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Warner Bros reportedly knew Arkham Knight was broken on PC long before release
While the console versions of Batman: Arkham Knight launched last week to generally stellar reviews, the PC version was so hilariously broken that the game’s creators decided to pull it from digital store shelves until it could be fixed. Now, reports have surfaced that Arkham Knight’s publisher, Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, had been well aware of the state of the game’s PC version long before it was released.
“I will say that it’s pretty rich for [Warner Bros] to act like they had no idea the game was in such a horrible state,” a quality assurance tester for Arkham Knight told Kotaku. “It’s been like this for months and all the problems we see now were the exact same, unchanged, almost a year ago.”
According to Kotaku’s sources, Warner Bros chose to move forward with shipping the PC version of Arkham Knight because they believed that it was good enough in its current state, despite the fact that many of the people who purchased the game were completely unable to play it at launch.
Mostly Negative
Arkham Knight remained available for purchase on Steam for barely two days before sales were suspended, but in that short amount of time the game received nearly 13,000 user reviews, 61 percent of which were negative. The overall opinion of the game on Steam is currently listed as “Mostly Negative.”
The game’s developer, Rocksteady Studios Ltd, released a patch on Friday to fix some of the issues, but there is still no indication of when the PC version of Arkham Knight will be considered good enough to be sold again.
“Rocksteady is leading our team of developers and partners as we work on the PC performance issues that players have been encountering,” the developer wrote in an update on Steam. “The work is significant and while we are making good progress on improving performance, it will take some time to ensure that we get the right fixes in place.”
Even if those fixes do arrive anytime soon, the developer’s reputation has already taken a severe hit among PC gamers, a group that is not exactly known for being open minded or forgiving.
Image credit: WB Games
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