Just when you thought the Batman: Arkham Knight situation on PC couldn't get any worse, it looks like Warner Bros. won't have a fix ready for members of the "PC Masterrace" until well into September… if not later.
According to Kotaku Australia, an internal email sent to EB Games notes that the game likely won't be fixed until springtime in Australia, which would make for an expected release in North America sometime this fall.
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.
Batman: Arkham Knight released last month for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and while it has been fine on console, the PC version has been a complete mess. So much so that WB has had to halt sales while it fixes the game.
While like the fixes are going to take quite a while, the worst part about this whole situation is that Warner Bros. apparently knew months ago that the PC version was a technical disaster and decided to release it in such a broken state anyway. Sure, patches and updates are becoming much more commonplace in video games today, but that certainly doesn't excuse a publisher from releasing a broken game.
Are you concerned by the "release now, fix later" mentality it appears a lot of publishers have apparently been adopting this generation? I'm certainly not a fan of this new trend.
