NHL 25 for PC

I understand your frustration and your position, this is hopefully a growing annoyance. 👿

Please see what you can acquire for us

@ZorisX 

We're not posting a document detailing our research. I think the community is failing to understand just how much it costs to support the game on PC. It's not a situation where we just copy and paste the game to PC and call it a day. There's so much more involved. Again, if it were going to be as popular as everything thinks, I'm sure w would have put a team in place to make this happen. This isn't FC or Madden. Which are not the niche sports that hockey is. 

https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/05/22/tape-to-tape-revenue-marketing-steam-hockey-game

What about a game like Tape To Tape; A hockey game that hit Steam and made $600k?  A quick google search estimates that porting a console game to PC can take anywhere from $5k to $100k. Even if worse case scenario it takes the $100k, if a small indie developer can pull in $600k just from existing on Steam, a large AAA developer like EA with an actual marketing department should be able to pull in more than that; Right?

Network engineer and Cloud Admin, I'm not completely naive to the efforts and costs of porting. Either way, it's not about me. 

It's about a clear desire on our side vs market research that was done by EA. 

@669da90c05730fe3 

This is what I'm talking about when I say it's more than just porting the game. For one, there's NHL licensing to consider. Which, is obviously not cheap. Yes, we have it for the console versions, but I imagine that would need to be expanded to cover PC. We also have to expand our server support and build in cross-play. Again, this isn't a quick and easy process. We also have to have support in place to cover technical, account and purchasing issues as well as having a team dedicated to bug fixing. The PC version needs to support a myriad of configurations which is going to require a heavy amount of testing. 600k is probably a great return for an indie studio. I just don't see that being enough to cover the cost of releasing a PC version. As I've said many times, it's significantly higher than what everyone is assuming.

Then don't give us the opportunity to assume;  Share some data... 

I can't even find the simple answer of how many copies of NHL 23 or NHL 24 EA has sold.  Can you share something as simple as that for starters?

Agreed, 

Please share some information that can help us understand the justifications as well, what qualifications are needed to consider the delivery of the product to the platform..

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@669da90c05730fe3 wrote:

Then don't give us the opportunity to assume;  Share some data... 

I can't even find the simple answer of how many copies of NHL 23 or NHL 24 EA has sold.  Can you share something as simple as that for starters?

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I don't have any data I can share. That's not something I'm involved in.

Is there a specific email address or phone extension for someone in marketing analytics that would be privy to that information that you know of?

If i want to attempt to call EA offices, would you suggest main corporate or EA Vancouver?

It would be great to line up some resources if you can't deliver from your end understandingly, we'll see if can get some additional information from one of the HQs