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.
Thats simply not true. You want proof you add it to game pass and you will see that its highly demanded on pc. Youre not doing it because of mods. Second theres little to no difference between XBOX and pcs other then graphics. Your infrastructure is game pass. Its not on pc because PC games cost much less per average and game pass doesnt want to pay the price you ask for have it available. This is %100 about money and nothing else. You have it on the stream service for game pass but their streaming service is absolute trash. They claim peoples internet are not up to speed. 1.5 Gps is more then enough to stream any game,
@POSEIDOND wrote:1.5 Gps is more then enough to stream any game,
Average consumer bandwidth is 100-200mbps. When you consider most family homes are distributing that among many devices, the slice of the pie left for consoles diminishes quickly unless someone at the home practices class of service packet handling, which is doubtful.
- @POSEIDOND I can't say for certain on if the coding needs to be modified to be able to be played on PC or not. What I can for certain say is that graphics is a huge difference as to why it would be difficult to make it available for PC. Trying to make sure it works with all the graphics cards out there without issues and then needing to troubleshoot why something doesn't work for a specific group requires personnel and resources. Just look at how long it took to figure out the AT&T issues. When you stream the game on cloud, it is being played on their servers with their tested equipment so your specs mean nothing. The only thing on your PC that matters is your Internet speed to get the video and audio feed. In no way shape or form is the average person using a 1.5 gbps connection. First the average is way lower than that around the, as @KidShowtime1867 stated, the 100-200 mbps range. Second even if lets say you had more than gigabit internet, which does happen, than you would need a specific setup to be able to run past the 1gbps which most people don't know about or don't actually setup. They are paying for 2-10gbps and don't even realize that they are being throttled to 1.
