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.
What an absolute joke that an EA representative is coming on here and spouting conjecture as though it were fact, with absolutely no sources to back up any of said claims.
I'm pretty sure I've read this same thread in years past, and it's the same guy saying the exact same things as before. How is this person a good representative for the EA NHL brand? Reading his posts does nothing but * me off, and make me resent EA even more.
Brutal PR.
Pot calling the kettle black type of situation here - it's been the same old tired song and dance for years now and I don't expect much to change. Who exactly would you like to give an official response instead?
