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LimeyUK's avatar
LimeyUK
5 years ago

Re: Will NHL 21 Come Out For PC?

"Besides a sport being popular, there needs to be enough interested PC players to make the release viable."

That's a laughable statement when you're in a thread thats been open and active for 4 months now.
I don't see why EA doesn't just do an Xbox Anywhere version, then it can be played on PC and Xbox for pretty much no additional effort.

Just admit it, EA rarely do what their community wants, creates bad games with microtransactions and makes things worse as they go on. 

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  • younever_know8's avatar
    younever_know8
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 years ago
    @LimeyUK It is a bit strange that the response of

    "If demand is there, we will do it"

    doesn't seem to align with the multiple forum threads, online articles and internet chatter about bringing this game to PC. Also, I have never once seen any open form or survey from EA gauging the PC audiences interest in EA Sports titles like NHL or UFC. Never once. And I've been following Origin/EA PC for over 10 years now. Soooo yeah pretty sus on that one.
  • LimeyUK's avatar
    LimeyUK
    5 years ago

    Yea it's incredible that they even dare use that excuse to be honest.

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    5 years ago

    @LimeyUK 


    When we see petitions for this, it's in the low thousands. We also see the threads started with requests for a PC version of the game. They typically don't generate a large number of individual responses. It's very easy to feel like there are millions of people that want NHL on PC, but we haven't seen evidence to support this yet. Especially when we consider how many fewer PC players there are for bigger sports like soccer and North American football than their console counterparts.

    We absolutely want this game to be available on as many platforms as possible. Due to the very high amount of work it takes to create this version as well as the continued resources needed to support it, there has to be enough demand to make that happen. It's not a simple copy and paste and it's done. Hopefully, with cloud gaming getting more popular, we'll see NHL playable on PCs in the not too distant future.

  • LimeyUK's avatar
    LimeyUK
    5 years ago

    If EA dare to even bother with the excuse of gaming that is Cloud Gaming, It would be laughable.

    Cloud gaming is a pathetic section of the industry.

    It shouldn't need millions of people to petition for it, another feeble excuse. Just a typical EA capitalist excuse.

    You evidently don't know of Xbox Anywhere either. It's VERY simple to make an Xbox game on that platform that will then play on PC as well.

    The fact you don't even acknowledge this avenue is an insult to the entire PC player base.

  • aure666's avatar
    aure666
    Seasoned Novice
    5 years ago

    Even PS Now is ready for PC..NHL is coming to PC ! look how nice that title looks :D

  • BoutchTv's avatar
    BoutchTv
    4 years ago

    Hahaha fact and ea sell their game 80$ every years  to compare to the indie dev that will release one game and problably for a cheap price, or free i dont know. 

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