Oh what a mess. Kotaku Australia has supposedly received a leaked email meant for the eyes of EB Games staff members stating that the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight won’t be fixed until this Spring, or in the case of North America, this Fall.
According to the report, prior to the email, EB Games had pulled the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight from store shelves. Now EB Games is facing a recall from Warner, meaning that all copies will be returned to the publisher. Yes, apparently the game is that broken.
“As previously advised, we have stopped sales of Batman: Arkham Knight PC while Warner and Rocksteady work on addressing performance issues with the game,” the email states. “The latest information from Warner is that the updates won’t be available until Spring. Due to this we have made the difficult decision to recall all PC stock from stores to return to the vendor until an acceptable solution is released.”
Batman: Arkham Knight was ported over to the PC by Iron Galaxy. Since its release, gamers have reported numerous critical performance problems such as crashes, stuttering and wild framerates. Developer Rocksteady Studios issued a small patch, but many performance problems continue to plague the game.
“Rocksteady is leading our team of developers and partners as we work on the PC performance issues that players have been encountering,” the developer said at the end of June. “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.”
“While we work on improving performance, we will also continue to make interim patches available to address issues for those still playing the game on PC,” the studio added.
As it stands now, the game won’t be fixed until the September – November window here in the United States.
Earlier this month, a quality assurance tester who supposedly worked at Warner for years claimed that the publisher knew there were issues with the PC port before it shipped to gamers and retailers. The individual, along with another source, claimed that Warner believed that the game was good enough for public consumption and had no intention of “screwing over” customers.
“I will say that it’s pretty rich for WB to act like they had no idea the game was in such a horrible state,” the individual 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.”
Thankfully Batman: Arkham Knight is not an example of the state of PC gaming. Based on the provided information, the game is one title that fell through the cracks and one that is now receiving serious attention. Of course, that won’t stop console fans from laughing at PC gaming from the comforts of their couches.
So this is the question we had to ask: if the game was in bad shape before the ship date, should Rocksteady and Warner have delayed the release of the PC version?
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