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[Edit - CM] You have millions of fans that want a native release on PC for years now. Consoles will soon be running Windows natively (XBOX) and you now have no excuse to launch a game for PC. You control the rights to the NHL and folks like us who have PC's are forced to mod old versions of the game to make content relevant. There are millions of fans who want to enjoy NHL in 4k natively and you disappoint year after year. Create a game and see what the market even looks like instead of telling people that Fifa and Madden are the only sports that make money (not true). Worst thing that happens is the community would enhance the game further to give the developers some new ideas for a change. What will you add this year 3d reflections on the ice. You are missing out on the biggest community there is for money so just help me understand why you hate the fans so much? If your worried about hacking just do what you did with Battlefield to prevent cheating (Javelin). Just give the people what they want. Cloud gaming is not the future and is a lag disaster. Folks spend thousands of dollars to run 5090's and top tier gaming setups and want to play their favorite sports in 4k. You instead don't want to give the fans what they want and enjoy hearing the fans beg year after year. In all honesty if you don't create something I hope 2k sports buys the rights and does something with it because this monopoly on sports is really becoming a detractor for your organization.
Edit: Merged with the already existing thread for this topic. -CM
98Formula_Bird wrote:Consoles will soon be running Windows natively (XBOX) and you now have no excuse to launch a game for PC.
Still rumored as to which storefronts it'll have, but if it has access to the steam store it would make much for sense to finally release the game on steam. Estimated to release in 2027 though so probably wont happen until NHL28 given the release timing of the game and unknown release of the console... Although if it is confirmed early enough that xbox will support steam, They could release NHL27 to the steam store to work out potential issues that way 28 would have issues fleshed out.
98Formula_Bird wrote:You control the rights to the NHL
They actually don't, they have a license with the league that anyone can get, just cause EA has a license does not mean anyone else can't.
98Formula_Bird wrote:If your worried about hacking just do what you did with Battlefield to prevent cheating (Javelin)
This would be a given, they'd absolutely slap an anti-cheat on it if they do release on steam.
98Formula_Bird wrote:Cloud gaming is not the future and is a lag disaster.
I've only done cloud gaming a few times and it was horrible even on a wired connection, but remote play works fine but this doesn't really solve the needing a console problem.
- KingDollaYo18 hours agoNewcomer
Even our President had the NHL Olympic gold team in the white house and we can't even play Olympic hockey because of EA's greed.
- dogheels16 hours agoSeasoned Ace
@King EA presently, doesnt have a contractual agreement with the olympic commitee. So no olympic segment.
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