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titus1029

New Veteran

7 months ago

17th year without a PC release

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

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EA_Aljo

Community Manager

1 month ago

The reasons why are. As a sports franchise game, they are in the lower tier of sales. And do to this, the staff has been reduced from what it use to be when the game was in far better shape. Its not that they cant make a PC version. That idea was established decades ago. Your point regarding the money aspect, is spot on. Its all about profitability. And unless the franchise can turn the ship around and gain ground with other sporting games. The future of a PC version is bleak.

This is all pure speculation and really not accurate. I can't go into details since we don't release sales numbers and we can't talk about staffing, but these claims are exaggerated.

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Rising Adventurer

1 month ago

While it may be speculation, there can be only a few reasons, why EA is not wanting to bring a PC version back, even when so many folks tell you that they would love to buy one. It can only be money or development complexity. You are EA, development is your thing. You cannot tell me, that you could not do it, if you would get enough money back from it. So it must be the financial aspect. Since you do not release any figures (what is understandable and legitimate imho) there can be nothing else than speculation. I bet you underestimate the market on PC. A Steam release would be an almost secure success.