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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 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.