17th year without a PC release

Yep, preorder site only shows PlayStation and Xbox. Huge let down EA, again.

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Frostmourne87

Seasoned Newcomer

2 days ago

Please EA Sports.. please! For the love of all that is holy - let me give you my money so I can play hockey on my PC!!!

dogheels
Seasoned Ace
2 days ago
With EA Nhl losing money over the past several years. They look at it this way. If we diversify to a PC version. How much of the console based game would be lost. Sales as they stand right now, are based off two consoles. Xbox and PS. With the revenue stream, decreasing. Would adding another platform be beneficial financially. And unfortunately, they feel it is not worth the financial risk. Which i wholly disagree with. If they create a PC version. It opens the door to more potential customers. And does it really matter where your revenue is coming from, as long as it is in the black financially. Perhaps they should have their marketing people do a more indepth survey regarding the desire for a PC version.
- septicon
  Seasoned Rookie
  28 minutes ago
  Totally agree. It is a matter of doing market research. I doubt that looking at the potential loss of some console players when a PC version will bring thousands of new customers is the right way of seeing it. And if you consider the modern options of cross platform development which makes the porting of a codebase to another platform way easier than it once was, this could be financially beneficial for EA, even when it for sure has some risks. I wish they would see the potential instead of only the risks. But shareholders are to be pleased today or you lose your jobs in a company. Risk takers are a dying species, unfortunately.
e6jrcolnsgm0
2 days ago
they could release version with offline regimes (franchise, be a pro, friendly match) and watch how many people would play. 100% that amount of people who want to play NHL in Steam would be big. I would buy even this version tbh
- Ruuncruiser
  Seasoned Rookie
  8 hours ago
  I would only play this for this already tbh, wanted to play NHL for a long while. Just never was available on PC :/ and i know cloud gaming is a thing but im not paying 30 a month just for this.
  - septicon
    Seasoned Rookie
    37 minutes ago
    It is not even sure if NHL 26 will be available as CloudGaming option at all. Maybe we won't even have this expensive option on PC. It is sad, but I don't think this NHL series will die if EA is not willing to brush it up and bring it back to the level it had back in 2014. I know so many folks who would pay for it when it would come back to PC.