Won't be coming to PC
very disappoited.
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@EA_Aljo I totally always imagined a skeleton crew but perhaps what i see as skeleton crew you see as large team but in essence i imagine maybe 20 devs and 60 marketing folks 🙂 jk on marketing ppl.
But i get the licensing is likely gross but this was all there before hut and the money that brings in. Hopefully those revenues are injected back in the game.
Id love to see attempts at growing the products...more year long support, events and reach to other platforms.
Ill say one thing, many people cannot afford to buy a new console just to play one game like i do...and those ppl just dont play nhl as a result. Im not sure what sort of research can account for that group.
But i get the licensing is likely gross but this was all there before hut and the money that brings in. Hopefully those revenues are injected back in the game.
Id love to see attempts at growing the products...more year long support, events and reach to other platforms.
Ill say one thing, many people cannot afford to buy a new console just to play one game like i do...and those ppl just dont play nhl as a result. Im not sure what sort of research can account for that group.
@kezz123 What is wild to me is I haven't played this series since NHL 14 and I am still seeing many of the same animations still being used and for the most part the game looks exactly the same. In ten years there's been minimal change, and seeing people still mentioning how little the game changes year to year makes me laff.
It feels like it's tied to the idea of games as a live service instead of buy it and own it and see it supported for years to come. I know sportsball games will never move away from that but that is why PC is gaining in popularity lately.
I also find it hilarious that these guys are still using the "We can't optimize the game for the endless hardware options of PC." While every other PC dev has figured out how to do it, 10 years on and EA still hasn't figured out how to optimize a game for PC hardware.
As for what you said about affording a console, honestly anyone who owns a gaming PC in 2023 has zero reason to even buy a console. Their PC can do anything the console can plus all of the things only a PC can do. Even to the point of "I just want to sit back and play games on my couch." PCs now can stream games to TVs and such well enough that there really is no reason to own a console if you already have a PC. I know people who don't own a computer who have consoles and we play the few cross-platform games we can but I'm always urging them to just make the jump.
Anyway I'm sure Andy Wilson could afford spare a few pence to fund a PC release of NHL.
