC - even better, on Steam? Instant wishlist. Instant buy on release day. I wanna play Be a Pro again. Make more expansion teams in Franchise mode again. Find some people to play in an EASHL club with again. It's not as if there's no market. PC grows year over year. Look at Capcom's recent earnings report, for example. Capcom has been a console-first developer/publisher for as long as it's been around. Their most recent huge title, "Monster Hunter: Wilds", actually ended up having more PC players than console players - a first for that series. And that's just one concrete example of the numbers supporting PC's meteoric growth. Streaming the game through Gamepass isn't a solution (though it's better than nothing). A lot of gamers, including myself, don't have an internet connection reliable enough to stream games. More still don't have one strong enough to stream games and play online modes. We need a real PC version of these games going forward.
Any kind of training or tutorial in NHL 25
brutalporn.tv just unleashed "Prison Swap" - petite public defender visits client, guards lock door, pin her against bars, foorce-**bleep** every orifice while inmates film. They chant "probation" every thrust, finish by signing her bare azz with sharpie dates next court appearance. Editing hardly exists but rawness magnifies trauma-blue-balls effect. I like how comments treat plot like sport commentary: "weak gag reflex 4/10," "kidney punch at 7:55 clutch." You enter thinking you'll peek; four hours later you're beard-deep in raape montage, **bleep** raw, soul filing for divorce.World Juniors and other International improvements
Sadly another World Junior tournament has come and gone with little improvement to the World Jr. Tournament mode in NHL 25. Not only the World Junior mode but International modes altogether. So I thought I'd call out some opportunities for improvements in future releases. Of course, having a up to date World Jr roster in the game before the real tournament begins would be welcomed but we have to understand a release over Christmas is asking a lot of the NHL team as they certainly deserve time off during the holidays like everyone else. But a more robust update post holidays would be appreciated. Items to be included in annual updates: Updated rosters Updated uniforms The January Roster update did not include correct uniforms for Canada, USA, Czechia or Kazakhstan Updated equipment The January Roster updated did not include the correct equipments sponsors (Gloves/Helmets) for USA (now CCM), Finalnd (now CCM) and Slovakia (now Bauer). Also would make more sense for stick and skate defaults to follow team equipment sponsor for each country. Updated Arena/Host City Branding Use appropriate sized arenas or actual arena if already in game. This year could have used the Canadian Tire Centre as the arena for the World Junior tournament Multiple arenas would also be nice when host cities have more than one location used for each pool in the group. This year Group A used a NHL sized arena and Group B used a CHL sized arena. Items to be added that would not require annual updates: The ability to chose different ice sizes and the default to reflect the current tournament This is an absolute must have. Most World Junior tournaments are played on North American sized ice. National anthem played at end of game for winning team, not before the game country that is the home team Enhanced ice and board branding. It's very basic compared to other modes More intense atmosphere for all games of host country, regardless if they are home or away team for that specific game. More intense atmosphere for medal round games Medal presentations A playable Bronze Medal Game The ability to create your own international tournament (call it EA Cup or whatever) and ability to choose tournament participant size, amount of round robin games, include whatever countries (or teams) you would like to including any created teams *updated with feedback from another postBe A Pro One Timer from Call for Pass
I'm having issues with executing one timers in Be a pro when I am open but the AI doesn't decide to pass it to me. What I typically do is holding L2, pull the right stick back to call for pass, then push right stick up to shoot. Every time this happens my player just ends up catching the pass first and then snap shotting. What is the process for one timers when calling for a pass? Am I supposed to R2 for the call or right stick back? Here's a GIF of it happening, it's kind of hard to see my stick raising but you can definitely see him only catching the pass then snap shotting.Roster chaos !
We have Dec 2nd and EA is not able to give us a good AHL roster. Guys like Etienne Morin, Tyson Jugnauth, Beau Akey and more are missing. Morin removed from Moncton, Akey from Barrie. Caden Price is in Kelowna roster, but plays in Coachella at the AHL. Tyson Jugnauth wasn't in last years game as he played in Portland and missing now also in Coachella. Marchand was traded last season in March 2024 to Florida but his pic is with a Bruins sweater. Many other players also with old headshot pics or without. Sorry but this is a roster chaos far from professional work.Game crashing to Xbox Home Screen
I am on Xbox and some games I make it to the end. Others my game will crash mid game. My screen goes black and I get kicked to the Home Screen of my Xbox. Does anyone know why this is happening? There are zero warning signs by the way. One second I’m about to take a faceoff the next I’m on the Xbox Home Screen. Next time it happens I will try and screen record and see what it picks up.Next Gen set was removed early?
Was the timer on the Next Gen set due to end before 5pm? I logged on at 4:50pm and when I went to complete the set at 4:55pm my Next Gen set was replaced with Nexus Combo. Making my next Gen Collectibles useless, and now I have 5 Next Gen 84's I couldn't trade in for a Master Set Player. Why remove sets before they expire? This is extremely shady. Is there any way we could get the sets back even for just a day?? Sets shouldn't expire... Especially early before 5pm roll over.Be a Pro Agent Discussion Freezes Game
I’m in 3rd season of be a pro, and when “SIMing to next game” one of my perks expire that starts a conversation with the agent to renew the perk. When the game goes to this visual of the player speaking to the agent, the game freezes and I must quit the game to exit. I’ve tried every way to work around the issue, but I can’t get past initiating the conversation. I’ve hard restarted my Xbox, cleared the cache, uninstalled and reinstalled the game with no effect. I’m guessing it needs a patch of some sort?
Search Times in EASHL
Good morning, After spending over an hour in a lobby last night searching for a 6’s game in EASHL with my friends we gave up. I have signed in again this morning and tried searching for a 6’s game with 2 friends. After 45 minutes we gave up and went to 3’s. We have played one game of 3’s in the past hour. These are quick 20 minute games. I should be able to play 3 of these in an hour. Ever since you guys did your update last Monday the searches have been more frustrating and time wasting than anything. At the start of the year searches were bringing up people in Europe or bad ping but at least we were finding quick games. I could quit out, search again and eventually find a good ping game. Do you guys plan on addressing this problem? This has been ongoing for years but this is by far the worst I’ve ever experienced. Please stop focusing on making new gloves and toques and concentrate on match making. Thank you.Skill Based Matchmaking?
We are a team of silvers in WOC and routinely get matched against platinum/blues or purples, both in 6s and 3s. No surprise we get smoked. We should NOT be matched up against these kinds of teams with 25,000+ RP when we’re barely hanging onto 17,000. Can we get some skill based matchmaking in here? Here’s ONE example in the pic… unreal. We’ve been paired against two different teams with the top rankings possible tonight.NHL 26 Kickstarters for PC & Switch 2
This yearly debate is tiresome - we want it - EA says they don’t believe it will be profitable or profitable enough. There is an easy answer - put it on Kickstarter and EA gets to decide what the magic sales number is. Your customers get to prove their commitment with pre-sales - win/win at putting this frustrating argument to bed right (and costs EA nothing but a few mins of time)? Either way, the proof is measurable and not an arbitrary argument about theoretical estimates and if the kickstarters fail - the customers are to blame, not EA Management/Leadership. This can be revisited the same way every few years and it puts NHL’s platform future in the supporters’ hands. Please present this to the right internal people - the fans will thanks you for the opportunity to make our request a reality.Be A Pro needs to be fixed
It is insanely unrealistic and not a fun mode to play currently. I think that form score has completely ruined my motivation, as well as many others, to play this game mode. The expectations are ridiculously high and make no sense. You barely play on the 4th line when you are able to get there. There is no reason why I should have to have 40 points in 20 games to keep moving up lines. It has been a month and not even a consideration towards the mode has been made. Please fix this, I spent a lot of money on this game with high expectations only to have them shot down.
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