Won't be coming to PC
very disappoited.
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EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerGolf is a huge sport played worldwide. I imagine it also attracts a bit of an older crowd that doesn't necessarily own a game console.
American football, while possibly not as global as hockey, has an insane following in the US. The Super Bowl is practically a holiday.
Regardless of these, when looking at the overall market for interest in a PC version of a sim-style hockey game, if that interest was there, chances are excellent we'd see this and invest in it. I get that you all think because we're EA we can do this. Sure, I imagine we can make that happen, but is it really the best investment when it comes at a loss? You all like to tell us how money focused we are. If we weren't going to take a loss, don't you think we'd have a PC version? If the PC hockey market were as robust as everyone here is theorizing, wouldn't another company be doing it? EA isn't the only developer capable of making a sim-style PC hockey game. Why is nobody else doing this? Most likely because developing an authentic hockey game isn't as easy as everyone thinks.
@EA_Aljo Somehow NHL used to show up every season on PC but Peter Moore once said "no more pc because piracy" (lol) and here we are.
I wonder - was the market bigger back then than it is now? Was hockey a bigger sport back then? Not to mention the distribution model changed from DRM-free discs to exclusively digital, which only works in favor of the publisher. But ok. Not enough money. Again, I'm extremely curious to see the numbers and what huge companies consider "worth" or not.
I wonder - was the market bigger back then than it is now? Was hockey a bigger sport back then? Not to mention the distribution model changed from DRM-free discs to exclusively digital, which only works in favor of the publisher. But ok. Not enough money. Again, I'm extremely curious to see the numbers and what huge companies consider "worth" or not.
- EA_Aljo
I don't have those numbers. I'm not involved in that research. As far as piracy goes, things have changed a lot since then. Also, I don't know that hockey had a bigger market then, but games were also less costly to produce. Games weren't quite as complicated and online play has grown tremendously since then. Which also has a lot higher cost to support. Again, it's not an issue of not having enough money. It's an issue of investing that money with not getting that investment back.
