Re: Bring sports games back to PC

Another thread on reddit with this announcement.

Madden 18, NBA Live 18, NHL 18 and UFC 3 are not coming to PC

A big slap in the face to PC gamers who ask for any one of these games year after year.  It's also even more surprising not even UFC is coming to PC (again).  Don't fighting games do well on PC?  SFV is awesome on PC and even has crossplay with PS4.  WWE is on Steam as well.  Welp, there's always next year right?

I would honestly be surprised if they didn't bring Madden or NBA to PC. There honestly is no reason to not bring it to PC. I mean the PC market has quadrupled since 2008, it's also on the Frostbite engine, Which I thought was a PC oriented engine. Not only that, I bet they have a very simplistic method to porting nowadays, like Unreal Engine does. So something is up, either they don't want to bring it because of mods or something is up that is making them skeptical. What I also find extremely surprising is how NBA Live 18 is not coming to PC. That is a bad decision, especially if NBA 2K comes back with a good 2K game and NBA Live is limited to consoles-only; that could give 2K an advantage with PC sales. EA Tiburon needs to recognize the PC player base is still here and that we want Madden to come back, so I don't know what is up.

The demand is here and present and has been for the past nine years, I swear that if EA were to re-release/release NHL, NFL, and UFC for PC they would have great profit. I don't see any way a company can firmly evaluate from their perspective and say that people don't want something or do want something, especially rather when there are thousands of forums across the internet for EA sports game on PC. How can a company be so blind and ignorant of their customers and potential costumers? EA needs to hold by their word when they said they wanted to regain the trust of the PC gamer, and quite frankly being quiet and giving vague or discouraging answers isn't going to do them any favors in the PC market, consoles do far more harm to EA sports games, with a recent example of people connecting their consoles to their phones in competitive FIFA games and when losing calling themselves and disconnecting their opponent to cheat and get a better record in FUT Champs. EA need to give a definitive answer for NHL 19 on yes or no, because they might possibly lose their entire PC market if they keep dragging this along and might even make people never buy a game from them again. I know that is quite extreme but its a possibility, If there was any way we could get an answer from a person who is in the position of the company that can help us obtain our dream, please let himself be known. Please don't make yourselves into the next Valve, Rockstar, or Bethesda.