Re: will NHL 24 be on PC this year?

I would love to see NHL on PC for sure but as stated before, sadly it comes with allot of costs but if it would be marketed correctly, i think it would sell... cus there is no competition in the fieald, and how you could know it will sell or not? How do you generate Data from what???

there are no Hockey games on PC last one you released in 2008

You can see how good Tape to Tape sales are, its the newest Hockey game on PC its in Early access at the moment, and its small indie game with funky graphics, freaking roguelike Hockey game, i think even you don't know it exists.

@BoooLv 

Thanks for your feedback on this. I've seen Tape to Tape. Definitely looks like a fun game. There are a couple other arcade PC hockey games as well. 

I still don't have any news regarding a PC version, but if that changes, an announcement will be made on our official channels.

The truth is there is no data unless you go back to 2009, which would just be moronic... And once again people keep bringing up "costs", as if this isn't some arbitrary thing when talking about EA. Let's look at the numbers (if we can find them.) It's safe to assume the costs to produce Fifa every year are in the 10s of millions, which may sound like a lot... but when you factor in that EA makes BILLIONS, (1.62 billion to be exact for FY2021), it doesn't even matter. They easily 100x their money every year and that number is only going to go up. Not producing NHL for PC because of "costs" is a lazy take by the devs and community managers.  

EAs ultimate team modes have been highly profitable for the company. By not producing an NHL game for PC, EA is missing out on even more potential revenue stream from PC gamers who may be interested in participating in ultimate team modes specific to NHL. Even if it somehow loses them money by producing the game for PC (it wont) the decision may be viewed as a lack of effort to maximize their earnings and capitalize on the success of their other UT modes. Not to mention they would make their money back when you look at how much money they generate across all the UT modes across all of their games on all of the different platforms.

If you need to get that hockey itch scratched & don't have a console Tape to Tape and Slapshot Rebound are both great hockey games for the PC, they still pale in comparison to NHL however. 

To reiterate my point it's just pure laziness. 

@jmawnee 

If NHL had the popularity of FIFA, there would be a PC version.

if EA wasn't actively trying to tank their NHL game, it'd be more popular

Using your logic, NBA Live should still be being made then. Oh wait. 

Yeah, I checking the forums every year for NHL to release on PC. Been emailing and posting and begging EA for years. I have lost faith to be honest. 

NHL for PC would be awesome indeed! I play on xbox series x but it would be nice to see crossplay working between both consoles and pc as well.

Bigger player count --> More clubs to play against in chel --> More fun. NHL 24 needs this!

Hey!

like I wrote before, the fanbase to get nhl for pc is very big even outside the US. Usually the game release to console is in September/October, a big argument from EA is that a pc version won’t be possible due to the time it will take away from the making of the console version. So why don’t release the pc version in lets say February instead?

to prove both to EA and to the pc players, why don’t release a demo version for free or for a small amount of money on steam. To see if people are buying it, if they don’t buy don’t do a full version, but if they do you will see how many pc players there actually are out there. It doesn’t need to be a big demo, just two teams In a quick play. 

I wouldn’t hurt you to try, would it?

or team up with another developer to do the pc version. 

I really hoping for an NHL game to pc..

i just want to point out this is the top  post on the nhl forums right now.  maybe there is something to it?

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@TBU_Mister0big wrote:

i just want to point out this is the top  post on the nhl forums right now.  maybe there is something to it?

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If there was a huge demand for the game on PC, a money-hungry company like EA would do it. 

I understand some of you may surround yourself with like-minded gamers who spend time playing great games on PC and who share your passion for a PC version of the NHL game, but that echo chamber is giving you a skewed perspective of the actual demand for this version of the game. 

I'm not denying that a PC version would be great, especially if it came with the modding capabilities we had in the previous PC releases. But for all the crap we give EA, they are a multi-billion dollar corporation who understands their market well. If there was an opportunity to cash-in on the PC, it would be happening. 

Here's the deal, it's not an issue of monetary gain. The dev time and whatnot is negligible to add in a PC version of the game. They are scared of being held to a higher standard for a game. Look at Battle Bit remastered and how it decimated the recent battlefield games with only a 3 man dev team. Look at all the AAA devs freaking out over Baldur's Gate 3 because they think gamers will come to expect that as the gold standard for what a game should be. Rightfully so games should be as solid and polished as something like BG3.

So to say they are not afraid of losing money is incorrect. They do fear losing money but the reasoning is where many seem to be mistaken. They fear losing money due to being held to a higher standard and being criticized more heavily if they release the game on PC. Console gamers are more likely to be the "It is what it is" mindset. Where Pc gamers will take a game and mod it up to be something they can enjoy. Take for example Escape from Tarkov, a game with zero mod tools and a dev team that would rather people not mod their game at all. However it has a huge modding scene. That is why they won't make a PC release, they don't want to have to put forth the effort to make something spectacular when they can make easy money making something mediocre year after year.

@MegaRace 

This is not remotely why there is no PC version.

@TBU_Mister0big 

Porting the game to PC isn't the hard part. There is a ton more involved that makes the cost just not worth it without a much larger PC playerbase.

I'm now going to lock this thread as there is a new one on the NHL 24 boards here.