Won't be coming to PC
very disappoited.
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EA_Aljo
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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.
Bring it to pc plz
If it was released for the pc it would be the death of the game.
Online is bad enough with people abusing the glitches never mind having the pc hackers to deal with.
Just look at the reviews for games that have cross play with pc users and you'll find that console users are totally against it.
I believe PC release can go south for the game, but not for the reasons you mentioned.
Console players complain that PC players are hackers and PC players complain that couch console players don't take competitive modes seriously and ruin the games. Nothing new.
I have never stopped playing a game with crossplay because of the nature of other platform players nor I have ever seen a negative game review JUST BECAUSE the crossplay exists, I want to see those red reviews that you are talking about. Is it Rocket League? Is it Apex? Is it Fortnite? There can be an option to disable crossplay and a lot of games do.
I don't feel like just because an absolute minority of PC players could cause some problems is a good enough justification to deprive the whole platform of access to the game. Now, some concerns may arise if we look at who we have to trust to address these problems... Khem... EA...
What I think could ruin the PC comeback story is plain and simple - a bad game. It will be picked up, ridiculed, and eventually uninstalled forever, probably refunded.
I think the release to PC must be flawless. The game must be good. Sadly the NHL 24 devs don't rhyme with 'good game'. I would not want them to be responsible for PC release. As an advocate for NHL PC, I say - don't do it. Fix your dev team. I don't know what is the problem, is it management, skill, motivation, or what? Sort it out. Blow the players away with a good console release first.
I always laugh when I play Call of Dooty cross play with one of my friends who is on playstation. I will get shot in the back and whip around and laser someone to death and I always just get a "WTF that's not fair." While there are lots of hackers the general population is more likely to accuse someone of hacking regardless of if they are actually cheating or if they are just better than them in a given moment. Most people do not take any time to think about a given situation and how someone could have known where they were without cheating. The bigger issue between cross play in many games is the control methods. A kb/m tends to be much more precise than a controller which is better for many games. EA style sports games may be an exception to that rule. I have no idea if any EA sport game has keyboard functionality and if they do if it is even worth trying to play it that way. Rocket League is probably the only sports game where a keyboard is generally seen as the better control method, and even then I believe there are some pro players using controllers.
Problem is cheaters and input devices are not the reason EA doesn't want to risk this venture, it is 100$ about money. Now they could say piracy is a concern, however my good pal Louis Rossman has said that good companies with a good product or service do not fear piracy because even if someone does pirate their product or service if it actually provides what it says it will then people are more than willing to spend their money on it. EA fears that because they know given an option people would rather not give them money because as shown by complaints on their forums for decades now their games are not held in very high regard.
