No NHL on PC... again

It's not laziness at all.  Porting the game is just one piece. Supporting it is another. Not to mention licensing. There is a very large amount of work and investment for a much smaller playerbase. Madden and FC have the playerbase to support a PC version. Hockey, being a niche sport, does not currently. We would love to have a PC version of the game. However, it also needs to be done when it makes sense. Hopefully, that happens in the future.

FIFA now (FC) had a problem where AMD cards wouldn't work properly with the game so it isn't as easy as we would hope it to be.

Sure the Xbox One and PS4 are now dropped.  But they still have to make sure it works for Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PS5, and in November the PS5 Pro which who knows if they will take advantage of the improved power of that console.

hockey doesnt grow from the terrible representation of the sport that EA puts out every year either, watching and playing hockey is nothing at all like playing this game

Its actually crazy, they say they have data from surveys but who and when did those go out? Been playing since 97 and ive never seen a survey asking about bringing PC BACK. How is the classics had a PC version but we dont now? Dont we want to grow the population? How is a survey going to give data that we want pc when you cant survey every single fan? This is a joke smh console population is going down because the games suck but dont forget alot of us moved on to PC. 

Hopefully the mod community and maybe a indie dev make one soon like they are for NBA street and SSX. EA wants to ignore PC then will just play these other versions on steam

EA able to put eafc25 on switch but don't won't invest for nhl25 on pc...

Of course it's not. Just like playing Call of Duty is nothing at all like actually being in combat. 

These are videogames. Virtual representations of anything are never going to fulfill a 1:1 realism need, outside of maybe games based on cards like Poker.

The growth of the sport itself is the responsibility of those in power at the NHL, PWHL and other elite hockey organizations. 

EA's 'growth' is about capturing gamers and unfortunately for the old purists, that's going to involve adding "shiny objects" to the game to entice the Fortnite generation to buy-in to a game like this.

I mean the sales that FC does is like 10mil+ and they want to get in on the Switch market for more sales since it's a high selling device that will soon have a new system out that is more powerful.  NHL probably sells around 1mil copies I'd assume.   Also soccer is the worlds most popular sport played everywhere so it's market is huge.

EA_AljoIt's certainly a mix of both laziness and the stuff you listed. However, I only wanted to respond to point out something that's clearly overlooked. How many players of the NHL franchise mainly play on PC but only utilize console for titles like this? My entire group of friends that play including myself keep an xbox around to simply play NHL. If this title was on PC I wouldn't even maintain having a relevant console. 

Keep telling the player base these excuses and maybe one day we'll buy into it. Maybe instead we will be blessed with the rights being revoked and picked up by another dev company that isn't so narrow minded when it comes to this. 

https://www.change.org/bring_ea_sports_nhl_series_to_pc