18th year without a PC release - NHL 27

"the onus should be on EA Sports to clearly communicate and at least show it is trying to engage.  But we get nothing.  Zilch."

That's just the thing. No shade to AJ or the other community managers, but I wonder how much of the "thanks for the feedback, I'll pass it along" just gets thrown into an empty email that the devs don't bother checking. There's been TONS of genuinely great feedback that would greatly improve the games from a consumer standpoint, most of which never see the light of day.

There's no competitor for NHL games. So EA is allowed to sit on their hands, updating one offline game mode per release, because nobody will challenge them. 

They've said it will cost too much money, but they aren't factoring that PC gaming isn't like it used to be. It's not dead in the water like it was in the mid 2000's to 2010's. There is a whole untapped market out there just sitting, waiting to be able to play the game but won't, because EA needs to meet their sales/micro-transaction quota with overpriced HUT cards that will be irrelevant in 6-8 months. 

AJ has also claimed they don't release sales numbers, which is a good indication they are garbage. Companies love boasting when they have great sales numbers. Looks good for future potential investors.

It doesn't help that they probably aren't getting a ton of investor money, but maybe they just suck at sales pitches, lol. EA was just bought by the Saudi's, tons of Oil Prince money waiting to be invested. Do better

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Whats crazy Is theres crossplay now why is it still an issue they will recieve sells eitherway, its a money grab for XBOX gamepass. Cheap company thats why I stopped buying from them.

I don't understand why nhl doesn't appear on the pc because now a lot of people play on the pc and then have to get a new console so that you can play nhl.

This is a fair opinion. But I think they could at least leverage the option to bring the game on GamePass as Xbox Cloud version. The infrastructure is already there, and they could sell it as a standalone copy instead of a part of the subscription. I bet a lot of people would buy it, when it would deliver 1440 with 60FPS instead of only 1080 with 30FPS. Would not even need to maintain a dedicated PC version.

I'm rooting for you PC guys.  I really am.

But I'm sure a company as big as EA has a market research team.  If their data showed they could make enough money on this, they would most certainly do it.  They're a for-profit company after all, so why wouldn't they want the game available for sale on as many platforms as possible?  The most reasonable answer is the income generated from a PC version wouldn't be higher than the cost to produce and maintain it.  

Not trying to be a **bleep**.  I sincerely hope you guys get your game someday.  Doesn't seem like the economics are there yet though.

Not enough? But still enough for NBA, MLB, NFL.... ?

Not enough players for pc version. Also pc version would just atract cheaters on. Hockey is just marginal sport that's it. 

Hockey is obviously missing from pc and pc has only gotten more popular, I think it is time we get it on steam.

can we please get a release for pc you know pc players use controllers for it anyways and there's no real advantage i have a huge love for hockey as i am Canadian and many Americans love it too as there is American teams i do believe you guys will see profit on pc for sales i beg of you bring it to pc pleaseee

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