Owners of Batman: Arkham Knight on PC are going to be waiting a while longer before they have a game that is not beset by performance issues and bugs, but it appears there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Warner Bros. posted on the Steam Community over the weekend, stating that an “interim” patch to address some of the game’s issues at launch was planned for next month:
As an update, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Rocksteady and our partners are targeting an interim patch update for existing players to be released in August. This update will address many of the issues we listed in our June 27 update. We will provide additional details as we finalize that interim patch over the coming weeks.
We would like to thank you for your continued patience and invaluable feedback. We are continuing to monitor and listen for any additional issues and are driving towards a full update for everyone as quickly as we possibly can.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
As of right now, the game remains unavailable for sale, having been pulled from shelves both real and virtual in the wake of the backlash over its lacking quality. However, an email leaked from EB Games to Kotaku Australia late last week indicates that WB intend for the game to be going back on sale in the Australian spring – that’s autumn for those in the northern hemisphere – which gives us a decent clue as to when WB expect to have the game fit for purpose. The leaked email reads:
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 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.
You’d have to expect that the teams hard at work fixing the game are making decent headway then, but we’ll just have to wait and see how things unfold over the coming months. Whether or not PC gamers return to the game or decide to keep their refunded money is another matter entirely…
Source: Warner Bros. via Eurogamer, Kotaku Australia
