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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.
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?
Please release NHL 21 PC version. I have been a fan of the NHL series since the late 90’s, however I always used to buy the PC version of the game. After year 2008/9 I was forced to buy a PlayStation to be able to play the game. Please bring back this game for PC!
I don’t understand why there isn’t at least a every other year NHL release?? Why? Hockey isn’t as popular? But it makes the best gameplay. So make the damn game.
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