No NHL on PC... again

Honestly, been waiting for this for over 10 years now.  Literally over 10 years for a PC release of this game.

I don't care about the rhetoric and the x, y and z reasons.  Me and my buds just wanna play NHL on PC.

Is there any other publisher that will support PC for a licensed hockey game?  EA Sports clearly doesn't.

In all fairness, they didn't say which platforms the game would be coming to in the trailer, so there's a possibility the game could end up on PC. Have to wait and see.

Edit: nevermind, I just read the announcement page. That's pretty unfortunate.

Will never happen

"Never" is an absolute.  This game will come to PC, EA Sports Burnaby just has to be told "go" and they will do it.

It's up to the leadership at EA Sports to make the decision.  PC is a growth market, it is in EA Sports best interest to bring the game over.  It is just a matter of timing, budget and resources.

It's not a "never" situation, it's a "when" situation.  It's just disappointing for the PC gamers who have sat on the sidelines for over a decade now wanting access to the game on their platform of choice. 

BTW, remember that EA has their very own platform on PC.  Their very own platform where you cannot access all of EA's products.  That's a weird thing to me.  If I'm EA, I want the EA platform to be THE PLACE players go to access EA content.  They get 100% profit revenue on there (something that doesn't happen on Xbox, PlayStation, Steam, etc..).  So it is definitely a failing on EA Sports leadership right now, not some hypothetical "agenda" to be against a certain hardware kit for the game.  

The game will come to PC, I was just really hoping this would be the year.

 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.