17th year without a PC release

You're right, cloud gaming is better than nothing but access is blocked behind the Ultimate subscription which is the most expensive option, and all to play an inferior version of the game with latency issues due to streaming.  It's not ideal.

https://chng.it/2gRxDDm69n NHL19 had a huge petition, over 8000 people wanted it to come to PC. People will also probably move from PlayStation or Xbox to play it because they literally only have a console to play the game. So not only will you have a playerbase but you will have a migration from other systems.

its not that big of a deal, like once the game has its worldwide release, and when it comes to Game Pass, you can just make an xbox account and playcloud gaming

It hurts, I've been here I think close to 8 years now, advocating every year for a PC release.  I've provided numerous citation and nothing changes.  I think most of the other people have given up "trying" on the forums, but it doesn't take much to sift through the comments on any EA NHL 26 release content to see the overwhelming amount of replies asking for a PC version.

Trying to stay optimistic on this, maybe they will reveal it before sept 12th but that’s just about a month, I don’t see why they wouldn’t announce it with the trailer. 

Agreed not even Switch 2 either no pc so mad