No NHL on PC... again

 I completely agree that it's in EA Sports' best interest to tap into the PC market. It's a growing platform, and it makes sense for EA to maximize their own platform's potential by offering all their titles there.

It is frustrating, though, to keep hearing 'when' instead of having a concrete timeline, especially for the PC community that's been left out for so long. I think more transparency and communication from EA Sports leadership would go a long way in keeping fans engaged and hopeful, rather than disappointed year after year.

I'm really hoping we see some movement on this soon. It’s about time PC gamers get to enjoy the game as well!

Why would they release on pc, the game has poor sales even on console, we're lucky we get that. This isn't basketball, soccer or football. 

It's never comming to pc my dude 

I get where you're coming from—hockey doesn’t have the same global reach as basketball, soccer, or football, so it’s understandable that EA might prioritize consoles where they know there’s a solid player base.

That said, I still think there’s potential for the game on PC. Even if sales on console aren't breaking records, PC gamers are a passionate group, and bringing the game to that platform could open up new opportunities.

Plus, with EA already having a platform on PC, they’d keep a bigger slice of the revenue pie compared to console sales. I’m not saying it’s a sure thing, but I do think it’s something worth considering, especially as the gaming market continues to evolve.

Who knows—maybe one day we'll see it happen!

I could understand when the games were on the xb1 and ps4 platforms that EA was not working on a PC version given the cost of programming on 2 generation of console but now that the games will be exclusively on the new-gen the moment would have been perfect for introduce PC version

I mean you are right, but I guess not.

No, it’s not “when”, because every time they’ve said “when” and it became “now”, they moved the goalposts. “When we move from Ignite to Frostbite…” Then they moved to Frostbite. “When we can have anti-cheat…” Then EA added anti-cheat to FC and Madden. “When the PC sports market pulls itself up by the bootstraps despite constant opposition by the companies that make sports games…” Oh, whatever.

This all goes back to Peter £%+€ Moore. Every stop he made during his career in games, he went scorched earth on PC gamers. It took Satya Nadella stopping all the internal backbiting and promoting Phil Spencer to replace Don Mattrick to fix the damage Moore caused at Microsoft. Nobody Is doing that at EA Sports. They aren’t trying to grow the PC market because they still don’t want the PC market. It’s been entrenched in EA Sports’ corporate culture for 15 years now, and it’s only going to get harder to break with every year it continues.

Just curious as to what everyone's obsession with having it on P.C?????

Why not invest in the game system for what it was made!?

If the price is an issue($499) then do what ive done......Get gift cards and save up!.......I now have enough to go get the new system cause i have been saving!

A PC that is well built can easily outperform consoles if optimized properly.  With PC you can get better fps than the capped versions on consoles.  Performance is a huge thing especially in the competitive scenes.  This kind of breaks down FC24 to a minor degree.  But overall getting the game to run on PC with so man various setups out there is the real tricky part.  Some people can have a flawless type experience and others have lots of problems.  Which is why I feel they haven't put NHL on PC because it would take a ton of work keeping it working properly.

https://twistedvoxel.com/ea-sports-fc-24-ps5-vs-xbox-series-vs-pc-comparison/

BUT, in order for that passion to take shape, the developers would have to sink their resources and manpower into making the game compatible for the pc and all the components that come with it. Than the question is how far do they make it compatible? How easy is it to run? Do they have to make the game run on a very old gtx 1080 and a 5th generation cpu chip? 

Even more so,  you are doing this for the smallest fanbase of the 5 sports. 

17m average per NFL game, 2m average per MLB game, 1.5m average per NBA game.... and than NHL, which comes in at .5m! That fanbase has a very close correlation to the player base of sports games. You're not gonna play a sport game really unless you are somewhat a fan of that sport.

Who is to say that the player base is as strong as they are for hockey when games like Slapshot Rebound has 300 avg players in 24 hrs or the newer released Tape to Tape has 20 avg? 

As much as I would love to play NHL on my RTX and play at 240fps, its just not worth the amount of work to port the game over and then maintain, cross party/compatible it. It's a Business decision and a smart one from EA. Just the sad truth. 

The game is under Frostbite, the engine is designed to build on several platforms including PC. Apart from ensuring compatibility with controller inputs, optimization and advanced settings, seriously everything should be practically basic. As far as I know, the developers are testing the game on PC with Frostbite before building it and testing the optimization on console. Optimization on console is more complex than on PC.

The entire compatibility part of different PCs, Nvidia, Radeon, Intel AMD etc. should be basic supported by frostbite, the good game engine already takes care of this compatibility.

At this stage it is extreme laziness not to plan a release on PC.