Won't be coming to PC
very disappoited.
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Yeah but why don’t people just buy the console and then they can switch between console and pc? Makes no sense to me. Are there certain things that only pcs can do?
People aren't asking to bring the game to OUYA, we're asking for the game to be brought to the largest platform in the gaming market (Steam/PC).
Hell, EA built their own descript platform on PC - why they refuse to support their OWN platform with their OWN games is beyond me.
- EA_Aljo
Community Manager
This has been very heavily discussed over the last few years. The TLDR is that, contrary to popular belief, there just isn't a big enough audience for it. Yes, we fully understand you and your friends would play. That's awesome, but we would need a much higher amount of PC hockey players to warrant the very high cost of this. Porting the game to PC is probably the easier part. Combine that with building an infrastructure to support it and those costs skyrocket. Not to mention, all that work that goes in to this means the far more popular console versions wouldn't get the attention they need with all those resources devoted to a PC version.
We all are die hard hockey fans, but it also doesn't have the worldwide fandom of a sport like soccer. This is reflected as well in the amount of PC video game hockey players. It would take a pretty extraordinary amount of them to make the very big job of bring the game to PC not be a loss.
how can you pretend to know that there wouldn't be a big enough pool for a PC version? I have been receiving the annual EA sports nhl survey for at least ten years, and I have never seen a question regarding my interest in a PC version
the game barley sells on console why would you think there would be a pc version lol. madden and fifa sells more copies on day one than nhl sells the full year combined. hockeys just not a very popular sport. canada has the same amo
unt of people as califonia.
- @EA_Aljo This is why people lose hope though.
Its a vicious circle. There is like 0 investment from EA in the product, so of course the playerbase wont grow, instead you have been bleeding hardcore players each year from having a game that doesnt meet the need and is barely supported, from a network architecture to a software balance.
Smaller MUCH smaller publishers put their games cross platform.
Its pretty obvious that the NHL franchise is built upon the model of "bare minimum investment, maximum profit to support other titles" model and thats disheartening.
Every company loses money when they try to make a title larger. Thats part of business. EA just has 0 interest in expanding the product and is content selling a patch every year for $80 + HUT gambling disorder predatory earnings.
I think it would be great that people like you push up the message that people had enough and that its time to show some signs that EA is willing to invest in its products or just cancel it and let the industry adjust itself.why lock the other thread we were using to show support for a pc release? is it because you dont want it to be known there is alot of traction from the community for a pc release? it kinda saddens me to see the real lack of care from ea mod team.
@EA_Aljo
"The TLDR is that, contrary to popular belief, there just isn't a big enough audience for it."
This has been the message for the last several years. However the PC market is MUCH different than it was back in 2008(NHL09) when EA NHL last shipped on PC. What metrics, stats, proof is there that EA claims there's no current PC Hockey market?Number of PC gaming users worldwide from 2008 to 2024
Number of Gamers Worldwide 2022/2023: Demographics, Statistics, and Predictions
- EA_Aljo
I've said it many times. This isn't about the number of PC players growing. It's about how many of them want to play a sim-style hockey game. The reality is that it's going to be a lot less than what everyone seems to be thinking. Take the number of FIFA players on PC. Now, subtract that by 10x. That's a more realistic number and it's not enough to support a PC release.
I truly hope a PC version comes out someday or at a minimum, cloud gaming supports it so it can be played on a PC.
