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 where are you and your team coming up with the information you use to determine if there are enough people to warrant a pc release? it obviously isnt the ea forums as if it was you wouldnt lock ever post about a pc release. is it the total active steam users? cant be that as there are over 130m. is it other hockey game sales on pc? well there arent any being made by big developers just a couple indie companies. one of which, latest i might add has done pretty well. so please explain to use as adults why we cant get it not just say what is essentially your opinion. that way we can figure out a way to make it work for you.
Multiple threads on the same topic will hurt your cause so they are either locked or merged into one. I only just logged in so I don't know specifically which thread but this isn't to censor you.
130m active users means nothing if they don't wanna play hockey. Someone used Tape to Tape sales in their pitch to port it over but that didn't sell nearly enough to really spook EA.
Everyone bashes EA's product (I fully admit I'm one of em), but they don't own a monopoly - anybody is able to make one, even a AAA studio - nobody wants to do it because sales would be weak and its an expensive type of game to make.
Judging from all the comments in these PC threads over the years I'd say a ton of people have purchased a console to play NHL as they always say "I refuse to buy another console to play this game". PS4 has had a decade of hockey and will most likely be around next year too and they cost less than a PC upgrade.
Also, it's a bit nitpicky but can I ask you to edit a post if you have more to add please? People usually post about how popular certain topics (like this) are but its almost always the same pople posting, inflating numbers which hurts the "priority" in the long run
- @TTZ_Dipsy so the one with the most support is the one you decided to lock? in favor of a brand new one? what kinda logic is that to you?
I don't know which post got locked and for what reason; post could have run its course, someone got too angry, or personal info might have been provided, that sort of thing.
I was going to suggest one of the CM's create a proper megathread
- @TTZ_Dipsy also doesnt your company have an analytics system? wouldnt that show you how many views, how many different users have interacted, right at the top or bottom of a post? oh wait, this is ea no way they have all that integrated in anything they created lol
The gold and silver ranks on these forums don't work for EA, we're just kinda volunteer mods.
EA has tools to count unique views/users etc. but those on the forums don't so a lot of people get kinda heated and it whips everyone up in to a frenzy when they think they aren't being heard.
This is more of a peer to peer help forum and Reddit and Twitter are pretty much a free for all.
Edit: ah ok, I'll try making a future post with the previous years PC threads so its all in one spot
