Will NHL 21 Come Out For PC?
by jimmarshallOriginal Post
I'll pass on the suggestion.
This thread has 69 responses since January 1st. Many of those are repeat postings. If the PC demand were higher, most likely this thread would be a longer. I'm not saying there is no interest. There's just not as much of it as you may think.
Well he's not refusing the idea, just putting the bug in the ear of people who can actually make the greatest impact. AHQ definitely isn't the right spot for a major poll and neither are the main forums if I'm being honest - I see the same exact people every time I log in there and the majority I bet don't give two goots about PC.
NHL isn't exclusive so anyone can make a hockey game. People even said they wouldn't care if they controlled a Blaine Gortzky, hockey is hockey; companies just dont want to take the giant risk when the sport doesn't sell well.
Lol Madden and Fifa are so immensely more popular than NHL its no wonder why they make more money. Soccer fans are insane, you can literally put anything in as mtx and they'll buy it - PC has very little to do with their earnings
Don't be sad, this is just how it works out sometimes
@Benito218
I pretty much play on everything except Xbox but that doesn't really matter, at least not here. Normally I'd be the first one to jump on the let's hate on EA bandwagon but there is no way of really skirting around the fact they are right when it comes to PC demand.
The highest petition numbers in a single place have been roughly 20,000 (I've even voted yes we need PC NHL even though I definitely won't buy it for PC, just to help you out) - those are still too low. This time it's not on EA to just make it for the community, it's on the community to convince them it's worth it. I haven't seen the PC crowd really say anything other than "I want it so that means everyone wants it".
Small tests, a beta, help from the mod community - it all *could* work, and they should definitely try something if/when they have the time. As I've said before, if you want to be miserable like the rest of us (because it's not exactly like console NHL is the best it can be), than all the power to ya
Don't be sad, this is just how it works out sometimes
If it were that easy, it would have been done. The truth is that porting the game to PC and setting up cross-play is a lot more involved. If this would be a good solution to get more people to play, we'd be doing it. I don't know how I can really stress this any better. We'd love to have the game on as many platforms as possible and are always looking for those opportunities when they make sense to do so.
They won't release NHL (or any other title for that matter) on play anywhere because it directly competes with their own platform, Origin. If you look at the list of play anywhere titles there isnt a single EA game.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/xbox-play-anywhere
Of course NHL isn't available through Origin anyway but for EA they'd be cannibalizing their own platform by releasing a title essentially "for free" on Xbox through PC. Even though by doing so that title would be available to more people and cross platform between PC and console. Of course EA's own platform doesn't have all major EA titles either, so said title probably isn't available on PC anyway. And of course, let's not even get started of the marketing implications with Origin access and Xbox Game Pass. So of course if that all doesn't make much sense you'd be rightly confused lmao. 
How easy is it for developers to incorporate Play Anywhere/cross-play?
Ralph Fulton, creative director, Playground Games: It’s actually very easy. UWP is a great help with this. Because we’re using a single service – Xbox Live – and a single API, the code is almost identical between Xbox and Windows 10 versions. This makes it much cleaner and easier to write the code in the first place, and it’s then easier to maintain.
Hello, @Cookiefield2042.
I merged your post with a lengthy thread we already have about NHL on PC. Thanks for the feedback!
