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@EA_Aljo How does EA gauge interest for sports games on PC? In over 5 years of being a user on Origin, I've never once been asked to fill a survey on what kind of content I'd like to see on PC.
There are numerous threads WEEKLY on the forums asking for a pc port of NHL, tons of reddit threads, petitions with thousands of signatures and many professional articles written asking when NHL will come to PC.
So to be honest, from an outsider looking in it looks like there is plenty of interest. What barometer does EA have on the market when there has been no NHL licensed hockey game in this market for over a decade?
In my opinion, all the different ways people have been asking for a PC version are why there isn't one - you all need to consolidate your support into a single entity, otherwise they won't be able to get an accurate picture of how many unique users want it. Also, the most I've seen in a single petition was like 12,000 - you're gonna need wayyyyyyy more than that to make them budge.
Again, they only direct it better when the shot is coming from the left (tendy's right) - coming from the right side is just as easy, if not easier than previous years; I don't know how you haven't noticed it. Seeing as how there was a recent patch that made defensive awareness better, shot-blocking and interceptions did indeed need fixing afterall.
Here's the thing about forehand-backhand dekes - if a human goalie knows that's all you're going to do, he will act accordingly; cpu goalies get fooled like 90% of the time and don't learn, that's why they need tweaks.
This picture is for a different game under the EA umbrella but, and this is just my opinion, I don't think you can really blame economical struggle affecting quality for yearly titles that have a host of microtransactions when said MTX more than make up for it.
I just haven't noticed anything different with rebounds from either side. I'll still watch out for it though.
Can't you just do the pc port for NHL 21. There have been several people I know who would love to play on PC. Not everyone gets on forums though. I feel like if you put it on PC it will unite the community. People only play it on Console because it isnt available on PC. You should put it on PC and provide crossplay which would eliminate the need for population problems.
I would love to see NHL back on PC. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as just porting it over. There's a huge amount of work that goes into this. That means putting the console versions of the game on hold to work on the PC version. While we know there's a very passionate PC crowd, stalling progress on the console version, where the huge majority of the community plays, would really upset people.
I'm pretty sure that they're doing something wrong with their research. There is no way that American football is more popular than hockey. Maybe if we look at just the leagues, but then the argument is valid only for the USA market. I used to think that NHL got cancelled on the PC because of fear that they wont be able to sell it, because the modern games rely on the joysticks. But the majority of people who play games, besides shooters, on the PC do own a controller as well. I got one for rocket league and would've done the same for NHL.
American football is significantly more popular than hockey in the US. Of course, hockey is more popular in Canada, but when it comes to the population of North America, football is a lot more popular. We would love to have a bigger audience for the game, but it also needs to be a worthwhile investment. It doesn't make sense to put so many resources into a PC version of the game for a small number of people. That would directly affect the far bigger audience that plays on consoles.
You don't need to do an extensive search to find out there is interest for this game on PC. 140 000 views on youtube for a roster update of NHL 2004 on PC. If that doesn't sound like people being desperate for NHL on PC i don't know what is. We're talking about a 16 year old game still having that kind of following just because there's no alternative. You don't see more people asking around because most of us gave up the idea of a new NHL game on PC.
This and the fact community managers keep deleting everything that point at them for why people lost interest in their PC version in the first place. Reason being they ported the * NHL PS2 version 4 years in a row while console users had all the fun with the new gameplay and next gen stickhandling and all that stuff.. They'll probably delete that too because they don't like the truth.
When did that video go up? I looked for it, but couldn't find it. Obviously there's a passionate community of PC players. Should we see it grow, I'm sure there will be more interest in creating a PC version.
We aren't deleting posts about a PC version. Unless it breaks the rules of the forums.
@M2xim Exactly and people saying that there isn't enough interest don't consider this. They keep mentioning petitions like that is the go to place for statistics..
Anyway the thing is that people are talking like a PC port is impossible and why not use Origin for selling digital copies only for PC then? and let people play with Xbox One Controllers like they already do to play sports games..
The market needs to be re-discovered as it is pretty much forgotten but EA used to release NHL games on PC every year and that was many years ago and now the PC market is even bigger.
It's time for this franchise to include all their fans like they once did.
You need to consider console players also clicking on the video to see updates to the roster and I'm sure it wasn't 140k unique people clicking on the video.
Nobody is saying a PC port is impossible; it's just not currently worth the investment. EA doesn't have the monopoly either so if it really is that viable, why hasn't a different company made one?
Made a change.org petition. Maybe we can get signatures to get this going?
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