ISee
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The same they did with AC:Unity (wich still misses the promised tessellation patch, btw): nothing
Warner Brothers suspends [new] purchases for PC version of Batman Arkham Knight
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The same they did with AC:Unity (wich still misses the promised tessellation patch, btw): nothing
I think it mattered a lot less in the past. Customer's voices could be drowned in advertising and PR noise. But now, with social media and internet in general being so widespread, it's a lot harder to sweep your shit under the rug.
IrrelevantAlex
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Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Sony wins E3.
PHOENIXZERO
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I really wish I didn't go against my better judgement bite on the season pass Monday because of GMG's having it for 40% off. I wonder what WB might do to compensate people who don't get a refund or when it's re-released, of course assuming they do anything.
Shadows of Mordor was made by Monolith who is primarily a PC developer, they handled the PC version and I imagine it was the lead platform and ported it to consoles. Arkham Knight seems to have moved to PS4 as lead at some point.
Shadows of Mordor was made by Monolith who is primarily a PC developer, they handled the PC version and I imagine it was the lead platform and ported it to consoles. Arkham Knight seems to have moved to PS4 as lead at some point.
Femmeworth
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They didn't have to outsource the port for that, since Monolith Productions has a long history of PC development. Apparently the console ports were outsourced.
wrong thread dude
Between this and Skyrim paid mods- PC is the one platform where consumers can revolt and win, for better or worse.
KiTA
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I doubt this can be really placed on them. They were only given 8 weeks to do a full PC port. Usually QA testing takes longer than that.
PHOENIXZERO
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Only the last gen versions were outsourced from according to the Wiki for the developer who did the last gen ports.
This has been debunked, they've apparently been involved for like five months.
I would hope so. We nvidia offer folk have kinda trouble to get refunds.
Pathfinder
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However messed up the situation is, you have to admit WB has been handling it well so far. Pulling it from sale, honoring refunds, taking responsibility.
Ban Puncher
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Tizoc
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aT THIS point, I'll settle for a delayed PC release cuz that could show them figuring out they can't repeat this crap again.
Crimsonclaw111
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All that's left is to find out what role nvidia played in all this.
Dictator93
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How on earth did this thread turn into some beat off contest about platform sales?
Oh, some uninformed person posted negative things about the PC platform as a whole? OK.
Oh, some uninformed person posted negative things about the PC platform as a whole? OK.
Massive Nights
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They've turned it round for sure, but those first two press releases were unbelievably bad.
GazzaScotland
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Pulling it from sale? That's crazy. Can't wait for my free skin pack when it's fixed.
Auto-Reply
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Erm, no. We still know exactly nothing about the background of all of this! (and maybe never will)
Pathfinder
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Eh, anyone can have a bad press release. Pulling something from sale completely and taking a huge financial hit is a worthy apology for the situation.
Is that appearance of these entries an indicator that this will be released soon?
Avelanches most recent game Just cause 2 was a great PC port, but that was published by square-enix, and they tend to have excellent PC ports. Don't know if just cause 2 was ported in house or not.
ISee
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I think (and this is speculation) that they only take responsibility because a significant number of people started to request (and get!) refunds for the game. So my praise go to valve and their new system and not to WB, tbh.
Pathfinder
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It's certainly a catalyst, no doubt about that, but WB still had to make the grand decision to pull it from sale to prevent others from purchasing it until its fixed. They could have easily made the public apology and vowed to fix it, but keep it on sale and let uninformed people still purchase it.
Man so weird JC2 seems so far in the past and now we're getting 2 games from them within a few month period.
Not really it just shows that they are working on something and testing it. But as you can see there is Patch that was in Release Candidate phase 5 days ago that probably never went up. And there is patch sent to testing yesterday.
I wouldn't be surprised if Valve told them to pull it down or they'd pull it down actually.
Drakendodertje
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Very nice indeed. Of course they got themselves in this situation, but what they are doing now deserves praise. Well done WB.
Was it not rocksteady that outsourced the development to IG? WB were just the publishers no?
Always assumed the role of the publisher is to just get the game out there and trust that the devs did all the qa.
WB owns the game, they own the rights, they likely control a lot of what goes on here. It could be that WB wanted a PC version at release when Rocksteady couldn't do it themselves, so they hired another team to do it.
WB pays Rocksteady's wages, they pay Iron Galaxy's wages.
Sodding_Gamer
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Damn well this is some news to wake up to. I wonder what/if Nvidia is going to compensate the people who got the game with their GPU's.
This game even tried to bite me in the ass at work.
Had a recent customer come back who I built a custom PC for saying the new batman game runs really badly and that he was disappointed. Said I lied about how it would be able to play anything out there.
Luckily I could show him all the posts about people with the same issue, think I'll forward him this news so he knows I'm not bullshitting him.
Gad damn.
(We're talking i7 4790k OC'd /16GB Mem/SSD/980)
I'm both glad we're at a time where devs/pbulishers are getting punished and forced to do stuff like this, hopefully it was those of us who voted with our wallets.
The other side of both is that I'm not glad we're still getting publishers and devs who think they can release unfinished products on us, it happens ALL THE TIME and this is just the next level of it.
Had a recent customer come back who I built a custom PC for saying the new batman game runs really badly and that he was disappointed. Said I lied about how it would be able to play anything out there.
Luckily I could show him all the posts about people with the same issue, think I'll forward him this news so he knows I'm not bullshitting him.
Gad damn.
(We're talking i7 4790k OC'd /16GB Mem/SSD/980)
I'm both glad we're at a time where devs/pbulishers are getting punished and forced to do stuff like this, hopefully it was those of us who voted with our wallets.
The other side of both is that I'm not glad we're still getting publishers and devs who think they can release unfinished products on us, it happens ALL THE TIME and this is just the next level of it.
Last_colossi
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It's good to see WB taking the right action and removing it from sale until it's fixed.
I really think it'll probably take them a few days to even figure out what's wrong with game let alone start patching it, although I would expect a small patch in the next couple of days to fix the main issues of missing assets like AO, Rain textures, etc. and then after maybe a week or two I would expect a patch to fix performance issues and texture pop-in and so forth.
I pissed but if all this is swept under the rug and in 2/3 weeks we have a game as stable as city/origins then I'll be ok with this, as it really is a great game it's just been destroyed by this atrocity of a pc port.
I really think it'll probably take them a few days to even figure out what's wrong with game let alone start patching it, although I would expect a small patch in the next couple of days to fix the main issues of missing assets like AO, Rain textures, etc. and then after maybe a week or two I would expect a patch to fix performance issues and texture pop-in and so forth.
I pissed but if all this is swept under the rug and in 2/3 weeks we have a game as stable as city/origins then I'll be ok with this, as it really is a great game it's just been destroyed by this atrocity of a pc port.
They attempted to sell a completely broken game, and when under considerable backlash, later recalled said broken game instead of suffering endless steam refunds and negative PR.
That's hardly worth praising. I'd call it damage control.
Pathfinder
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I usually assume its the role of the publisher to release a game by a certain date, regardless if its ready to go or not.
Prophet Steve
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Depends on whether they got keys directly from the distributor, and I have my doubts of that with that website.
Cdkeys are refusing refunds, I asked them this morning.
Surprisingly I have locked 30 fps with a 2 gb 680gtx at 1080p only lacking AO and dynamic rain spec layer.
But I can't play at 30 fps so I will wait for a real patch that makes SLI usable and locked 60 fps achievable.
After having continuously played from start to end the three previous games at locked 60 fps (using downsampling and physx effects), entering one of the fights in AK at 30 fps is like watching another person play. It is not enjoyable at all, for me.
I find really tiresome to launch a new AAA game to find problems that low-budget indie games do not have. I mean, nobody is able to see the intro videos are a stuttering mess? I'm talking about WB and rocksteady logos that are the first thing you see when you start the game. It's fucking terrible someone sells something with problems in the first second of use.
But I can't play at 30 fps so I will wait for a real patch that makes SLI usable and locked 60 fps achievable.
After having continuously played from start to end the three previous games at locked 60 fps (using downsampling and physx effects), entering one of the fights in AK at 30 fps is like watching another person play. It is not enjoyable at all, for me.
I find really tiresome to launch a new AAA game to find problems that low-budget indie games do not have. I mean, nobody is able to see the intro videos are a stuttering mess? I'm talking about WB and rocksteady logos that are the first thing you see when you start the game. It's fucking terrible someone sells something with problems in the first second of use.
Honestly, what are you expecting from a shady site like that?