Won't be coming to PC
very disappoited.
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EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerThis 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.
@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.
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.
Just stop giving EA your money its what a lot of people have done.
- EA_Aljo
First you say -
@NeRvEaGeNtUK wrote:
Just stop giving EA your money its what a lot of people have done.
Then you claim this -
@NeRvEaGeNtUK wrote:
exactly this, its got nothing to do with sales numbers thats just nonsense
It takes money to add features and support other platforms. Especially a PC version that would have a far smaller player base. Not to mention the very high amount of resources, which cost money, to support a PC version of the game. So, your original statement just makes the second statement more false. Hockey is a borderline niche sport. It just doesn't have the audience that warrants the very high investment when that's not going to be returned. Unfortunately, we need money to make a PC version happen. It's not a situation where we can just copy and paste and call it a day. If it were, there would be a PC version by now.
At the very least you'd think they could get it out on Gamepass / Xcloud...
