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I know we have the perception of being greedy. You also have to look at the cost of developing and supporting games that have very large communities. Without modes like Ultimate Team, chances are good we wouldn't have the advances that have been made over the years. I know many of you would be happy just having NHL 14 on repeat, but that's really not what we're going for. The idea is to keep advancing the game by improving on what we have and making new additions to try to satisfy the desire for a new game every year. Ultimate Team has helped with that. The more the game makes, the more we have to keep putting back in to it.
Which brings us back to one of the big reasons there is no PC version. I'm not going to begin to assume that sales plus microtransactions of NHL on PC would alone cover the cost of porting the game and supporting it. That's definitely not something I'm involved in. You make good points though that if there were the PC hockey market people are thinking, most likely another company would have jumped on that. AAA PC games are a big undertaking and tremendous to support. Which is why I'm really hoping that cloud gaming will become a viable option for future NHL games.
@EA_Aljo wrote:I know we have the perception of being greedy. You also have to look at the cost of developing and supporting games that have very large communities. Without modes like Ultimate Team, chances are good we wouldn't have the advances that have been made over the years. I know many of you would be happy just having NHL 14 on repeat, but that's really not what we're going for. The idea is to keep advancing the game by improving on what we have and making new additions to try to satisfy the desire for a new game every year. Ultimate Team has helped with that. The more the game makes, the more we have to keep putting back in to it.
Which brings us back to one of the big reasons there is no PC version. I'm not going to begin to assume that sales plus microtransactions of NHL on PC would alone cover the cost of porting the game and supporting it. That's definitely not something I'm involved in. You make good points though that if there were the PC hockey market people are thinking, most likely another company would have jumped on that. AAA PC games are a big undertaking and tremendous to support. Which is why I'm really hoping that cloud gaming will become a viable option for future NHL games.
I will say that I have been very critical about EA not changing anything year to year but I said it somewhere else, I applaud EA for making big changes since this new dev team came in. I wont say that I like them all but im happy that they've made some fairly big changes.
I also want to say, we've had a few back and forth discussions that weren't always polite (sorry) but you've always been a stand up guy and helpful when people need help. I just wanted to say thank you for all you do, being in here, taking the lumps from the rabid fanbase that you do have.
- EA_Aljo2 years agoCommunity Manager
Thank you for the kind words. I can't tell you how much that's appreciated 🙂
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