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Batman: Arkham Knight patch briefly appears on Steam before getting yanked
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has been promising a patch to fix the virtually unplayable PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight for some time now, but after gamers got a brief glimmer of hope when a patch appeared on Steam yesterday, the publisher quickly pulled it back.
It has been well over two months since Warner Bros was forced to pull Batman: Arkham Knight from digital store shelves due to numerous bugs, glitches, and graphical problems. The publisher promised that an “interim patch” would be coming in August that would make the game at least playable for a majority of the player base, but that deadline has come and gone, and now it is unclear when exactly a fix will be coming.
“The teams have been working hard to address the issues with the PC version of the game,” Warner Bros said in an update to the game’s Steam page on August 20. “We are happy to confirm that we are now putting the first interim patch into testing. If all goes well, we expect to issue the patch in the next few weeks. We’ll be sure to report back in the next two weeks on how the testing is coming along.”
It has now been exactly two weeks since Warner Bros posted that update, but there does not seem to be any word from the publisher yet. A beta version of the upcoming patch appeared for a short time, but it looks like that update may have been posted in error, as it was quickly pulled from the site a short time later.
A few players were able to download the fix before it was removed, and so far there have been mixed reports, with some people saying that the performance is greatly improved, while others are still reporting game crashes and other errors.
At this point, it is hard to imagine how Warner Bros can hope to salvage PC sales for Batman: Arkham Knight, especially since the company does not seem to be offering any bonuses to fans to make up for the laughably botched release. Giving away some free downloadable content or offering credits for other games might actually go a long way toward repairing Warner Bros’ reputation, but hey, they are just PC gamers, right?
Image credit: Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
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