The PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight has had many problems, so may in fact that Warner Bros. Interactive have removed it from sale until further notice, with refunds being offered to those who bought the game on that platform. However a couple of sources who wish to remain unidentified have spoken to Kotaku, and have stated that the publisher knew about the problems for months before release but still shipped it.
“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. It’s been like this for months and all the problems we see now were the exact same, unchanged, almost a year ago.”
Apparently Warner Bros. thought the quality was good enough for release, but obviously realised very soon after that wasn’t the case. Warner Bros. is yet to respond to the comments made, to either acknowledge this was the case or to deny the allegations. If they choose to respond then we may get the other half of the story.
Source: Kotaku
RudeAwakening
If this is true…well the game industry has been dragged down to a new low level. Congrats WB.
leeroye
Come on, of course they knew. Its their game after all.
Scythegpd
Which is weird considering the cancellation of the batmobile edition and the UK delay of the collectors edition.
With that mindset you’d have thought they’re just release them as is!
colmshan1990
I’d be more concerned if they weren’t aware of the issues…
Klart
How could they not know?
beeje13
If they had delayed the game for the 3rd time, there would have been outrage. If they had just delayed the PC version, there would have been outrage.
IMO they took the best option with what they had, the PC version IS playable for SOME, nowhere near enough obviously, and 100% of console players have a gold standard game.
But they got themselves into the mess in the first place, throwing another few dozen testers at the PC version wouldn’t have hurt.
What I really don’t understand is that the game was developed on PC (E3 gameplay running on a high end PC) by Rocksteady, yet for the final product they handed duties to Iron Galaxy studios.
JoeBoi
What was the high end specs though?
Three Titans, large amount of ram and a super processor?