will NHL 24 be on PC this year?
I really wish this would come to PC. nice fan base here.
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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.
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.
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?
@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?
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.
