NHL 25 for PC
How can someone make a request to EA to put the NHL franchise on PC (ie. NHL 25)? Does anyone know where or how to make contact with them?
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It would be nice to have HNL 25 on PC to play. It's a little annoying that you have to buy an X-box or PS5 to be able to play the game. FC24, NBA and tons of other games have it on PC but not NHL...
It's one thing I don't understand, that you don't fix a game for a specific platform when it's a hugely requested thing to come. You guys are a bit like Epic, you say you see what we want but never do anything about it.
And if you want to play on X-box, you have to pay to be able to play online. So pathetic of you. If NHL is released on PC, I can almost guarantee that you will pay more than you do now with the payment that you have to do with X-Box
This is what I think. But others may think differently
@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.
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.
- @hiperay porting barely cost anything. 50k sales would pay for the porting easily. Sony spend 2mil on porting to PC. You can do it for even less. So it's not about the cost and maintance. It's something else, EA is refusing free money. Currently NHL series is dying and will end up just like NBA live if they won't put it on PC. PC is the biggest market and most of the money is there. No PC port means lower revenues, and for niche games it means the end of the franchise. If even NFL which is the least popular sport sells 200k then NHL would sell at least that much.
So who would we talk to? Point us in a direction. Thanks for your engagement and insight on this.
- EA_Aljo
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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.
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.
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.
- EA_Aljo
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.
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?
