nhl 23 on pc
hello dear developers. I know that NHL is not released on PC. you said that if there is demand, you will return the series to the PC. so I know a lot of people who would like to play this wonderful...
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@EA_Aljo I am curious when do you gauge the audience size for the PC? How often do you do this gauge, and how do you go about getting that gauge?
If we knew how you go about getting this information, perhaps we could better organize to show that there is interest. As it stands, it's been over a decade since you've released a PC version, so people have just given up on the potential. Nobody is making hockey games outside of very cheesy indie games, or very manager focused games, rather than what EA does, and what 2k used to do.
If we knew how you go about getting this information, perhaps we could better organize to show that there is interest. As it stands, it's been over a decade since you've released a PC version, so people have just given up on the potential. Nobody is making hockey games outside of very cheesy indie games, or very manager focused games, rather than what EA does, and what 2k used to do.
EA_Aljo
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Community ManagerI am personally not involved with this research. It's just what has been discussed every time this topic comes up. I'm sure people can look up the sales for games released on multiple platforms to see the general difference in numbers. However, you still have to take into consideration that hockey is not as popular as people think. It's that underground band that has a passionate following 🙂
More underground than...
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I think the thing with EA's business decisions comes to margins. The "margins" for NHL don't appear to be there so it doesn't warrant the "risk" for the port. EA Sports in particular seems reticent to give much of anything back when it requires any type of cost. This has nothing to do with the devs and everything to do with time allocations from upper-management and the perceived growth which then gets spun to investors. It's not really the investors either, it's business management telling investors "we shouldn't do this because X, Y and Z".
I would imagine the decision for which platforms a certain title goes to comes from sales/business management in co-operation from investors through stakeholder calls. So it is absolutely within EA's wheelhouse to delegate that this title should and/or can come to PC. EA has not really operated in the way many other game studios do with just going to every platform possible in many, many years though.Aye. I guess I'll go another decade without playing it. Consoles just don't make sense to buy for me when everything I do is on the PC. Hopefully someone else gets a license and does more with it.
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