NHL 25 for PC

@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. 

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

Please see what you can acquire for us

This was my intent, glad to see we have similar momentum to push this.

 Is there a chance we can see, without any direct potentially compromising information, the marketing research data that was conducted to come to this conclusion? At least partial data?

@669da90c05730fe3 

We don't give out contact information for who to provide evidence to. It's also unnecessary. If you all want to crowdsource your own research, there's nothing stopping that. If it's posted here or Reddit, we're going to see it so you don't need to send this to whomever makes this decision.

We're just going in circles here. As we have done for many years now. We all want a PC version. It's just not a viable option currently for reasons I've repeated ad nauseum. I sincerely hope this changes someday.

I think what we're all looking for here from EA is actual documentation or the contact info for those who can provide the evidence that is influencing the decision to not port NHL to PC so that we as the fanbase can crowd-source our own counter-research and present it so that we can try to push that needle in our favor if the aforementioned reasearch contradicts EA's conclusion. If we, as the community, end up coming to the same conclusion, EA would get less complaints due to public empirical proof they could share then.

Either way, if you let us do our own due diligence, it would only benefit EA. Please, we just want help understanding why we get alienated every year and not just a 'we thought about it, trust me' response.

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@ZorisX wrote:

So who would we talk to? Point us in a direction. Thanks for your engagement and insight on this.

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I can't stress this enough. We are extremely well aware of the requests for a PC version. Sadly, it's not as easy and inexpensive as people think. Also, the chances of it selling as well as the community estimates is most likely not realistic. We have seen these requests for years. It's been researched and will most likely always be on the table for the future. We'll have to wait and see if that happens. If it were as cheap and easy as assumed, it would have been done.

So who would we talk to? Point us in a direction. Thanks for your engagement and insight on this.

Oh come on EA, that would be the first NHL game on PC in years, probably decades. It would make you money. Since NHL isn't very popular on either platform, even if it doesn't sell that well on PC it would be money for you. And since porting is extremely cheap and easy i just don't the reason why NHL isn't on Steam yet. It's such a shame. Even NFL is on steam which is only popular in USA. NHL would be popular among europeans, americans and canadians.

@EA_AljoI've read a lot of the post throughtout the years on this topic and dont buy the reasoning. Clearly the support is there you have massive communities still playing 2004 on pc. And now in the year 2024 we have steam decks that would be absolutely ideal for chel. Consoles are on the downfall overall as well as pc gaming continues to become way more accesible for gamers.

I made this account to be another supporter for this cause. The only console i have is a ps4 i havent touched in 5 years. Console exclusive games are antiquated get with the current year 2024. The entire franchise must hang on a thread financially year to year if its impossible to make a pc release. Sad.