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Petiton to get College football on PC, i think its awefully stupid that this even has to be said. A 10 year wait for a game just to have a company decide a whole section of the community did not exist. I wont be spending 500 dollars on a console just to buy and play a 60 dollar game. Bring this game to PC like it should have been from the start.
You'll be waiting at least another year for this game to come on PC. Porting any completed game from PS5/Xbox to PC, or Switch, or any other platform, is not nearly as easy or simple as changing a file extension and clicking a few buttons. PC, in particular, is a challenging environment to port because it requires a different level of testing and continuous support. Developers need to understand how different hardware configurations or non-game software updates could impact memory usage or system performance, in a way that is more streamlined on console releases. Plus, there's a large majority of PC gamers that aren't based in North America. So a college game obviously won't do as good on PC as it would on consoles. Roughly 80-90% of a AAA's player base is mainly console.
- 12 months ago@Braddmxn This looks like info from a newsletter that's been going around, but some details that didn't make it were that this game has been developed on the same engine that Madden has been. So rather than a port, this could have just been... developed. Saying that a AAA game has 80-90% console players is really off base too when PC gaming has twice the market share that all consoles do.
- KWRussell12 months agoNew Traveler@eriktheheckel I'm sure they forked Madden to start College Football 25. And why not reuse that code? It's all football. The problem is that they started development back in 2021, when the PC version of Madden was still Gen 8. I'd love to know if it was an upfront decision by the top brass to blow off PC to launch Gen 9-only (I mean, that's a starting assumption for EA Sports when there's no competition or overwhelming market pressure, right?) or if staying in sync with Madden got squeezed out of the project schedule. Either way, the result was passing the Gen 9-on-PC tech debt around like private equity destroying your favorite stores and restaurants.
So I guess the *real* question is: Does EA plan on releasing College Football on PC in the future? Or will this be like NHL, never getting a PC version because the goalposts keep moving year after year after year?
- 10 months ago
Then why do they do it for every single other game they’ve ever made? Why specifically is this one impossible for them to do? You know for a multi billion dollar video game company they seem to have a real hard time making video games according to you
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